A Head Full of Wishes is a site for Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi, Dean & Britta and Dean Wareham. With news, articles and lists of releases and past and future shows.
My record collection
[358] - Luna - Rendezvous (2016 Pledgemusic LP)
Luna’s final album Rendezvous had originally only been released on CD, it got a RSD release in 2012, and then was reissued as part of a Pledgemusic deal along with Romantica in 2016. This is my Pledgemusic copy and has been signed by the band.
The first announcement about the release of Luna’s final album was in January 2004 when Luna’s emailing list kicked briefly into life:
Luna Update -- January 20, 2004 If you are wondering why there are no Luna live shows scheduled at the moment, well that’s because we are busy in the studio recording our next album. Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Lemonheads, Ramones) is producing at his studio in Brooklyn, NY. Tentatively titled Rendezvous, songs include Malibu Love Nest, Eyes Get In Your Smoke, Speedbumps, Rainbow Babe, and Broken Chair... we hope to be finished making the record in February, and it will likely be released by Jetset in the late Spring or early summer.
Luna mailing list - 27th January 2004
“Late spring or early summer” eventually turned into autumn and its release coincided with the announcement that it would be Luna’s last album and that the tour in support of it would be the band’s last.
On October 26, we will release our seventh studio album, Rendezvous, on Jetset Records. This will be Luna’s final record. We will tour the United States and Europe over the next six months, playing our last shows in 2005.
Rendezvous release announcement (Fuzzywuzzy, 23rd September 2004)
In my memory the announcement wasn’t too much of a surprise although reading back over the Mailing List archives it was taken quite hard by the fans… me included.
Can I just say - ten years of my life has gone into the website and this mailing list - TEN YEARS - they don't think of the children when they get involved in a divorce.
Good luck to all of Luna (past and present) and I hope Dean has some rock and roll plans to keep me in a job!
Andy Aldridge - Galaxie 500 Mailing List, 23rd September 2004
Fortunately Dean did have “rock and roll plans” … as did, eventually, Luna.
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 12/056
- Artist: Luna
- Title: Rendezvous
- Notes: Signed 2016 Pledgemusic re-reissue
- Format: LP
- Bought from Pledgemusic along with Romantica for $60 plus postage.
- Buy ‘Rendezvous’ on Bandcamp
Previously in my record collection: