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2012 TOUR DATES
MON 11 JUNE MANCHESTER – THE RITZ
TUE 12 JUNE LONDON – KOKO (with Nurse With Wound)
THUR 14 JUNE HOLLAND – AMSTERDAM – MELKWEG (with Aluk Todolo)
FRI 15 JUNE BELGIUM – HOBOKEN – FORT 8 (with Aluk Todolo)
SAT 16 JUNE FRANCE – PARIS – GAITE LYRIQUE (with Aluk Todolo)
SUN 17 JUNE – FRANCE – CLISSON – HELLFEST
This UK tour presents the Trembling Bells playing, singing and duelling with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, performing a new collection of songs written by the Trembling Bells some of which appear on the forthcoming collaborative album ‘The Marble Downs’, out on Honest Jon’s on April 9th with a taster EP slated for release before this. This will be the first time these songs are going to be performed live … list of tour dates below.
Support on all dates from Muldoon’s Picnic
Wed 25th April – Edinburgh / Queens Hall
Venue Address: Clerk Street, Edinburgh EH8 9JG
Doors: 7pm
Ticket Price: £18 adv + booking fee Weblink
Thurs 26th April – Holmfirth / The Picturedrome
Venue Address: Market Walk, Holmfirth. HD9 7DA
Doors: 7.30pm
Ticket Price: £15 adv Weblink
Fri 27th April – Leeds / Picture House
Venue: Hyde Park Picture House
Venue address: 73 Brudenell Road, Headingley, Leeds LS6 1JD – 0113 275 2045
Doors: 8.30pm
Ticket price: £15 adv weblink
Sat 28th April – Cheltenham / Frog and Fiddle (part of Routes South West)
Venue: Frog & Fiddle
Venue Address: 313 High Street, Cheltenham,
Doors: 7pm
Ticket Price:£15/£12 adv Weblink
Mon 30th April – Exeter / Phoenix (part of RSW)
Venue: Exeter Phoenix
Venue Address: Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Doors: 8pm
Ticket Price: £15 adv Weblink
Wed 2nd May – Penzance / Acorn (part of RSW)
Address: Parade st, Penzance, TR18 4BU
Doors: 7.30pm
Ticket Price:£15 adv Weblink
Thurs 3rd May – Bristol / Trinity Centre (part of RSW)
Venue: The Trinity Centre
Venue Address: The Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, Bristol,BS2 0NW
Doors: 7:30pm
Ticket Price: £12 adv Weblink
Fri 4th May – Oxford / Bullingdon Arms
Venue: Bullingdon Arms
Venue Address: 162 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE
Doors: 7.30pm
Ticket Price: £15 adv weblink
Sun 6th May – London / Union Chapel
Venue: Union Chapel
Venue Address: Compton Terrace, Off Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UN
Doors: 7.30pm
Ticket Price: £17.50 adv Weblink
Grouper has lined up a major run of EU dates which see her step away from her song-based live. These shows are to unveil a new performance entitled ‘Violet Replacement’ comprised of tape loops, field recordings and submerged atmospherics presented in a set of naturally resonant and specially customised locations.
Grouper’s live shows are rare occurrences and are always in tune with the architecture and acoustics of a space. For this tour she performs a new collection of tape collages derived from a commission for New York’s Issue Project Room. Field recordings, Wurlitzer loops and vocal tracks from her archives are mixed, spliced and processed live from an array of dictaphones and tape players.
04/02/12 Berlin, DE CTM Festival ‘Circular Veil’ w/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
07/02/12 Alte Feuerwache, DE Cologne ‘Circular Veil’ w/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
02/03/12 London, UK 79 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9DY
03/03/12 Copenhagen, DK Mayhem
04/03/12 Aarhus, DK Spanien 19c
06/03/12 Gothenburg, SE Gardaskolen
07/03/12 Stockholm, SE Kagalbanan
08/03/12 Malmo, SE Inkonst
10/03/12 Moscow, RU Aktoviy Zal
11/03/12 St. Petersburg, RU Taiga
13/03/12 Riga, LV Anglican Church
14/03/12 Helsinki, FI Kuudes Linka w/ Tuunsanuuskat
15/03/12 Tampere, FI Telakka w/ Tuunsanuuskat
16/03/12 Turku, FI Dynamo w/ Tuunsanuuskat
17/03/12 Ravenna, IT Transmissions Festival
19/03/12 Milan, IT Spazio O
20/03/12 Torino, IT Blah Blah
22/03/12 Utrecht, NL Rumor Festival
23/03/12 Paris, FR Gaité Lyrique
24/03/12 Brussels, BE Recyclart
25/03/12 Luxembourg City, LU Exit 07
27/03/12 Dublin, IE Unitarian Church
28/03/12 Reading, UK South St. Arts w/ Diamond Catalog
29/03/12 Bristol, UK St. Steven’s Church w/ Diamond Catalog
30/03/12 Birmingham, UK Vivid
31/03/12 Nottingham, UK Nottingham Contemporary w/ Diamond Catalog
01/04/12 Manchester, UK Islington Mill w/ Diamond Catalog
Was Ist Das? favourites The Psychogeographical Commission are making their live debut as part of the Glasgow Film Festival. They are playing at The Old Hairdressers on Thursday 23rd February on a bill with OV (collaboration between members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours and Sons and Daughters) and The Wyrding Module. For more info, bob over here
Full Dates are as follows:
04-Apr IRE Dublin Button Factory
05-Apr UK Belfast Black Box
06-Apr UK Glasgow St Andrew’s Church in the Square
07-Apr UK London Cafe Otto
09-Apr F Paris Le Point Ephémère
10-Apr NL Amsterdam Paradiso Upstairs
