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I'm a little late posting our updates from the road. I'll try and be a bit more prompt for the rest of the tour.

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So we're maybe 45 minutes from the Windy City after 6 hours on the Rainy Highway and a couple of days in the snowy, desolate states.

Motel 6 should make us shareholders by now, while The Dots have largely avoided all the trans-fat aimed at us every time we stop (except for one uncharacteristic aberration from Marty).

We've seen trucks with "Jesus is Lord" emblazoned on them, a huge placard proclaiming "Outlaw Sodomy" in Nebraska (was it a service being advertized or was it just someone being uptight?), truckers and cowboys and cows and tumbleweeds tumbling and yes, we love it all.

America is beautiful, absurd and absorbing and, best of all,we love seeing our friends, old and new, as we travel from state to state.

My favourite show? I think last night in Minneapolis... A beautiful theatre with red carpets and the kindest people you could ever wish for. Still, so far I enjoyed just about everywhere, even Grand Island NE where I felt like a Martian.

Edward

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Hey there, want to say sorry to the guy from Trade Up Music for forgetting to put him on the guest list. He found me a rare power supply which i had left at home. Without it i would have had a major problem. So musicians, get your gear at Trade Up Music in Portland, OK?

And about the corn dog, i know i have sinned but i promised it won't get worse than that.

Martijn

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We're eight days in,yet it feels like we've been on the road a month.....such is time distortion on the road.They say space is curved - not in Nebraska it ain't.

I've so many impressions with but a moment to savour them all,as we trundle through this land,and so many warm greetings from you all and to you all for supporting our endeavours.

Thanks: Bill for your raw revolution and tasty home grown apples; Chris and Heather for putting us up and putting up with us during those first jet-lag days.

Thanks also to the Sage Cafe in Salt Lake City whose dinners were pure soul-food for a band of veggie-vagabonds struggling to stabalise their tour rhythms.

It's the end of the year and it could well be the end of an era too. Lisette has mailed her ballot..... trees lose their leaves and a bush is laid bare. Today is a sunshine day, as we arrive in Chicago.

Greetings,

Hmm, this is an unprecedented - and EARLY newsletter.... However there is enough happening to warrant it and tomorrow we're set to fly to Portland at the crack of dawn.

A definitive list of shows can be found below. There are more confirmations for the European Tour slated for next April while Edward Ka-Spel's small solo venture to Chile now seems to be certain barring disaster.

While the band is on tour the mail-order service has to be temporarily suspended as we have no way of sending packages in transit. It will resume early in December.

Note the new releases from LPD guitarist Martijn De Kleer and a standard reissue of LPDs' long out-of-print CDs, "Chemical Playschool 8/9" and "Alchemical Playschool".

Finally a big big thank you to our friends in Tromso at the Insomnia Festival - a wonderful, unforgettable experience.

Here is a list of all shows coming up...

Now for the new releases.....

1.LEGENDARY PINK DOTS/Plutonium Blonde CD... We think it's a landmark.... Available now...15 euros

2.EDWARD KA-SPEL/Dream Logik 2 CD..... We have the limited and luxuriously packaged double CD version at 20 euros but it's already going down in numbers quite rapidly ( postage inside Europe is 4 euros,6 outside)

3.EDWARD KA-SPEL/Dream Logik 1-3 (4 x LP plus exclusive CD). A vinyl box set in an edition of 400 copies encompassing the entire Dream Logik project... Seriously beautiful. It will be available in October.Pre-order price is 55 euros (plus 12 for postage inside Europe and 18 outside). Do note, orders will be posted in December after the tour... Considering the initial response to this release it does look a little unlikely that we'll have this for sale at European shows in the Spring.

4.THE SILVERMAN/Blank for your own message (CD) - A voyage to exotic, colourful places on the wings of a black swan that speaks no earthly language. A rapidly changing but constantly enchanting landscape. On Beta lactam Ring records. 20 euros (plus postage and packing).O UT NOW.

5.EDWARD KA-SPEL/The Painted River of regrets (CDR) - Latest release on the Trademark of Quantity label consists of a collection of instrumental pieces to form a soundtrack for an imaginary movie which the dots vocalist had been working on over the last year.the intention was to have it ready for the last tour , but it over-ran by a day (apologies to all who came to the first 4 shows). A limited , personally signed edition of 399 copies. 15 euros (plus postage and packing). OUT NOW LATE ANNOUNCEMENT: This title will also be issued on vinyl early in 2009 in an edition of 100. Please wait for further details....

6.LEGENDARY PINK DOTS/ Chemical playschool 8/9 (2CD)... Seems to have been out-of-print forever. Now reissued by Beta-lactam Ring as gloriously as you'd expect from this fine label.Imminent...22 euros (plus 4 for postage inside Europe and 6 outside.)

7.The T-shirts. 3 of them and thank you to those who designed them and everybody else who entered the competition. Frankly we were blown away.

8.MARTIJN DE KLEER/The Stranger it gets (Part One) - Basement recordings from the 90s in five dimensional lysergic glory.Touching acoustic songs, explosive space exploration. Lovingly home-made CDR release- an hour of music.It costs 15 euros and will be released in time for the USA tour.

9.MARTIJN DE KLEER/THe Stranger it gets (Part Two) - Second installment of the stranger basement tapes. 15 euros...

10. THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS/ Alchemical Playschool - Regular edition of long out-of-print and screamingly rare release. 15 euros.

11. Those attending American/Canadian shows could find something surprising in LPDs' humble but well-stocked shop. However, at this moment the author of this missive is sworn to secrecy.

A LINK

We'd like to bring your attention to www.loveandloudcolours.com

This is a website dedicated to Edward Ka-Spel's book of lyrics which was released a few years ago. The site has been updated and visitors will find a section where Edward reveals the origins for many of his outpourings.

[Note from Lisette: Love and Loud Colours is a work of art in and of itself. If you are a fan of Edward's lyrics, this book is a *must have*.]

BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT CAME OUR WAY

SVARTBAG
I was given this CD by a kind record store owner in Copenhagen, and what a beauty it is!!! Perhaps there are echoes of the sadly missed Godspeed You Black Emperor, but that comparison does this Danish band a disservice. Very much an individual sound to this CD on the Rump Recordings label. Charged, ecstatic. Utterly uplifting in these sepia times.

THE JOHN MORAN CORPORATION Sometimes a CD comes along that makes you want to fling open the windows and scream about to the rest of the World (only that would of course interfere with the beautiful music). In the case of John Moran, it wasn't one but 2 albums that turned up in the mail box.. Psychedelic in the broadest sense, tuneful, intelligent,happy, sad --- don't know where to stop. John is from Australia and his CDs are on the Puzzle Factory label. Seek him out, and buy his music -- you will not regret this.

UN FESTIN SAGITAL Title: Epitafio a la Permanencia

Imagine Christian Vander and Pierre Henry collaborating on a lost masterpiece when they were both at the peaks of their powers..... Imagine the master tape turning up in Chile..Imagine it's reputation preceded it and turned out to be EVEN BETTER...... Un Festin Sagital is a group I'd never heard of before, but I reckon I'll spend the next few years hearing them again and again such is the depth of this debut.Purchase from Last Updated on Sunday, 12 October 2008 10:07

Plutonium Blonde is now officially out in stores!

Take a look at some of the latest reviews.

If you find reviews and interviews that we don't already have listed on legendarypinkdots.org, send them our way!

In just 9 days, the North American tour begins!

A huge thank you to you - the lovely street teams - for helping to promote our shows!

We will be seeing you all soon.