Octave durham6/1/2023 ![]() That theft, like the recent one in Laren, was a smash-and-grab raid. The book, by Wilson Boldewijn, is Meesterdief (Master Thief)-a biography of Octave Durham, one of the pair of criminals who stole two paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002 (which were recovered four years ago). But it was included because the bottom of the front page has an article by Nina Siegal on the Laren theft. The painting is almost certainly still in Europe, so it might seem surprising that the international edition of the New York Times was used (a publication which must have been slightly difficult to buy during lockdown). Obviously the newspaper is there to establish dating, in the manner that human hostages are sometimes photographed, particularly when a ransom demand is being made. Two publications have been unceremoniously placed on the sides of the painting (not very wisely from a conservation point of view): a newspaper and a book. The picture has a white streak towards the bottom which could well be a scratch (the oil painting was done by Van Gogh on paper, which was later mounted on board). The other published photograph, which is slightly blurred (presumably deliberately, to disguise details), shows the unframed painting on what appears to be a black bin liner. ![]() The Big Takeover called the 25 track release “”surprisingly, given such excess, …consistently strong throughout.”Ĭurrently at work on a new album, after 20 years Erie Choir seems as unlikely as ever to let it rest.A label on the reverse of Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Spring, owned by the Groninger Museum, GroningenĪndreas Blühm, the director of the Groninger Museum, told us that the photographs do seem to show the stolen picture: “The label on the reverse appears authentic and I believe it has never been published before-so this means that it is our painting in the photograph.” The label records the artist, title and a reference to the catalogue raisonné by Baart de la Faille. The band’s most recent release, “Bad Tsars Was a Drag,” is an odds n’ sods compilation of the band’s output from the early 2000s that had previously only been available on homemade, burned CD-Rs or compilation albums with limited distribution, and includes “Pan-Pan, Where Did You Go?”, an elegy for a much loved 24-hour diner, that was originally released on a now out-of-print 2005 compilation of songs about Durham by local artists funded by a local civic organization. The Big Takeover declared it “worth the wait”, describing Roehrig as “an American Graham Parker.“ A mere three years later, they released the Starlight Veins EP, which the Indy Weekly called “feelgood music for pessimists, summer jams for introverts,” describing the second track, “I Will”, as a “music-scene sprechgesang in the The Hold Steady style, set in the Sunset Strip metal scene of the 1980s” and labeling the EP closer “Night Junction” as “punked-up Springsteen.” ![]() While the band began recording the follow up in 2011, life happened, and Old Rigs wasn’t completed and released until November 2017. The current lineup of Roehrig, fellow Sorry About Dresden alumnus James Hepler, Bob Wall, and Jack Watson has been in place for well over a decade, and was seemingly gaining momentum (at least by their standards) when Covid hit.Īfter a pair of self-released EP’s, Sit-n-Spin Records released Slighter Awake in 2006, which Pop Matters called “crisp, clean, indie rock with a folk-pop flavor”. Quickly realizing the loneliness and terror of such endeavors (and the inability to drown out yammering bar goers), he recruited various pals to help him pursue his quixotic rock n’ roll ambitions, including members of the White Octave. Born of navel-gazing self-indulgence and vague ambition, Erie Choir began at the dawn of the new millennium as the solo acoustic folk singing sort-of-thing of Sorry About Dresden’s Eric Roehrig.
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