SHOW DATES: Mike Rimbaud and the Subway Sun

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Happy New Year! 2004 is going to be an important year, let's make it peaceful and joyous.

Join me and my band, The Subway Sun, as we celebrate the release of the
new single, "Deal with Love"
Mike
Arlene's Grocery, January 8th, 11PM. 95 Stanton St. at Ludlow St. in the Lower East side. Take the F train to 2nd Ave.
www.mikerimbaud.com
www.subwaysun.com

Lower East Side vet Mike Rimbaud took the name of his new band from a set of cute cartoon signs that reminded '50s commuters not to smoke or spit.
But it?s that dingy, subterranean, through-the-grate kind of glow that informs his scruffy-voiced rock songs, invoking '70s Costello and Springsteen along with an improbable hint of Brazil (Kamenetz)
The Village Voice, 2003

With a Load of New Albums Aboard, the Holiday Bandwagon Rolls
Published: December 5, 2003

"LIGHT OF DAY: A TRIBUTE TO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN" (Schoolhouse Records).
Some unpolished clunkers complicate this 37-track, two-disc tribute to the Boss, but the scope of it is nice. New folk singers (Mike Rimbaud),
old rock singers (Dion), and representatives of the new wave era (Elvis Costello, Graham Parker), neo-country (Joe Ely, Rosie Flores) and so
forth bring their own perspectives to Mr. Springsteen's best songs.
BEN RATLIFF New York Times, December, 5, 2003

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http://www.nytimes.com/
www.lightofday.org
Let's go underground...
You?re in a tunnel and there's no escape. That screeching noise you hear is no train; it's music. You feel upside-down, going downtown, but don't look into the light! You get off when it's time to change. Be careful leaning over the edge, if the third rail don't get you, that groove will. It's coming at you, fast on a local line. You don't need a metro card, because you just hopped the turnstile. You?re weary of the same old platform, you?re tired of that police state of mind! But suddenly you understand the voice from the service speakers, and that melody, it's rockin' The next stop has a new rhythm, the strangers sitting across from you start looking good and might join you in a mutiny. Hold on straphanger, it's a new dawn, because these are the sounds of the SUBWAY SUN!

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Here's the info on my next gig, hope you'll join us for a fun night.
Mike
www.mikerimbaud.com

The Subway Sun will be performing on Friday, March 12th at the
Lakeside Lounge,
162 Avenue B NY, NY, 11PM 212.529.8463 10th St.
The band has added lead guitarist Jimmy Prav and debuts it's new
drummer, Rosa Aviles.
Expect to hear their latest single "Deal with Love" as well as
favorites like, "I won't be your Monkey Patriot"
www.subwaysun.com

Lower East Side vet Mike Rimbaud took the name of his new band from a
set of
cute cartoon signs that reminded '50s commuters not to smoke or spit.
But
it?s that dingy, subterranean, through-the-grate kind of glow that
informs
his scruffy-voiced rock songs, invoking '70s Costello and Springsteen
along
with an improbable hint of Brazil (Kamenetz)
The Village Voice, 2003


"LIGHT OF DAY: A TRIBUTE TO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN" (Schoolhouse Records).
Some unpolished clunkers complicate this 37-track, two-disc tribute to
the Boss, but the scope of it is nice. New folk singers (Mike Rimbaud),
old rock singers (Dion), and representatives of the new wave era (Elvis
Costello, Graham Parker), neo-country (Joe Ely, Rosie Flores) and so
forth bring their own perspectives to Mr. Springsteen's best songs.
BEN RATLIFF New York Times, December, 5, 2003

www.lightofday.org
http://www.lightofday.org/artists.htm
Let's go underground...
You?re in a tunnel and there's no escape. That screeching noise you
hear is
no train; it's music. You feel upside-down, going downtown, but don't
look
into the light! You get off when it's time to change. Be careful
leaning
over the edge, if the third rail don't get you, that groove will. It's
coming at you, fast on a local line. You don't need a metro card,
because
you just hopped the turnstile. You?re weary of the same old platform,
you?re
tired of that police state of mind! But suddenly you understand the
voice
from the service speakers, and that melody, it's rockin' The next stop
has a
new rhythm, the strangers sitting across from you start looking good and
might join you in a mutiny. Hold on straphanger, it's a new dawn,
because
these are the sounds of the SUBWAY SUN!

