Upcoming Tour Dates
XIU XIU TOUR WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN
May 6 2008 8:00P Barfly Liverpool
May 7 2008 8:00P Nice and Sleazy Glasgow
May 8 2008 8:00P Barfly Cardiff
May 9 2008 8:00P The Luminaire London
May 10 2008 8:00P Barfly Brighton
May 12 2008 8:00P Paradiso Amsterdam
May 13 2008 8:00P Hafen Offenbach
May 14 2008 8:00P Sudstadt Munich
May 15 2008 8:00P Schokoladen Berlin
May 16 2008 8:00P Panam Leipzig
May 17 2008 8:00P Les Nuit Bonatigue Festival Brussels
May 19 2008 8:00P Cortile Villa Torlonia San Mauro Pascoli
May 20 2008 8:00P La Casa 139 Milan
May 21 2008 8:00P Le Baron Paris
May 22 2008 8:00P Rough Trade- In store London
May 26 2008 5:00P Sasquatch Festival- The Gorge Seattle, Washington
May 28 2008 8:00P Phoenix Theatre ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Toronto, Ontario
May 30 2008 8:00P The Palladium ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Worcester, Massachusetts
May 31 2008 8:00P Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Providence, Rhode Island
Jun 1 2008 8:00P Calvin Theater ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Northhampton, Massachusetts
Jun 2 2008 8:00P Terminal 5 ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) New York, New York
Jun 3 2008 8:00P Terminal 5 ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) New York, New York
Jun 5 2008 8:00P Electric Factory ( w/Rilo Kiley ) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 6 2008 8:00P 9:30 Club ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Washington DC, Washington DC
Jun 7 2008 8:00P Ram’s Head Live ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Baltimore, Maryland
Jun 8 2008 8:00P Toad’s Place of Richmond ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Richmond, Virginia
Jun 10 2008 8:00P The NorVa ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Norfolk, Virginia
Jun 11 2008 8:00P The Orange Peel ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Asheville, North Carolina
Jun 12 2008 8:00P The Music Farm ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Charleston, South Carolina
Jun 15 2008 8:00P Palladium Ballroom ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Dallas, Texas
Jun 16 2008 8:00P Stubb’s Bar-B-Q ( w/ Rilo Kiley ) Austin, Texas
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Biography of Thao Nguyen
It has already been a long day when Thao Nguyen settles into a wire chair outside a coffee shop in Williamsburg, Virginia, counting weeks to the end of what may prove her last day job pouring coffee (at least it doesn’t involve wearing a period costume), and more than ready to be finished with an undergraduate career at which she has excelled.
She is still and careful and does not fidget, and yet Thao fairly vibrates — it’s the only word, no matter how inappropriately loaded — with want. Not the carnal kind, nor the grasping for celebrity which too often passes for art, nor the naked aggression for which Los Angeles is justly famous.
No, she simply wants to be heard. She wants permission to believe what her instincts insist: That her music is good enough, that it will get better still, that there is an audience for what she has to say. That she can make a living. She simply needs to know that her good fortune has not been an illusion.
There’s no telling, of course, and no certainty.
But she is every bit as good as she has been lucky, and she has made her own luck.
She comes from Fall’s Church, Virginia, one of the less-affluent suburbs outside Washington, D.C., grew up on the nice side of the shopping mall where people are stabbed with uncomfortable frequency. But that’s not really her story.
Her father left when she was 12, and that’s got a fair bit to do with the degree she received in Sociology and Women’s Studies from William & Mary. But that’s not quite her story, either.
There was a guitar in the attic. That’s her story. “I loved Sarah McLachlan when I was ten and eleven,” she laughs. “I went to Lilith Fair and then I went and bought the videos of Lilith Fair and her individual tour. I think she’s what made me interested in songwriting. And there was a guitar in my room that I never knew how to play; I decided to learn.”
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Thao with the Get Down
I really like everything about this band, the vocals Thao Nguyen has an amzing voice and her acoustic sound is great...the band really flows together well! I would definitely go see this band play live!
comments (0) | add your own commentThao the Folk Down
I don't know if anyone has the cd or heard them but I got the cd and Thao has my fav song on this compilation. They have this upbeat, folk sound that is really fun to listen to. You want to dance and tap your feet at the same time. It's "sweet".
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