Dancing About Architecture Indie Music News 10.27.09
Posted by Ian Wright on 10.27.2009
No Age verses the airline man, Morrissey is unwell, more Pavement news, The new Eeels record, Jarvis Cocker to become a DJ, new Los Campesinos! album, Dark Was The Night makes a load of money for charity, the Fucked Up singles comp and more.
The bit at the start
You would think that life as a touring musician would be pretty great but occasionally the curtain gets pulled back a little and you get a glimpse of the officious bullshit that people who travel a lot for work have to put up with.
No Age were due to play in Dublin on Saturday night but late in the afternoon it was announced that due to travel problems the band weren't going to be able to make the gig. As it happened the band were due to play an all ages show the next day and an alternate venue for the late gig was found on Sunday which led to a busy day for the pair. Dean Spunt explained the frankly quite absurd reason for the delay during the second gig.
Some Ryanair (low cost European airline, think Southwest more than JetBlue, they have a reputation for being cunts) asshole in Norway wouldn't let Dean bring on two pieces of hand luggage onto the flight. Okay, that's the rules with Ryanair but there was a simple obvious solution to the problem to be reached. But then the guy then refused to let him check in the second bag. I know, what the fuck.
Anyway, the gig when it happened was fantastic, I fucking love that band.
Afterwards Randy caught me eyeing up his board and came over to take me through the whole setup. Nice dude.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
The Glands – The Glands.
A distillation of many well chosen mid-90's influences.
You news, you lose
Get well soon you miserable fuck.
Morrissey collapsed on stage in Swindon in England on Saturday night. According to the BBC Mozza collapsed early on in the gig due to "breathing difficulties" and was helped offstage by members of his band before he was rushed to hospital in an Ambulance where he was held overnight as a "precautionary measure".
As well as that last night's gig in Bournemouth was cancelled but at the moment tonight's one in London's Royal Albert Hall is still scheduled to go ahead. (In other words, fuck you provincial people).
There'll be Pavement news in this column until there stops being Pavement news, tough shit.
The first round of bands (aside from the curators) for Pavement's ATP next May were announced last week and it's looking like it's going to be a good one with German nutcases Faust, The Fall, Quasi, Endless Boogie and Enables already announced. ATP takes place between May 14-16.
Earlier that week the band will play 3 nights in London's Brixton Academy starting on the 11th there are some tickets still available for that.
Oh and also tonight though it hasn't been confirmed rumours started cropping up about them possible playing Dublin's Button Factory on the 8th.
On E.
Last week I wrote about the announcement of the new Eels album End Times which is due out on January 19th. Well in the past few days the tracklisting and somewhat gloomy looking artwork for it was released.
Tracklisting:
01 The Beginning
02 Gone Man
03 In My Younger Days
04 Mansions of Los Feliz
05 A Line in the Dirt
06 End Times
07 Apple Trees
08 Paradise Blues
09 Nowadays
10 Unhinged
11 High and Lonesome
12 I Need a Mother
13 Little Bird
14 On My Feet
Things to do while putting off the Pulp reunion.
According to The Quietus starting January 10th 2010 Jarvis Cocker will host the 3:30 – 5:30 slot on the BBC 6 Music digital radio station. In an interview with The Beeb he said "Sunday doesn't feel that different to the other days of the week anymore. Although there was something weird about when everything seemed to stop on a Sunday, it kind of marked out the week. I am going to put the boringness back into Sunday. That's my mission. I'm very much looking forward to it. I think Sunday afternoon's have got a special atmosphere, and I will be doing something that I think is appropriate to that - or maybe inappropriate, I don't know!...It's a great honour to be working for the BBC, which I consider to be the greatest broadcaster in the world. It is my intention to fill these hours with as much dodgy opinion, crackpot theories, hare-brained schemes & beautiful, beautiful music as is humanly possible. I can't wait to get going."
