Has anybody here been to a Boredoms gig?

michael gira just announced as the support for boredoms on their upcoming uk tour - so glad i got ticks for the glasgow gig

wowee

So is anybody going to the Manchester gig? I seriously wanna go but it's gonna be a pain to get there/get back on my own.

I wasn't at this particular show, but I think a whole bunch of ILX0rs were at the one the next night (or maybe it was the night after that--it's hard to keep track?) Can STEVE SHASTA confirm?

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I thought about reviving a thread due to that fine and amazing product linked above. Good work!

Saw them three times. All good, all different.

First time was at Spanky's in Riverside CA in 1992.. this was the Brutal Truth, Boredoms, Pain Teens tour. Pain Teens cancelled due to Bliss Blood being sick, Brutal Truth headlined, so we got to see Boredoms but only after two perpetual bad metal bands opened... it was worth the wait.

Second was a the Whisky A Go Go in 1994 for the U.S. Pop Tatari tour. Trumans Water opened.

Third was at the first This Ain't No Picnic fest in 1999, which was the one where Sonic Youth got all their gear stolen.

i saw them on their 99 US tour (at the 9:30 Club in D.C., which still makes no sense to me...the place wasn't half full, could've easily fit in the Black Cat, but i digress). don't know what i was thinking, but i actually brought my fairly conservative (taste wise) Dad to it, and he loved them. i don't blame him, though - sometimes capital-a Amazing is just Amazing regardless of who you are. pretty much hands down the greatest live performance i've ever witnessed; think Super Ae x10, with 3 drummers going full tilt all the way through, total tribal groove. my favorite part of the night, toward the end, when eYe decided to share the mic with a kid up front, and they just took turns screaming back and forth, until it was clear that noone can compete with eYe in that category.
-- al, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (5 years ago) Link

this is still probably my single favorite concert memory ever.

I drove five hours to see them live on their last tour. It was totally worth it.

I saw them on that 99 tour at the Crocodile... went at the behest of a friend, knowing almost nothing about them. To this day it remains the loudest, possibly most exciting show I've ever seen. I'm sure glad I got talked into that one.

I saw that tour in Portland at Crystal Ballroom. I've never seen anyone jump that high without a springboard or trampoline in my life.

It was rad.

saw them 3 or 4 times in early-mid 90s boston then last year at webby hall nyc - best live band eeeeveeer no competition !!!

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i remember nothing about how good the boredoms were at this gig and everything about how bad john cale was

from forks via Noize board

BOREDOMS TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA IN SPRING 2008

SELECT DATES BELOW

Japan's legendary underground group Boredoms are returning to the US in 2008 for a rare and very special series of dates this Spring. More relevant now than ever, Boredoms have recently been heralded for their 77 BOADRUM event in 2007 in New York City, where band leader Eye directed a phalanx of 77 drummers playing in unison. VICE Records also reissued their seminal Super Roots series in 2007, prompting SPIN Magazine to call their body of work "the freakiest recordings ever issued."

Tour dates below, several of which to be performed "in the round".

"The Boredoms led a 77-drummer army in a Brooklyn park and performed one of the decade's most mesmerizing and blissful concerts." - XLR8R

"The BoredomsŠhave a deserved reputation as a dogged and inspired cult band." - THE NEW YORKER

Tour Dates:
3/15/08 SAN DIEGO, CA CANE'S
3/16/08 LOS ANGELES, CA HENRY FONDA THEATER
3/18/08 SAN FRANCISCO, CA FILLMORE (in the round)
3/20/08 PORTLAND, OR CRYSTAL BALLROOM
3/21/08 SEATTLE, WA NEUMO'S
3/25/08 MINNEAPOLIS, MN FIRST AVENUE (in the round)
3/26/08 CHICAGO, IL LOGAN SQUARE AUDITORIUM
3/29/08 BOSTON, MA PARADISE
3/30/08 NEW YORK, NY TERMINAL 5 (in the round)
4/2/08 PHILADELPHIA, PA STARLIGHT
4/3/08 WASHINGTON, DC 9:30 CLUB

WHEN I GET PAID ON THURSDAY I AM BUYING TICKETS FOR THE NYC SHOW. THIS IS VERY VERY VERY EXCITING. I WILL SURELY INUNDATE THIS THREAD WITH MY VARIOUS STAGES OF JOY.

nothing has changed,right? lots of drums,no guitarS and crazy EYE?

Kinda.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2146/2017250789_961de99e21_b.jpg

(please dont kill me but lightning bolt were better last time)

http://i32.tinypic.com/e9j86o.jpg

¿y seattle layme?

Well, I got my boredoms ticket at least. (only show #4 for me)

hahaha

I have my Portland ticket and am seriously psyched.

Chicago. Hopefully doesn't sell out because I don't have the ticket yet.

ARGHDFTF

Maybe the best show I've ever seen?

Yoshimi was really killing it with these metal guitar riffs on her keyboard. The wall of guitars was appropriately monumental. I totally lost track of time. They did an encore.

At one point early in the set Yoshimi and ATR both stood up at once and switched to their cymbals, the lights went all red and gold and it was as if the very heavens had parted.

Pretty sure ATR isn't in the band, n00b.

Oh, man I can't wait for the NYC show.

