Catching Up On Black Francis

“I’ve stopped doing encores at my official shows, and replaced them with ‘precores’ in unusual locations, which I ask fans to come up with”-Black Francis

The video posted on top is of Black Francis being escorted by the police at a show in Dublin because 1,000 people showed up at his pre-core show which he set up to play at a park that was closed(Black Francis didn’t know this at the time). He did get to play some songs before being forced to end the show though. In the end the police just told him not do it again. I originally posted that Black Francis played some more songs down the street but as posted below that is not true. I found some excellent pictures from the frankblack forum of the actual show that night that were taken by Fionamorgan  . Check them out at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/missfionamorgan/sets/72157603890960325/show/

The drummer Jason Carter who plays on Bluefinger and Svn Fngrs and who is currently on the tour with Black Francis has a cool blog tracking the whole tour over at http://www.skippyondrums.com/Skippy_On_Drums.com/Home/Home.html

In other news related to the new LP Svn Fngrs which is being released in a month you can check out two new songs from the album on Black Francis’ myspace at myspace.com/officialblackfrancis The two songs posted are Seven Fingers and When They Come To Murder Me and rank right up there with Black Francis’ best songs