What Is Music Festival, Australia: THE RESIDENTS / CHICKS ON SPEED / PAN SONIC / SUNN 0))) / BLACK DICE

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I've seen Sunn 0))), Black Dice (3 times), and Pan Sonic live.

-Sunn 0))) = droooooooooooooone, guys in robes, smoke. I nodded off a few times
-Pan Sonic = loud, not that different from their recorded stuff, computer graphics projected behind them
-Black Dice = the Grateful Dead "Space" mode meets acid house the first time I saw them, endless tension without release the second time I saw them, and excellent musique concrete when I saw them in NY this summer (sorry, I thought they were better than Animal Collective that night, despite all the "transcendent performance" talk from others at the show

WTF THE RESIDENTS STILL PLAY!?!?!?!?!?! OMG!

Yes, they still play and confuse, delight and everything!

Thanks Jeff, I think it's going to be an interesting afternoon/evening.

i know where the Residents are rehearsing for this festival

Really?

I know someone that would explode quietly for such info. Email me!

aren't lightning bolt playing at this?

this looks fun, although it will be hard for any of them to top last years' whitehouse shows

lightning bolt? hope so - that would be awesome.

yeah, I heard whitehouse were pretty brutal last year.

That's like, my nightmare come to life. Sunn0))) must be the worst 45 minutes I have ever spent... ever.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm preparing for the worst of the worst and the best of the worst.

BTW, the new Residents album features the sounds of whales and humans mating (albeit not with each other) and vocals that sound like Gollum.

I think my band may be getting booked for a 'WIM' show in Newcastle.

a girl i know is now worried she can never have children after seeing SUN0)))

What is your band called Nic?

Yes I'm hearing that SUN 0))) all about internal organ damage. lovely!

ok, what do I go to?

MELBOURNE SHOWS

TUES 1 MAR @ HORTI HALL $15
Alan Lamb (Perth)
Anthony Pateras’ Twitch Ensemble
Tony Buck & Ernie Althoff
Philip Samartzis’ Absence & Presence
Toshihiro Koike (Japan)/Takefumi Naoshima (Japan)/ Anthony Guerra/Arek Gulbenkoglu

WED 2 MAR @ CORNER HOTEL $17
Sir Richard Bishop (USA of Sun City Girls)
Dead C (NZ)
Faber Castell (Qld)
Kevin Drumm (USA)
Pumice (NZ)
+ DJ Masochrist

THU 3 MAR @ HIFI BAR $25
Pan Sonic (Finland)
Sunn 0))) (USA)
Children’s Hospital
+ DJ Jesse I & Ras Crucial

FRI 4 MARCH @ THE FORUM THEATRE $77 (!)
FEATURING: THE RESIDENTS / CHICKS ON SPEED / PAN SONIC / SUNN 0))) / BLACK DICE / OOIOO / GANG GANG DANCE / KEVIN DRUMM / SIR RICHARD BISHOP / GROWING / ROBIN FOX & BORCE MARKOVISKI / SCOTT HORSCROFT UNSEMBLE / FABER CASTELL / ANTHONY RIDDELL & ERIC MITSAK / JESSIE I & RAS CRUCIAL / CAVEMAN SKULL / EVIL PENGUIN / THE LORD / SWEENEY / TIDDYFUCK and ARSECRACK / OLLIE OLSON / MELTED CHOCOLATE BUNNY RABBIT / EMILE ZILE VISUALS / - and perhaps even more yet to be announced

SAT 5 MARCH @ THE FORUM THEATRE $77
FEATURING: THE RESIDENTS / CHICKS ON SPEED / PAN SONIC / SUNN 0))) / BLACK DICE / OOIOO / GANG GANG DANCE / KEVIN DRUMM / DEAD C / SIR RICHARD BISHOP / GROWING / PUMICE / HI GOD PEOPLE / CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL / SCOTT HORSCROFT UNSEMBLE / JESSIE I & RAS CRUCIAL / CAVEMAN SKULL / EVIL PENGUIN / XONK / QUOCKENZOCKER / THE LORD / OLLIE OLSON / ANTEDILUVIAN ROCKING HORSE / MC ERIC MITSAK / EMILE ZILE VISUALS / and perhaps more to be announced...

SUN 6 MAR @ CORNER HOTEL $22
Black Dice (USA)
Gang Gang Dance (USA)
OOIOO (Japan)
Greg Malcolm (NZ)
Francis Plagne
+ DJ Sweeney

other states here

no Lightning Bolt though, booo!

Oren Ambrachi is apparently going to guest with Sunn O)))))). I wonder if he'll wear a cloak.

i wonder if i'll bother this year. col, you up for something?

cor, you'd think since he's been around forever that they could spell Ollie OLSEN's name right on the bill there!

lucky bastards!

hmm, this is not an easy choice. and $77 is a lot of money. i think i'd lean towards the black dice show

Dead C!!!!!!!

I'll be annoyed if them, Pan Sonic, Residents and Sun 0))) are overlapping.

So I guess the Saturday. Perhaps I should take my paid vacation time for this.

I think it's a little expensive for us gaz? Rach wanted to go, for the Chix ya know.

wow, Sunn O))) were shatteringly loud and bassy. I should've laid down on the wooden floor like some people did on Saturday night, good vibrations apparently!

i didn't really enjoy what i saw to be honest. sunn o))) were more intriguing than particularly thrilling to listen to. wish i hadn't missed the dead c.

i ain't going. $85. and i don't really care.

Just came home from the Sydney show. Sunn o))) were great. I was about to go home when my friends left after The Residents finished (who were totally enjoyable but not amazing). But then I figured I check out Sunn o))) by myself and just sat on the ground and zoned out completley for close to an hour. Really meditative and relaxing for what was a colossal sound!

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Yeah I'm not sure the night was worth $85 tho. If I hadn't stuck around I may have regretted it.