BRIAN WRIGHT

Newsletter / West Coast Dates / East Coast Residency

Hello friends, or fans, or friendly fans, or fans that are also friends, or friends that are also fans (maybe that’s the same thing) or errant internet traveler baffled by who in the hell Brian Wright is.

We’re not going to get too deep into any sort of philosophical discussion of who Brian Wright is because, frankly, I don’t want to, and I’m him, Brian Wright. Yep. Hello, how are you?

I would like to take a second to say thank you and welcome you to the FIRST OFFICIAL BRIAN WRIGHT NEWSLETTER (cue deafening applause). If you are reading this you have likely seen me play somewhere near where you live, or somewhere you were visiting and went to a show, where most likely I was playing, or you have bought one or more of my records (thank you), through one or more various methods of purchase, OR you have stolen, or burned, or illegally downloaded one or more of my records in which case, we can get past it as long as you enjoyed it. I am a songwriter and a musician. Singer-songwriter carries a weight and stigma I don’t care to bear, although technically, I am both of those things.

It’s been a fantastic 2010 so far, I’ve been touring virtually nonstop all year in support of my new record “HOUSE ON FIRE” and it’s been a blast. The tour has taken me back and forth across North America and Europe and back and forth again. Thanks for coming to the shows, for singing the songs, for clapping at the ends of them, for saying hello, for buying the records and t-shirts, for making crappy cell-phone videos of performances that I knew in my heart and soul were amazing, only to be humbled by the fact that the sound and video on cell phones are, well, less than amazing and probably best left as a fond and perfect memory.

Thanks to Tom McRae, Greg Laswell, Jimmy Gnecco, Truth and Salvage Company, and so many other great artists and bands I’ve had the pleasure of playing with this year.

BUT THE YEAR IS NOT OVER YET!!! NOT BY A LONG SHOT!!! I’m in London now (to be fair, by the time you get this, I will probably be back in LA) and soon I will be criss-crossing the great USA again, FIRST on a quick WEST COAST run with my good friend and amazing artist GREG LASWELL, and then, and this is very exciting to me …….(so exciting I put a bunch of dots before saying it)….. a 3 WEEK EAST COAST RESIDENCY IN NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA, AND BOSTON!!!!! Damn, that feels good to say. That’s right, starting SEPTEMBER 15TH AT ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL and for 3 SUBSEQUENT WEEKS on consecutive days I will be playing FULL BAND SHOWS in three of my favorite cities: NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA, AND BOSTON!!!! It is my sincere hope and request that if you are anywhere near any of these venues on these dates, you will come, you will bring friends and I will play music for your friends, which they will hopefully enjoy, and we will begin a long and meaningful relationship. OR, WE CAN JUST PARTY. FOREVER.

So that takes us up through OCTOBER 1st when I will begin another EUROPEAN TOUR, supporting TOM McRAE at some of the finest venues in the UK and EUROPE. It is no lie when I say I am very excited about these gigs. SO excited I may curse. FUCK. I’m sorry, i just got excited, won’t happen again in this newsletter I promise. Even PG-13 movies are allowed one F-bomb, there’s mine. Indiana Jones and the F’n Temple of Doom.

There are many more things I’d love to tell you about now, but if I do, I won’t have as much to discuss in the next OFFICIAL BRIAN WRIGHT NEWSLETTER. I sincerely thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope to see you at the shows, I hope to hear my songs blasting from the windows of your houses and cars, and if they’re not my songs, that’s ok too, just try to make them good songs, for God’s sake, please.

Sincerely,

Brian Wright

Tour Dates »

Thursday, September 2nd: Hermosa Beach @ Saint Rocke

Saturday, September 4th: Visalia @ Cellar Door

Wednesday, September 15th: New York @ Rockwood Music Hall

Friday, September 17th: Philadelphia @ Tin Angel

Wednesday, September 22nd: New York @ Rockwood Music Hall

Thursday, September 23rd: Boston @ Cafe 939

Friday, September 24th: Philadelphia @ Tin Angel

Wednesday, September 29th: New York @ Rockwood Music Hall

Thursday, September 30th: Boston @ Cafe 939

Friday, October 1st: Philadelphia @ Tin Angel

Monday, October 11th: Belgium @ Brussels, AB (supporting Tom McRae)

Tuesday, October 12th: Paris @ La Cigale (supporting Tom McRae)

Thursday, October 14th: London @ Shepard’s Bush Empire (supporting Tom McRae)

Friday, October 15th: Newcastle @ The Sage (supporting Tom McRae)

Saturday, October 16th: Glasgow @ Oran Mor (supporting Tom McRae)

Sunday, October 17th: Edinburgh @ The Liquid Room (supporting Tom McRae)

Live at Hotel Cafe

Thursday, July 8 @ 10:00PM

Get your tickets HERE

US TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!!!!

Catch Brian on tour with Greg Laswell this May and June throughout the States.

May 4//Los Angeles//Troubadour
May 6//Portland//Mississippi Studios
May 7//Eugene//Wow Hall
May 8//Seattle//Tractor Tavern
May 11//Denver//Walnut Room
May 14/Minneapolis//7th Street Entry
May 15//Chicago//Empty Bottle
May 19//Ann Arbor//The Blind Pig
May 20//Cleveland//Cambridge Room at HOB
May 21//Columbus//Rumba Café
May 22//Philadelphia//Tin Angel
May 24//DC//Rock N Roll Hotel
May 25//New York//Bowery Ballroom
May 26//Philadelphia//Tin Angel
May 27//Boston//Paradise
May 29//Charlotte//Evening Muse
May 30//Charlotte//Evening Muse
Jun 1//Atlanta//Vinyl
Jun 2//Birmingham//Workplay Theater
Jun 4//Dallas//Prophet Bar
Jun 5//Austin//Stubb’s
Jun 8//Phoenix//The Rhythm Room
Jun 10//San Francisco//Cafe du Nord
Jun 11//San Diego//Anthology