The Magnetic Fields play their song "The Book Of Love" live in concert at the Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, California on April 26, 2022. The Book Of Love originally appeared on the band's sixth studio album, 69 Love Songs (1999). It has been covered by several artists, including Peter Gabriel, Airborne Toxic Event, Gavin James, Patricia O'Callaghan, Tracey Thorn, and 2Cellos. The Magnetic Fields are an indie pop band led by founder, lead singer, and principal songwriter Stephin Merritt. Joining him onstage were Sam Davol (cello), Shirley Simms (vocals, ukulele and autoharp), Chris Ewen (keyboards), and Anthony Kaczinski (guitar and backing vocals).
================
The Book Of Love lyrics:
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing
But I, I love it when you read to me
And you, you can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
But I, I love it when you sing to me
And you, you can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But I, I love it when you give me things
And you, you ought to give me wedding rings
I, I love it when you give me things
And you, you ought to give me wedding rings
Written by Stephin Raymond Merritt
================
The Magnetic Fields live tour dates (2022):
April 6 - Tarrytown, NY @ Tarrytown Music Hall
April 7 - Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre
April 9 - Raleigh, NC @ Fletcher Opera Theater
April 10 - Raleigh, NC @ Fletcher Opera Theater
April 11 - Charlottesville, VA @ Paramount Theater
April 13 - Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
April 15 - Iowa City, IA @ Englert Theatre
April 16 - Saint Paul, MN @ Fitzgerald Theater
April 18 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
April 19 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
April 20 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
April 22 - Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
April 23 - Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
April 25 - San Francisco, CA @ Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre
April 26 - San Francisco, CA @ Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre
April 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
===============
The Magnetic Fields official bio:
The Magnetic Fields are pleased to announce a sixteen-date tour of select US and Canadian cities in April 2022. This tour follows their twice-rescheduled Fall 2021 tour of seven City Winery Locations around the US. These intimate concerts will feature a setlist spanning the band’s three-decade career, including material from their earliest albums in the 1990s and their iconic triple-album 69 Love Songs.
Lead singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt will be joined by longtime Magnetic Fields’ members Sam Davol, Shirley Simms, Chris Ewen, and Anthony Kaczinski.
The tour also celebrates the release of a special 20th-anniversary vinyl edition of The Magnetic Fields’ 1992 EP, “The House of Tomorrow.”
To date, Stephin Merritt has written and recorded twelve Magnetic Fields albums, including the beloved 69 Love Songs and 2017’s critically acclaimed Nonesuch box set, 50 Song Memoir, which chronicled the first fifty years of the songwriter’s life with one song per year. New York magazine called the box set “a celebration of Merritt’s sky-high range as a writer and a player … a delightful flip through the untold back pages of one of rock’s most singular voices.” Merritt has also composed original music and lyrics for several music theater pieces, including an off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaiman’s novel Coraline, for which he received an Obie Award. In 2014, Merritt composed songs and background music for the first musical episode of public radio’s This American Life. Stephin Merritt also releases albums under the band names the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes.
29 сен 2024
