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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: seeking_irony on November 05, 2007, 02:34:00 pm
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Anyone plan on going to see MUM (http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/artistInfo.php?id=49)?
The Hej Hej (http://www.hejhejmusic.com) DJs are going to be spinning before and between band sets.
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Wednesday, November 7
Sixth and I Synagogue (http://www.sixthandi.org/)
$18
7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show
All ages
Opening up for MUM are American songwriter Tom Brosseau (http://www.myspace.com/tombrosseau) and German act Hauschka (http://www.hauschka-net.de).
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No, the original twin sisters are no longer in the band...how can they say they are still MUM??
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ill be seeing this show on Saturday night over at Society for Ethical Culture as part of the Wordless Music Series. I love that venue (a church) - amazing acoustics. Cant wait to see Mum there (regardless of who is in the band). Saw Beirut there and it was awesome.
This Wordless music series is quite awesome - also coming up:
Jonny Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver
The Wordless Music Orchestra
Brad Lubman, Conductor
Performing John Adams' Christian Zeal and Activity, Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic, and the
U.S. premiere of Jonny Greenwood's
Popcorn Superhet Receiver for string orchestra
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xneverwherex - do you have any ticket info on the greenwood gig? i haven't been able to find any, the event isn't even listed on the SFEC's website.
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double-posting weirdness deleted
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FYI... review of Mum's new album in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110100871.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110100871.html)
Recordings
Friday, November 2, 2007; WE08
MUM "Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy" FatCat
AT ITS CORE, the Icelandic band Mum is still an electronic group: "A Little Bit, Sometimes," from its latest CD, "Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy," practically shudders as its beats dance with an accordion, and the glitches that accompany the heavenly voices on "Winter (What We Never Were After All)" sound like the icy season that the group must know so well. But the departure of Kristin Anna Valtysdottir, the group's primary singer, has made room for the group to take a new direction vocally.
The opening track, "Blessed Brambles," features pulsing male voices that sound like a mellower version of "Sung Tongs"-era Animal Collective. That freak-folksy feel continues on the dreamy "These Eyes Are Berries," whose nearly nonsensical lyrics ("These berries are eyes/Your eyes, my eyes/Birds turn their necks/To stare at them") collide with a plinking bell-like keyboard.
Where Valtysdottir was breathy and impressionistic, the male-female unison singing on "Dancing Behind My Eyelids" is wispy and dramatic. The underlying skittish beats, though, are still pure Mum, and as they creak and groan beneath those vocals, they invoke images of eyelids fluttering awake after a long slumber.
-- Catherine P. Lewis
Appearing Wednesday at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (202-408-3100, http://www.sixthandi.org (http://www.sixthandi.org)). Doors open at 7.
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
xneverwherex - do you have any ticket info on the greenwood gig? i haven't been able to find any, the event isn't even listed on the SFEC's website.
its at the same place mum tix are on sale :D
http://www.wordlessmusic.org/schedule.html (http://www.wordlessmusic.org/schedule.html)
and none of those other tix have been available through the venue.
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as always - we're giving away free tix:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/mum-ticket-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/mum-ticket-giveaway/)
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Originally posted by xneverwherex:
ill be seeing this show on Saturday night over at Society for Ethical Culture as part of the Wordless Music Series. I love that venue (a church) - amazing acoustics.
I saw a show there a couple of years ago...It is a nice place to see a show. Dangit though that the show on Sat. is in NYC...Due to work, I can't make the 6&I on Wed. - especially w/ two openers - what are the times for the show on Wed.?
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looks like i might have to drop anthony bourdain for mum tonight.
cale, what's your criteria for selecting ticket winners other than amusing yourselves with lame prostrating pleas? do you think you would get more participation if your contest entrants didn't have to perform like circus seals?
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his friends are probably winning the tickets?
Originally posted by 930clubber:
cale, what's your criteria for selecting ticket winners other than amusing yourselves with lame prostrating pleas? do you think you would get more participation if your contest entrants didn't have to perform like circus seals?
