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The video for Bonnie "Prince" Billy's previously reported new single, "Lay and Love", is as weird a clip as we've come to expect from the man who used Neil Hamburger to promote his new album. Will Oldham rents a moving truck, pays a guy to help him deck out the back, then pays a prostitute to sleep with the guy, but all they seem to do is eat. The "surprise" ending (spoiler: the peanuts in Oldham's hand turn into a meatball) is equally baffling, though there's probably some mundane explanation for the whole thing.

UPDATE: DOMINO HAS REMOVED THE VIDEO FROM THEIR SITE. BUT YOU CAN WATCH A BIZARRE "PREVIEW" FOR IT FROM DRAG CITY BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW.

Domino will release the "Lay and Love" single in the UK on January 22 on CD and 7" vinyl. The 7" will feature a cover of Bob Dylan's "Going to Acapulco" on the B-side, and the CD will feature "Going to Acapulco", another Dylan cover ("Señor"), and the "Lay and Love" video. The single will be out in America on Drag City at some point next year.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy will give the UK even more love when he begins his tour there in Glasgow on January 21.

Dates:

01-21 Glasgow, Scotland - Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall *
01-23 Nottingham, England - Rock City
01-24 Manchester, England - Bridgewater Hall
01-25 Bristol, England - Colston Hall
01-26 London, England - Queen Elizabeth Hall
01-27 London, England - Queen Elizabeth Hall
02-09 Istanbul, Turkey - CRR Concert Hall
02-11 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
02-12 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
02-13 Cambridge, England - Junction
03-13 Utrecht, Netherlands - Vredenburg
03-14 Frankfurt, Germany - Mousonturm
03-15 Munich, Germany - Amerika Haus
03-16 Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
03-17 Berlin, Germany - Passionkirche
03-22 Brussels, Belgium - AB

* with Nuala Kennedy, Harem Scarem