Single Blog Theory

2008 Tour

2008-03-21T15:55:00.006-05:00

In case you haven't heard PJ is hittin' the road. Here are the dates. More dates later in the summer coming at some point? Let's hope so.

June 11: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheatre)
June 12: Tampa, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum)
June 13-15: Manchester, Tenn. (Bonnaroo Festival)
June 16: Columbia, S.C. (Colonial Center)
June 17: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Center)
June 19: Camden, N.J. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
June 22: Washington, D.C. (Verizon Center)
June 24-25: New York (Madison Square Garden)
June 27: Hartford, Conn. (Dodge Music Center)
June 30: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)

Single Blog Theory is looking into going to an MSG show... we'll see.

Tour Announcement?

2008-03-19T10:30:00.002-05:00

Single Blog Theory may have to be brought back from the ashes today! A possible tour announcement has us all excited. Let's hope for some mid-west dates.

Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed

2008-01-08T22:18:00.001-05:00

Immagine Nel Telaio

2007-08-13T21:53:00.000-05:00

Oh, hell yeah! This looks great. More info on pearljam.com.

Flatstock 13

2007-07-12T14:08:00.001-05:00

Not exactly Pearl Jam related, but something we dig here at Single Blog Theory: FLATSTOCK! I'll be headed up to Chicago and the Pitchfork Music Festival this weekend to help poster artist Rob Warnick with his booth at Flatstock, volunteering at the API booth and catch some great music. You can follow along too, as we'll be blogging along the way. Armed with cameraphones, laptops and free WiFi all weekend at Flatstock, we'll be sharing all the good stuff right here.

The Flatstock 13 poster pictured above is by Nate Duval.

More PJ DVD news

2007-07-06T15:31:00.000-05:00

Billboard has some details on the upcoming Pearl Jam DVD, thus confirming it in a mainstream sense.

Details are still coming together at deadline, but it seems a sure bet that Pearl Jam fans will have a new live DVD via Rhino to play on repeat before the holidays are out.

It is well-known that photographer Danny Clinch filmed the band's concerts in Italy in the fall of 2006, which included such oddities as a complete, in-sequence performance of Pearl Jam's self-titled J album in Torino and a cover of Tom Waits' "Picture in a Frame" in Milan. This will be Pearl Jam's first concert DVD since 2003's "Live at the Garden," which hit No. 2 on Billboard's Top Music Videos chart.

As previously reported, frontman Eddie Vedder has penned a host of new songs that will be released in conjunction with the upcoming movie "Into the Wild" in September via J Records. Pearl Jam's lone remaining show of the summer will be at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 5.

Click here for the rumored tracklisting and more details.

Vedder solo album

2007-07-03T10:33:00.000-05:00

From ContactMusic.com:

PEARL JAM frontman EDDIE VEDDER is to release his first solo album as a film soundtrack for pal SEAN PENN's new movie INTO THE WILD. The Alive rocker has reportedly written solo tracks for the actor/director's new film, which stars Emile Hirsch. Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla has also contributed to the film's score. The project, which will hit cinemas in September (07), is based on John Krakauer's novel about Alaskan adventurer Christopher MCCandless. Much of the film was shot in Vedder's adopted hometown of Seattle, Washington and the rocker reportedly makes a cameo in the movie. Vedder previously wrote songs for the film Dead Man Walking and covered The Beatles' You've Got To Hide Your Love Away for I Am Sam - both films starred Penn.

This news is also posted at Rolling Stone.

Click here to view the trailer for Into The Wild

Discussion here.

Live In Italy 2006 DVD news?

