wtf @ Weird Al.
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean I'd love for him to do a post-rock polka set obviously.
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It's their most inspired move in years!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
WEIRD AL IN THE THRONE ROOM
― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
This is actually a really strong lineup imo
A+
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
tickets for the UK tour (Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, London) go on sale at 10am: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/gybetour2010/news/1006180900.php
― NYC Goatse.cx and Flowers (Merdeyeux), Friday, 18 June 2010 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The line up for their ATP festival is awesome!
* Godspeed You! Black Emperor * Neurosis * "Weird Al" Yankovic * Deerhoof * Tim Hecker * Mike Watt * Scout Niblett * The Ex * The Dead C * Black Dice * Francisco Lopez * Wolves In The Throne Room * Marissa Nadler * Growing * Rangda * Bardo Pond * Nomeansno * Josephine Foster (solo) * White Magic * Emeralds * Boban I Marko Markovic Orchestra * Daniel Higgs (Lungfish)
― Becky Facelift, Friday, 18 June 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that's pretty sick.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 18 June 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Considering a trip overseas if this trend towards awesomeness continues
― ico ico (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 June 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty pumped about this tbh
― gin bunny (c sharp major), Friday, 18 June 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Never really listened to GYBE before..descriptions seem to be circa Swans' Helpless Child with doomy apocalyptic voice-overs?
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 18 June 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Still expecting an announcement of European dates in accordance with the orig press release.
― anagram, Friday, 18 June 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the line-up for their fest is gonna get even weirder and cooler
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 18 June 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i have this crazy vision of weird all doing all of "double nickels on the dime" as a big polkas on 45 style megapolkamixxx
― m@tt h (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 June 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
GYBE! having Weird Al play at the ATP festival is inspired genius.
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 June 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah Efrim seems to have lightened up a lot lately. I didn't see ASMZ on their last tour, because they didn't come to Vienna even though they went to practically every other city on the continent. Anyway I digress – apparently his between-song banter was hilarious. I don't expect these GYBE shows to be laugh-fests exactly but they might reveal a previously unknown sense of humour.
― anagram, Saturday, 19 June 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah he's been pretty funny in between songs for the last few years.
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 19 June 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Efrim's banter has always been good at Glasgow ASMZ shows as well. Surprising at first, but he's funny.
― krakow, Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, he's a riot
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 20 June 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Latest gybe additions =
CLUSTERMAHJONGGCHARLEMAGNE PALESTINEMAHER SHALAL HASH BAZKEIJI HAINOFLOWER / CORSANO DUOBORBETOMAGUSDANIEL MENCHECOUNTRY TEASERSBRUCE McCLURE
sweetness.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Insane line-up now. Amazing & exctiting.
― krakow, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
HOLY ISH
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone comp me a plane ticket pretty plzzzz?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
BERG SANS NIPPLESICK LLAMA
confirmed too. think this is probably the most intense line-up since Thurston Moore's one back in 2007.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Weird that they could have such good (or at least interesting) taste in other people's music, and still be such a lazy snooze-fest themselves.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 17 July 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Like a lot of bands that now sound dated, GYBE! was much more interesting sounding before 1,492,385 bands decided to copy their "post-rock" template and water down its impact.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, 17 July 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm. Well, my opinion of them is based on what I heard circa '98-'00 or so. I guess I thought they sounded a lot like Savage Republic, but SR was pretty boring, too. GSYBE and their Montreal cohort, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, et al seem to me to be taking a bit of Glenn Branca or lower-tier 4AD/Crepescule, a bunch of Smashing Pumpkins (a la "Silverfuck" jams), and a heavy dose of Hollywood soundtracking--the results, a painfully predictable loud-soft-loud, drawn-out drudgery with all the originality and emotional impact of an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical. Not much to water down, since it's a watering-down to begin with.
