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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: azaghal1981 on September 17, 2009, 02:15:04 pm
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Five days away is close enough to start a roll call, is it not?
schedule (http://dc-soniccircuits.org/?page_id=373)
I'm going to try and get to everything.
Anyone else?
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Ken-Cen, Swiss Embassy. UMd is impractical for me; and I never plan in advance to go to Velvet, I just show up there when Plan A didn't work out
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will be there for Faust/Health and Jandek shows...
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playing with jandek on saturday (how weird is it to say that?) and will be there for faust on sunday.
friday's pretty killer, with evan parker and ned rothenberg, though i won't be there for that since i'm playing in richmond with gunter hampel.
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I'm surprised RatBastard hasn't chimed in to promote his set more...
Any idea on the Saturday set times?
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i'll be attending the sat/sun shows, mainly excited for jandek, tim hecker, health and faust!
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if you like weird shit, psychedelic, noise, rhythmic shit, dig this
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/3933545342_c57eae72e6.jpg)
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http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/sonic-circuits-festival-health-black-cat/
::)
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Ugh.
Fuck Health.
Fuck BYT, too.
Way to focus on the one flavor of the month at a festival comprised of some of the most distinguished names in experimental music from all over the world.
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Ugh.
Fuck Health.
Originally posted by nkotb:
Health - Health
This KILLS.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ynmcsOXhL._AA240_.jpg)
Why yes it does.
;)
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Hahah yes! I was tempted to do something similar with the "I Love Merriweather Post Pavilion/ I hate Animal Collective" posts. Then I got lazy.
Also, I still like that Health album. And the new one.
Ugh.
Fuck Health.
Originally posted by nkotb:
Health - Health
This KILLS.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ynmcsOXhL._AA240_.jpg)
Why yes it does.
;)
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Well played.
That was before all the dance remixes and the remixes of remixes and the megamixes of the remixes of the dance mixes.
The BYT crowd didn't give half a shit about them when they were a pretty good noise-rock band.
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health's flavor-of-the-month status expired long ago.
March 22, 2008, to be exact ;)
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Good call...but that's the main reason I DIDN'T check out shitty remixes.
That was before all the dance remixes and the remixes of remixes and the megamixes of the remixes of the dance mixes.
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yeah, sorry for ZONGin' ya, but i couldn't resist, mainly because i checked that album out after it got both the nkotb + azaghal stamp of approval.
the internet makes it tough to change your story. especially with newfangled inventions like "the search box"
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cut
:)
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That's what I thought.
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Way to focus on the one flavor of the month at a festival comprised of some of the most distinguished names in experimental music from all over the world.
no shit.
i remember BYT pimping my damo suzuki show two years ago. where's the love for one of the most innovative bands of all-time? motherfucking FAUST!!!!
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dont get why health is on this bill
kinda a bummer
why not gett haijokaidan (which would have pretty much sold me instantly), The Cherry Point, Jason Crumer or somethin
id go to this show but i might not be in town
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It's easy to see why they're on the bill.
They'll sell tickets.
And hopefully by the time Faust are on, the chatty hipsters will have left.
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Speaking of which...how do you think it's looking for tickets on Saturday and Sunday? I'm horrible with guessing these things.
It's easy to see why they're on the bill.
They'll sell tickets.
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its fucking faust though, wouldnt that sell it self
hell even rat bastard
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I doubt sunday will sell out, saturday might though...
can't find the set times for saturday...can anyone post it again?
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Snailhook posted them somewhere in another thread. I forget which one, though.
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found it...
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we just worked out the sonic circuits schedule for the 26th. i can't promise it will be to the minute, but we do have to follow this schedule closely:
jandek: 9-10
kotra: 10-10:30
ergo: 10:45-11:15
tim hecker: 11:30-12:15
gunter hampel: 12:30-1:15
you could see jandek first, run over to see MONO, and then get back to see some tim hecker or gunter hampel. that's a pretty killer night of music, imo.
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Actually, he PM'd be this undated list last week:
Velvet Lounge
SESSION I: 2pm-4pm
Sean Peoples
Pilesar
Soft Pieces
Second Land
Jeff Carey
SESSION 2: 4pm-6pm
ige*timer
qfwfqduo
ayyoko confidential
Olivia Block+Tomas Korber
SESSION 3: 7pm-9pm
Jandek
Northern Machine
Blevin Blectum
Kotra
SESSION 4: 9pm-1am
Ergo
Tim Hecker
Gunter Hampel
Fckn Bstrds
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we just worked out the sonic circuits schedule for the 26th. i can't promise it will be to the minute, but we do have to follow this schedule closely:
jandek: 9-10
kotra: 10-10:30
ergo: 10:45-11:15
tim hecker: 11:30-12:15
gunter hampel: 12:30-1:15
that's relieving. should i buy my ticket in advance for saturday?