This won't be Cocker's first foray into radio having previously acted as a guest editor of BBC 4's "Today" in December of last year.
New Los Campesinos! album.
Romance Is Boring is the upcoming third album from Los Campesinos! (drop the fucking punctuation mark already guys). It's out in North America on January 26th on Arts & Crafts and internationally on February 1st on Wichita. The album was produced by John Goodmanson who did their last record and it features guest spot from Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington, and the Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff.
Tracklising:
01 In Medias Res
02 There Are Listed Buildings
03 Romance Is Boring
04 We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
05 Plan A
06 200-102
07 Straight in at 101
08 Who Fell Asleep In
09 I Warned You: Do Not Make an Enemy of Me
10 Heart Swells/100-1
11 I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
12 A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters From Me to Charlotte
13 The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future
14 This Is a Flag. There Is No Wind.
15 Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State
Dark was the profitable night.
One of the undisputed musical highlights of the year was the Dark Was The Night compilation album in aid of the Red Hot organisation which was pulled together by The Dessner brothers of The National as well as the associated benefit in Radio City Music Hall.
Well yesterday 4AD, the label that put out the album reported that the album has to date raised £423,212 ($668,358) for AIDS research.
Which is nice.
That's Fucked Up.
I've been writing for a little while about Fucked Up's upcoming singles compilation called "Couple Tracks". Well the full details of it have just been announced.
It's out on Matador on January 26th and will cover the band's output from 2002-2008 and it will be out on double CD or double vinyl with the discs being entitled "The Hard Stuff" and the other called The Fun Stuff. The 25 track collection will cover the first thing the band ever put out as well as covers, alternate takes and 5 unreleased tunes as well as a few tunes that were released in such a small run they're almost impossible to find.
Tracklisting:
CD1 (The Hard Stuff):
01 No Pasarán
02 Neat Parts (7" Version)
03 Generation (7" Version)
04 Ban Violins
05 Dangerous Fumes
06 Triumph of Life (7" Version)
07 Fixed Race
08 Toronto FC
09 Black Hats
10 David Christmas
11 No Epiphany (Fast Version)
12 Crooked Head (Video Version)
CD2 (The Fun Stuff):
01 I Hate Summer
02 Teenage Problems
03 Carried Out to Sea
04 Looking Back
05 Anorak City
06 I Don't Want to Be Friends With You
07 Mustaa Lunta
08 Dream Come True
09 Magic Kingdom
10 Magic Word (Daytrotter Version)
11 Last Man Standing (Year of the Dog Version)
12 He's So Frisky
13 David Comes to Life (Daytrotter Version)
The YouTube video of the week
A guitar lesson with Aaron Dessner of The National.
If you can you should go to these gigs.
Joanna Newsom
01-16 Brisbane, Australia - The Tivoli
01-16 Sydney, Australia - Sydney Opera House
01-20 Melbourne, Australia - The Forum Theatre
01-21 Canberra, Australia - The Playhouse (Canberra Theatre Centre)
01-23 Thirroul, Australia - Anita's Theatre
Wavves
11-17 Brighton, England - Audio
11-18 Oxford, England - Jericho Tavern
11-19 Bristol, England - Thekla
11-20 Nottingham, England - Bodega Social Club
11-21 Liverpool, England - Korova
11-22 Glasgow, Scotland - Captains Rest
11-23 Newcastle, England - Head of Steam
11-24 Leeds, England - University Mine Bar
11-25 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
11-26 London, England - 93 Feet East
Writing under the influence
Without which this column would not have been possible:
Talk Radio
St. Vincent – Actor.
The bit at the end
This week's episode of Mad Men is probably my favourite episode of it ever.
Reading "The Damed United" at the moment, great stuff.
Really good weekend of gigs coming up with Grouper, Handsome Furs and St. Vincent/Grizzly Bear all visiting Dublin.
The is the second to last column I'll be doing before I take off for a couple of weeks to New York, New Jersey and Toronto.