2007-06-28T07:50:00.000-05:00

Could we be hearing news about this DVD set soon? This tracklisting was posted on the Pearl Jam Message Pit on 6/26:

ARTIST: PEARL JAM
TITLE: "Picture In A Frame: Live In Italy 2006"
FORMAT: DVD3
DIRECTOR: Danny Clinch
DESCRIPTION: Pearl Jam's third live concert DVD release captures the Seattle band at the height of their 2006 World Tour. Filmed over five splendid nights in Italy, this powerful performance includes songs such as "Better Man", "Even Flow", "Yellow Ledbetter" and "World Wide Suicide", plus a ten-minute version of "Black". A "Focus Feature" - adapted by director Danny Clinch - allows the audience to zoom in on any of the band members on particular songs including "Crazy Mary", "Inside Job" and "Life Wasted". This 3-DVD set also includes bonus footage from Pearl Jam's Australian and North American shows from 2006.

Title(s):

DVD1
Interstellar Over Drive 0920
Corduroy 0920
Given To Fly 0916
Life Wasted 0919
Animal 0914
World Wide Suicide 0917
Severed Hand 0919
Small Town 0920
Gone 0919
Even Flow 0914
Daughter 0917
Marker In The Sand 0916
Present Tense 0914
Faithfull 0917
I Got ID 0920
Comatose 0914
Jeremy 0916
Blood 0916

DVD2
Encore Break 0916
Inside Job 0916
Wasted Reprise 0920
Better Man 0920
Black 0917
Crazy Mary 0917
Alive 0916
Encore Break 0917
Do The Evolution 0917
I Believe In Miracle 0916
Come Back 0920
Why Go 0914
Leash 0917
Yellow Ledbetter 0920

DVD3
"Picture In A Frame" 1111
"The Long Road" 0707
"I Got You" Various
"Hawaii '78" Various
"Breath" Various

London show

2007-06-19T12:07:00.000-05:00

Was fantastic! Great night. 10 Club floor was just awesome. As far as crowd and having fun, it beat any show I've ever been too in the states. Great folks.

I ended up getting a poster before the show. Can't say that I would have bought it if i didn't go to the show, but since I was there, it's looks great to me. Since we we jumping around on the floor during the show, it got a bit banged up - but that's character from the show, right? Love it.

So, I've got a few songs on video. Nothing amazing, but I will post some stuff soon, probably after I get back to the States. I'm posting from a coffee shop in London as I write this.

Photoblogging - I actually had a shot of the poster 20 mintues before the doors opened, but I was unable to send photos around Wembley Arena for some reason. Once I was a good 400 yards away, I could send. It was odd. So, not shots during the show either.

Okay, that's all for now. What A great show. I'll remember this one for a long time. Thanks to all the great folks we met and had fun with at the show. Cheers!

VIDEO

Given To Fly. It's frantic - I was in the middle of a fun group of folks. Maybe you can tell how much fun everyone was having. Maybe you'll get a headache.

You got a toothbrush? We're going to London

2007-06-15T09:37:00.000-05:00

Single Blog Theory is off to Europe! We'll be hitting Pearl Jam's London show while we are there and planning on photoblogging a bit of the show. So, be on the look out for photos on the photoblog page! We'll try to get you the first look at the show poster, merch booth and the madness that will be the Ten Club section on the floor of Wembley Arena.

Webcam Olympiahalle

2007-06-12T09:18:00.000-05:00

This is kinda cool... check out the webcam for tonight's show at Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany. In the photo above, it looks like our boys are doing soundcheck. According to a post on Red Mosquito, Inside Job, Love Reign O'er Me were have been sound checked. With The Who playing the same venue tomorrow night, could there be something special happening tonight? We'll see.

UPDATE: Here's the full soundcheck: Love Reign O'er Me (Boom only), Sad, Sometimes, Inside Job, LROM (full), Present Tense, Unemployable, Save You, God's dice, Gone. Sweet stuff. Would love to hear Sometimes in London!

Here's the actual feed. It will update regularly:

'07 tour merch

2007-06-10T15:56:00.000-05:00

Check out this photo for a peek at the merch available on the 2007 European Tour. More photos from the Madrid show here.

