Leamington Spa, England @ The Assembly
Get Tickets: http://www.artistticket.com/link/?s=lou+reed
There is only one show at Leamington. Tickets for the 8th are valid for the 9th. Refunds are available for the 8th if required, only until July 31st.
Lou Has New Genus of Velvet Spider Named After Him
Although he hasn’t had a constellation namedafter him, Lou Reed has joined the late Frank Zappa and Neil Young as rock stars who have had newly discovered spiders named after them.
According to Sci-News.com, a new genus of velvet spider has been recently named Loureedia “in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground.” Obviously in reference to Reed’s time in the Velvet Underground, Loureedia was chosen by an international group of biologists and representatives of institutions from the U.S., Hungary, Denmark and Iran among other countries.
The velvet spider — which is described has having a “dark and shiny” appearance — is known to be rarely encountered, much like Reed’s at times testy encounters with music journalists over the years. The creature is also known to live in Africa, Asia and Europe with Brazil also home to a form of the species.
Reed has sung about spiders in the past. For example the song “Baton Rouge” — found on the 2000 album Ecstasy — contains the lyrics, “In the terra-cotta cobwebs of your mind/When did you start seeing me as a spider spinning web.”
Reed joins Young, who had a trapdoor spider named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after him a few years ago. Zappa’s spider is called the Pachygnatha zappa and was so named in part due to the creature’s markings that bring to mind the musician’s signature mustache.
Reed is currently off the road after releasing Lulu, the album created from Reed’s collaboration with Metallica last year. Reed embarks on a European tour next month starting in Luxembourg and concluding in early July in Slovakia. Reed also makes a guest appearance on Metric‘s forthcoming studio album Synthetica.
-by Jason MacNeil (via Spinner.com)
Antony’s Meltdown – London, UK
Lou is the latest artist to be added to this year’s Meltdown Festival at London’s prestigious Southbank Centre. This year’s festival is curated by Lou’s friend and collaborator, Antony.
Lou will perform a rare one-off London concert at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 10 August. Tickets from £45.
Tickets will go on sale to Southbank Members at 10am Tuesday 29 May, and on general sale at 10am on Thursday 31 May. Tickets for Lou’s Meltdown show can be ordered from
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown, 0844 847 9944. Tickets will also be available from Ticketmaster, 0844 844 0006.
Lou’s concert is part of Antony’s Meltdown, which also features performances from Diamanda Galás, Laurie Anderson, Elizabeth Fraser, CocoRosie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joey Arias, Marc Almond, Hal Willner: Freedom Rides and many more. For the full Meltdown line-up visit – www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown.
To access the official Lou Reed UK Meltdown press page, click HERE.
For further information about this concert, please contact:
Peter Noble and Will Taylor at Noble PR Consultancy
0207 272 7772, peter@noblepr.co.uk, will@noblepr.co.uk
