The Dead C Reveal Rare U.S. Tour, New Album, Reissues
 

The Dead C Reveal Rare U.S. Tour, New Album, Reissues

...and tour-only 12"!

 

Fun fact about the Dead Sea: it has a lot of salt and stuff.

Fun fact about the Dead C: the Earth has circled the Sun some five times since the long-running experimental New Zealand combo last toured the U.S., and 13 times since their most recent visit to the East Coast.

That all changes this October, as the Dead C have announced a brief Stateside visit, kicking off in Philly on the 12th and wrapping just a few days later in the Chi. All kinds of noiseniks and other weirdos are coming out of the woodwork to support the Dead C on this trek, including Thurston Moore's Northampton Wools project, Wolf Eyes, Six Organs of Admittance, and Sightings.

So what's the occasion for this rare overseas voyage? Why, a new Dead C record, naturally. Secret Earth packs in four presumably long tracks and arrives October 14 on CD and vinyl thanks to Ba Da Bing.

But that's not all! Ba Da Bing is also teaming with Jagjaguwar to reissue on vinyl a pair of Dead C classics originally released by New Zealand's legendary Flying Nun label (the Clean, the Chills, the Bats, the Verlaines, etc). Eusa Kills and DR503 are due to hit shelves in mid-fall in double-LP form, and each packs in the extras. The former boasts a pair of cuts from the "Helen Said This" 12", while the latter crams in six jams off the The Sun Stabbed EP.

But wait, there's more! When the Dead C barnstorm the States this fall, they'll have with them a new, limited edition, tour-only 12". Take that, giant pool of brackish water.

Secret Earth:

01 Mansions
02 Stations
03 Plains
04 Waves

DR503 (vinyl reissue):

01 Max Harris
02 Speed Kills
03 The Wheel
04 Three Years
05 Mutterline
06 Country
07 I Love This
08 Polio
09 Angel *
10 Crazy I Know *
11 Fire *
12 Bad Politics *
13 Sun Stabbed *
14 Three Years *

Eusa Kills (vinyl reissue):

01 Scary Nest
02 Call Back Your Dogs
03 Alien to Be
04 Phantom Power
05 Now I Fall
06 I Was Here
07 Children
08 Bumtoe
09 Glasshole Pit
10 Maggot
11 Envelopment
12 Helen Said This *
13 Bury (Refutaio Omnium Haeresium) *

* bonus track

C-span:

10-12 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's #
10-13 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
10-16 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall %
10-19 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle $

# with Blues Control, Pink Reason
^ with Northampton Wools, Sightings
% with Six Organs of Admittance
$ with Wolf Eyes

holy shit, what a fucking tour. and of course theyre not going anywhere near me, and i get gypped out of seeing another one of my favorite bands.

The Dead C totally kill live (saw them twice in December 2006). Go and check them out, US boardies - you won't be disappointed.

knitting factory lost out on that bidding.

Hurray, new album coming up... The Dead C are not to be missed live if you ever have the rare chance of seeing them. I saw that same two shows that Melly did.

Now how about a reissue of Harsh 70's Reality as well? The 2LP version with the extra tracks I mean.

how about reissues of clyma est mort, new electric music, or world peace hope? having said that dr503c is my favourite record by them, but i think those bonus tracks are all on the version i have.

i saw those same two shows and they were beyond incredible.

T&B - do you remember the bouncers at ATP getting really pissed off? Heh heh heh.

Haha...the bouncers at ATP were getting pissed of at pretty much everything though.

Great news about the reissues and new album. The last one was pretty great I thought.

Oh God, I was I was a New Yorker. I only saw Dead C at ATP in 2006, and they were one of the handful of things there that left me totally gobsmacked.

So, yeah, like Mellysingsdoom says at the top.

i missed that

The Dead C were the highlight of ATP NBC 2006 for me. I would really love to see them again.

It's strange to see many people here agreeing on the brilliance of that set, because at the time, the people I talked to after the concert were not that enthusiastic. Of course, I might have just been talking to the wrong people - I realise their music is not necessarily everyone's cup of tea.

Jesus... I can't wait for these re-issues and the new album.

You Stateside freaks are lucky, lucky people.


Seconded

the track that is on the LP version of Harsh &0s Reality that isn't on the CD is this pretty forgetable musique concrete type thing.

who did they play opposite of at ATP 06? cause i can't recall who i saw instead and making me guilty about

I can't remember, pantophobia. There were 2 other groups, neither of which I was upset to miss out on.

I remember deerhoof playing on the Saturday (after Melvins??).

ok that sounds about right, choose them cause i had passed on deehoof on previous other times (or in atp 04 case, missed them due to cab lines), and if was charalambides, it was good if for nothing else talking to tom carter, and watching christina admonish the crowd

i wish they'd add a dc date, i hate driving up to philly for one show

i think it was fursaxa & prurient

if that was the case then i don't remember where i was:(

Charalambides headlined downstairs while SY were onstage, so I guess that they could also have been playing at the same time as Dead C.

T&B is right, it was Fursaxa and Prurient. Charalambides played against Sonic Youth and Bardo Pond.
I didn't even have to look that up... Jesus, what a ridiculous festival.

I wish a recording of The Dead C at ATP would turn up. I'd really like to hear it back sometime, because it was awesome and also because it was quite different to the show they played in London a few days after.

i could be wrong

but you're not.

however i am

you are fogiven, my son.

Was it really Fursaxa? I'm pretty certain I saw Dead C and Fursaxa at that ATP. Maybe I didn't stay for all of Fursaxa.

i watched about 20 mins of fursaxa, she was playing with the people from black forest black sea

anyone have the runway tape?

