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SELECTIVE MEMORY PRESENTS
Joan As Police Woman
Presents ‘Cover Two’
PEPPER CANISTER CHURCH, DUBLIN
Friday 14th & Saturday 15th May 2021
We just can’t get enough of Joan As Police Woman. After her sold out Irish tour last July, we are thrilled to announce that Joan will be performing her new album ‘Cover Two’ live in concert with Parker Kindred (drums) and Jacob Silver (bass) for two nights, Friday 14th June and Saturday 15th May, in the georgian gem that is the Pepper Canister Church, Dublin.
Tickets for Joan As Police Woman Trio cost EU24.50 plus booking fee and will be on sale now Saturday 17th January at 10am from www.selectivememory.ieand http://bit.ly/JAPW13thJun and http://bit.ly/JAPW14thJune
Her new album ‘Cover Two’ (Sweet Police / PIAS), will be released on May 1st. This will be Joan’s second album re-working songs by other artists and again, Joan makes some very interesting and surprising choices.
“Cover Two” Track Listing:
- Kiss (Prince)
- Spread (Outkast)
- Under Control (The Strokes)
- Not The Way (Cass McCombs)
- Keep Forgetting (Michael Macdonald)
- Life’s What You Make It (Talk Talk)
- Out of Time (Blur)
- On The Beach (Neil Young)
- There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs)
- Running (Gil Scott-Heron)
Acclaim for Joan As Police Woman..
‘Sensational’ - Sunday Time's
‘This is breathtakingly good music’ - Uncut
‘The coolest woman in pop’ - The Times
‘full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn’ Mojo
‘a voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane’ - The Guardian
‘Beautiful’ - Q
‘Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st century’s best musicians’ - The Economist
‘I began working on new covers ever since the release of the first covers album 11 years ago! I’ve been performing “Kiss” by Prince and my version of “Out of Time” by Blur throughout last year’s Joanthology Tour and finished the record as soon as I returned home this winter. Recreating existing songs is a gratifying creative challenge for me, especially with songs I adore. I start with the question ‘WHY, exactly, do I love this song’? I take those elements and reform them, sometimes removing much of the remaining material to refocus them through new glasses. I re-harmonize the chords, radically change the feel or shift the hook or the phrasing to rebuild the composition.
For “Spread” by Outkast, I invited my friend and musical genius Meshell Ndegeocello to recite André’s words and play bass as only she can. I beat boxed the drums, had Parker play live over the tracks and added the masterful trumpeter Cole Kamen-Green.
“Under Control” by The Strokes is my favorite song of theirs. I always heard it as classic R&B song dressed up as a Strokes song, so I just reframed it the way I heard it naturally and did my best Brian May guitar playing.
“Not The Way” is from Cass McCombs’ first EP. I’d listened to the song for years before I realized what the lyrics were and then just wanted to create a version of my own. The verse describes being judgmental and difficult which leads to the blithe chorus “That’s not the way to make friends”. Effortlessly humorous without being funny.
“Keep Forgetting” by Michael McDonald is a song that lyrically tears me up. It felt like it was a terribly sad song dressed up in a slick untouchable suit. I recreated it as the heart-broken ballad inside that suit.
Talk Talk’s “Life’s What You Make It” is a mantra for me. I sang it with the incredible vocalist Justin Hicks, who’s always elicited extreme joy in me when I’ve heard him sing. The effortlessly creative Thomas Bartlett plays the syncopated piano. I’ve been working on this one for some years now but I got to participate in the Talk Talk tribute that happened in Nov ’19 at Royal Festival Hall which included many of the musicians who collaborated with Mark Hollis. A great honor.
How to choose a Blur song? I went with one that made me cry every time I heard it. “Out Of Time” features Jacob Silver playing gorgeous bass flourishes that wrap around each rhetorically questioning lyric.
Neil Young’s “On The Beach” is a favorite of mine. I used spare piano to re-harmonize the original to create a shifty underpinning for the uneasy feel of the lyrics. I was lucky enough to record this track in Buenos Aires at the world renowned Ion Studios, known as “the Abbey Road of Tango”. The studio retains the vibe of its beginnings in 1960 when greats like Astor Piazzolla recorded there. It’s full of ghosts and so is this track.
You may recognize “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” from the “Grease” soundtrack but it was not written specifically for the film. I crafted it in Flamingos-style (doo-wop group from the 1950’s who used heavy reverb to create their sound) with Parker, Justin and I sharing the many tracks of backup vocals.
The inception of Gil Scott Heron’s “Running” began when I prepared it for the GSH tribute show at London’s The Roundhouse in 2016. I took his classic spoken word piece and created chords, melody, a song around the poem. Shahzad Ismaily added bass and Jim White finishes it off with his stormy drums.
Upcoming Selective Memory Events:
28 January: Robyn Hitchcock - Whelan’s
15th March: Mount Alaska - Pepper Canister Church
16th March: Dublin Gospel Choir - Pepper Canister Church
17th March: Dublin Gospel Choir - Pepper Canister Church
25 April: Confidence Man - Vicar St
3 May: Bon Iver - 3Arena
23 May: Sun Kil Moon - Liberty Hall Theatre
14th May: Joan As Police Woman - Pepper Canister Church
15th May: Joan As Police Woman - Pepper Canister Church
Joan says..
"I’m thrilled to be back in Europe with my trio playing the new Covers Two album, songs from my catalogue plus new compositions I've been working on for the next Joan As Police Woman record. Come here/hear!"
May 2020
6 Helsinki Sello Hall
10 Brussels Botanique
11 Stockholm Södra Teatern
13 Amsterdam Paradiso
15 Turnhout De Warande
16 Vienna Porgy and Bess
17 Graz Dom Im Berg
20 Pordenone Capitol
21 Milan Santeria
22 Rome Auditorium Parco della Musica
23 Florence Teatro Puccini
25 Zurich Bogen F
26 Munich Technikum
27 Hamburg Elbphilharmonie
June
6 Berlin Passionskirche
8 Aarhus Voxhall
9 Copenhagen Vega
10 Bergen Bergenfest
11 Oslo Piknik I Parken Festival
13 Dublin Pepper Canister Church
14 Dublin Pepper Canister Church
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