Bookmarks: Throwing Muses

If you're anything like me, you'll have been hoping for a comprehensive guide to Throwing Muses' discography to reveal itself. It looks like there's been a great one on the web for a while:

CAD 2013 _Red Heaven_ produced by Throwing Muses with Stuart Boyer
1992 furious / firepile / dio / dirty water / stroll / pearl //
summer st / vic / backroad / the visit / dovey / rosetta stone
/ carnival wig

Leslie Langston plays bass. Bob Mould (ex Husker Du) sings on
"Dio". A bit less stunning on the songwriting front, but at least
it still proved that the band were still alive. Initial UK CDs
(CAD D 2013) came with...

Downloadable: Throwing Muses

If you've been collecting the Season Session Rat Girl tracks, Kristin Hersh has just set free the Spring collection.

I collect, I reject: Wool offers

Wool FM is an interesting volunteer-run station in New England, and they're having a fund-raising drive. Much of it you'll have to go to America to take part in, but there's three lots which you can bit for online:

Original contact sheet from photo shoot for Throwing Muses album "House Tornado." Autographed by Kristin Hersh.

Original recording notes for song "Mania" by Throwing Muses. Track Sheet with notes in pencil. Hand-typed lyrics (on an actual typewriter) typed by Kristin Hersh, with production notes and doodles from Throwing Muses. c1988. Autographed by Kristin Hersh.

"Untitled," by Juliana Hatfield. Original painting, acrylic on canvas board, 9" X 12" 2009.

All three things would make an excellent gift for a discerning person, don't you think?

Throwing Muses weekend: Shimmer

From Jon Stewart's short-lived MTV chat show:



[Part of Throwing Muses weekend]

Throwing Muses weekend: Downtown

Balancing out yesterday's crib from Big World Cafe, here's the Muses on Gods Own Programme, Snub TV:



[Part of Throwing Muses weekend]

Throwing Muses weekend: Hate My Way

Come with us now to the Town & Country club, May 1988...



[Part of Throwing Muses weekend]

Throwing Muses weekend: Counting Backwards

It'd be lovely to have something like The Late Show back on TV, wouldn't it? This is The Muses doing Counting Backwards on the programme:



And, since that ends somewhat suddenly, here's a fuller version of the same song:\



[Buy: Counting Backwards download ep]
[Part of Throwing Muses weekend]

Throwing Muses weekend: Dizzy

This would be the big hit, probably. Caught during the first run of Channel 4's never-much-loved Big World Cafe:



[Buy: Dizzy EP download]
[Part of Throwing Muses weekend]

Embed and breakfast man: Throwing Muses

With Kristin Hersh just having released her book-album combo Crooked, what better time for a look back at the genuinely-manic-driven Throwing Muses?

Probably the greatest band ever to come from Rhode Island, they were the first Americans to sign to 4AD and - for those of us to whom these things matter - much more of a Melody Maker band than an NME one. And they were awesome.

Look, this is how awesome they were: Red Shoes, live on stage at Glastonbury:



Buy
The Real Ramona
In A Doghouse

More Throwing Muses online
Throwing Muses on 4AD
Throwing Muses on Spotify

More Muses across the weekend
Dizzy live on Big World Cafe
Counting Backwards live on The Late Show
Hate My Way live at The Town & Country club
Downtown live on Snub TV
Shimmer live on The Jon Stewart show

Glastonbury 1989: Throwing Muses

There's not much of Glastonbury 1989 floating around online, so this will be a fairly brief section.

First, here's Throwing Muses doing Mania:


[Download: Hunkpapa]

Kristin Hersh in the UK

Tour dates just appeared over on Kristin Hersh's website
Throwing Muses
Minehead, England - May 15, 2009
All Tomorrow's Parties

Kristin Hersh
Bracknell, England - May 16, 2009
South Hill Park Arts Centre

Kristin Hersh
Gateshead, England - May 17, 2009
The Sage

Kristin Hersh
Glasgow, Scotland - May 18, 2009
King Tut's

Kristin Hersh
Aberdeen, Scotland - May 19, 2009
Lemon Tree

Kristin Hersh
York, England - May 22, 2009
The Duchess

Kristin Hersh
Lancaster, England - May 23, 2009
The Storey

Kristin Hersh
Burnley, England - May 24, 2009
Burnley Library

Kristin Hersh
Norwich, England - May 26, 2009
Arts Centre

Kristin Hersh
Brighton, England - May 27, 2009
Duke of Yorks

Kristin Hersh
Portsmouth, England - May 28, 2009
Wedgewood Rooms

My firth, my larth, my everythink

Not that it's open season on the NME right now, but our delight at hearing that the former leader of Throwing Muses is playing a gig in Lancaster Library on May 23rd was slightly tempered by the surprising change in her name:



Kristin Herth?

But let's not be too hasty to rush to judgement, eh? We all miskey from time to time. It's not like the NME doesn't know the name of one of the biggest alternative musicians of the last two decades, is it?



Oh.