2008-July - Daniel will tour Sweden, Norway, U.K., and Ireland with a special  backing band composed of key band members of other renown bands for a memorable series of shows titled "An Evening with Daniel Johnston and friends".   Organized by U.K. Scott O'Neill, the backing band members will open with individual performances before Daniel performs a solo set followed by the combined members as a band to back Daniel in a set of Daniel's hits.   Traveling with Daniel will be:
Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse,
Scout Niblett and Kristian Goddard of Scott Niblett's band,
James McNew of Yo La Tengo,
Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and
Jad Fair of Half Japanese!

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Houston Chronicle

Daniel Johnston, Uncle Vaya and beer
IBP's ambitious agenda includes a rock-star opera and a ghost-town play

By EVERETT EVANS
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Just because Infernal Bridegroom Productions no longer announces a formal subscription season with set production dates, don't think that Houston's leading avant-garde theater company is not looking to its future.

Getty Images With artists such as Beck, Tom Waits and the Flaming Lips covering his songs on the album The Late Great Daniel Johnston, Texas singer-songwriter Johnston is enjoying wide popularity. He's developing a rock-star opera for IBP.

Under artistic director Anthony Barilla, IBP has several ambitious projects in development for the next two years, including world premieres of a rock opera by Texas singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston and a play about ghost towns by Obie winner Lisa D'Amour.

Johnston, an Austin-based cult fave, has lately enjoyed his widest popularity. Beck, Tom Waits, the Flaming Lips and others covered his songs on the album The Late Great Daniel Johnston, and this year's Sundance Festival honored a documentary called The Devil and Daniel Johnston.

As of now, the only IBP show with a set opening is Speeding Motorcycle, which will begin Dec. 1 at IBP's home venue, the Axiom.

David Mamet's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic Uncle Vanya will follow in spring 2006, directed by IBP mainstay Tamarie Cooper. It's the only project in the lineup that is not a world premiere.

New York-based D'Amour will be in residence at IBP for the creation of Hide Town, her play inspired by "the sublime charm of Southwestern ghost towns." It will premiere in fall 2006.

Lindsay Kayser of Austin's Gypsy Baby Theater, which performed at IBP last fall, is writing a play that will run in the Axiom's lobby in spring 2006.

Kayser also is collaborating with Barilla on an opera to be workshopped in the latter half of 2006 and premiered early in 2007. Titled 3 Ft. No Diving, it portrays a fictional American town whose chief export is fireworks. The town must rethink its identity when a fireworks factory worker spontaneously combusts.

IBP will venture beyond live performing arts to produce an independent film on the theme of "numbers stations" (enigmatic shortwave radio transmissions). Troy Schulze is writing it with his Me-Sci-Ah collaborator George Parker. IBP will screen its premiere in summer 2006 as part of a mini-festival of short films and live music.

And as the company vows, "When IBP screens a movie, you're always allowed to bring your beer into the theater."

The Godfather of Lo-Fi Goes Digital (Global and Mobile) – Daniel Johnston’s Rare Early Recordings To Be Made Available Online

New York, NY —March 31, 2005—The Orchard, the leading distributor of independent music in the world, announced today that it would digitally distribute the early work of Daniel Johnston, known to many as the godfather of the lo-fi music movement and one of America’s most revered outsider artists.

A dozen of Johnston’s albums will be made available on over 100 popular online music services on May 31, 2005. Digital retailers iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, and Napster will each launch with different exclusive Daniel Johnston albums today, and then dozens of other digital stores will follow with more classic albums on June 7. Additionally, select tracks will be made available through several major cell-phone ringtone providers. [full article HERE]

Top Acts Set For Spain's Benicassim Festival

On April 23rd at 8:30 pm, the compilation of "Bandes Originales" from "Off the Record" will be broadcast, co-curated by Anne Dressen.  This was made available at kiosks last year in the courtyard of the Couvent des Cordeliers last summer in Paris.

Daniel's piece "You Hurt Me" is part of that compilation (Fear Yourself, 2003 Gammon Records)
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"Invading Genres Breach the Art World's Porous Borders"

A review of Stranger Town art exhibit including Daniel Johnston's works.
By ROBERTA SMITH

Published: March 9, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/design/09smit.html