Following their recent Stateside Shows where they appeared on The Letterman Show as well as packing out a couple of club shows in New York and Los Angeles, The Cribs are pleased to announce a quick return across the Atlantic in January 2010
Support comes from Adam Green and The Dead Trees on the first nine dates after which ex_'be Your Own Pet' frontwoman Jemima Pearl takes over ….
The band have confirmed the following dates
January 2010
13th Chicago,IL Lincoln Hall *
14th Ferndale,MI The Magic Bag*
15th Toronta,ONT Phoenix Theatre *
16th New York,NY Irving Plaza *
17th Boston,MA Paradise Rock Club *
19th Washington,DC 9.30 Club *
20th Atlanta, GA The Earl *
22nd Dallas, TX Granada Theatre *
23rd Austin, TX The Parish *
26th Pomona, CA The Glass House **
27th San Francisco, CA Bimbo 365 **
29th Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom **
30th Seattle, WA Showbox Theatre **
31st Vancouver, BC The Venue **
* Adam Green & The Dead Trees
** Jemima Pearl
Monday 16 November 2009
Johnny Marr & The Cribs on Letterman video
On thursday 12th November Johnny and The cribs performed 'We Share The Same Skies'
on the David Letterman show.
You can watch here.
The Cribs on Letterman
on the David Letterman show.
You can watch here.
The Cribs on Letterman
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Bowery Ballroom review
Here's a review of Johnny & The Cribs Friday 13th November,
second and final sold out night at New York's Bowery Ballroom, which was the last gig of their US tour.
Bowery Ballroom review
second and final sold out night at New York's Bowery Ballroom, which was the last gig of their US tour.
Bowery Ballroom review
Johnny Marr & The Cribs LA Roxy Spin review
Johnny & The Cribs played the Roxy on Sunset Strip on Monday 9th November.
Here is a spin review of the show
Spin Roxy review
Here is a spin review of the show
Spin Roxy review
Johnny Marr talking to Simon Mayo Friday 30 October 2pm
Johnny is going to be talking to Simon Mayo at 2pm this Friday 30 October on his bbc radio 5 live show
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Jackpot Records instore
Jackpot Records presents Johnny & The Cribs performing instore
Unless you’re wintering in Belgium or holding tickets to upcoming Letterman tapings, chances to see the The Cribs in person in the USA anytime soon, are minimal to nil.
Jackpot Records presents Johnny & The Cribs performing instore
Sunday, November 8th – 2 PM
Jackpot Records (Downtown location)
203 SW 9th Ave.
Portland, OR 97205 USA
2 pm
Free, All Ages
Live show to celebrate the release of THE CRIBS “Ignore the Ignorant.”
The brothers Jarman, along with new brother and guitar hero Johnny Marr (Modest Mouse, Smiths), will be rocking an absolutely free, all ages instore at our downtown location. Topping their previous honor of selecting Jackpot as one of three places IN THE WORLD to sell the deluxe Roses (they’ve really taken to their new Portland homes) Edition of their latest album “Ignore The Ignorant”, they’ve picked us as the launch pad for their upcoming tour. After this they’re off to a Letterman taping, a few coast dates and then the world. In all practicality, this is it for seeing them this year.
Come early to find a spot and brace yourself. We predict a swift transition from SRO to SOL. If you’re unfamiliar with a Cribs gig, it’s not exactly an evening with The Chordettes.
Be safe.
Unless you’re wintering in Belgium or holding tickets to upcoming Letterman tapings, chances to see the The Cribs in person in the USA anytime soon, are minimal to nil.
Jackpot Records presents Johnny & The Cribs performing instore
Sunday, November 8th – 2 PM
Jackpot Records (Downtown location)
203 SW 9th Ave.
Portland, OR 97205 USA
2 pm
Free, All Ages
Live show to celebrate the release of THE CRIBS “Ignore the Ignorant.”
The brothers Jarman, along with new brother and guitar hero Johnny Marr (Modest Mouse, Smiths), will be rocking an absolutely free, all ages instore at our downtown location. Topping their previous honor of selecting Jackpot as one of three places IN THE WORLD to sell the deluxe Roses (they’ve really taken to their new Portland homes) Edition of their latest album “Ignore The Ignorant”, they’ve picked us as the launch pad for their upcoming tour. After this they’re off to a Letterman taping, a few coast dates and then the world. In all practicality, this is it for seeing them this year.