There was a huge gap in quality between their ilk, in my opinion, and the more skilled, nuanced groups like Tortoise, Rachel's, and the other Chicago/Louisville-related "post-rock" bands. The latter generally didn't rely on interminable "crescendos," and had more than one musical trick up their sleeves. They also seem like they had heard some music, and knew they were drawing on a tradition that stretched from Morricone, Miles Davis, Can, Faust, Steve Reich, Kluster, Schumann, Satie, etc. to Dif Juz, This Heat, Slint, Disco Inferno, et al. The bombastic, plodding pomp of GSYBE (both musical and especially graphical and titular) gave me the sense they thought they were really "new" and radical. So at least this lineup they're organizing corrects that misconception, to their credit--but still doesn't excuse their music being so terrible.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 17 July 2010 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Trying to listen again, and man, it's worse than I remembered. Cartoon music, except that sounds like it would at least be funny. I wonder what will happen next? Oh, another instrument will be added, playing two or three notes ad nauseum; then another and another; then some two-note strings will come in; then someone will play a single-note slide-guitar or bowed-saw part; then everyone will play louder, then louder. Then it will end, or it will get quieter again, then louder again, for 7 to 30 minutes. Then it will end, euphoria/epiphany/dead fascists having resulted.
It's like some horrible, horrible misunderstanding of the premise of disco, Reich, gamelan or Afrobeat, through a prism of Wagner or Metallica's 'Black Album'.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 17 July 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ya I don't particularly care about GYBE themselves, but this is a killlllllller lineup. If I hadn't already sold my most valuable possessions to make it to the Matt Groening ATP they'd be on ebay RIGHT NOW, but I guess I'll just have to hope for a Nigerian Lottery win or some such.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 17 July 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It looks like I will be booking a 4-berth chalet in the next couple of days with one space going spare. Canvassing for genuine, able-to-stump-up-money-asap interest... Non-creepey non-rapists only, please!
― krakow, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
another instrument will be added, playing two or three notes ad nauseum; then another and another; then some two-note strings will come in; then someone will play a single-note slide-guitar or bowed-saw part; then everyone will play louder, then louder. Then it will end, or it will get quieter again, then louder again, for 7 to 30 minutes. Then it will end, euphoria/epiphany/dead fascists having resulted.
This sounds pretty much like a recipe for the perfect music in my book. I won't deny that most GYBE conforms to that basic template but there's nothing wrong with that imo. I could quite happily listen to stuff like this for the rest of my life.
― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Said chalet is booked and we have a spare space therein. It's a 4-berth room-only chalet, so the total cost is £175. If anyone is interested then please get in touch.
Part of a few chalets' worth of mainly Glasgow-based people, so it's sure to be heady buckfast-filled times, if that's any added temptation. All good folks.
― krakow, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
wish I had any money at all tbh
― let it sb (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Would be all over that chalet if the £175 included round trip airfare from Texas, sadly I don't have the $$ to go beyond that.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This one just gets better...
ONEIDA present The OcropolisHANGED with Tony ConradTHEE OH SEESMATANA ROBERTSLAND OF KUSHPHILIP JECKJOHN BUTCHER
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Just incredible!
That's Hangedup though, right?
I pray that Land Of Kush playing means that Elizabeth Anka Vajagic will be there... <Swoon>
― krakow, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I am interested in this
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Does your ILXmail work?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Assuming you're meaning myself, there's a link to my website on my ILX profile and my email address is on there, it being itsnotred on ye olde gmail, if that makes sense...
A friend has expressed interest in the spare space, but nothing's concrete yet, so please do feel free to get in touch.
― krakow, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
land of kush is MUST-SEE
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Throbbing Gristle!
― krakow, Thursday, 12 August 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm beginning to get worried about the clashes already.
Other final additions are The Sadies, Tindersticks and two bands whose sole contribution seems to be some Canadian comp - one called Dreamcatcher who describe themselves as "big beat psychedelic" and I can't remember the other.
― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Friday, 13 August 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I listened to Dreamcatcher (albeit through shitty comp speakers) this morning and they sounded neither big beat nor psychedelic
stoked for the madness regardless
lol I *think* I'm in a chalet with someone who has already been zinged on ILM this morning (not a poster)
― Melodic Man - I Need Geir (DJ Mencap), Friday, 13 August 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
it's Ayn Rand, isn't it?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 13 August 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
stoked for the secret Rush set madness
― Melodic Man - I Need Geir (DJ Mencap), Friday, 13 August 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Going to this! CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 13 August 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― bodily fuiuds (c sharp major), Friday, 13 August 2010 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The promised European dates are beginning to come through. So far we have:
14 Jan – Paris25 Jan – Vienna
― margana (anagram), Friday, 27 August 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
19 Jan – Amsterdam
― margana (anagram), Friday, 27 August 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link