Dunedin Free Press

2008 Concerts!!

Some great concerts are coming this way in 2008, most of them, by coincidence, to Jannus Landing. Staten Island Rappers The Wu Tang Clan play there on Jan. 26th promoting their 8 Diagrams album released December 11th. A free 29-track 8 Diagrams mix tape is available for download at Loud.com. Visit the news page of www.wutangcorp.com for all the details.

Ween plays Jannus Landing on Feb. 1, promoting their latest album La Cucaracha . Check out
some recently uploaded VHS clips on YouTube from the news page of www.ween.com .Ween is scheduled to release a new EP with five new songs, Friends, in June ‘08.

Dark Star Orchestra will be back on March 5 at Jannus Landing to recreate the set list from a Grateful Dead Show of the past using the exact arrangements used by the musicians of The Dead at the time. Dark Star keeps the date of the show they will recreate secret until
just before the play.

The Beastie Boys will headline Florida’s 6th Annual Langerado Festival, on March
6-9, held for the first year held at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation off Alligator Alley.Big Cypress was the site of 1999’s Millenium Phish show, the largest Millenium concert in the world.

Les Claypool, Ani Di Franco, REM, Ben Folds, Phil Lesh and Friends, Government Mule, The
Wailers, Umphrey’s McGee, The Disco Biscuits, Arrested Development and Blind Melon
will also appear. The Festival’s promoter, Cloud 9 Adventures, also produces the annual Jam Cruise, which this year includes Galactic who will be here on January 12.
(see the story on page 22).

Flogging Molly will take the Jannus Courtyard in a more Irish direction on March 8. Accordion/
Concertina player Matt Hensley is now back in FM full-time. The band has been in Ireland recording their new album at Grouse Lodge Studios in County Westmeath with Ryan Hewett,
a co-producer/ engineer/mixer who has worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciente, Alkaline Trio and Pepper. The band will have the album out in plenty of time for their stop
here on their Annual Green 17 Tour. They recently took part in the Second Annual Rock to
Roll Charity event led by Side One Dummy Records Founder, Joe Sib. The event directly benefits Wheels For Humanity, a non-profit created to provide increased self-sufficiency and mobility to people with disabilities around the world. Flogging Molly plays Jannus Landing on March 8th.

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play the Times Forum on April 21. Springsteen
was recently nominated for four Grammys -- Best Rock Song and Best Rock Vocal Performance for “Radio Nowhere,” Best Rock Performance for “Once Upon A
Time in the West,” a track from We All Love Ennio Morricone and
Best Rock Album, for his 23rd album Magic, released Oct. 21.

Last and most importantly (to me), Ministry bring their final C.U. Latour to Jannus Landing on
April 23 (just in time for this reporter’s birthday), supported by Meshuggah, a Swedish experimental band, and Hemlock. The touring line up features Al Jourgensen with guitarists Tommy Victor of Prong and Sin Quinn of Revco,keyboardist John Buhdel of
Ascension of the Watchers, False Icon and Prong, and drummer
Jimmy DiGrasso, formerly with Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies and
Alice Cooper. Tony Campos of Static X has currently stepped in
on bass for the recently departed Paul Raven. Burton C. Bell of Fear
Factory and AoTW will join the band as a special featured artist.