Saramago The Wave Pictures play Artistic Vice by Daniel Johnston

Saramago welcomes The Wave Pictures to the CCA in support of a tour-only CD release, The Wave Pictures Play Artistic Vice By Daniel Johnston. The band recorded the album in one day in June at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate, covering Artistic Vice from beginning to end.

This is not the first time The Wave Pictures have worked on Daniel Johnston material. In 2009 they acted as his backing band on a full UK tour, during which time they played songs from throughout his career. More recently in 2013 they were invited, along with several other artists, to play two songs at a tribute night at which Daniel Johnston headlined himself. As a member of the Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel band, Franic Rozycki of The Wave Pictures also played mandolin in the backing band for Daniel Johnston that night.

At this concert the songs that The Wave Pictures choose to cover were both taken from the Artistic Vice album. In 2014, when the band was asked to cover an album by an artist that they admired, and to tour that album in Spain, this is what they went for. As well as playing a selection of songs from Artistic Vice, the band have been working on a new album for release in 2015.