Milwaukee's The Goodnight Loving has inked a deal with Italy's Wild Honey Records that not only means a European release of the band's latest self-titled disc.
It also means that the label has helped the quintet add two weeks of Italian dates to its European tour in November and December. In addition to dates in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France and the Netherlands, The Goodnight Loving plays 10 dates in the northern half of Italy.
The first Italian gig at Outside Inside Studio near Treviso will stream at outsideinsidestudio.blogspot.com on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2:45 p.m. Milwaukee time. The final night of the Italian leg finds the band playing at the Milwaukee ‘50s Diner in Varedo, near Milan.
The Goodnight Loving waves goodbye to Milwaukee -- perhaps fittingly -- at Club Garibaldi on Saturday, Nov. 1 before playing dates in Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York and Pittsburg and then jetting off overseas.
"The Goodnight Loving" was released in the U.S. on Dusty Medical Records.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
