He just played an Obama benefit and word is his new album Noble Beast should be released the last Tuesday in January.

Tour:

10/09 - Albany, NY - Swyer Theatre
10/10 - Northampton, MA - Calvin Theatre
10/19 - Los Angeles, CA - Largo At The Coronet
10/20 - Los Angeles, CA - Largo At The Coronet

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do you know who the support is for ani difranco's london gig? cos im hoping its going to be him

Andrew Bird is so awesome, and that's not a word I use lightly. I'm really really excited about the new album; Pitchfork says there's whistling aplenty, PHEW. He's one of a very few living musicians I love but haven't seen live. Apparently the live experience is something pretty special, so say my friends who've seen him (hate hate hate my friends).

I can check but I've heard nothing and I never even listened to the last album.


OOOhhh whistling. Goos sign. I want to do a songs with whistling and then a hand clap compilation thread some time.

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DO IT. I was talking to a friend the other day about how these are two of my favourite sounds. They're in my top 5 - the others are theremin, children's toys actually integrated into the song, not just used for indie quirk points, and interesting percussion (pots & pans, tap dancing, looped door slamming and so on). Andrew Bird's whistling is something sublime though - if Otis Redding is the kid's ocarina orchestra, Birdy is the principal soloist in the British Philharmonic.