Come early to find a spot and brace yourself. We predict a swift transition from SRO to SOL. If you’re unfamiliar with a Cribs gig, it’s not exactly an evening with The Chordettes.
Be safe.
johnny Marr exclusive on BBC1 'Inside Out'
Johnny Marr exclusive on BBC1 'Inside Out'
See an exclusive interview and footage with Johnny from The Cribs'
recent gig at The Apollo in Manchester.
Johnny chats to Andy Johnson on BBC1's Inside Out North West programme
on Monday, November 2nd at 7.30pm.
Sky channel 978, satellite 101.
See an exclusive interview and footage with Johnny from The Cribs'
recent gig at The Apollo in Manchester.
Johnny chats to Andy Johnson on BBC1's Inside Out North West programme
on Monday, November 2nd at 7.30pm.
Sky channel 978, satellite 101.
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Forum show Independent review
Independent review of Johnny & The Cribs show at the Kentish Town Forum, London.
When you bring together one of the finest Mancunian guitarists of his generation....
independent
When you bring together one of the finest Mancunian guitarists of his generation....
independent
Johnny Marr Pitchfork interview
PItchfork interviewed Johnny, he talks About the Cribs "I heard really smart people making smart music" and Modest Mouse, not about the Smiths.
PItchfork
PItchfork
Johnny Marr&The Cribs Live MTV session
Johnny & The Cribs performed a Live MTV session The band’s fourth album ‘Ignore The Ignorant’ has been widely hailed as one of 2009’s finest – check out exclusive live versions of 'Cheat On Me' 'City Of Bugs' 'We Share The Same Skies' and couple of Cribs classics 'Be Safe' and 'I'm A Realist'. watch here
Cribs MTV
Cribs MTV
Johnny Marr&The Cribs 'We Share the same Skies' Later video
Johnny & The Cribs release 'We Share the same Skies' as a single on Monday 9th November Single will be available as a limited edition 7" and digital
Johnny Marr&The Cribs Pat Graham Maida Vale photos
Johnny & The Cribs perform 'We Share the same Skies' on Jules holland's Later. watch here
We Share the same Skies
We Share the same Skies
Johnny Marr&The Cribs on Later watch here
Johnny and the Cribs performed 3 songs on Jules Holland's Later. They did 'We Were Aborted', 'We Share the Same Skies' and 'Cheat On Me'. You can watch the show here.
Later
Later
Johnny Marr City Life interview
Johnny was in Manchester for The Cribs show at the Apollo and was interviewed for the Manchester Evening News City Life section.
City Life
City Life
Johnny Marr Japan Times interview
While Sonic Youth just keep getting older and Dinosaur Jr are now all seniors, The Cribs have taken a shortcut to making their own baby-based name sound ironic. The Wakefield, England, band — initially based around twins Ryan and Gary Jarman and their younger brother, Ross — were all in their mid-20s until, last year, they invited an older gent into their ranks.
This charming man was one Johnny Marr — best known as the cofounding guitarist and songwriter of legendary 1980s British band The Smiths and, more recently, a member of Washington indie band Modest Mouse. Luckily for The Cribs, the 45-year-old Mancunian is a genuine guitar icon. And anyway, you're only as old as you feel.
"No one notices the age difference until a journalist mentions it!" laughs Marr defensively. "It's not like I hang out in the over-40s club or anything like that. And also, The Cribs aren't boys either. The Cribs are very much men."
When Marr met Gary Jarman in both musicians' adopted home of Portland, Oregon, last year, he agreed to work with The Cribs on four songs for an EP. But something unexpected happened: When the band entered a studio that August to write songs, inspiration struck. The result of that inspiration is the band's fourth album, "Ignore The Ignorant," released earlier this month, with Marr as a fully fledged member of the band.
"When we got together to play, we wrote the opening song on the new record immediately," he says. "And then we built up this really inspired momentum. We just stayed on a roll, cos it sounded right. After we'd pretty much written all the songs for the album, I turned around to them and said, 'OK, if you wanna get a different guitar player in, I'll show somebody how to play the parts,' and they looked at me with expressions of horror and violence."
