I MAAAYYYY go to Retrovirus tonight.

if you're looking for a substitute to attend the premiere with your wife, I'm in :D
I'll still need to arrange Visa etc, so let me know in advance

19.7 Jon Spenecer Blues Explosion!

OOIOO July 15th.

PIXIES! thx to my lil sis. and Coathangers soon too.

too many shows, not enough money..

We ended up seeing Richard Thompson Electric Trio, will post my recording soon, some really monsterous playing in spots.

OH yeah....I forgot I bought tickets to pitchfork music fest. The line up sucks....for the most part....I mainly bought the 3-day pass because my friend had abought a bunch and I didn't want to leave him hanging with any...so...yeh.

BRÖTZMANN / NOBLE / TIPPETT - 25th September

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/Peter-Brotz...eve-Noble.shtm

LEE RANALDO - 23rd October

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/lee-ranaldo.shtm

Aug 2 - Wolf Eyes
Aug 6 - Thurston Moore, John Edwards and Adam Golebiewski
Aug 7 - Thurston Moore and Caspar Brötzmann
Aug 23 - Vibracathedral Orchestra with Chris Corsano
Aug 29-31 - Raw Power Weekender - Acid Mothers Temple, Bo Ningen, Mainliner, Thought Forms etc...
Sep 22 - Bardo Pond
Sep 23 - Magik Markers
Oct 23 - Lee Ranaldo
Nov 19 - Einstürzende Neubauten

This weekend - Off festival in Katowice, Poland:

Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, Glenn Branca, Fuck Buttons, Wolf Eyes, Deafheaven, Belle&Sebastian, Clipping, Oranssi Pazuzu, Neutral Milk Hotel, 65daysofstatic, etc.

Plus, I'm gonna meet Moshe and Nicole from this board, yay!

21.8 22 Pistepirkko & Mirel Wagner

Thee Oh Sees in Amsterdam (Melkweg), 26 august
Chad VanGaalen in Paris, early september

I'm going to see Bill Callahan tomorrow. It's in the open air, and there's about 80% chance of rain and hail and thunder

hurray!

FUCKING SHIT I GOT BLESSED!!! I randomly found this show trolling the venue's website for any upcoming gutter punk shows and to price tickets for a roots reggae show (the band groundation) I am going to August 30 at the same venue (observatory).. I was so surprised it wasn't sold out I didn't even remotely hesitate on buying the tickets. I completely missed this same show last year cuz I didn't even know about this side-project and literally found about it a week too late on youtube! I downloaded the show and have been listening to it religiously for the past year, often on my way to work on the Metro.. Its hypnotic, ambient, shoegazy but metal.. Its fucking Isis with crooning as Chino from deftones....

I never in a million years thought they'd tour again, I thought it was a one time thing. By no coincidence I was just checking Palms website two weeks ago just before they announced the tour and thought it was a dead site.. Last year I missed the show because I had just saw Chino touring with Crosses in April so I totally didn't think there'd be a new project with a new record and a new tour.. I feel like this is a miraculous second chance..

Now I also see why in the Spirit I hesitated on buying the Swans tickets until it sold out, because I don't have the $ for both..

Also going to see

Lee Scratch Perry at the Santa Monica Pier August 28, its going to be an IRIE way to finish the summer season and get ready for work/university/moving to a new pad..

Arctangent at the end of the month. For those not in the know its a math/post rock festival in Somerset.

Acid Mothers Temple on Wednesday at the Colchester Arts Centre.

http://www.colchesterartscentre.com/...y-tranceathon/

Six Organs Of Admittance - Cafe OTO 25th October

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/ben-chasny-...dmittance.shtm

Kontakte, Francois Sky & 93MillonMilesFromTheSun - The Water Rats 5th September
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/815505

White Hills & One Unique Signal - Corsica Sudios 23rd September
https://babayaga.ticketabc.com/event...gas-hut-pr-31/


The Vacant Lots, Pink Mountaintops & Tess Parks - The Shacklewell Arms 24th September
https://billetto.co.uk/sonic-cathedral--bad-vibrations-present-the-vacant-lots


The Asteriod #4 - The Shacklewell Arms 25th September
https://www.facebook.com/events/524520177667179/?fref=ts


LIVE REVOLUTION - The Windmill 11th October

The line-up for this show is as follows:

THE HIGH DIALS
THE CAROUSELS
SOUNDWIRE
HIS NAME IS CODEINE

Tickets available here:

https://www.musicglue.com/northern-s...-the-windmill/

The Early Years + Younghusband + Spectres + Andrew Weatherall DJ set - 100 Club 15th October
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/287136

So Thurston Moore is playing at the Observatory Oct 4.. I should go..

this month:
kane ikin & harvey sutherland
iceage x exhaustion x power
samuel kerridge


future:
sleep
factory floor
godflesh
melbourne music week (wooooo)
meredith 2014
other stuff

I'll be going to the Incubate festival, all week long from monday 15 until Sunday 21 September. I'm completely not sure yet which bands I'll go see. All I know now is that there are some major major major clashes in the schedule.
Like on Monday, if I go see Pauline Oliveros, I'll miss both Action Beat & G.W. Sok (ex-The Ex) and Nadja. And I want to see all three dammit!

other acts playing: Silver Mt Zion, Bardo Pond, Wooden Wand, Woven Hand. Click the site for more :-)
(I am open for suggestions and/or tape request but can't promise anything)

Next to that there's dozens of shows I would like to see in the coming months, but not sure yet. I'll definitely go to Mogwai in October, and probably Sebadoh once or twice as well. And I got this passe-partout for the Autumn Falls festival, which gives me free entry to a bunch of shows all over Belgium in October and November. But until now not many are known yet...
But all I'm waiting for right now is for MONO to announce their European tour, looks like that will be at the start of December. I'll take a week holiday for that :D

Thrones tomorrow!

