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.
― Sparkle Motion, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 31 December 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
saw them 3 or 4 times in early-mid 90s boston then last year at webby hall nyc - best live band eeeeveeer no competition !!!
― jhøshea, Monday, 31 December 2007 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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i remember nothing about how good the boredoms were at this gig and everything about how bad john cale was
― r|t|c, Monday, 31 December 2007 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― sleeve, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing has changed,right? lots of drums,no guitarS and crazy EYE?
― Zeno, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Kinda.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2146/2017250789_961de99e21_b.jpg
― Mister Craig, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
(please dont kill me but lightning bolt were better last time)
― Zeno, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i32.tinypic.com/e9j86o.jpg
¿y seattle layme?
Well, I got my boredoms ticket at least. (only show #4 for me)
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha
I have my Portland ticket and am seriously psyched.
― sleeve, Thursday, 28 February 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Chicago. Hopefully doesn't sell out because I don't have the ticket yet.
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 28 February 2008 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Friday, 21 March 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty sure ATR isn't in the band, n00b.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 21 March 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, man I can't wait for the NYC show.
― maciej recognizing trill, Friday, 21 March 2008 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Friday, 21 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 21 March 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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!!
― Dominique, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
exhausting
this is exactly how i described it.
― jaxon, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
this is exactly how i describe it jon's posts about the boredoms.
-- jaxon, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:54 (9 minutes ago) Link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 22 March 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
good thing shasta's on vacation
― jaxon, Saturday, 22 March 2008 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― srslyghengiskhan, Saturday, 22 March 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Lingbert, Saturday, 22 March 2008 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 22 March 2008 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Glad to hear they're back on form. I actually found last year's Glasgow Arches gig pretty disappointing. Was anyone else there?
― Soukesian, Saturday, 22 March 2008 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT TO SEE THEM IN BOSTON. YAY.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Saturday, 22 March 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jim, Saturday, 22 March 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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 . . "
― Soukesian, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jim, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 22 March 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^
― chaki, Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe the way I described them live was as a machine of sorts which perpetually winds up and releases you, all at once.
― mehlt, Saturday, 22 March 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to 'seadrum' now, getting hyped for terminal 5.
― jermainetwo, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Seeing them tonight in mpls. Wacky!
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Me too. Is Human Bell worth seeing?
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i just watched a bunch of youtube videos and now i am even more excited, if that is possible!
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Human Bell worth seeing?
yeah, actually. no expectations helped, but i was pleasantly surprised. also: HI CLOTPOLL come home soon
― jergïns, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Who's at NYC over the weekend? Tza and Jon I assume as given, but who else? Sleep?
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I and I
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I also liked Human Bell just fine as an opener. Ex-Lungfish dude, I think.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man!!! pure joy :D :D
― gff, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/imarriedyoshimi.jpg
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Human Bell were enjoyable enough. Had lost interest by the end.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Notable from the evening:
- Those ORBS! - You know those guitars that are like, 7 guitars? - DRUMS - A very, very small and VERY adorable Asian child running around First Ave with a flashlight. - Some fat douchebag in dreadlocks sitting cross legged and doing elaborate spiritual moves during the Human Bell set. Awesome. - ACID!! POLICE-AHHH!! - Dancing people. - The encore where they got boss. - Turns out the bass player of my band was there!
Dumb things that happened:
- Hecklers yelling Free Bird and Slayer during the Human Bell set. - Hecklers making sound effects during the brief quiet parts of the Boredoms set. - I accidentally elbowed a guy. - I FORGOT TO GET DRUNK
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
forks, i am in, yes! also sanskrit i think?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
The Minneapolis show= !!!!
― BigLurks, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
it fucking sucks when some "freebird" type loser shouts out "acid poice-ayyy" during a quiet moment. happens every time.
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the crowd on the first floor was a little less than crazy. The performance was so, so awesome though.
― maciej recognizing trill, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It was louder upstairs
― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 March 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Useful (0), Funny(17), Cool(0)
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
That's too honest Reatard
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/spin.gifBoredoms @ the Barbican in Junehttp://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/spin.gif
― cgi bubka (NickB), Thursday, 26 March 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link