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At the end of April and early May, Jace Everett will be touring in Europe.

Tickets and dates are now available at this site – reverberation.com

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Gary Calamar DJ’d the Out4Blood event last Friday night at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. This event highlighted Gary’s Grammy nominated compilation soundtrack for True Blood. Although the line up of musicians was really impressive, he never let on to me that there was a surprise in store for those who attended.  Now that the event is over we know that the “surprise guests” were several major members of the cast.

Prior to the event, I asked Gary if he would be willing to send The Vault information and a few photos about the night. He graciously sent along the following photos and his recount of the vampire evening.  Thank you, Gary!

Gary says:

The Out 4 Blood concert here at the Echoplex on Friday Night was a Blast! Great sets by John Doe, CC Adcock, Jace Everett, Chuck Prophet and The Pillbilly Knights with The Morning After Pills.

Many of the actors from Bon Temps were there. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Chris Bauer, Michelle Forbes, and Tara Buck. They all joined in the fun and hit the stage to introduce the bands.

There were a few bad vamps in the audience who tried to start some trouble, but they ended up retracting their fangs, drank some True Blood and rocked the night away.

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Gary

And here are his photos:

More photos from this event are in the Photo Gallery

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Jace Everett talks about how vampires have given his career fresh blood after his track ‘Bad Things’ was chosen to be the theme to hit show ‘True Blood.’

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Jace Everett, the writer of the True Blood theme song is currently touring in the UK and on Monday December 7, he was interviewed by the BBC in Cornwall. In the audio interview Jace talked about how Bad Things became the theme song of True Blood, his record company and what he’s doing right now.

Here are some tidbits from the interview:

Indiana-born and Texas-raised Everett’s upbringing in the evangelical church, and his far-flung travels have had a major influence on his music.

He explained: “The church is where I learned about music, played bass and did my first real public singing, and where the girls thought I was really cool.

“I’ve always been attracted to emotionally and spiritually mature themes – philosophically and musically. I was a father at 23, I’ve been in every job in the world; I’ve been a preacher, a travelling musician, truck driver. I had adult responsibilities early in life, so I wasn’t attracted to ‘let’s party’ music.”

Jace continues: “I love the way Willie Nelson never sings on the beat. And Ray Charles can do something with a note, just one: there’s so much pain and love and sexuality. I took something from everyone I liked.

“I love Willie and Waylon; late-model Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller, for their directness of lyric, and the common-day things and people in their songs.”

To listen to the entire interview click here.

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Here’s some cool Jace Everett videos that, although not new, I just found.  As we all know, Jace wrote the title song for True Blood, Bad Things and it really has changed his life, but I’m not sure that it was “overnight”.

In the first video, he discusses how he became an “overnight success”.  Its all done tongue in cheek, really quite clever and worth a viewing.

Below is a video where Jace is performing “Bad Things”.  Somehow, we neglected to ever post this video on the Vault before, so I am now correcting that oversight, because its really good.

Here’s a fan made video of the same wonderful Jace hit with a very different visual effect, but of course, it includes vampires.

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People who craved post-Halloween music watched Jace Everett perform at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach.
More than 100 people came to watch Everett perform Sunday night at Alex’s Bar, also known as Fangtasia, it is a punk rock/dive bar and is definitely not where just-turned-21 youngsters will be found. It is a great bar where people can go to drink a good beer or cocktail and listen to live music. It has an original autographed portrait of Johnny Cash and a portrait of the king of rock and roll, Elvis.

Everett’s performance in the bar, filled with fans dressed up as “True Blood” characters, felt like an alternative world where vampires hung out.
“It was good timing,” said June Bonakdar, a fan of the show. “I am a big fan and we have wanted to come to Fangtasia for a while.”
Everett’s music has an irresistible charm that will make people want to sway or tap their feet to the music. Some of Everett’s influences include Willie Nelson, Tom Waits and Chuck Prophet. Along with a much older 50’s style of clothing, his wardrobe represented the style of the artists he admired. He wore jeans with the cuffs at the bottom, black biker boots, and a collared short sleeve shirt with a black undershirt.

Everett performed 11 songs off his new album, “Red Revelations.” The performance was very guitar-driven, adding a country-folk feel to the performance. It was southern rock, with a slight rockabilly sound. Everett sang the lyrics with his sultry voice. His acoustic guitar made people tap their feet to the beat. His partner, Dan Cohen, played along on the electric guitar, ripping guitar riffs up and down the guitar’s neck. This made all the women in the room move toward the front, and dance and sway to the music.

Everett performed his next single, “The Good Life.” He described it as a sardonic take on the good life we think we live when in reality we lead ourselves to a path of destruction. This song is one of the best on his album, because the acoustic guitar sound and his voice add extra darkness to his lyrics.

Everyone really wanted to hear him perform “Bad Things,” the theme song to “True Blood.” Everett reminded the crowd to stick around for the rest of the concert.
“I promise you will hear the song you want to hear, but God dammit you got to wait,” Everett told the crowd. “There are 11 more songs I want you to hear.”

