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Black Editions is pleased to present the U.S. live debut of ED KUEPPER & JIM WHITE and the U.S. solo debut of MICK HARVEY.Two-time inductee into the Australian Music Hall of Fame, founding member of both seminal proto-punks The Saints and avant-garde post-punk pioneers Laughing Clowns and owner of 15+ solo albums, singer-guitarist Ed Kuepper teams up with the drummer's drummer Jim White (Dirty Three, The Hard Quartet, Xylouris White) as they tackle the best of Kuepper's extensive oeuvre.
The shows come on the back of After the Flood, the debut album for the duo released on 12XU records, the boutique label of Matador Records founder Gerard Cosloy. Released in March 2025 After the Flood features eight Kuepper originals spanning his entire career. “Speaking as a massive fan of both Ed Kuepper & Jim White --- in virtually every endeavor they've been a participant --- news of their studio collaboration hit me like a ton of bricks. That their respective skill-sets (uncannily cooperative) would be fully showcased was not a surprise, but the deft reimagining of Kuepper's songbook (a carefully curated portion, anyway) was more than I could've hoped for. I don't think there's a more powerful album this year (and if there is, please forward me a link)”
"… the results are stunning. Playing tunes as old as The Saints Swing For the Crime and as new as The Ruins (from Kuepper’s 2015 Lost Cities), the album is a brilliant roll of invention” - Byron Coley (The Wire)
"This is a superbly magnificent collection of gems that capture the ethereal songwriting skills of Kuepper over the years with the added frisson of White's innovation and creativity, adding numerous layers and nuances to the tracks.” - Backseat Mafia
Mick Harvey, the legendary founding member and multi-instrumentalist for both the hugely influential The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, as well as spending time as a collaborator with PJ Harvey, Rowland Howard and many others. Mick also boasts a solo career which is now some 13 albums strong and along with Kuepper, Mick features in the reinvigorated The Saints ’73-’78. This too will be Mick’s first ever US solo show.
Harvey says; “I could not possibly pick out one special moment that stood above my other experiences. It would be sad if I could, in some way, as then everything else would just be in the shadow of that great moment – like a one-hit wonder or something. Fortunately I’ve had many highlights – The Birthday Party, Let England Shake and other stuff of Polly’s, The Serge albums, my recent solo albums, Rowland S. Howard’s solo albums, innumerable Bad Seeds recordings. I could go on”.
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