Good Morning Bebo!

We're pleased to announce the release of the Live CD "Show and Tell" on May 5, 2009 (May 8th in Europe). This performance was recorded November of 2007. Metropolis Records is already taking "pre-orders" here: http://www.metropolis-mailorder.com/...

From the Press release:
"Since the release of ‘Walking With Strangers’, in September of 2007, The Birthday Massacre have been touring constantly in Europe and North America. While they were touring Germany shortly after it’s release, they played a gig at Knust (a club in Hamburg Germany that holds about 500 people). It just so happened that we gave permission for Crazy Clip, (a local video producer) to record and film the performance. Originally there were only supposed to be 2 or 3 clips aired locally. The project lay dormant for the next 18 months while the band continued touring and then began work on their follow up to Walking With Strangers which is scheduled for release this coming fall.

Beginning in December of last year Rainbow and Falcore started going through the video and audio recordings from that Hamburg show and decided that although it wasn't planned for a "live" record, there was an intimate, small-club feel to the whole project that they liked. And so, they set about editing and mixing the tracks to form the CD, ‘Show and Tell', which will be released May 6th. No bells and whistles, no shimmering sleights of hand or studio tricks; just a hard working band on the stage of a small club doing what they do best. This is not a polished record and that is a good thing. For all of those fans who have had to suffer through the phone recordings of some of their favorite songs, this recording will deliver all of the excitement along with the fidelity!

The DVD of this concert will follow in a few months. The editing of the video and the 5.1 mix are going to make that project more time consuming undertaking.

Drawn from their extensive repertoire, each song is intensified by the bands raw and energetic live performance. This collection will add another dimension to their already sizeable reputation. In addition to being essential listening for current fans of the band, this album is also a great introduction to the music of ‘The Birthday Massacre’ for those who have yet to check them out."

The European release of "Show and Tell" will be May 8th via Repo Records. We'll post a link soon to Amazon.de ...and also to iTunes worldwide.

For your listening pleasure, we have placed the live "Weekend" from "Show and Tell" in our Vampirefreaks and Myspace players. First place to hear it on the internet.

OH BUT THERE'S MORE....

Thought we'd also let you all know about the accompanying "Show and Tell" tour. 19 dates are currently posted on our page ...
Tickets for some of these shows are already selling:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/search?t...
We will post more links when we get them.

Thanks, see you soon.
~The Birthday Massacre

Hi everyone,

Chibi here, doing a very fancy "official announcement"!

I'm just here to let you know that we will be releasing our very first live DVD/CD within the next few months. The show was filmed in Hamburg, Germany in late 2007, and the set list is as follows:

1. Video Kid
2. Lovers End
3. Goodnight
4. Falling down
5. Violet
6. Red Stars
7. Looking Glass
8. Remember Me
9. Unfamiliar
10. Walking with Strangers
11. Weekend
12. Horror Show
13. Kill The Lights
14. Blue
15. Happy Birthday

The CD and DVD will be available together for one price, and should anyone be interested in the CD portion alone, it will be available for digital download. We're really happy that we're finally going to be able to release this to you guys. Playing live is one of the things we like the most about this whole "being in a band" thing.

We're calling it "Show and Tell". Keep your eyes open for more announcements and the official release date. And could there be a tour coming as well? VERY SOON? Well, there's only one way to find out...

Monstrously,
Chibi

Hello,

We just wanted to thank everyone for sending in their photos. We now have a bunch of good shots ...and we're past the cut-off date (we've closed the email address). Thanks! You'll see some of them turn up as part of the DVD art.

And once again, in case anyone's missed it... here's some links to where we show up online. I'm all for drumming up (har har) some web traffic, so if you'd like to keep current with our updates and throw some support our way, you can:
Follow us on Twitter -- http://twitter.com/TBMassacre --
Subscribe to us on YouTube -- http://www.youtube.com/tbmofficial --
Friend us on MySpace -- http://www.myspace.com/thebirthdayma... --
or be a Fan on Facebook -- http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/The-... or
PureVolume -- http://www.purevolume.com/thebirthda... or
VampireFreaks -- http://vampirefreaks.com/thebirthday...

Thanks all,
~Rhim & TBM