Charalambides UK/Ireland tour dates
 

For all you fans over there:

07.06.06 with Pumajaw at the Cube Microplex, Bristol
07.08.06 with Pumajaw and Steffen Basho-Junghans at the Luminaire, London
07.09.06 with Haeti and Longing at CB2, Cambridge
07.10.06 with Dead Elephant Bicycle and Gareth Hardwick at Bunkers Hill, Nottingham
07.11.06 with Agitated Radio Pilot at Richardsons, Ireland
07.12.06 with Agitated Radio Pilot and Veronica Moran at The Bog Lane Theater, Ballymahon, Co Longford, Ireland
07.13.06 with Agitated Radio Pilot and Papercut at the Boom Boom Room, Dublin, Ireland
07.14.06 with Ashtray Navigation at the Cricketers Arms, Sheffield
07.15.06 with Parts and Labor, I Had an Inkling, Sword Drawings, and Kong at the Klondyke Club, Manchester
07.16.06 with Steffen Basho-Junghans at Morden Tower, Newcastle
07.19.06 with Taurpis Tula at Nice 'n' Sleazy, Glasgow, Scotland

why does Europe get all the good shows? Thank you mainstream media of America, for shielding us from anything with even the slightest artistic or creative thought, act, or idea. We bow to you, oh Queen Brittany Spears, lead us in the way of boring pop hooks and mindless keyboard rhythms only imaginable by the lords of TRL...

07.11.06 with Agitated Radio Pilot at Richardsons, Ireland
07.12.06 with Agitated Radio Pilot and Veronica Moran at The Bog Lane Theater, Ballymahon, Co Longford, Ireland
07.13.06 with Agitated Radio Pilot and Papercut at the Boom Boom Room, Dublin, Ireland

WOW, OK WHERE THE FUCK IS RICHARDSONS...CORK I THINK

BALLYMAHON LONGFORD?????? WHY???

DUBLIN WITH PAPERCUT, THEY ARENT BAD!
HMM CURIOUS TOUR.. GOTTA SEE EM. JEEZ I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL, NOT BITCHIN ABOUT IT. THANKS SC FOR THE INFOTAINMENT!

Hmmm, will probably wait until ATP to see them. Bristol is a pain and I think Bilge Pump are playing here that night.

They might get 'big' all of a sudden, you never know. I mean their new album is quite boring and Christina Carter is on the new DJ Shadow album and all that.

bilge pump are worth seeing for the smiles. they have been playing the same set for the past ten years.

think i'll check em out in glasgow if only because Taurpis Tula featuring the mighty David Keenan are playing... besides there is fuck all else happening around my way until Hair Police in August and December is a long way off...

It's summer...gigs are fewer generally. More shit festivals and all that.

It's nice to know that Bilge Pump are worth seeing because I don't hold out much hope of the other 2 bands being any good. FTSE100 and And They Will Riot I think it is.

Don't really get the Charalambides. Although the mighty Astray Navigations are well worth seeing, oh yes. But I'm not in Sheffield, so meh.

It's bizarre that you just posted that as i was thinking the same.I once listened to a whole album of theirs when i was working in a record shop and i shook my head a few times trying to understand why people say that they are such a great band.I don't know them well enough to say more than this but that album(it's got a red cover)really didn't do it for me.It put me to sleep in fact.

Mmm. I think it's one of those things (where's my wankers hat?) where it sounds like a lot of things to those of us who remember/ half-remember/ investigated recently the likes of Damon and Naomi (fuck you low, Galaxie 500 were there first) or the Cocteaus whereas the young 'uns it sounds new to.

Ok, that's a wanker's comment, I apologise.

They'd wish to sound as good as Galaxie 500 or even Codeine.

Fuck me! Codeine!

I think we should have sticky thread called something like, "Porkmarras, Glice, Toilet & Bowels and Savage Clone talk about music" which would consist of each person saying a band that they've suddenly remembered and someone else going "Fuck me" or "They were fucking shite".

Give me Codeine over Slint any time(musically and literally speaking).

I really like Joy Shapes a lot but nothing else of theirs has really got me going.

i really like charalambides a lot, i can't think of a record of theirs that has a red cover though, they have lots of records though and they've changed a lot since they started (back in 91 or so, before my time of being aware of the ultra-underground). joy shapes, in cr ea se, CHT & market square are all excellent records in my book.
+christina carter is an ace.

also, as far as taurpis tula is concerned ii think heather leigh murray is far more exciting than david keenan.

they are playing all over the us later this year.

wow what a bad choice

i saw HL Murray last week and she was okayish, some quite cool moments... david keenan just excites me as a person... musically, i've never really heard him...

I love Charalambides!

I saw Christina Carter a few years ago at a local record store. Still one of my favorite shows ever.

i like the way her boobs rest on the top of her guitar when she plays

ftse 100! really thats quite interesting. i used to know ben the guitar player and singer. they are quite good, but very trumans water.

i would add our bed is green to the list of good albums by them. It got rereleased on kranky in 2005 as a 2xlp.