Video from Lisbon

2007-06-09T13:44:00.000-05:00

The first videos are coming from Pearl Jam's 2007 European tour. Here's "Given To Fly" from the first night on the tour, Lisbon, Portugal:

It appears YouTube user, alittledropofpoison, is putting up a few videos from the show. Check 'em out.

UPDATE: Lots of video coming in on the Single Blog Theory video page.

UPDATE 2: There are some great photos up at Army Reserve. Check it!

Still no word on bootlegs. No word on posters, either. It appears that there was no poster for last night's show (festival show) but there's a pretty lame litho out there and it seems Brad Klausen's "Wave" poster is being re-used as a tour date poster. Word on other merch available at the shows is slowing coming out.

No '07 tour bootlegs?

2007-06-06T12:15:00.001-05:00

Whoa, Pearl Jam blog, The Army Reserve, has posted a message they received from Ten Club this morning regarding the release of bootlegs for the 2007 European tour:

"Sorry, it is doubtful that there will be bootlegs available in the future for the 2007 tour. Should Pearl Jam decide to release these we’ll be sure to post a notice on the website.

Best,
10c"

Wow, this is a pretty big surpise. Chatter on PJ's message board indicates that 10c has said they don't know whether boots will be available or not. So, at this point, it's still up in the air until there is an official confirmation.

At the moment, you cannot purchase past bootlegs from Ten Club via the Basecamp system they have used the past two years. It's only speculation at this point, but it seems that Basecamp will no longer be handling bootlegs duties for Pearl Jam? Who knows - we could get an announcement about something tomorrow, or he next day, or whenever.

Gorge boxset packaging

2007-06-06T09:37:00.000-05:00

Looks pretty sweet.

PNE vs PJ - Here's the deal

2007-06-04T08:20:00.000-05:00

So, it seems that it's not Pearl Jam and their management that are commissioning poster from the gigposter super-group PNE, but the Wishlist Foundation, who commissioned show posters during the '06 tour benefiting the Northwest CCFA - with PJ's blessing.

Here are the details as of today:

Wishlist Foundation 2007 Europe Poster Series

The Wishlist Foundation is proud to announce its collaboration with rock poster artists Justin Hampton, Emek and Jermaine Rogers, (collectively known as PNE, Post Neo Explosionism), to produce a series of posters to commemorate Pearl Jam’s 2007 European tour.

Proceeds from the sales of the posters will be donated to the Northwest Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (50%), Conservation International (25%) and Save the Children (25%)

Schedule:

06-12-07 Munich Jermaine Rogers
06-13-07 Katowice Emek
06-18-07 London Justin Hampton
06-21-07 Dusseldorf Justin Hampton
06-26-07 Copenhagen Emek
06-28-07 Nijmegen Jermaine Rogers

*Festival Poster*
06-08-07
06-09-07
06-15-07
06-16-07
06-23-07
06-24-07
06-29-07
*Collaborative Poster by Justin, Emek & Jermaine

*To commemorate the Festival shows, all three artists will collaborate on one amazing poster.

We will make an announcement regarding future previews and sale dates.

We will be provding information in the next few weeks on the following items;
Art previews
Sale dates
Sale location
Poster runs, sizes, colors
Shipping Information
Special Editions
Everything else

Gold and Platinum Members of the Wishlist Foundation will receive instructions by email how and when to donate to receive a poster prior to general public availability.

We will make an announcement regarding general public art previews and availability dates here.

All posters will be available, for both members and general public, on a first come first serve basis.

Click here for more information from The Wishlist Foundation or here from PNE.

PNE vs PJ?

2007-06-01T14:19:00.000-05:00

File this under "interesting". According to PNE's new website, there is upcoming news about PNE collaboration with Pearl Jam. Rock posters for the Euro tour? Could be cool. This would be a departure from PJs regular use of Ames Bros. and in-house artist Brad Klausen and akin to the posters produced for 2006's Australian tour, which featured artists from the land down under.

