We finished up the VV tour with nine days of stadiums in the UK. The smallest crowd I mixed for was about 30,000, and the largest was over 55,000 (at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Holy CRAP is that space big!). Here’s what the view from my mixing desk typically looked like:

And now … I’m on vacation with my lovely wife! I’m writing this from Brugge. It’s adorable but I can’t see myself coming back. We just came from Paris, and we’re off to Amsterdam on Monday, seeing The National at Paradiso on Tuesday. SO excited … then back to the States for a festival, and then promptly back over to Morocco, and then immediately back to the US again. Nice routing :-p

So, our next tour is going to be in France … for a *month*! I didn’t even know you could tour France for a month. That’s like touring California for a month. Where do you go after the first five shows?

But, apparently, there are all sorts of places to play. And we’ll have a lot of down time as well, much of it in Paris, which I can’t complain about. Here’s the schedule for the next bit of my life. I won’t be tour managing — just mixing — so I’ll have plenty of time to hang out. Look me up!

10 MAY: San Diego
11 MAY: Las Vegas
12 MAY: LA
20 MAY: NYC (private gig for Vogue, of all things)
22-25 MAY: rehearsals in London
27 MAY: Dijon
28 MAY: Papillions de Nuit festival, Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves
29 MAY – 01 JUN: Paris (off/promo)
02 JUN: Caen
03 JUN: Paris (promo)
04 JUN: Amiens
05 JUN: Point Gamma Festival (Palaiseau)
06 JUN: Paris (promo)
07 JUN: Paris (gig — Elysée Montmartre)
08 JUN: Bordeaux
09 JUN: Paris (promo)
10 JUN: Toulon
11 JUN: Sunderland (fly date, supporting Pink)
12 JUN: Montpellier (gig)
13-14 JUN: Montpellier (off)
15 JUN: Marseille
16 JUN: Grenoble
17-19 JUN: Paris (promo)
20-21 JUN: Nimes
22 JUN: Cannes (private gig for AOL)

After that last gig, we get in — I shit you not — a private plane chartered expressly for us by AOL, which will fly us to Wales to join Pink on her stadium tour. Ha! Here are those dates:

23 JUN: Swansea
24 JUN: Coventry
25-26 JUN: Glasgow
27 JUN: Alton Towers
28 JUN: London (off)
29 JUN: Ipswich

… and then Shannon’s joining me for a vacation in Europe! WooHOO!

Hi! So far we’ve been doing little things all over the place with VV … promo, one-offs, fly dates, that sort of thing. We’re doing a brief east-coast run next week, capped off with a visit to Rachael Ray, then we’re back to LA to do Jimmy Kimmel.

We head to Paris at the beginning of March for 3 days, to do a bunch of promo and 2 shows (including one *on* the Eiffel Tower!). Then we’re back to LA to do Craig Ferguson. I have a week off while VV does some radio stuff around the US, and then we meet up for SXSW and then a tour in support of Little Dragon (with whom we’re sharing a bus as well — should be fun). Dates are:

17-20 MAR: SXSW
21 MAR: Charlotte
22 MAR: Charlottesville
23 MAR: Philly
24 MAR: DC
25 MAR: Brooklyn
27 MAR: NYC
28 MAR: Boston
29 MAR: Montreal
30 MAR: Toronto
31 MAR: LA (private gig)
01 APR: Chicago
02 APR: Iowa City
03 APR: Omaha
05 APR: Denver
06 APR: SLC
09 APR: Seattle
10 APR: Napa (private gig)
11 APR: Bellingham
12 APR: Portland
13 APR: SF
14 APR: SF
15 APR: LA (private party)
16 APR: LA (outdoors at Capitol)
20 APR: NYC (iTunes SoHo)
28 APR: NYC

Come say hi! There’s a lot more happening this year … I’ll post updates as I get them.

Hi! I’ve just signed on to do some work with V V Brown, from the UK. The first month or so is a lot of promo — I’ll post tour dates as they are confirmed!

Last night I got hired to do a super fun job — I mixed the new 2010 instrumental version of “Jump Around,” by House of Pain! What a classic track. Listen for it coming soon to a TV ad or basketball arena near you!

Shannon’s tour was fantastic. Thanks to everyone who housed us, fed us, and generally showed us a great time. And thank you to the weather for conveniently routing around us the entire time! We missed rain, wind, sleet, snow, and hail, often by mere hours. Amazing.

We’re now bunkered down in South Pasadena, doing a bunch of label/web stuff, cooking amazing organic food from the farmer’s market, and gearing up for Shannon’s next recordings. More soon!

We just recorded a live DVD with Everlast at the Key Club. HDNet did a 12-camera HD shoot, and we tracked to Pro Tools as well for a future release. The show was a ton of fun, with a bunch of guests onstage and eye-catching people in the crowd. Be on the lookout for that coming to a TV near you sometime in the first part of 2010.

We have one more quick show in Vegas coming up, then Everlast’s baby is due and I’m going on tour with my wife! Her schedule is at http://shannoncurtis.net/tour — come out and say hi if we’re in your town.

The LCN European onslaught continues! The reception over here is amazing right now. The Hip Hop Kemp crowd was INTENSE! One of the best crowds I’ve ever mixed for. SO inspiring.

Here’s the itinerary – as always, come say hi, I’ll be at the sound board!

22 AUG – Hip Hop Kemp, Hradec Králové, CZ
26 AUG – Rust, Copenhagen, DK
27 AUG – Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, NO
29 AUG – Elysée Montmartre, Paris, FR
30 AUG – Virgin Oil Co, Helsinki, FI

My summer is going to be all hip hop, all the time! First up is a quick trip with La Coka Nostra to Europe. It’ll be a good mixture of festivals and clubs. Here’s the itinerary:

03 JUL – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
04 JUL – Bla, Oslo, Norway
06 JUL – TBA, Gothenburg, Sweden
07 JUL – Skaters Palace, Münster, Germany
08 JUL – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 JUL – Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
11 JUL – Frauenfeld Festival, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
12 JUL – Splash Festival, Bitterfeld, Germany

… then next up is House Of Pain AND La Coka Nostra, on the Rock The Bells tour:

18 JUL – Boston
19 JUL – New York City
01 AUG – Vancouver
02 AUG – TBD
06 AUG – Denver
08 AUG – Los Angeles
09 AUG – San Francisco

There will also be some more LCN dates in Europe at the end of August – I’ll post again when those are firm.

I’ve just signed on to do a few quick dates in May with Elliott Yamin, who was on American Idol a couple years back. Elliott seems like a good guy, and his band are really fun – it should be a good time! Here’s where we’ll be:

21 MAY – Annapolis, MD
22 MAY – Allentown, PA
23 MAY – Richmond, VA
24 MAY – Alexandria, VA