11-Apr B Kortrijk De Kreun
12-Apr NL Tilburg Roadburn Festival – Midi Theater
14-Apr DK Copenhagen, Loppen
15-Apr DK Aalborg Studenterhuset
17-Apr N Oslo John Dee Club inside Rockafeller
18-Apr N Stravanger Cementen
19-Apr S Stockholm Debaser Slussen
21-Apr FIN Helsinki Korjaamo Culture Factory
22-Apr D Berlin Roter Saloon inside Volksbuhne
23-Apr A Vienna Chelsea Club
25-Apr CH Lausanne Le Bourg
26-Apr CH Düdingen Café Bad Bonn
27-Apr I Ravenna Bronson Club
28-Apr I Florence Sala Vanni
29-Apr I Rome Chiesa evangelica metodista
01-May CH Zurich Exil
As the title suggests, “Black Mass Rising” is a new dark and psychedelic film inspired by the likes of Kenneth Anger. It features music from Kawabata Makoto, Master Musicians of Bukake, Bobby Beausoleil (who scored “Lucifer Rising”), Mater Suspiria Vision, Burial Hex and Sylvester Anfang II among many other. Made by the mysterious Shazzula, it’s been released on DVD in a limited edition of 666. Check out this preview:
BLACK MASS RISING movie (Official Trailer) from shazzula on Vimeo.
Menagerie, the magazine that blends music and visual art, releases it’s third issue today. This edition comes with a vinyl LP featuring a track on each side from Twinsistermoon, Isengrind [aka both solo halves of Natural Snow Buildings], Ben Nash [who mostly records as part of Chora these days] and C Joynes et Son Ensemble.
Side A of the record was used by the illustrators to inspire their artwork, while side B of the record is the musicians making music inspired by the illustrators artwork. Menagerie is published by Tor Press as a limited edition of 500 copies.
Here’s some of the music involved:
“Festive Greetings from Hibernate and Home Normal” is a 16 track download album featuring Antonymes, The Boats, Offthesky, Machinefabriek, Strom Noir, Good Weather for an Airstrike, Ithaca Trio, Isnaj Dui, Wil Bolton, The Frozen Vaults, Konntintent with Leyli, Upward Arrows, Listening Mirror with Alicia Merz, Clem Leek, Anna Rose Carter with Christopher Bailey and Daniel Thomas Freeman.
The album has been mastered by Wil Bolton and features artwork from Lucia Mancilla Prieto.
The full album can be downloaded in from Bandcamp in return for a donation where 100% of the proceeds will go to the Archway Foundation, established in Oxford in 1982 by Paul Hawgood to help serve those hurt by loneliness.
Bandcamp > http://festivegreetings.bandcamp.com/
There is a mix online featuring all the tracks HERE
Dylan Carlson is touring the UK in Spring for the first tour outside of the US West Coast with the new Earth line-up that recorded “Angels Of Darkness / Demons Of Light I”.
The band are playing:
Sat 3-Mar UK Bristol Arnofini Gallery
Mon 5-Mar UK Dublin Button Factory
Wed 7-Mar UK Manchester Ruby Lounge
Thu 8-Mar UK Edinburgh The Caves
Fri 9-Mar UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Sun 11-Mar UK London Union Chapel
Mon 12-Mar UK Brighton The Haunt
Southern Lord Records are releasing “Angels Of Darkness / Demons Of Light II” in February 2012. Once again the same line-up and is said to mark another chnge in direction.
Would you believe that a fully reformed Agitation Free are playing their first ever UK dates in 2012? They’re playing:
5th April – Manchester Moho Live
6th April – London Jazz Cafe
here’s the official blurb:
Esoteric Recordings announce a series of live performances to mark the release of the new album by German legends AGITATION FREE. Of all of the experimental groups who emerged in Germany the early 1970s, Agitation Free was certainly one of the most musically adventurous. From their beginnings in Berlin in 1967, the band embraced
the concept of performing long and free improvisations, experimenting with the use of liquid projectors, slide shows and their own films in live performances. The Beat Studio that AGITATION FREE initiated under the direction of Thomas Kessler also developed into the creative centre for the Berlin groups ASH RA TEMPEL and TANGERINE DREAM. The sound of Agitation Free featured the pioneering electronics of Michael Hoenig, one of Germany’s best musicians when creating atmospheric melodies and powerful-layered soundscapes which both enhanced and defined the band’s style. Also featured were guitarists Lutz Ulbrich and Gustl Lutjens whose magic fingers could conjure up exotic Eastern scales or soaring melodic melodies with ease. Drummer Burghard Rausch and bassist Michael “Fame” Günther were a polyrhythmic rhythm section extraordinaire that propelled the music. In February 2007, AGITATION FREE reunited to perform a series of concerts in Tokyo with the superb “SHIBUYA NIGHTS” being the resulting record of those shows. After almost forty years, the five musicians of AGITATION FREE have reincarnated their creative vision. This says much about not only the music, but the musicians who performed it. “SHIBUYA NIGHTS” provides ample proof that good music such as this can indeed be timeless.
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