JW, I can't keep track. Thought Hira and Seiichi (sp?) were the ones who left. Who's the dude with the baseball cap? That's the guy I mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredoms

Members
Yamantaka Eye
Muneomi Senju <---- the new guy but i think he's the fat faced fellow. I think ATR wore a baseball cap but yojiro is now
Yojiro
Yoshimi P-We

cool thanx

I wonder who the dedicated techie guy was who had to stay behind the wall of guitars all night constantly retuning it and replacing strings. he was working hard.

show in SF was pretty great - tho also exhausting. Musically, I got tired just watching the drummers play (I think the band has gotten a lot more virtuosic in their playing), and they did two encores. Ears ringing, kind of dazed leaving the show.

I did talk to eye a bit before the show -- can't really believe he got thru it w/a broken leg!!

exhausting

this is exactly how i described it.

exhausting

this is exactly how i describe it jon's posts about the boredoms.

-- jaxon, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:54 (9 minutes ago) Link

good thing shasta's on vacation

los angeles ~ amazing.
a redefinition of contemporary live music.

much can be repeated...the drumming was virtuosic, the guitar-machine techies worked all night tuning the damned and beautiful thing, and they played a two-song encore.

the crowd was kind of lame though.
i really don't know how you can resist the urge to jump and dance to the tribal boredom rhythm.
it's such communal, thriving music, not a spectacle to be stared at, imo.

i was into it for awhile, but i couldn't stay with it. it would kinda come and go as far as something i could latch onto.

did eye really have a broken leg?? you'd never have known it.

I just got back from the show. 4th B(v)o(o)rdoms show, 4th surprise, blown away again. There was also a nice little dance pit up front. I hope someone got footage of Eye wrestling with the multineck cthulhu busting strings each blow to it near the end of the main set. Best live Boredoms moment i've seen.

Yeah, Eye said during the encore he's had a bad foot since L.A. It didn't detract from his performance. The energetic hobbling made him seem more wizardy. And still, including encore, 2 hours of that. love to the Bores.

Glad to hear they're back on form. I actually found last year's Glasgow Arches gig pretty disappointing. Was anyone else there?

I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT TO SEE THEM IN BOSTON. YAY.

Glad to hear they're back on form. I actually found last year's Glasgow Arches gig pretty disappointing. Was anyone else there?

Aye, I thought it was good, admittedly I hadn't seen them previously. I don't imagine what they're doing now will differ much from it I don't think that would have been a bad night (there was nothing lacklustre about the performance). It was pleasingly loud and although there were some spells that were a bit of a bore (haw haw), the encore for example, there were passages when they really hit it.

May just have been me - I'd had a bastard of a time getting to the gig, and they'd been so great the previous occasion they played there. "I demand to have my mind blown. Right now. No. No. That's not it. Still not really feeling it . . "

I think the opinion that it wasn't as good as previous shows was fairly prevalent to be fair. Probably more impressive to me because I was green.

Weird, I've seen this incarnation of Boredoms four times now and that Glasgow Arches gig last year was prob my fave of all of em - first time w/ the wall guitars, as Jim sez they were "pleasingly loud", and I thought they started off at just the right pitch of intensity etc

I was there too, the "pleasingly loud" occasionally became "annoyingly loud" as the sounds began to lose a bit of definition, but I was in a pretty good spot and had my mind thoroughly blown. I heard bad sound complaints from a couple of other people too.

i was into it for awhile, but i couldn't stay with it. it would kinda come and go as far as something i could latch onto.

^^^^

I believe the way I described them live was as a machine of sorts which perpetually winds up and releases you, all at once.

http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/03/eying_seattle_shs

One of the Stranger guys takes Eye and Senju out for a nice day here. You can probably ignore the text. The pictures are really neat, though.

listening to 'seadrum' now, getting hyped for terminal 5.

Seeing them tonight in mpls. Wacky!

Me too. Is Human Bell worth seeing?

i just watched a bunch of youtube videos and now i am even more excited, if that is possible!

the 8/8/8 thing was eye shooting his mouth off; i've seen no concrete info

it's definitely in the works

best believe i'll get on the list this time :/

8/8 is my birthday :)

I'm kinda considering going by Other Music tonight now... hmmm...

some of the stuff on this new matmos lp is kind of like a digital vcn.

so good tonight in boston. was hoping for the trident, a la 77boadrum, but the wands and broomstick(?) worked just fine. looking forward to brooklyn in august.

I chickened out and didn't go to Other Music on Friday. I wonder if forks did.

according to brooklyn vegan's comments, other music had around 20 tickets left at 4:00 pm, today (saturday)

i would love to go, but i have no one to go with. and going to concerts alone is kinda boring for me.

yea dominique otm but we thought 77 drum was going to be in 2006

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boredoms trading cards would be neat.

there was a girl rocking out harder than everyone else on the second floor. i made my way up and hugged her. it was worth it.

last night in ny's terminal 5

Yeah, the crowd on the first floor was a little less than crazy. The performance was so, so awesome though.

It was louder upstairs

I'm gonna be completely honest - I saw them last night in DC and I was bored outta my fucking mind. Not even the good kind of bored where you can go to sleep, but the kind where you get really agitated and can't sit still. I've seen them before and enjoyed it. I don't think it's that the show got worse (although maybe it did a little bit from the shit they were doing a couple years ago), but I think I'm outgrowing any kind of "experimental" music. I used to love the shit, but now I just like old plain-ass country rock.

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That's too honest Reatard

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