About time!

Not sure when it was updated, but I've just switched to the new style blog editor, which allows you to insert pictures properly - the crappy functionality for adding pictures has been driving me mental!  I'll celebrate by inserting the following picture exactly where I want it:

Ooh, you have no idea how fancy and easy that was. Good work, Blogger.com!


That little cartoon is the somewhat mysterious announcement of Joanna Newsom's new album, in case you're wondering. You can click on it for a closer look.

31 January 2010 - Joanna Newsom at The Paramount, Wellington NZ

Despite a ridiculous time spent, for no apparent reason, queueing to get in, it was great to see another Joanna Newsom show here in Wellington, NZ.

She played a set lasting a shade under two hours long and comprised almost entirely of new material from her third album, Have One On Me, which is released on 23 February. Apart from fascinating versions of 'Bridges and Balloons', 'Inflammatory Writ', 'The Book of Right-on', 'Peach, Plum, Pear', and 'Emily' it was all new.

Someone at a recent Australian show, at Sidney Opera House, videoed three of the tracks she also played here in New Zealand yesterday: check it out. The tracklist for the whole show looks pretty similar although the order looks a little different:

SIDNEY SETLIST

01 "Jack Rabbits (Love You Again)"

02 "Bridges And Balloons"

03 "Have One On Me"

04 "Ribbon Bows"

05 "In California"

06 "Easy"

97 "Inflammatory Writ"

08 "Soft As Chalk"

09 "Autumn"

10 "Emily"

11 "Peach, Plum, Pear"

12 "'81"

13 "The Book Of Right-On"

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14 "Colleen"

Assuming these are the real titles, she definitely played "Jack Rabbits', 'Easy', and 'Soft as Chalk' at the Wellington show. The only one of the new songs given a definite name was called 'Occident', which doesn't seem to appear here (or not under that name).  As this video is apparently playing the song '81' I'm pretty sure she didn't play that last night....

The word on the web seems to be that it will be a 3xCD album - given the amount of new material she played that doesn't seem unlikely.