Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Classic or Dud?

check this out, new additions:

"WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC
NOMEANSNO
JOSEPHINE FOSTER (solo)
WHITE MAGIC
EMERALDS
BOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC ORCHESTRA
DANIEL HIGGS (Lungfish)

wtf @ Weird Al.

I mean I'd love for him to do a post-rock polka set obviously.

It's their most inspired move in years!

WEIRD AL IN THE THRONE ROOM

This is actually a really strong lineup imo

WEIRD AL IN THE THRONE ROOM

A+

tickets for the UK tour (Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, London) go on sale at 10am: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/gybetour2010/news/1006180900.php

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)

Yeah that's pretty sick.

Considering a trip overseas if this trend towards awesomeness continues

pretty pumped about this tbh

Never really listened to GYBE before..descriptions seem to be circa Swans' Helpless Child with doomy apocalyptic voice-overs?

Still expecting an announcement of European dates in accordance with the orig press release.

the line-up for their fest is gonna get even weirder and cooler

i have this crazy vision of weird all doing all of "double nickels on the dime" as a big polkas on 45 style megapolkamixxx

GYBE! having Weird Al play at the ATP festival is inspired genius.

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.

Yeah he's been pretty funny in between songs for the last few years.

Efrim's banter has always been good at Glasgow ASMZ shows as well. Surprising at first, but he's funny.

yeah, he's a riot

Latest gybe additions =

CLUSTER
MAHJONGG
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ
KEIJI HAINO
FLOWER / CORSANO DUO
BORBETOMAGUS
DANIEL MENCHE
COUNTRY TEASERS
BRUCE McCLURE

sweetness.

Insane line-up now. Amazing & exctiting.

HOLY ISH

Someone comp me a plane ticket pretty plzzzz?

BERG SANS NIPPLE
SICK LLAMA

confirmed too. think this is probably the most intense line-up since Thurston Moore's one back in 2007.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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!

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.

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.

wish I had any money at all tbh

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.

This one just gets better...

ONEIDA present The Ocropolis
HANGED with Tony Conrad
THEE OH SEES
MATANA ROBERTS
LAND OF KUSH
PHILIP JECK
JOHN BUTCHER

Just incredible!

That's Hangedup though, right?

I pray that Land Of Kush playing means that Elizabeth Anka Vajagic will be there... <Swoon>

I am interested in this

Does your ILXmail work?

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.

land of kush is MUST-SEE

Throbbing Gristle!

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.

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)

it's Ayn Rand, isn't it?

stoked for the secret Rush set madness

Going to this! CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE

:D

The promised European dates are beginning to come through. So far we have:

14 Jan – Paris
25 Jan – Vienna