Why not lets have an American Music Club thread incorporating Mark Eitzel shall we?

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BOOM!

BLAM!

KERBLAMMO!

What a band. What a voice. What a thread.

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this is an absolute belter

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Yeah didnā€™t see that til afterwards, really annoyed I missed it. Played a couple of my favourite tracks

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I love AMC - first saw them in 1994. I last saw Eitzel at Primavera 2/3 years ago in the Auditori and it was my (unexpected) festival highlight. We got 3 songs from California plus ā€œWhat Holds The World Togetherā€ :sob:

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Did you see their set at Parc Cituadella? That was lovely

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Yep! That was good too but the Auditori set was astonishing. Blue & Grey Shirt, Western Sky & Firefly.

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Saw them play a year or so ago in Nottingham with Bernard. Went purely to see Bernard as a big Suede fan, ended up loving AMC too having not heard a note by them previously.

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Favourite track:

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Never delved that deep into his back catalogue, but absolutely love this:

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Good band

My best mate is a huge fan so Iā€™m kind of a fan by proxy. Itā€™s really quite hard to get hold of some of the albums these days, although I assume they are all on Spotify

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The book on them is worth a read by the way

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Wish the World Away. Itā€™s a modern tragedy.

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I remember reading an interview with Mark many years ago where the interviewer broached the inevitable subject of whether the songs were autobiographical. His reply was something along the lines of ā€˜how could I live (if they were)ā€™.
They are.

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One of my favourite bands and favourite songwriters of all time. Probably the person Iā€™ve seen live more than anyone else over the years. Hard to choose just three or four songs but these three are amongst 30 or 40 classics I could have picked. Iā€™ve deliberately picked songs from throughout his career.

Glad there are some other fans out there.

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Ugly American is his best album imho onion. Love the versions of ā€œAnythingā€ and ā€œTake Courageā€ on it

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Just grabbed a ticket to see Mark Eitzel and full band next week! Didnā€™t even know he was touring. Heā€™s doing a career spanning range of stuff in advance of the AMC re-releases and box set! (Had no idea about the re-releases either). Excited about this.

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Ah is it full band? He played Sheffield last night but think it was advertised as solo. Couldnā€™t have made it either way unfortunately. His setlist does look good.

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Yep 2 of the gigs are full band, the Hassocks one being one luckily!

ā€˜This will be a seated full band show.
Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) is coming to Europe for the first time in eight years. In addition to older classics from American Music Club which will be featured on a new box set due out in 2025, Mark will be playing songs from previous solo albums and a new vinyl EP.ā€™

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A solo show in Bristol. Heā€™s a little doddery nowadays but was in fine voice (and humour) and treated us to as set of new (er) tunes and old favourites. Saved the best til last with OutsideThis Bar and Last Harbour to finish.

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