I don't get how Galaxie 500 or slint are thrown in there, but maybe i misunderstood something .. .

the cover is a dark red(or bordeaux i think) and i'm sure the album is live.Any help?

...don't know that one either.

Here's a quote from the Wholly Other website...
"To say that the words "unique" and "singular" are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist's work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive/folk/mystic/improv/psych valley in which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; "...here is a truly 21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and stasis... in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th century discovered amplification, noise and speed.""



I love them... it all goes back to their duo performance at the 2004 ATP... they just completely haunted me for months afterwards. They were the first band on in the afternoon and I was hung over and I guess, incredibly receptive to the empty and open sounds that they were making... I'll never forget it... in fact shivers run up and down my spine in remembrance. I already liked them, but after experiencing their live trance like witchcraft, I was completely hooked... for me Joy Shapes is one of the greatest albums of this century so far... it's so brittle and spare and beautiful, there is nothing else like it. I'm also reminded of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point for some reason... they just connect me to that zone. The new album is very different in feel to Joy Shapes... but no less enjoyable.

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Originally Posted by Glice Mmm. I think it's one of those things (where's my wankers hat?) where it sounds like a lot of things to those of us who remember/ half-remember/ investigated recently the likes of Damon and Naomi (fuck you low, Galaxie 500 were there first) or the Cocteaus whereas the young 'uns it sounds new to. Ok, that's a wanker's comment, I apologise.

Glice baby... I understand what you're trying to say but I don't think that you can apply this hypothesis to Charalambedes...:)

...don't know that one either.

Here's a quote from the Wholly Other website...
"To say that the words "unique" and "singular" are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist's work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive/folk/mystic/improv/psych valley in which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; "...here is a truly 21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and stasis... in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th century discovered amplification, noise and speed.""

I might be getting confused because as i said i don't know them much but at least the back sleeve i'm sure was of a darkish red colour.I picked it up while i was doing some casual work at Music Exchange as someone left the record amongst the shop's cds .I put it on as i had read that they were meant to be a very good band but still it didn't do it for me,no.They must be a good band if so many people revere them that much,i'm not contesting that in the slightest,but for the little i've heard i was pretty much let down.Since you like them so much and you have fine taste(thanks for directing me towards that lonely Espers record,i've enjoyed it a big deal)i'll explore them a bit more.

My pleasure... I'm pleased you like it.

I'm listening to 'a vintage burden' right now. I'm sorry, I'm still not seeing what the fuss is. It's probably a good thing that I'm going back to it, but I'm still not hearing anything exceptionally amazing. It's good, but it sounds like a lot of things. Which is no bad thing, let me re-emphasize. I'm just a little let down because me expectations were different. Perhaps I'll like it for what it is rather than what it isn't someday...

i haven't heard vintage burden yet, but i heard a couple of snippets and it sounded not as good and also different to their previous stuff, i'm surprised you don't like them actually as i think records like joy shapes or live/dead have a certain similar quality to I Saw It! That Which Before (paricularly track 4), in that they have a similar sense of space and stillness to their music as haino does in his.

Fuckin' A. Yeah, this record is really... average. I'll download joy shapes. And if you're wrong, I'm coming to London to have your balls off. And not in a nice way.

Edit: The ball-cutting applies to both of the above, by the way.

You must not be looking in the right place for live music shows, I guess. I've heard of shows happening in Cincy and northern KY. If there aren't enough happening for your taste, get a house with a basement and throw your own.

Charalambides are a band who enjoy playing in people's houses. I've had them in my living room twice, plus Tom Carter solo one other time, and Christina solo or with guests has played at other friends' houses in Davis, plus even an impromptu show in the hallway of a building here at UC Davis (that was recorded on her ghostly awesome "We've" CDR with Gown).

Since the divorce of Tom and Christina, I've sensed a lot more tension in their performances. They build up to "ferocious" even...pretty awesome!

Tom's coming to Davis in August again to play some trombone for us in a hole in the ground....yes, literally a hole in the fuckin' ground!

Take that as a suggestion to make your town have more choices than just Brittney Spears.

Ok, so I downloaded to it. It's good. It is good, I will give you that. Yes. In fact, a couple more listens and I might like it more. Yes.

The problem is I put a track off the Tony Conrad/ Faust album on next on the playlist. Which was devestatingly brilliant.

I have revised my opinion of Charalambides, and I'm going to see them tomorrow night thanks to you people. I'm still not entirely sold, but I can hear that there is something there that warrants the praise.

So we'll call that a draw, and we'll all lose a ball each. Agreed?

I hear tell they are playing at a louder volume these days.
Which means you will be able to hear something.

i'm going to see them on saturday with steffan basho junghans, i'm excited (to see christina's perching boobs again)

Sneak in a recording device for the Basho-Junghans set!

Tom has a ginormous beard now.

yeah i suppose you wont have to pay all that money for strippers. well maybe you will after the show.

is she involved with that elf bloke now? if i was drunk enough i'd try my hand though.

sadly, due to financial dire straights i shall not be visiting any stripping establishments soon.

Elf bloke? Andrew McGregor aka Gown?

isn't he called be'irth or beren something?