Pitchfork

[Posted Wednesday, October 15th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Amped-up bedroom rockers/Alan Parsons fan club members Grandaddy are substantially beefing up Sumday with a "special edition" double-disc reissue next month in the UK. According to Dotmusic, the expanded album will come packaged with a bonus live disc collecting six cuts from this year's Glastonbury festival appearance and three from a Black Sessions broadcast on French radio. There are no plans to release the expanded package domestically, but with a sticker price of around twelve pounds, the import should be comparable to the price of a domestic copy. The double-disc monstrosity hits UK shoppes November 3rd. Tracklist for the bonus disc:

01 The Crystal Lake
02 For The Dishwasher
03 Yeah Is What We Had
04 AM 180
05 Our Dying Brains
06 Laughing Stock
07 The Go In The Go For It
08 Saddest Vacant Lot In All The World
09 He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot

As previously reported, Grandaddy are on tour for pretty much the remainder of the year, jes' wrapping up some West Coast dates this week and getting set to storm the UK and Europe early next month, around the same time the expanded Sumday hits shelves. Snow Patrol will be opening most shows and providing alpine-style security; those dates can all be found in our previous report. In addition, Grandaddy have been added as headliners for this year's WXRT Boogeyman's Ball on Halloween night in Chicago. Now, I know, you must be thinking "Whoa! Grandaddy's headlining an Infinity-approved, Miller Lite-sponsored radio station concert event!" but it's not too hard to claw your way to the top when your only competitors are the North Mississippi Allstars and Rusted Root.

We're not sure which is more comical-- that the event is sponsored in part by a nut company (Fisher Nuts), or that the station will have shuttle buses poised to divert concertgoers to yuptastic sports bar She-nnanigans. We'll be pondering how Grandaddy ended up shilling for a station that somehow hits every cliche in the book, from Breakfast With The Beatles and a seemingly endless Deadhead hour on Sunday nights to the truly unbearable grab-bag that is the Friday Feature (case in point: next Friday's programming will be all Tom Petty and Natalie Merchant, all day) for quite some time. We have, however, caught Pitchfork editor-in-chief Ryan Schreiber grooving along to Wendy Rice's Saturday Morning Flashback on his clock radio. Steppenwolf is so much easier to take when you can snooze-button them away just in time to catch the next carpet with Creem.