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as always - we're giving away free tix to our friends and spamming the board with our links:
Originally posted by cale:
as always - we're giving away free tix:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/mum-ticket-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/mum-ticket-giveaway/)
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Yeah, we just pick the most creative or funny responses.
Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated. I've done a bunch of different things in the past, haiku contests, photo caption contests, guessing games, etc. but the tell me why you should get them seems to get the best responses, both in number and creativity.
Originally posted by 930clubber:
looks like i might have to drop anthony bourdain for mum tonight.
cale, what's your criteria for selecting ticket winners other than amusing yourselves with lame prostrating pleas? do you think you would get more participation if your contest entrants didn't have to perform like circus seals?
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This is true only in the sense that since I'm friends with a large number of people that post comments on the site regularly, inevitably, there are times I know the person that wins. But I certainly don't favor friends. That would kind of defeat the purpose of the contests, as they are to draw more people into reading the site. There have been a few contests where I picked randomly, and often I will strip names and ask other BYT staffers to choose.
Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
his friends are probably winning the tickets?
Originally posted by 930clubber:
cale, what's your criteria for selecting ticket winners other than amusing yourselves with lame prostrating pleas? do you think you would get more participation if your contest entrants didn't have to perform like circus seals?
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Seriously? I'm used to getting bashed when we post drunken party photos and shit and people actually think we're serious, but you're actually upset that we're giving away free tickets to shows? Or just the fact that I'm announcing it on a message board where people are talking about the show we're giving tickets away for? You realize I don't actually make any money from BYT right? I'm just going to assume you and wanderlust are the only two that are upset about free tickets. If that's not the case, speak up and I'll gladly stop posting about them.
Wait, if I was just giving them away to my friends why would I post to stragers on this board, I only know a couple of you.
Originally posted by 930clubber:
as always - we're giving away free tix to our friends and spamming the board with our links:
Originally posted by cale:
as always - we're giving away free tix:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/mum-ticket-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/mum-ticket-giveaway/)
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btw, good show tonight at the synagogue, what a great venue and band of artists.
cale, i'm not complaining you giving out free tix. i'm complaining about you asking people to be dancing monkeys to earn your tickets under unspoken arbitrary rules. despite your spam here, you get only a handful of people actually try for tix to each of your blog contest posts. either few people follow those links or many do but refuse to be your dancing monkey. so either stop spamming or improve the contest conditions, eg random winner selection.
think of it this way -- if you "offer free tickets" time after time and each time the same six or seven people respond, half winning the tickets, in what way are you "offering free tickets?" you're actually "giving tickets away to the same six or seven people and inviting the rest of us to watch the spectacle."
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We had about 50 entries for Morrissey, 40 for Virgin Fest a while back. The only times we have a handful is at smaller shows. We've never awarded tickets to the same winner twice.
So are you saying that all contests should simply be people submitting their name and email and we randomly pick them? I mean, I don't think I invented photo caption contests and guess how many miles are on the tour bus contests. Are you upset with other entities contests that involve any sort of effort, or just BYT's? There are times that an artist or manager stipulates the contest, should we not run it if that's the case?
I'm really not following your logic. And saying we have the same 6 people try to get tickets each time is simply untrue, I have the IP records.
Anyway, even though you didn't want to go for free, I'm glad you enjoyed our show!
Originally posted by 930clubber:
btw, good show tonight at the synagogue, what a great venue and band of artists.
cale, i'm not complaining you giving out free tix. i'm complaining about you asking people to be dancing monkeys to earn your tickets under unspoken arbitrary rules. despite your spam here, you get only a handful of people actually try for tix to each of your blog contest posts. either few people follow those links or many do but refuse to be your dancing monkey. so either stop spamming or improve the contest conditions, eg random winner selection.
think of it this way -- if you "offer free tickets" time after time and each time the same six or seven people respond, half winning the tickets, in what way are you "offering free tickets?" you're actually "giving tickets away to the same six or seven people and inviting the rest of us to watch the spectacle."