I've never heard any Dead C before. Where would be a good place to start? I'm planning on seeing them when they go to SF.

charalambides.

Vain, Erudite & Stupid. It's a 2CD best of and pretty easily obtainable compared to most of their back catalogue which is out of print.

Yes, it really was.
I was with you and T&B and we went to Fursaxa for anout 15-20 minutes and then over to The Dead C at the main stage.


Charalambides wasn't during The Dead C! Don't make me scan my pgrogram book! :p

damnit, i thought i had it.

i still don't remember where i was

Ok, I just had to read my own blog...you were at Deerhoof's performance.

You speak true say - I saw the Charalambides on the Sat at ATP, not long after I did a flying dive onto concrete that day - ouch...

Pokkeherrie... Refreshing people's memory since 2006.




FRIDAY 8TH DECEMBER 2006

CENTRE STAGE ( STAGE 1)

THE DEAD C - 1.15am - 2.15am
SONIC YOUTH (SHOW 1) 11.30pm - 12.45am
IGGY & THE STOOGES (SHOW 2) 9.45pm - 11pm
MELVINS 8.15pm - 9.15pm
FLIPPER 7.00pm - 7.45pm
NURSE WITH WOUND 5.30pm - 6.30pm
DOORS 4.45PM

REDS (STAGE 2)

PRURIENT 1.15am - 2am
BARDO POND 11.30pm - 12.45am
DEERHOOF 9.45pm - 11.00pm
DEAD MACHINES 8.45pm - 9.30pm
MAJOR STARS - 7.30pm -8.15pm
HIVE MIND - 6.15pm -7.00pm
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS 5.00pm -5.45pm
DOORS 4.15PM

CRAZY HORSE (STAGE 3)

FURSAXA - 1am - 2.00am
CHARALAMBIDES 11.30pm- 12.30pm
ISLAJA - 10.00pm - 11.00pm
TAURPIS TULA 8.30pm - 9.30pm
RICHARD YOUNGS 7.15pm - 8.00pm
FAMILY UNDERGROUND 6.00pm - 6.45pm
DOORS 5.15PM

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SATURDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2006

CENTRE STAGE (STAGE 1)

SONIC YOUTH (SHOW 2) 11.30pm - 1am
DINOSAUR JR - 9.45pm - 11.00pm
GANG OF FOUR 8.15pm - 9.15pm
SUN CITY GIRLS 6.45pm - 7.45pm
WOODEN WAND - 5.15pm - 6.15pm
DOORS 4.30PM

RED (STAGE 2)

COMETS ON FIRE 11.30am - 12.45am
MV / EE + BUMMER ROAD - 9.45pm - 11.00pm
PETER BROTZMANN / HAN BENNINK 8.45pm - 9.45pmpm
CORSANO/FLAHERTY/ C SPENCER YEH - 7.30pm - 8.30pm
MATS GUSTAFSSON + EYE - 6.15pm - 7.00pm
NEW BLOCKADERS/HATERS 3.45pm-4.45pm
DOORS 3.00PM

CRAZY HORSE (STAGE 3)

MAGIK MARKERS 11.45pm - 12.45pm
LAMBSBREAD 10.30pm - 11.15pm
LESLIE KEFFER 9.15pm - 10.00pm
16 BITCH PILE UP 8.00pm - 8.45pm
DOUBLE LEOPARDS 6.45pm - 7.30pm
BLOOD STEREO 5.30pm - 6.15pm
DOORS 4.45PM

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SUNDAY 10TH DECEMBER

CENTRE STAGE (STAGE 1)

MC5/DKT 12am - 1.15am
IGGY & THE STOOGES (SHOW 2)- 10pm - 11.15pm
NEGATIVE APPROACH - 8.15pm - 9.15pm
WOLF EYES - 6.45pm - 7.45pm
AWESOME COLOR - 5.30 6.15PM
AARON DILLOWAY 4.15-5.00PM
DOORS 3.30PM

REDS (STAGE 2)

BE YOUR OWN PET 12 am - 1am
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER 10pm - 11.15pm
MOUTHUS - 8.45 - 9.30
MONOTRACT - 7.30pm - 8.15pm
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 6.15pm - 7.00pm
THE NOTEKILLERS - 5.00pm - 5.45pm
DOORS 4.15PM

CRAZY HORSE (STAGE 3)

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN 12.30am - 1.30am
NO NECK BLUES BAND 11pm - 12am
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - 9.15pm - 10.30pm
ALEXANDER TUCKER 7.45pm - 8.45pm
WHITE OUT W/ NELS CLINE 6.15pm - 7.15pm
THE SKATERS 5.00pm - 5.45pm
BARK HAZE - 4.00pm - 4.30pm
DOORS 3.15PM

hmmm, the eventual schedule was slightly different than above though, because Major Stars were playing on Sunday afternoon as the first band on the mainstage, not Friday.

edit: also, Hair Police played on the Reds stage on Friday night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyYzyUPGs8 great dead c show

i would love to see bark haze. ive never seen thurston without the youth. mouthus , no neck blues, bardo pond, the skaters, my cat is an alien, scg, dilloway, wolf eyes, 16 bitch pile up, new blockaders, haters, gustaffson/eye, negative approach, mc5, stooges, isajala, fursaxa, prurient, hive mind, deerhoof, gang of fuckin 4, double fuckin leapords, nurse with motherfucking wound, fuckin flipper, fuckin melvins, dead fuckin c, jewsus fucking christ, i love all those bands. i cant believe i missed this, best atp ever by far.

tom was right, i was wrong. shit, dude, i was only off by a couple hours.