Marr was born John Martin Maher to Irish parents on Oct. 31, 1963, in the grim Manchester district of Ardwick. Despite childhood dreams of becoming a professional footballer, his fate was sealed in early 1982 when he formed a band with his friend Steven Patrick Morrissey.
The Smiths' rise and fall is well recorded; it ended acrimoniously in August 1987 when Marr left the band following creative quarrels with Morrissey. Their legacy, too, is common knowledge, with pretty much every guitar band of note since that time — from Oasis to Radiohead — citing The Smiths as a major influence.
Part of what made songs such as "How Soon is Now?" "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" and "Ask" such undying classics was Marr's inimitable guitar style. Expressive, expansive, experimental and exquisite, it featured the sort of jangly tones that would go on to define indie music but injected them with a sense of menace, of purity, of warmth all at once. As identifiable on "Ignore The Ignorant" as it was on "The Queen Is Dead," Marr's sound is 100 percent unique. And yet there was a time when the fear of being pigeonholed drove him to reject it.
"When I formed Electronic with Bernard Summers from New Order (in 1989), I literally erased almost every guitar part that (we recorded) that sounded like me," recalls Marr. "Bernard would have his head in his hands and be going, 'Nooo! Nooo! Everybody's gonna blame me!' And that was just a phase that I had to go through. When I came to be in Modest Mouse (in 2006), I got . . . I hope the word is wise enough to be cool with it.
"What is one of the advantages of there being an age difference in The Cribs: They aren't really hung up in that post-Smiths significance. They just grew up liking my guitar parts, so they kind of expect me to play that way, really," he laughs.
Since their inception in 2001, The Cribs' ragged American-inspired indie has carried a punkish energy and a pop sensibility, both of which seem to have struck a chord with Marr. And indeed, the chords Marr strikes on The Cribs' fourth album widen the band's sound tenfold, resulting in a mature but immediate album that has real substance.
"A lot of the record is about personal philosophy and romance," considers Marr. "However, it has social comment that is skillfully done, I think. People have got so worried about earnestness or being sanctimonious, which we all know is a bad thing, but what's wrong with describing or lampooning or, for that matter, celebrating the culture that we live in?"
Marr's favorite song on the album is its title track, whose gruff melody and bouncing rhythm resemble a downbeat version of The Smiths' "Sheila Take A Bow" tackled by The Clash.
"It veers from celebration to disappointment — and somewhere in between that, you've got the reality of living in the U.K.," says Marr. "The band who are playing that song couldn't be from anywhere else."
The Cribs will tour Japan next month, and Marr says he's more excited to play here with The Cribs than he had been with any other band. His most recent shows here were with Modest Mouse, but he's also appeared in Japan with The The and his own band, The Healers, which featured Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey and was active earlier in the noughties. He likes visiting guitar and clothes shops during his rare snatches of downtime here and wouldn't rule out someday joining a Japanese band.
"I would love to play with Ogre You Asshole," he says, referring to the Nagano Prefecture band who will open for The Cribs in Tokyo. "I love 'em. They're not afraid to be poppy. Some guitar bands just don't have the nerve to be poppy and second-guess themselves, you know.
"The Smiths never went (to Japan), which I think was one of our mistakes," Marr laments. "I can't for the life of me think why in that five-year period, no one organized it for us.
(A Smiths tribute band did headline Fuji Rock Festival on the Green Stage in 2004 after organizers failed to secure Morrissey; "What a waste of time," snorts Marr. "All the bands out there, and you get a Smiths tribute band! What a joke.")
Marr loves traveling, seeing it as enforced downtime. He describes his tour-bus bunk on Modest Mouse's last tour as being "like the Starship Enterprise with a pillow," loaded as it was with miniature recording equipment, a laptop, a DVD player and other gadgets. "I kind of associate travel with education and inspiration," he says.
But this was not always the case.
"I never liked touring until I went out with The Healers," he says. "All throughout The Smiths, I didn't like it. I was so hell-bent on making records, it always took whatever frontman I was working with to hit me with a stick to get out on stage and actually perform these songs. Frontmen can't wait to show off, y'know, whereas the guitarist is always sort of working earnestly on whatever their new creation is and then overdubbing it 50 times."
