Lowside giveaway

British publishers Faber and Faber have kindly agreed to give away a copy of the upcoming biography Lowside of the road - a life of Tom Waits to one of the readers of The Eyeball Kid.

All you have to do is mail me at eyeball@gmail.com with LOWSIDE GIVEAWAY in the subject line. Please do so before the end of January and be sure to use a valid mail address, so I can contact you.

I'll pick a winner and Faber will send him/her a copy of the Barney Hoskyns book .

(Press release via Tim - click on image for large version)

UPDATE (Feb. 3): the giveway is now closed.

Booker T Jones cover

Booker T Jones and Neil Young and the Drive-by Truckers cover Get behind the Mule on the album Potato Hole.

Hungarian tributes

Another tribute for the Hungarian fans: a Braindogs performance. The ensemble, founded by Irish, Austrian and Hungarian musicians, performs at the Budapest club A38 hajó on 27th February.

And in Budapest's National Theatre, the Budapest Spring Festival stages a reading performance of the Black Rider on March 3 through 5.



(thanks to Zoárd)

Cold cold cover

The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon posted his version of Cold Cold Ground on his MySpace page.

Best live act

Not too many awards for Tom Waits as 2008 drew to a close, but he did manage to get his hands on Paste Magazine's "Best Live Act" award.

Lowside of the road publication dates

Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, Barney Hoskyns' Tom Waits biography (Broadway/Doubleday) is scheduled for release on May 19, according to Amazon.com. The UK release (Faber)is planned on March 5.

Tributes

There is not much happening as far as Waits is concerned, but those of you in Belgium, can look forward to Tom Waits Until Spring. This Waits tribute by actrice Antje De Boeck - Belgium's answer to Scarlett J. - and musicians Jef Neve and Rony Verbiest, celebrates its avant-premiere tonight Wednesday and will tour Flanders in the upcoming months.

In Denmark, BoneMachine is on tour, with performances in Copenhagen (Jan. 24) and Aarhus (Jan. 30).

If you you want some Waits-related art in your house, you could have a look at DeviantArt.
And if you're in the neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, you can check out the screening of Big Time, at the NW Film Center, Friday January 16.

I'll leave you with some footage from the Tom Waits Until Spring tribute