January 30, 2007 18:33

The Decemberists release live DVD

The package also features documentary footage

The Decemberists have announced they will release a DVD featuring a 2005 hometown performance and behind the scenes footage.

’Decemberists: A Practical Handbook DVD’ features the band in convert at the Roseland Theatre in Portland, Oregon in November 2005, as well as a documentary shot during the recording of 2006’s ’The Crane Wife’ featuring interviews and candid footage.

The DVD also features a series of short films shot during the photo session for the album cover for their 2005 album ’Picaresque and Her Majesty’, as well as illustrations by Carson Ellis, the band’s friend and collaborator.

’Decemberists: A Practical Handbook DVD’ is released on March 20.

As previously reported on NME.COM, the band will kick off their US tour in Jersey City on March 21.

The dates are:

Jersey City New Jersey Loews Theatre (March 21, 22)
Boston Avalon (23, 24)
North Bethesda Maryland Strathmore Music Center (26)
Upper Darby Pennsylvania Tower Theatre (27)
Wellesley Massachusetts Wellesley College (29)
Buffalo New York Center for the Arts (30)
Grantham Pennsylvania Messiah College (31)
Norfolk Virginia Norva (April 1)
Raleigh North Carolina Meymendi Concert Hall (2)
Knoxville Tennessee Theatre (4)
Nashville City Hall (5)
Atlanta Tabernacle (6)
Orlando Hard Rock Live (8)
Tallahassee Florida Moon (9)
Birmingham Alabama Alabama Theatre (10)
Memphis New Daisy Theatre (11)
Louisville Kentucky Brown Theatre (13)
St. Louis Pageant (14)
Champaign Illinois Foellinger Auditorium (15)
Milwaukee Pabst Theatre (16)
Chicago Riviera Theatre (18, 19)
Madison Orpheum Theatre (20)
Kansas City Missouri Uptown Theatre (21)
Denver Fillmore Auditorium (22)
San Francisco Warfield Theatre (25, 26)
Eugene Oregon McDonald Theatre (May 3)
Seattle Paramount Theatre (4)
Bellingham Washington Western Washington University (5)

--By our New York staff.
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