MBV Comeback.

If it's MBV at this thing, pulling the plug before they get to "Soon", they should win the Nobel Prize.

When I saw the Damned they played like the 1st 5 songs off Machine Gun Etiquette, in order. I started to wonder if they were going to do the whole album but then after that they played New Rose and it was a normal set. Was fucking ace though.

x-post -- Prince doing that with Purple Rain would be even funnier.

Cheap Trick was messing around with this idea years ago. I saw them play the entire first record in Grand Rapids in the mid 90s.

x-post - Roger Waters - Meddle (without Echoes)

There. I gave away Coachella.

You bad man.

Anyway, oddly (?) enough I just got wind of this in an e-mail:

PATTI SMITH AND KEVIN SHIELDS SET TO RELEASE THE CORAL SEA
EMOTIONAL SPOKEN-WORD REQUIEM RECORDED LIVE IN 2005 & 2006
DOUBLE-DISC RELEASE SET FOR JULY 11. 2008

Legendary artist Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields are set to release a double-disc set of their live performance of The Coral Sea on July 11, 2008 on their own PASK imprint. The Coral Sea is Patti Smith's posthumous homage to her friend and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the title to her 1996 book. Kevin Shields accompanies her on guitars and effects and creates a haunting backdrop to the spoken prose.

The recordings were made June 22nd 2005 and September 12th, 2006 respectively at sold-out performances at the QEH in London. The set will run almost two-hours with a different stylistic approach to each performance. The UK's Guardian upon reviewing the 2005 performance gave it 5 stars and called it "magical."

One critic said of the live performance: A kind of screaming requiem, The Coral Sea describes Mapplethorpe's terminal illness. Intense, layered electronics surged to a discordant climax as Patti Smith read her poem, the words sailing over the noise like an ocean liner, with the black-and-white video showing the ocean, the liner and the grey twilight of grief. The poem tells the story of M (Mapplethorpe) on a final voyage to see the stars of the Southern Cross before he dies.

Long-rumored to be released on CD, this first official issuing of these live recordings have been curated with care by both Patti Smith and Kevin Shields. Whether the duo will reprise this performance in the future is still unknown.

stephen you didn't actually copy in the dictionary definition of "pernicious" instead of say trying to figure out what I might have meant by it did you

I know you didn't do that

note that when I say "I know," I don't actually mean "I have knowledge of" here

no MBV no peace
know MBV know peace

If it's MBV at this thing, pulling the plug before they get to "Soon", they should win the Nobel Prize.

-- Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 24 April 2008 16:50 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Not the Nobel Peace Prize though.

That is GREAT news about The Coral Sea!

they should win the Nobel War Prize

???

http://homepage2.nifty.com/backpagerecords/EricBurdonWar.jpg

they should win the Nobel War Prize

You went where I dared not go.

stephen you didn't actually copy in the dictionary definition of "pernicious" instead of say trying to figure out what I might have meant by it did you

I know you didn't do that

i'm not sure any definition of "pernicious" that you could give would fit the Thurston scenario, regardless.

sigh

would copy in various OED exempla, many admittedly obscure (nb by obscure I don't mean "concealed in darkness") that are sort of divaspeak for "hateful" but will you be content with "he is a pernicious citizen, said M. Curius, who cannot be contented with seven acres" (Hume, Pol. Disc. 1782)? sorry if you're excited to see psychic hearts or something, no harm intended yo

obscure (nb by obscure I don't mean "concealed in darkness")

ha ha ha very funny :P

i live in texas, i'd be lucky to make it to ny for that

I'd be against this kinda thing but I just can't wait for this timeless classic to be performed live.

Sarcasm?

ha, yeah, that record is OK, but it's certainly one of the odder choices to be played live in its entirety ... i'd like to hear thurston do that "elegy for dead rock stars" tune live ...

Sarcasm yeah.

Soz to be all British and that.

sarcasm generator still on.

Sonic Youth has stopped with the Daydream tour and are back to new material;

And they did 40 minutes of post-Rourke material as the encore for the Daydream DLB shows.

Part of me can't help but think one of the most awesome things in the world would be

yer man Trayce saw They Might Be Giants in Melbourne six years ago, where for the second night of a two-night run they opened by playing Flood in its entirety. But they hadn't announced it and apparently people were baffled so they never did it again.

(they'd done pre-announced, sold-on-that-basis Flood shows in the States before.)

Still no indication that MBV aren't going to be playing new shit at these shows!

ATP New York sold out in about 5-10 minutes...

we all wasted our time here, then

well, it also means that additional tour dates are more likely to be announced sooner than later :)

Additional tickets will go on sale in the coming weeks, with accommodations in a nearby hotel.

http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=10004

= next week, sez customer service.

So they're supposed to be planning "6-8 US Dates" dunno if that's including ATP, but I'm assuming another New York show, LA, San Francisco, Chicago maybe?, uhh???? Toronto or Boston/Philly/Seattle/Montreal/any ideas??

RED ROCKS

6-8 US Dates would not include Canadian dates, assuming there are any.

I think LA and Chicago are certain, and SF and Austin are probable. I think NY is likely, but not guaranteed, especially if there are single-day tix to ATP. Other possibles - Boston, Philly, DC, Seattle or Portland (or Vancouver), Detroit (or Toronto). Twin Cities? Miami or Atlanta?

one would presume MBV would be providing intensities in at least ten cities...

pocatello, helena, cheyenne, ft. collins, chico, and provo FTW

i like zeppo myself