And hopefully by the time Faust are on, the chatty hipsters will have left.
one of the most depressing events of the year was seeing the crowd of 300 or so who attended the magik markers/ghost show in williamsburg dwindle to less than 100 by the middle of ghost's set. we barely deserved the encore that we got. faust deserves better, and hopefully so.
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it really is depressing, the state of things for experimental music. azaghal is 100% right on this: the only reason why health is on the bill is to sell tickets. kohoutek was supposed to open for faust but we got bumped by the black cat not wanting more than five acts, and because some of the european musicians have such a strict touring schedule, you're gonna see alexie borisov and anton nikkila instead of kohoutek.
epstein, rat bastard has no draw in dc.
i bet there will be more people traveling from richmond and baltimore to see faust than people in dc.
jandek goes on at 7. you could see that and go to polvo afterwards, or stick around and see tim hecker and gunter hampel.
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health may be there to sell tickets, but they are a good band. :P
jandek at 7?! damn...what time is tim hecker hitting the stage, approximately?
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i bet there will be more people traveling from richmond and baltimore to see faust than people in dc.
Would that make this a natural Richmond show? HUTCH TO THREAD!!
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BTW, what is RatBastard's real name/band name?
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we just worked out the sonic circuits schedule for the 26th. i can't promise it will be to the minute, but we do have to follow this schedule closely:
jandek: 9-10
kotra: 10-10:30
ergo: 10:45-11:15
tim hecker: 11:30-12:15
gunter hampel: 12:30-1:15
that's relieving. should i buy my ticket in advance for saturday?
And hopefully by the time Faust are on, the chatty hipsters will have left.
one of the most depressing events of the year was seeing the crowd of 300 or so who attended the magik markers/ghost show in williamsburg dwindle to less than 100 by the middle of ghost's set. we barely deserved the encore that we got. faust deserves better, and hopefully so.
I found the Magik Markers to at least be an appropriate opener for Ghost. They're on the same label and there is definitely cross-over between fanbases. However, Health are on sunday's bill only because they'll draw in a few hundred extra heads (the majority of whom will know nothing about any of the other acts playing).
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I found the Magik Markers to at least be an appropriate opener for Ghost. They're on the same label and there is definitely cross-over between fanbases. However, Health are on sunday's bill only because they'll draw in a few hundred extra heads (the majority of whom will know nothing about any of the other acts playing).
Except that it will be that few hundred (perhaps more than a quarter of the audience?) that will make sure the club can actually pay the other bands, at least without going into the red for the night. An evil perhaps, but a necessary one. And likely one of the reasons this show is at the Black Cat and not a much smaller club or space.
Edit: NM, i see from your previous posts that you pretty much agree with me. Sorry for the redundancy.
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so who should be blamed for booking Health at the BC? Sonic Circuits festival organizers? ::)
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No blame necessary. It only makes sense that they did it from a financial standpoint like Redsock said.
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saw Gunter Hampel tonight in Richmond, totally raging free-jazz, hard bop. ecstatic fucking vibe playing. totally rad.
See that motherfucker.
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Borisov/Nikkilä had a few moments of brilliance.
Airaksinen's
set was pretty and hypnotic.
Health stuck out like sore thumbs as expected and thankfully, the hipsters filed out like lemmings after their set.
Grier/Krieger/Rat Bastard was a fun noisy mess of guitars.
Faust played an excellent career-spanning 90 minute set.
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so who should be blamed for booking Health at the BC? Sonic Circuits festival organizers?
it was a joint decision. health were touring through the same time we had sonic circuits, and both the black cat and the sonic circuits organizers (which include me and a couple of others) felt that adding health would be good for the draw. they are also just "experimental" enough to fit on the bill.
they really didn't help with the draw, to be honest. total attendance for the night was roughly 120. it might have gotten to 150. health was thoroughly mediocre noise-rock, beating a dead horse that died a few years back. i'm surprised anyone gets excited by these dudes. it isn't bad, just generic.
anybody see jandek? playing with him was a total trip. i felt it was a reasonably cohesive set, and apparently, jandek liked it. also totally unpredictable.