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who asked you to stop giving away free tickets? your contests are neither a caption contest or guess tourbus miles contest. clearly you can't see the difference.
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I, for one, hope Cale continues to spam the board with offers of free tickets. I don't see what the big deal is other than perhaps 930clubber worries that he isn't witty enough to ever have a chance at winning.
Note that I am not a friend of cale nor have I ever entered one of his contests.
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i for one welcome our new ticket-giving overlords.
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Good show...I was up in the balcony and the space had a nice sound. While I loved Mum for the rainy day feel of their first two albums, the new one is fun and the newer songs were great live. They filled the synagogue up perfectly with happy noise.
On the ride home my gf and I had a long discussion going from how the new Sigur Ros just makes us wish Godspeed You Black Emporer! was still around (are they???) and how it seems that twee has retreated to Iceland. Maybe we can keep it contained there?
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Yes, clearly:
We Are Powers Tour bus contest: http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/these-are-powers-giveawaylistening-party/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/these-are-powers-giveawaylistening-party/)
Flight of the Conchords photo caption contest: http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/free-booze/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/free-booze/)
Amiina postcard contest:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/amiina-giveaway-cds-and-show-tickets/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/amiina-giveaway-cds-and-show-tickets/)
Camera Obscura photo caption contest:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/camera-obscura-ticket-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/camera-obscura-ticket-giveaway/)
Virgin Fest haiku contest:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/virgin-fest-dc-haiku-contest/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/virgin-fest-dc-haiku-contest/)
Guess what number Eugene Mirman is thinking of:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/precious-moments-with-eugene-mirman/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/precious-moments-with-eugene-mirman/)
Go! Team cheerleader contest:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/free-go-team-tickets-sucka/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/free-go-team-tickets-sucka/)
DC United poem contest:http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/featured/dc-unitedla-galaxy-dream-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/featured/dc-unitedla-galaxy-dream-giveaway/)
Blonde Redhead photo contest:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/blonde-redhead-ticket-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/blonde-redhead-ticket-giveaway/)
Ok, that's enough. Are you done being wrong about everything? Cool, here is a The Dance Party giveaway for Sat:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/the-dance-party-giveaway/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/the-dance-party-giveaway/)
And look for VHS or Beta giveaway tomorrow.
Originally posted by 930clubber:
who asked you to stop giving away free tickets? your contests are neither a caption contest or guess tourbus miles contest. clearly you can't see the difference.
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got my VHS or Beta tix already thanks. see you at the show.
can't we dedicate a perma-thread to Cale's spammy contests?
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The synagogue is a beautiful acoustic space. Just perfect. The speakers sounded a bit intense for some of the songs; we will try the balcony next time.
I was reminded of A Silver Mt Zion, related to Godspeed? I like the recorded works of both those groups, but I was terribly disappointed with Zion's performance at the Black Cat not too long ago. Some combination of the acoustics and rambling nature of their experimental music failed to hold my attention. Mum's exploration in sound were all just the right length, never long enough to make you weary.
Originally posted by Chip Chanko:
Good show...I was up in the balcony and the space had a nice sound. While I loved Mum for the rainy day feel of their first two albums, the new one is fun and the newer songs were great live. They filled the synagogue up perfectly with happy noise.
On the ride home my gf and I had a long discussion going from how the new Sigur Ros just makes us wish Godspeed You Black Emporer! was still around (are they???) and how it seems that twee has retreated to Iceland. Maybe we can keep it contained there?
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Look out for my interview with Mark, posting it this weekend.
Originally posted by 930clubber:
got my VHS or Beta tix already thanks. see you at the show.
can't we dedicate a perma-thread to Cale's spammy contests?
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Some really gorgeous photos from the show:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/live-dc-mum-sixth-i-synagogue/ (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/live-dc-mum-sixth-i-synagogue/)