SUBWAY SUN DEALS WITH LOVE AT ARLENE'S GROCERY
by Ernest Barteldes
The New York Press

Mike Rimbaud is an East Village musician who,
alongside his band, The Subway Sun, has been playing
in the city for quite a few years. His sound is like a
folk musician gone electric, which can be evidenced by
his latest single, Deal With Love, that will
officially be released at Arlene's Grocery on January
8th.

The song began life as a bossa nova-inspired tune(full
disclosure: I was present at that initial session and
at a rehearsal a few weeks after that), but later
Rimbaud took it another direction and turned into an
an all-out rock song. "I knew I was onto something
when the song was coming together", he told me on an
e-mail interview."It's different from anything I've
recorded before. It lifts you up like the best rock
can."

During the past year Rimbaud participated in several
projects. The highlight, in his own words, was "The
Light of Day", a Bruce Springsteen tribute album and
concert that took him to Asbury Park for a benefit
concert that featured, among others, the leader of the
E Street band: "Playing at the Stone Pony at the
concert tribute was unbelievable and was one of the
best times I ever had on stage", he says. "I actually
got to meet 'the Boss' himself back stage and sang
back up for him with Garland Jeffries during the grand
finale version of Twist and Shout."

For 2004 Rimbaud plans to release a full Subway Sun
album and take his sound to the broadest audience
possible. "I want the Subway Sun to have a hot rock n' roll sound -
warm and groovy with lots of spirit and
the kind of soul that we haven't heard much of since
maybe thirty years ago", he said. "At the same time
this band has a contemporary edge that can only come
from the experience of living in New York City today.
I want to make a rock sound that that has a powerful
energy, one that can lift up anyone, much like the
best rock n' roll from that Golden era."

Ernest Barteldes,
New York Press, 1/ 2004

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My band, The Subway Sun will be rockin' Wednesday, March 24th at
Pianos, 11PM
158 Ludlow st. off Stanton street. Take the F train to 2nd ave.
This will be the last gig in New York before my show in Paris, April
3rd.
Mike

Expect to hear the latest single "Deal with Love" as well as favorites
like, "I won't be your Monkey Patriot"
www.subwaysun.com
www.mikerimbaud.com

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Please announce:
Mike Rimbaud and The Subway Sun:
Saturday September 4th at Pianos on
158 Ludlow Street at 11PM
www.mikerimbaud.com


Ummm, assuming this is NYC folks. [img]wink.gif[/img]

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Mike Rimbaud and the Subway Sun unplugged set Wednesday.
September 29th 11pm at The SLIPPER ROOM, 167 Orchard St.(Corner of
Orchard & Stanton)
www.mikerimbaud.com
$5 Cover

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Whether there will be a recount or a new president, Lit will be rockin'
next Wednesday in celebration or for revolution:
The Subway Sun Wednesday Nov. 3rd at Lit. 93 2nd Av. off 5th St. 9PM
Mike
www.mikerimbaud.com

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I'm assuming the date here is Nov 26th... [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]


I'm rockin' with my band, the Subway Sun Friday night at the Stinger
Club in Williamsberg. 10PM. 241 Grand St
Brooklyn, NY
Phone: (718) 218-6662
Mike
www.mikerimbaud.com

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First new shows for the new year!
January 4th at Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston St, New York, 9:30.
and Saturday January 8th (Elvis's birthday) at LaiLa Lounge, 113 N. 7th
(block and a half west of Bedford stop on the L)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
11PM
www.mikerimbaud.com

Lower East Side vet Mike Rimbaud took the name of his new band from a
set of
cute cartoon signs that reminded '50s commuters not to smoke or spit.
But
it?s that dingy, subterranean, through-the-grate kind of glow that
informs
his scruffy-voiced rock songs, invoking '70s Costello and Springsteen
along
with an improbable hint of Brazil (Kamenetz)
The Village Voice