Here's Albert's latest news on Blue Coupe...

Blue Coupe have been hard at work the first half of 2010 making a new record. The title is Tornado on the Tracks. On the record we have Manic Panic's Tish and Snooky from the Sic F*cks and Robby Krieger from the Doors as special guests.

The CD will contain 9 new songs and one Byrds cover but we have 4 more that will either be used as bonus or promo material or reserved for the next record. We will be launching a band website and doing a series of webcasts to promote the new record.

We only have one mix that is ready yet but we've made a video for it and we also have 5 more mixes that are almost done. I'm not sure when it will be done because we originally set August 1st as a deadline but it looks like we're not going to make that. We'll do as much as we can before we go on tour in Canada and France in this August.

I asked Albert for some info on the likelihod of Blue Coupe playing more shows...

It was way too much fun not to do it again but we don't have any immediate plans for anything more at this point.

I have a bunch of recording projects I'm in the middle of working on and some gigs with the Ünderbelly and an as-yet-unnamed Canadian group coming up so with my teaching gig and the day to day things everyone has to deal with I haven't been able to make plans for the next Blue Coupe move.

Cellsum just gave some details about the Blue Coupe debut show...

Blue Coupe Debut
The Blue Coupe show in the Poconos was a great success. It was a sold out show of revelers ready to hear a slew of classic songs from a combo that was a terpsichorean dream finally realized. The stage banter was a series of stories about how songs came to be and close encounters of a famous kind.

Sound and lights were provided by local band Bad Influence who joined the Coupe onstage at the end of the second set for a multi-band jam. The projected north-easter never materialized and everyone got home happy, safe and sound.

Set 1:

• Under My Wheels
• Caught in a Dream
• Cities On Flame
• Fallen Angel
• Paint It Black
• Hot Time In Hell
• Astronomy
• I Ain't Got You
• All Along The Watchtower
• Burnin' for You
• I'm Eighteen
• Godzilla

Set 2:

• Kick Out the Jams
• Not Fade Away
• Break On Through
• Hey Joe
• Death Valley Nights
• I Wanna Be Sedated
• Roadhouse Blues
• Be My Lover
• School's Out
• Reaper

Encore with Bad Influence:

• Rock and Roll
• White Rabbit

Set 3:

• Honky Tonk Woman
• Knockin' On Heaven's Door
• Fire On the Mountain
• Little Kid
• I Think I Slept w/ Jackie Kennedy
• Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
• Simple Man
• Johnny Be Good

Blue Coupe is Albert Bouchard, Joe Bouchard and Dennis Dunaway

JJT just posted this on J&A's about Blue Coupe's show:

Really nice show. Everyone there seemed to be having a good time. There was a mic problem at the beginning of the show when the band was doing Fallen Angel so Joe had to do an extended guitar bit, but otherwise, everything seemed to go off well.

On the topic of Joe, his guitar playing was excellent, and he especially shined (in my opinion) on Cities which he handled well. Al was beating the shit out of the drums and seemed to be having a good time doing it.

The band went on a little after 9pm and must have played for 2 1/2 hours with a brief intermission (I left about 12:30 am). After the show, the guys were really pleasant and took time for pics and autographs, etc. This was the 1st time I met Joe and he was great. This was the 2nd time I met Al, and I can say that he really seems to be a nice guy who isn't in any rush and takes alot of time while meeting with fans.

All in all, a great night. While Joe called this a "one off", I would love to see them again.