PNE is short for Post Neo Explosionism and is the rock poster super-group of Justin Hampton, Emek and Jermaine Rogers. You can learn more about them here.

Seattle Weekly interviews 10c Prez

2007-05-30T15:13:00.000-05:00

Seattle Weekly sits down with Tim Bierman, the man behind Pearl Jam's fan club, Ten Club. Click here to read the article.

Pearl Jam to rock Super Bowl halftime (we wish)

2007-05-22T10:51:00.000-05:00

Nice PJ reference in this Michael Silver SI.com article:

"10. Nashville and Seattle (tie): Sure, it can get cold in either of these musically inclined cities, but these are two untapped gems we'd like to see injected into the Super Bowl mix, if only to see halftime shows by Dolly Parton and Pearl Jam."

Now, the Super Bowl is commercialized as hell, and really, PJ doesn't fit in the mold. But, I am going to be watching the Super Bowl anways... so it would be a nice combination. They would of course play a gig out in the parking lot before the game and blow everyones mind. I would go down to Nashville for that! Hell, I would look forward to Dolly Parton as well (so would Ronson).

Toledo Sports Arena coming down

2007-05-14T15:45:00.000-05:00

For those of you who attended Pearl Jam's Toledo, Ohio stop on the 2004 Vote for Change Tour, your memories of the venue will be just that, memories. Toledo's antiquated Sports Arena will be meeting the wrecking ball soon, and coming down with it will be ghosts of performances past, such as Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Young Jeezy, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Kid Rock, Bob Seger and many, many more. The Toledo Blade is asking for your memories of the place, so if you are so inclinded, give them a holla.

Personally, I was at the show and pretty blown away to see PJ in such a small setting. That is, compared to your typical arenas and pavilions. It was old, musty, cold, crowded and loud. My ears were ringing for a day or so after that show. It was damn loud, just the way we like it, right? Here are the photos I took that night at the show, and afterwards while waiting for the drawbridge to come back down. For those of you that where there, you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

Idlewild to open for PJ in London

2007-04-26T14:07:00.000-05:00

According to the Last•fm's event page for the show, Idlewild will be opening for Pearl Jam at Wembley Arena, June 18th. No onfirmation on Idlewild's website or PJ's.

Correction: This IS confirmed on Pearl Jam's website.

Officially confirmed support acts for the European Tour.

Katowice
Linkin Park, Coma

London
Idlewild

Dusseldorf
Interpol, Futureheads

Copenhagen
Futureheads

Nijmegan
Incubus, Kings Of Leon, Satellite Party

Friday the 13th

2007-04-13T09:01:00.001-05:00

Trading Stories With The Leaves: A Fanzine

2007-04-12T09:53:00.000-05:00

As noted over at The Army Reserve:

A new PJ fanzine, 'Trading Stories With The Leaves' has just completed it's first issue! This fan-based project features:

• Fan's Photographs
• Visual Art
• Current Events
• A Message Board Interview
• Poetry
• Concert Memories
• A Competition
• Fan's Recipes

This issue is based on the No Code album.

Download the .pdf here:
http://pjhalifax.net/downloads/TSWTL1_hi_res.pdf

Interpol opening for PJ in Europe

2007-04-11T21:19:00.000-05:00

According to Interpol's tour schedule for this summer, they will be opening for Pearl Jam at their Düsseldorf show on June 21.

This is of major interest to Single Blog Theory since we are headed to the London show a few days earlier, and Interpol is on our list of bands to see.

Now, we've actually heard some disappointing thing about Interpol live, but that's not deterring our enthusiasm... We are excited about possibly seeing them in London. That's just wishful thinking though, as nothing has been announced in terms of an open for that show. Pearl Jam has said in interviews that they have something special planned for the Wembley show, and we are looking forward to seeing what that is.

Linkin Park has been confirmed as PJ's opener in Poland on June 13.