From today's NY Times

While traveling from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the photographer Richard Harrington stumbled upon an abandoned NASA unit in Bishop, Calif.

[I would argue that it's very possible that this NASA trailer isn't in Bishop. Must ask around. Maybe it lives at the Big Ears, where Cal Tech maps outer space. Also, Bishop really isn't on the road to Vegas from LA. At the very least, you will know what relentless sunshine in the Valley can look like.]

post script: Rick who works at the Big Ears confirmed that this trailer is there and reported that it is not abandoned.

Over the Atlantic - in the Living Room - Bishop Style

Phoenix Foundation in GR with a mention of Bishop, to boot!

Yes, the Bishop reference might have been a pisstake at us and the band, but the proof was in the pudding. Recently, folks have been asking when the next gig might be.

The band's third CD, Happy Ending, is out in NZ now! It is faneffingtastic and you can get yours here.

(Click on the pages to enlarge.)

Bloody Hell, all that courting worked

Phoenix Foundation Makes American Debut
2007-05-17 12:53:57.533,
Story by: Taylor Mason

New Zealand group the Phoenix Foundation are preparing to make their mark in the States, as they release their debut album, Horsepower (Young American Recordings), June 5, in addition to embarking on their first North American tour. The band will also premiere their work on Miramax Films' Eagle VS Shark, a film for which the band contributed six songs, including three score pieces. The Phoenix Foundation launch their stateside dates, which will feature Eagle VS Shark screenings, May 30 in Bishop, California.

Tour Dates For The Phoenix Foundation:
05/30 - Bishop, CA - The Masonic Temple
06/01 - Seattle, WA - The Seattle Film Festival
06/02 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile*
06/03 - San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Records
06/04 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
06/06 - Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones
06/07 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge**
06/08 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall**
06/09 - Boston, MA - Great Scott**
06/12 - Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe
* with Voxtrot
** with the Veils

www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz

from CMJ News 5/17/07


This thing has been logistically even more interesting than trying to entertain 200 people in a sheep pasture (that would have been our wedding back in 1999). People are coming out of the woodwork to help and by golly, do I owe some folks.

I have to be the luckiest woman alive to be married to Matty. He has been awesome and supportive and just just so - calm.

A HUGE shout out to the Phoenix Foundation, their manager Matt McLeod, and their engineer Brett Stanton. They are giving us our chance to pull this thing off and hopefully put little ol' Bishop on the tour circuit.