The Cribs have just embarked on what Marr reckons will be 18 months of touring. But then again, he's done plenty of the "making records" part this year already. His four 2009 releases include a Modest Mouse rarities collection, guitar and harmonica on Pet Shop Boys' "Yes," and "The Sun Came Out," a charity album released here in October.
This last release is a continuation of the 7 Worlds Collide series of live shows Neil Finn of Crowded House organized in 2001, in which Marr was also involved. Musicians including Finn and his son Liam, Lisa Germano, KT Tunstall and members of Radiohead and Wilco created a double album in support of aid charity Oxfam in just two weeks in December 2008.
"We had three floors of musicians all working on each other's songs," says Marr. "You'd get midway through doing a song with Lisa Germano, and then Neil would call you downstairs and you'd start working on one of his songs, and then the song that you'd been working on upstairs with Liam got changed around entirely by Ed O' Brian from Radiohead. . . . It was just a really amorphous, shape-shifting load of music."
Marr's enthusiasm for his various projects is as infectious as his unmistakable guitar riffs; but of all the bands he's worked with over the years, he lavishes the most praise on Modest Mouse and, of course, The Cribs, with whom he will remain for the next record and beyond. "The idea is that we try and stay on a roll and write songs as we can," he says. "Ryan's got a couple of new songs and I've got a couple and Gary's got a couple.
"I normally drive people around the bend when I finish a record and start getting ahead of myself thinking about the next one," he says, laughing. "But it seems I'm finally with people who are up to the same speed as me."
By DANIEL ROBSON
Special to The Japan Times
This charming man was one Johnny Marr — best known as the cofounding guitarist and songwriter of legendary 1980s British band The Smiths and, more recently, a member of Washington indie band Modest Mouse. Luckily for The Cribs, the 45-year-old Mancunian is a genuine guitar icon. And anyway, you're only as old as you feel.
"No one notices the age difference until a journalist mentions it!" laughs Marr defensively. "It's not like I hang out in the over-40s club or anything like that. And also, The Cribs aren't boys either. The Cribs are very much men."
When Marr met Gary Jarman in both musicians' adopted home of Portland, Oregon, last year, he agreed to work with The Cribs on four songs for an EP. But something unexpected happened: When the band entered a studio that August to write songs, inspiration struck. The result of that inspiration is the band's fourth album, "Ignore The Ignorant," released earlier this month, with Marr as a fully fledged member of the band.
"When we got together to play, we wrote the opening song on the new record immediately," he says. "And then we built up this really inspired momentum. We just stayed on a roll, cos it sounded right. After we'd pretty much written all the songs for the album, I turned around to them and said, 'OK, if you wanna get a different guitar player in, I'll show somebody how to play the parts,' and they looked at me with expressions of horror and violence."
Marr was born John Martin Maher to Irish parents on Oct. 31, 1963, in the grim Manchester district of Ardwick. Despite childhood dreams of becoming a professional footballer, his fate was sealed in early 1982 when he formed a band with his friend Steven Patrick Morrissey.
The Smiths' rise and fall is well recorded; it ended acrimoniously in August 1987 when Marr left the band following creative quarrels with Morrissey. Their legacy, too, is common knowledge, with pretty much every guitar band of note since that time — from Oasis to Radiohead — citing The Smiths as a major influence.
Part of what made songs such as "How Soon is Now?" "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" and "Ask" such undying classics was Marr's inimitable guitar style. Expressive, expansive, experimental and exquisite, it featured the sort of jangly tones that would go on to define indie music but injected them with a sense of menace, of purity, of warmth all at once. As identifiable on "Ignore The Ignorant" as it was on "The Queen Is Dead," Marr's sound is 100 percent unique. And yet there was a time when the fear of being pigeonholed drove him to reject it.
"When I formed Electronic with Bernard Summers from New Order (in 1989), I literally erased almost every guitar part that (we recorded) that sounded like me," recalls Marr. "Bernard would have his head in his hands and be going, 'Nooo! Nooo! Everybody's gonna blame me!' And that was just a phase that I had to go through. When I came to be in Modest Mouse (in 2006), I got . . . I hope the word is wise enough to be cool with it.
