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November 16th, 2007 - Another December Performance
Vyvienne will be playing at The Spirit Store, Dundlak on December 3rd, 2007..November 7th, 2007 - December Performance
Vyvienne will be playing at The Village, Dublin on December 4th, 2007..October 10th, 2007 - Cork Performance
Vyvienne will be playing at Cyprus Avenue in Cork on Friday October 26th. Tickets are on sale now from tickets.ie.September 30th, 2007 - Vyvienne to be Support
Vyvienne has been confirmed as the support for the Damien Rice UK tour which runs from 1 October 2007 to 12 October 2007.August 17th, 2007 - Vyvienne in the Irish Independent (The Village, Dublin)
Vyvienne Long looks -- and occasionally acts -- like a cartoon character brought to life. She totters about the Village stage in comically tall high-heels, bright red creations which accentuate her broomstick frame. She converses in a breathless chipmunk twitter. Her music is extravagantly baroque, as if fished from the subconscious of Tim Burton or Edward Gorey.Yet, the most surprising thing about Long is her fantastic range as a singer. To date, the wispy Dubliner has achieved some local celebrity as a cellist: her mournful playing set the tone on each of Damien Rice's two albums while she enjoyed a novelty hit with her perky cover of The White Stripe's 'Seven Nation Army'.
She's no less compelling as a vocalist and songwriter, though. On the final night of an Irish tour Long, accompanied by two backing cellists, a bassist, drummer and piano player, moves light-footedly between frantic art-rock, heartfelt piano balladry and Bjork-esque weirdo pop.
Long truly soars when she forsakes her cello. Accompanied by a human-beat box, she delivers a flamboyant freak-folk rap. Later she sits behind a piano and belts out several Tori Amos-tinged torch-songs.
As final curtain looms, Long flirts with cuteness but pulls back just in time on a tune that urges us to stay happy no matter what life has in store (arguably she pushes her luck inviting the audience to hum the ditzy chorus). Carry on like this and soon she will be famous for more than novelty cover versions.
August 8th, 2007 - Vyvienne in the Irish Times
Vyvienne has spoken to the Irish Times about her current solo tour of Ireland:"It should be called the Vyvienne Long Orchestra, really," says Long during a brief break between touring with Rice and starting her own series of performances. "I've got some amazing musicians playing with me. I did a small tour last September, so the whole idea of touring my own material still feels fresh - it still feels like I'm starting out. It's quite a big contrast between playing my own shows and playing with Damien. It's very different fronting a band rather than playing along, where the focus isn't on you. There's a huge difference in concentration. It's much more intense, because singing and playing at the same time is in itself much more demanding."
"My own 'original repertoire' has expanded a lot in the last year, so my shows will be mostly original material, maybe only one cover," she says. "Lots of the songs are developments of music I wrote a long time ago, and I had to make a conscious effort to finish them off and write lyrics. After finishing a US tour with Damien in October, I'm going into the studio to finally record them."
"I'm kind of the first public face of the cello in Ireland, but I'm happily surprised by how interested people are in the instrument, and how accepting they are - rather than considering it just a classical instrument, they're quite happy to see three cellos on stage."
July 8th, 2007 - L'Olympia, Paris
Vyvienne and her band performed 6 songs as the supporting act for Damien including 2 which are not on Vyvienne's EP.
He Wants to Move
Never Leave You
Unreleased
Random Man on the Motorway
They're Not Waving
She Can't Wait to Get Her Hands on the InheritanceJune 26th, 2007 - More dates announced
Vyvienne will be the support act for Damien Rice performance on 4th and 5th July at the Olympiahalle, Paris.
Also, Vyvienne will be playing at Farmleigh House on 5th August.June 17th, 2007 - Bonnaroo Festival 2007
Vyvienne rejoined Damien's band for the Bonnaroo Festival yesterday. A couple of videos can be found here.June 16th, 2007 - Solo Summer Tour 2007
Friday 10 August - Dolans, Limerick
Saturday 11 August - St Canices Cathedral, Kilkenny (Lunchtime concert 1pm as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival )
Saturday 11 August - Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Tuesday 14 August - Roisin Dubh, Galway
Wednesday 15 August - The Village, Wexford St, DublinJanuary 16th, 2007 - Solo Performances
Vyvienne will be performing two dates in Ireland next week: Monday, January 22nd, in Crawdaddy (Dublin) and Thursday, January 25th, in Cyprus Avenue (Cork).
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