Xiu Xiu Now Taking Women as Lovers, Tour

As you well know, in 1975 Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution was well under way in the People’s Republic of China. Intellectuals were sent to labor camps, and the nation’s youth were taken out of school and sent into the rural interior to learn the ways of the proletariat and rebuild the fundamental economy. The 1998 film, Xiu Xiu is a fictional account of one such girl’s experience of relocation from Chengdu to remote Tibet for re-education and the disenchantment she discovers in the world outside her home.

Thrust into the vast loneliness of the Tibetan plains, Xiu Xiu despairs in a life of alienation and self-destruction, as she is cheated and abused. Her youthful naivety is torn away as she degrades to that of an exhausted victim of liars, trading sex for empty promise after empty promise. Relentlessly depressing, Xiu Xiu is wholly appropriate as the namesake for Jamie Stewart’s San Francisco band of the same name — while they both make me sob late at night, they’re still really really good.

If you like to dance while you’re bumming out:

03.07.08 - Portland, OR - Someday Lounge 03.08.08 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey 03.10.08 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge 03.11.08 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive 03.13.08 - Ames, IA - Maintenance Shop 03.14.08 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club 03.15.08 - Chicago, IL - Reggie’s 03.16.08 - Mount Pleasant, MI - Rubble’s Bar 03.17.08 - Toronto, Ontario – TBA 03.18.08 - Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon Nightclub 03.19.08 - Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa 03.20.08 - Bennington, VT - Bennington College 03.21.08 - Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston 03.22.08 - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Smog (Bard College) 03.23.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 03.24.08 - Purchase, NY - Student Center (SUNY Purchase) 03.25.08 - New York, NY - Fordham University 03.26.08 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church 03.27.08 - Washington, DC - Black Cat 03.28.08 - Columbus, OH - Skully’s Music Diner 03.29.08 - Newport, KY - Southgate House 03.31.08 - St. Louis, MO - Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center 04.01.08 - Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Gallery 04.02.08 - Oklahoma City, OK – Conservatory 04.03.08 - Fort Worth, TX - Lola’s 04.04.08 - Houston, TX - Orange Show Center for Visionary Art 04.05.08 - Austin, TX – Mohawk 04.07.08 - Santa Fe, NM - College of Santa Fe 04.08.08 - Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room 04.11.08 - Los Angeles, CA – Echo 04.12.08 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill 05.01.08 - Krems, Austria - Donaufestival 05.02.08 - Berlin, Germany - Magnet Club 05.03.08 - Arhus, Denmark - Pop Revo Festival 05.05.08 - Hamburg, Germany - Molotow 05.07.08 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 05.08.08 - Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits de Botanique Festival 05.09.08 - Nancy, France - L’Autre Canal 05.10.08 - Paris, France - Point Ephemere 05.12.08 - Düdingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn 05.14.08 - Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti 05.15.08 - Milan, Italy - Magnolia 05.16.08 - Florence, Italy - Viper 05.17.08 - Turin, Italy - Spazio211 05.19.08 - London, England - ULU 05.20.08 - Manchester, England - Roadhouse 05.21.08 - Glasgow, Scotland - Nice N Sleazy 05.22.08 - Dublin, Ireland - Whelans 05.23.08 - Barcelona, Spain - Apolo 05.24.08 - Madrid, Spain - Neu!

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