Videos from Cannonball’s 2016-’19 World Tour


(see also: Photos from this tour)

& don’t forget: Quarantine Songs (2020)

Cannonball performing in Europe, 2016

Cannonball performing with The Elusive and Terrible Wendifer in the USA, 2016

“Rockport, ME” Official Music Video, filmed in Oaxaca by Mathieu Couture (2017)

Cannonball performing at Starr Bar, Brooklyn, 2017

Cackles: Live in Berlin (Full Concert, 2017)

Cannonball performing at Altes Volksbad, Mannheim, 2017

Cannonball performing in Vienna, 2017

Cannonball at Tiehua Music Village, Taitung, 2017 (video by Taiwan Indie Music)

Cannonball at Poco Loco, Chatham (Full Set, 2017)

Cannonball at Number 39 Bar, Darwen (Full Concert, 2017)

Cannonball performing at Kubik, Trnava, 2017

Cannonball performing at Rocks, Kaohsiung, 2017

“A Band with 3 Hands”, Cannonball in NYC & Arizona (2019)

Cannonball performing a bit of “Rockport, ME” at Revolver, Taipei, 2018

Cannonball performing “Garden (A Dream I Had)” in Hengchun, 2018

Cannonball at Tiehua Music Village, Taitung (Full Set, 2017)

Cannonball at the Playing Dead Album Release Party (Full Concert, 2017)

Cannonball at The Lighthouse, Kaohsiung (Full Set, 2018)

Cannonball at Kubik in Trnava, Slovakia, 2017

Cannonball performing in Amsterdam, 2018

Cannonball performing bits of songs in Gothenburg, 2018

Cannonball performing in Oaxaca, 2018-’19

Music Videos, Short Films, and Video Bits & Bobs made during this tour

Rockport, ME (Oaxaca, 2017)

Tompkins Square Park (NYC, 2017)
Gecko on a window (Oaxaca, 2019)

A Band with 3 Hands (NYC & Arizona, 2019)

Rainy Season Paradiddles, Trees, and Mystery Machines (Oaxaca, 2019)

Albums and EPs written and recorded during this tour

Break the Law (2016)
The first album I recorded after leaving NYC, in my parents’ house in Oaxaca shortly before leaving for a series of tour dates in the US and Europe. It’s a concept album about the destruction of this universe and the building of the next one.

Hummingcone (2016)
The follow-up to Break the Law, recorded around the same time. This is a concept album about the raw material the next universe is built from after this one is destroyed.

Cackles (2017)
A selection of the songs I was writing during my US and European tour dates. It was recorded in Berlin, right in the middle of the European leg of the tour. There’s an early version of “Rabbit” on this one, and a song called “ZOB” that served as the inspiration for “Tiramisu”.

Playing Dead (2017)
A concept album about a talking cow from Kentucky named Clare, who tries to hitchhike to India with the help of her pet pigeon, Courier. This is where the song “Henry Hudson” comes from, and it has a number of other classics, including “(She’s in) a Pizzeria”, “Tiramisu”, and a 15th anniversary edition of the Band Of The Land song “Faster”. This album includes some narration recorded on cassette in the legendary Trnava, Slovakia arts space Kubik, and it’s also notable for being the first album I made with Gem on drums, and the first album I made with the producer Ben Turner. The release party took place on the Winter Solstice in the city of Tainan, during the East Asian leg of my 2016-’19 World Tour.

Modern Elephants (2018)
A lo-fi acoustic album I made in Oaxaca, between two legs of my 2016-’19 World Tour. This one includes “Neon Clown Avenue” and my anti-war song “Positively 42nd Street”, along with some deeper cuts from this era that have a darker vibe and reflect the kind of despair that was prevalent in this time.

Interdimensional Ice Cream Cake (2018)
An EP of rock and roll songs commissioned by Auden Lincoln-Vogel and Estonian Academy of the Arts for use in the award-winning short film Zorg II. My second collaboration with Gem.

A Place That Doesn’t Exist (2019)
An EP of anti-capitalist rock songs with drum machines and electric guitars. A fun vibe with this one, and also noteworthy because it includes an earlier version of “Pennsylvania”.

New Uranians (2019)
This one covers a lot of themes related to queer identity that I’d never really brought out in a song; it encapsulates a lot of the “playful melancholy” vibe that I’m more known for these days, and some songs are lighter than others, though it goes into some pretty dark territory. Written and recorded in Oaxaca, shortly after the recording of Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue.

Rhinoceros Crossing (2019)
I think this one has the best recordings of “Snow Globe”, “Skyscraper”, “Hoyt-Schermerhorn”, and “Rabbit”, though everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. This is also the album with “No Spine” and “Saturn Youth”. Recorded right around the same time as New Uranians and Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue.

Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue (2022)
18 track double album of experimental rock and acoustic punk songs inspired by my struggles with suicidality and dreams of outer space. Recorded in London with Gem on drums and keys, produced by both Ben Turner and Gem.