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Old 10.29.2010, 07:53 AM   #121
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Cool, I'll be seeing them in 3 weeks... and then hopefully again in April at Roadburn if I can score a ticket (which seems to get more difficult every year).


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Look At Me Go, the bonus disc on the special edition of My Father, is great as well. It's like a 46 minute long sound collage with drones, noise, tape recordings, bits of singing and so on. It's mostly stuff they recorded for the songs on My Father... but that Gira didn't have the time to add to the songs. Like a 10 minute intro to No Words/No Thoughts. Good stuff in it's own right, but just the thought of all these parts being added to the songs... I mean, I love My Father as it is right now, but it had been so fantastic.

I have that 2CD version too, the bonus disc is really great. Probably even better than the album itself.
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Old 10.29.2010, 08:25 AM   #122
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I want to see them live so badly, damn. Hope I get a chance in 2011, at least. During the last year or so, Swans slowly became one of my favourite bands and My Father... completely blew my mind, which added even more desire of seeing them.
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Old 10.29.2010, 08:27 AM   #123
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Has anyone else seen them on this tour? I saw them tonight and I'm at a loss for words, like nothing else i've ever seen, incredible.

Saw them Wednesday night in Brighton.
Fucking amazing! They still have that same intensity as way back when.
I got MG to sign the teeth on my Filth t-shirt!!
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Old 10.29.2010, 08:30 AM   #124
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They had quite a few people on stage, a drummer, a percussionist, a pedal steel guy, guitarist, bassist, 2 horns, and michael gira singing & playing guitar. Heavy, intense, really physical sound. Michael Gira didn't get naked though.

No horns in Brighton.
I thought the pedal steel guy looked like Bukowski!
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Old 10.29.2010, 06:40 PM   #125
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I want to see them live so badly, damn. Hope I get a chance in 2011, at least. During the last year or so, Swans slowly became one of my favourite bands and My Father... completely blew my mind, which added even more desire of seeing them.

And in the same day I say this, more dates are announced, one of them in my city. Hah, now that's a sweet coincidence.

02/18 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk Austin #
02/19 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Music Hall #
02/22 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall #
02/25 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre #
02/26 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s Crystal Ball Reading Room #
02/27 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater #
03/01 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Grand Ballroom #
03/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey #
03/06 – Auckland, New Zealand @ Powerstation
03/10 – Melbourne, Australia @ Forum Theatre
03/11 – Brisbane, Australia @ The Hi-Fi
03/12 – Sydney, Australia @ Metro Theatre
04/09 – Lisboa, Portugal @ Aula Magna
04/10 – Porto, Portugal @ Porto Casa da Musica
04/12 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel @ Barby
04/14 – Athens, Greece @ Gagarin 205
04/16 – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Roadburn Festival (Main Stage)
05/02 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
05/03 – Aarhuis, Denmark @ VoxHall
05/04 – Sweden @ TBA
05/06 – Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller
05/07 – Drammen, Norway @ Union Scene
05/08 – Sweden @ TBA
05/10 – Tampere, Finland @ Klubi
05/11 – Helsinki, Finland @ Tavastia
05/12 – Tallinn, Estonia @ Von Krahl Theatre Bar
05/13 – Riga, Latvia @ Grivas Mebeles
05/14 – St. Petersburg, Russia @ SKIF Festival
05/15 – Moscow, Russia @ Avant Club
05/17 – TBA
05/18 – TBA
05/19 – TBA
05/20 – Brataslava, Slovakia @ Majestic Music Club
05/21 – Budapest, Hungary @ Trafσ House of Contemporary Arts
05/23 – Zagreb, Croatia @ Teatar Itd
05/24 – Ljubljana, Slovenia @ Kino Kiska Centre for Urban Culture
05/25 – Salzburg, Austria @ Rockhouse
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Old 10.30.2010, 06:18 AM   #126
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I'm so glad they'll play two gigs in Sweden. It's a bit annoying that they are TBA haha, when I finally know they'll play here I'd also like to know if I'll be able to see them once or twice, but whatever - I'll finally be able to see the fucking Swans!
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Old 10.30.2010, 07:17 AM   #127
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Nice, thankfully the finland shows aren't too soon, so I can prepare myself financially for them.
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Old 10.31.2010, 01:44 PM   #128
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if you saw them at supersonic, you didnt get half of it. i saw them again yesterday in manchester and it was a hundred times better. blew my face off.
that was one of my dreams come true.
words cannot describe.
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Old 10.31.2010, 02:23 PM   #129
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Old 10.31.2010, 04:24 PM   #130
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Does anyone know of any half-decent books about Swans? Ideally a 'collected interviews' thing, but a 'history of the Swans' would be helpful. Preferably not online things, as it's for an academic paper and I'm trying to avoid sources from online.
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Old 11.03.2010, 07:00 PM   #131
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Old 11.13.2010, 01:03 PM   #132
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Does anyone know of any half-decent books about Swans? Ideally a 'collected interviews' thing, but a 'history of the Swans' would be helpful. Preferably not online things, as it's for an academic paper and I'm trying to avoid sources from online.

What kind of academic paper are you writing that includes the history of Swans?? Very curious. Did you ever find some good quality text online or elsewhere that helped you ?

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Old 11.13.2010, 01:10 PM   #133
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Does anyone know of any half-decent books about Swans? Ideally a 'collected interviews' thing, but a 'history of the Swans' would be helpful. Preferably not online things, as it's for an academic paper and I'm trying to avoid sources from online.

As far as I know there isn't. Shame.
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Old 11.13.2010, 01:37 PM   #134
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What kind of academic paper are you writing that includes the history of Swans?? Very curious. Did you ever find some good quality text online or elsewhere that helped you ?

Torn Curtain: Wow...thank you. Awesome, awesome taste of this tour.

Well, if I could've found something on them then the answer would've been 'it's to do with patristic dogmatic apophatic theology refracted through post-Nietzschian truth values in Swans 'Beautiful Child' - viz, essentially, their rendering of Abraham/ Ibrahim is non-denominational and a non-affirmative, and 'authentically' postmodern (unlike Cave's Christic narratology). I think I might be wrong about this though - their Abraham is pretty much indistinguishable from the Abraham of Kierkegaard's fear and trembling.'

As it stands, the answer is probably more like 'I think they're pretty neat'.
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Old 11.14.2010, 12:49 AM   #136
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okay, this new album is aboslutely fucking amazing, one of their best. Proof that some albums, you kinda have to be "in the mood for". I had written it off initially but now I LOVE it.
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Old 11.14.2010, 12:50 AM   #137
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Old 11.14.2010, 10:01 AM   #138
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Well, if I could've found something on them then the answer would've been 'it's to do with patristic dogmatic apophatic theology refracted through post-Nietzschian truth values in Swans 'Beautiful Child' - viz, essentially, their rendering of Abraham/ Ibrahim is non-denominational and a non-affirmative, and 'authentically' postmodern (unlike Cave's Christic narratology). I think I might be wrong about this though - their Abraham is pretty much indistinguishable from the Abraham of Kierkegaard's fear and trembling.'

As it stands, the answer is probably more like 'I think they're pretty neat'.

Are my taxes paying for this?
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Old 11.14.2010, 10:13 AM   #139
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Your taxes are very much not paying for this, ever again if your hero the antichrist Cameron gets his way.
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