“Bad Things” is a murky, dirty ballad about a guy who wants to do nasty things with a girl. His deep voice adds sexiness to the lyrics that will make you feel naughty.
As soon as Everett played the song, the crowd went wild. Once the song was over, however, the crowd dispersed. The music was good but the audience should have stuck around to listen to the rest of the set.
Fans of Everett, such as Riannon Blair, still loved the performance.“It was a lot better that I expected,” Blair said. “The guys are a lot more humble that I expected them to be. I was pleasantly surprised.”

In the spring of 2010, Everett plans on doing a full band tour in the U.K. and the U.S.

“In the U.K. the album is doing very well. It is in the top 100, considering it is my own independent label,” Everett said, referring to his label Weston Boys based in Austin, Texas.

“I hope they leave with knowing Jace Everett other than ‘True Blood’,” Everett said.

And I hope so too. “Red Revelations” has a lot more to offer than the popular song “Bad Things”. If you are unfamiliar with the rest of Jace’s work, take a leap and check it out.

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Yesterday, True Blood collaborators Nathan Bar, Gary Calamar and Jace Everett attended the Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film & TV Music Conference at the Beverly Hilton, in Los Angeles and discussed how the music team developed the show’s distinct, award-winning Cajun-vampiric sound with moderator: Ann Donahue, Senior Editor, Billboard.

Here are some photos of them at the event:

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While on his tour of the west cost, Jace Everett appears at Boo Fest – Halloween Night (10/31) – San Diego. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Click on the link to buy tickets for the show! You can buy tickets at REVOLT IN STYLE.  Read more about Jace’s California tour at our previous post, here.

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Jace Everett is coming to California. After a successful performance in New York with his partner in crime Dan Cohen, the “acousto-lectric” duo is now heading west for a 17 day tour of the West Coast from late October through early November.

Jace explains to The Vault what “acousto-lectric” means: “The acousto-lectric format is in fact myself on acoustic and Dan Cohen on electric [guitar]. The shows we are doing now, are all duo shows, as the band is just too expensive to take out for now. In 2010, there will be a lot of full band shows. But for right now I’m just laying the groundwork for world domination! I think folks will be surprised how rocking it can be. We did some shows in New York recently with this format and it really went over well.”

True Blood was the unexpected opportunity that came knocking on Jace’s door, “Bad Things” became enormously popular with the fans and enabled the Nashville based singer-songwriter to release a new album earlier this year entitled ‘Red Revelations‘. ‘Red Revelations’ has been on my Ipod ever since I bought the album and especially the True Blood inspired songs ‘Burn For You’ and ‘Damned If I Do’ are two of my favorites.

Because of Jace’s connection with True Blood, the November 1st gig in Alex’s Bar in Long Beach will have a special meaning to him. Alex’s Bar is of course the set for all the Fangtasia scenes in our favorite vampire show. Jace is looking forward to it, but will be watching over his shoulder….. “It should be fun for sure, but if anybody invites me to the basement though, I’m outta there!!”

After the Californian tour Jace has two London dates scheduled. ‘I’ll be doing two shows in London this November 16th and 17th. The 16th at the Hammersmith Apollo where I’ll open for Pink Martini. The 17th will be at Monto Water Rats.’ So British True Blood fans … if you want to hear ‘Bad Things’ live, get your tickets now at TicketWeb.co.uk.

Next year Jace would like to do some more show in Europe: ‘As possible I will definitely bring a full European tour in 2010.’

Here is the complete list of Jace Everett’s Californian Tour:

Wednesday, Oct. 28th – SAN FRANCISCO – HOTEL UTAH
Friday, Oct. 30th – LOS ANGELES – HOTEL CAFE
Saturday, Oct. 31st – SAN DIEGO – PRIVATE EVENT
Sunday, Nov. 1st – LONG BEACH – ALEX’S BAR – True Blood-inspired Costumes suggested – Alexsbar.com
Wednesday, Nov.4th – SANTA BARBARA – SOHO
Saturday, Nov. 7th – CARSON CITY – BREWEY ARTS CENTER With The Duhks
Sunday, Nov. 8th – CHICO  – CHICO WOMENS CLUB With The Duhks
Tuesday, Nov.10th – WINTERS – THE PALMS With the Duhks
Wednesday, Nov.11th – TUOLUMNE – BLACK OAK CASINO With the Duhks

London November shows:

Monday Nov. 16th – LONDON – HAMMERSMITH APOLLO
Tuesday Nov. 17th – LONDON – MONTO WATER RATS – get your tickets now at TicketWeb.co.uk

In this video on People.com Jace Everett explains how ‘Bad Things’ because True Blood’s theme song.

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True Blood’s musician Jace Everett (Bad Things) is playing a gig in New York on Monday September 21 at The Gramercy Theatre starting at 8 pm. For more info and tickets visit LiveNation.com.

Jace will be playing songs from his new album Red Revelation.

You can buy “Red Revelations” at Jace Everett’s website (www.jaceeverett.com), Amazon, and at iTunes.

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