One Unique Signal have No tour this September but they do have the following small run of UK dates for anyone up for some Signal action. Note, these will likely be our last shows of 2014...
Sept 4th - Green Door Store, Brighton, East Sussex
W/ AIR FORMATION
Sept 23rd - Corsica Studios, London, SE
W/ WHITE HILLS
Sept 25th - The Vault, Rugby, Warwickshire
W/ THE VACANT LOTS
Sept 26 - Corner House, Cambridge
W/ The Furious Sleep & Tenebrous Liar
Sept 27th - Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia
Sept 28th - Railway Hotel, Southend on Sea, Essex
W/ The Vacant Lots

Ticket links and images to follow...

https://www.facebook.com/oneuniquesi...type=1&theater

MV & EE

Mon, September 1, 2014

7:00 pm

Baby's All Right

Brooklyn, NY

$5.00

Method Man
Possibly T-Pain but I'm not sure... Meh.
J Rocc
Guided By Voices

I'll probably only end up going to one of these, but I get optimistic when I hear about bands coming to town. I miss a whole shit load of them, but that's life.

Updated:


Aug 29-31 - Raw Power Festival (Thought Forms, Bo Ningen, Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner....)
Sep 22 - Bardo Pond
Sep 23 - Magik Markers
Oct 13 - Hijokaidan + Borbetomagus
Oct 16 - Ruins + Acid Mothers Temple SWR
Oct 23 - Lee Ranaldo
Oct 25 - Six Organs of Admittance
Nov 7 - Thurston Moore
Nov 8 - Thurston Moore
Nov 19 - Einstürzende Neubauten

Not a musical gig but my wife is taking me to see John Witherspoon at the Improv tonight for my birthday!
bangbangbangbangbang!


He has always been one of those guys that can make me laugh without even trying!

Enjoy^^^is it Instigator birthday week already??

Last year you took a week to blow that mother out!

I was there too. I don't listen to a lot of reggae, but when I do, it is generally Scratch in dub mode. Pretty awesome.

I missed Scratch Perry on the Santa Monica Pier last night because I was stuck in fucking class, and I had been waiting for that show ALL summer, the Summer Twilight Concert series always have their grand finale with a brilliant roots reggae show.. last year it was Jimmy Cliff and U-Roy, in the years past it was Toots and Maytals, Ziggy Marley, Ras Michael.. its just so damned irie to be out on the Pier at night dancing to roots reggae, a beautiful and prototypical LA moment..

Alas, I couldn't be there. So to make up for it I am going to skank my ass off at Groundation this saturday night at the Observatory..

Hirsute, you going to Thurston @ the Observatory Oct 11??

http://www.observatoryoc.com/events/thurston-sebadoh

I don't think so, I've not been very into the recent Thurston stuff, and I have a lot of personal and family stuff going on right now which precludes my ability to attend most shows. You missed out on the Scratch show, it was pretty awesome from my perspective as a casual and occasional dub listener, and the price was right. Good for you going to class though, I've missed a lot of shows due to school, but none of those shows are going to help me get a job to pay my bills in the future...

dammit, I only just now find out that I do have time tomorrow to go to this festival. But looks like it's sold out already :(

20 YEARS OF MAGASIN4 ::
Post punk / Noise Rock / Rock
THE EX (NL) (with Ken Vandermark) + L'ENFANCE ROUGE (FR/IT) + GÂTECHIEN (FR) + VITAS GUERULAITIS (BE/FR) + SPAGGGUETTA ORGHASMMOND (ATG)

^^
Hurray!
it's not sold out yet, so I'm off to Brussels tonight!!!

If I could go to only one gig this year it would be this. Which is why I'm going:

Peter Brötzmann / Steve Noble / Keith Tippett - Café Oto Thursday 25th September


http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/Peter-Brotz...eve-Noble.shtm

I saw Brotzmann earlier this year in Tokyo playing with Sabu Toyozumi and Toshinori Kondo, it was one of the best things I've seen in my life. All three were mind blowing but particularly Sabu Toyozumi who must be about 80 and I would say is probably the best drummer I've ever seen.

tonight:
Yob + Pallbearer

first show for Yob's new album. Should be fun, I hope they'll play a cover of this :)

considering to take the week off from work and see them in Hamburg, Groningen, Brugge, Haarlem, then once more in Cologne two weeks later
but not sure yet ;-)

^^^^

Holy cow! They're releasing two albums at the same time. See https://www.facebook.com/monoofjapan

are there any Kraftwerk freaks out here? They will be playing eight times in a row at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in January, doing a different album each night

Seriously? That sounds like one of the best ways one could possibly spend a week. Few bands could announce something like that and have it actually sound like a good idea. For Kraftwerk, I'd bloody well go though. Every night.