"What is one of the advantages of there being an age difference in The Cribs: They aren't really hung up in that post-Smiths significance. They just grew up liking my guitar parts, so they kind of expect me to play that way, really," he laughs.
Since their inception in 2001, The Cribs' ragged American-inspired indie has carried a punkish energy and a pop sensibility, both of which seem to have struck a chord with Marr. And indeed, the chords Marr strikes on The Cribs' fourth album widen the band's sound tenfold, resulting in a mature but immediate album that has real substance.
"A lot of the record is about personal philosophy and romance," considers Marr. "However, it has social comment that is skillfully done, I think. People have got so worried about earnestness or being sanctimonious, which we all know is a bad thing, but what's wrong with describing or lampooning or, for that matter, celebrating the culture that we live in?"
Marr's favorite song on the album is its title track, whose gruff melody and bouncing rhythm resemble a downbeat version of The Smiths' "Sheila Take A Bow" tackled by The Clash.
"It veers from celebration to disappointment — and somewhere in between that, you've got the reality of living in the U.K.," says Marr. "The band who are playing that song couldn't be from anywhere else."
The Cribs will tour Japan next month, and Marr says he's more excited to play here with The Cribs than he had been with any other band. His most recent shows here were with Modest Mouse, but he's also appeared in Japan with The The and his own band, The Healers, which featured Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey and was active earlier in the noughties. He likes visiting guitar and clothes shops during his rare snatches of downtime here and wouldn't rule out someday joining a Japanese band.
"I would love to play with Ogre You Asshole," he says, referring to the Nagano Prefecture band who will open for The Cribs in Tokyo. "I love 'em. They're not afraid to be poppy. Some guitar bands just don't have the nerve to be poppy and second-guess themselves, you know.
"The Smiths never went (to Japan), which I think was one of our mistakes," Marr laments. "I can't for the life of me think why in that five-year period, no one organized it for us.
(A Smiths tribute band did headline Fuji Rock Festival on the Green Stage in 2004 after organizers failed to secure Morrissey; "What a waste of time," snorts Marr. "All the bands out there, and you get a Smiths tribute band! What a joke.")
Marr loves traveling, seeing it as enforced downtime. He describes his tour-bus bunk on Modest Mouse's last tour as being "like the Starship Enterprise with a pillow," loaded as it was with miniature recording equipment, a laptop, a DVD player and other gadgets. "I kind of associate travel with education and inspiration," he says.
But this was not always the case.
"I never liked touring until I went out with The Healers," he says. "All throughout The Smiths, I didn't like it. I was so hell-bent on making records, it always took whatever frontman I was working with to hit me with a stick to get out on stage and actually perform these songs. Frontmen can't wait to show off, y'know, whereas the guitarist is always sort of working earnestly on whatever their new creation is and then overdubbing it 50 times."
The Cribs have just embarked on what Marr reckons will be 18 months of touring. But then again, he's done plenty of the "making records" part this year already. His four 2009 releases include a Modest Mouse rarities collection, guitar and harmonica on Pet Shop Boys' "Yes," and "The Sun Came Out," a charity album released here in October.
This last release is a continuation of the 7 Worlds Collide series of live shows Neil Finn of Crowded House organized in 2001, in which Marr was also involved. Musicians including Finn and his son Liam, Lisa Germano, KT Tunstall and members of Radiohead and Wilco created a double album in support of aid charity Oxfam in just two weeks in December 2008.
"We had three floors of musicians all working on each other's songs," says Marr. "You'd get midway through doing a song with Lisa Germano, and then Neil would call you downstairs and you'd start working on one of his songs, and then the song that you'd been working on upstairs with Liam got changed around entirely by Ed O' Brian from Radiohead. . . . It was just a really amorphous, shape-shifting load of music."
Marr's enthusiasm for his various projects is as infectious as his unmistakable guitar riffs; but of all the bands he's worked with over the years, he lavishes the most praise on Modest Mouse and, of course, The Cribs, with whom he will remain for the next record and beyond. "The idea is that we try and stay on a roll and write songs as we can," he says. "Ryan's got a couple of new songs and I've got a couple and Gary's got a couple.
"I normally drive people around the bend when I finish a record and start getting ahead of myself thinking about the next one," he says, laughing. "But it seems I'm finally with people who are up to the same speed as me."
By DANIEL ROBSON
Special to The Japan Times
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Glasgow Barrowlands date change
Johnny & The Cribs play Glasgow Barrowlands on Sunday October 11th.
the original date was Tuesday September 29th.
the original date was Tuesday September 29th.
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Later With Jools Holland
Johnny & The Cribs, Hot footing it from their current UK tour, still basking in the success of their recent Top 10 album 'Ignore The Ignorant', have been confirmed for BBC2's Later With Jools Holland on Tuesday September 29th and Friday October 2nd.
For those who have yet to witness the live experience that is The Cribs, you can catch the band on TV when they appear on Tuesday September 29th, 10pm (Later Live - live half hour show) and Friday October 2nd, 11.35pm (hour show).
Meanwhile they criss cross the UK throughout the remainder of September and midway into October with live dates before making a whistle stop visit to Japan for some club shows followed by a brief Stateside stopover after which they return to Europe to play as guests of Franz Ferdinand.
For those who have yet to witness the live experience that is The Cribs, you can catch the band on TV when they appear on Tuesday September 29th, 10pm (Later Live - live half hour show) and Friday October 2nd, 11.35pm (hour show).
Meanwhile they criss cross the UK throughout the remainder of September and midway into October with live dates before making a whistle stop visit to Japan for some club shows followed by a brief Stateside stopover after which they return to Europe to play as guests of Franz Ferdinand.
Johnny Marr & The Cribs take over NME Radio
johnny & The Cribs will take over NME Radio from 2pm on Friday september 18th. They will choose the music on air for an hour, then at 4pm they will play a live session, and be interviewed by Iain Baker.
The show will be broadcast on , Sky Channel 0184, Virgin Media 975, Freesat 727, DAB in London or NME.COM/Radio.
This is the NME radio link.
NME radio
The show will be broadcast on , Sky Channel 0184, Virgin Media 975, Freesat 727, DAB in London or NME.COM/Radio.
This is the NME radio link.
NME radio
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Radcliffe & Maconie Show
Johnny Marr & The Cribs play three songs and chat on The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, Wed 16 Sep 2009 20:00 on BBC Radio 2
Radcliffe & Maconie
Radcliffe & Maconie
Johnny marr & The Cribs Takeover The Guardian
Johnny & The Cribs Takeover The Guardian.co.uk/music. Listen to 'ignore The Ignorant'.
Read Everett True debunk the myths of Riot Grrrl.
Cribs favourite Austin's Strange Boys.
Label of love: Wichita records and more.
Cribs Takeover The Guardian
Read Everett True debunk the myths of Riot Grrrl.
Cribs favourite Austin's Strange Boys.
Label of love: Wichita records and more.
Cribs Takeover The Guardian
Johnny Marr interviews Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis
Johnny interviews Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis, for the Cribs' takeover of guardian.co.uk/music
Guardian
Guardian
Johnny Marr & The Cribs XFM Evening session
Johnny & The Cribs performed an XFM Evening session, spoke to Xfm's Jon Hillcock and answered questions from the specially-invited audience of listeners.
Here's the link
XFM
Here's the link
XFM
Johnny Marr&The Cribs Rough Trade East Instore Session
The band released their fourth album, their first with Johnny, 'Ignore The Ignorant' today, 7th September, and will play London's Rough Trade East on Thursday 10th September, at 7pm. Wristbands are limited to one per person, and will be available on the day to those purchasing the album. Any remaining wristbands will be issued to fans on a first come first served basis
Johnny Marr & The Cribs Ignore The Ignorant Today
Johnny Marr & The Cribs showcase new album
Johnny Marr & The Cribs showcased their new album 'Ignore The Ignorant', at an intimate London show at the London Barfly, Sunday Sept 6.
NME
NME
Johnny Marr & The Cribs 'Ignore The Ignorant' OMM review
Johnny & The Cribs 'Ignore The Ignorant' is reviewed in this Sundays Observer Music Magazine
Observer Music Magazine
Observer Music Magazine
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