MBV Comeback.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/04/my_bloody_valen_4.html

They never will let a new promo photo surface, I'm positive.

"Currently, only one show is confirmed: a headlining slot at the soon-to-be-announced All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in upstate New York the weekend of September 20-21."

ATP in...upstate New York? But I LIVE in upstate New York! 2008 is looking up!

Saratoga? Great Falls?

Bethel Woods? Plattsburgh?

(great falls?)

Troy?

Buffalo

they're opening for Ani

We've all been waiting for the MBV-Utah Phillips collaboration

Hopefully they hit the Great Sacandaga Lakes ... the fall tourist season is hott up there!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth_State_Park

Hopefully, it's the NY State Fairgrounds in beautiful Solvay.

Letchworth is a great park. But all jokes aside, upstate probably means somewhere along the Hudson and/or in the Catskills.

yeah, I was gonna say fairgrounds. It's not Bethel Woods - Martina McBride's there on Sunday.

When I was a kid I new all the secret ways to get into the fair for free. Maybe all those holes in the fence are still there!

ski resort?

How about 1,000 Islands? (I could do this all night.)

MBV, Low, Drones, Perfect From Now On...I hate everyone that gets to go to this.

!!!!

Jesus Christ but the indie/alternative kids really are becoming the "I want to hear the classic music of my youth 'cause it was the best music" generation without making any bones about it, eh?

I thought this was going to be some hostile anti-Ned javascript.

Yeah the whole-album-in-concert thing is getting a little ridiculous, but with a lineup like that, who gives a fuck? Does anyone know how much tickets to this thing are likely to cost. The ATP site doesn't have any info on that as of yet.

I don't think I really care about any of the other bands, and with Colm supposedly out, my excitement is tempered.

$225 just for tickets, more for accommodations25 just for tickets, more for accommodations

that didn't work right, oh well

I'll believe MBV is playing somewhere when I freaking see it. And does anyone really give a shit about Polvo any more? You mean they couldn't get the Swirlies?

WAHT ABOUT ROLLERSKATE SKINNY

Lineup looks pretty boring - and essentially $400/person for ticket+room is way too expensive.

that lineup looks great ...where did they say colm was out?

no colm = waste of time

I heard that from a little birdie, but it's not confirmed one way or the other.

Damn, $225 is about $175 over the price where I could still convince my girlfriend to go with me/give me a ride. Maybe I can catch them some other time...17 years later. FUCK

ok, so let me get this straight. the band i've dreamed about seeing live all these years are playing a sweet ass festival, about an hour from where i live. and tickets are fucking $400 (including room). yeah, that seems about right.

Fuck it. I'm going to drop the loot. I know it's steep/ridiculous/highway robbery, but I just can't pass up this line-up, especially the MBV factor (full disclosure: I had a ticket to see them in 1992, but I was in 9th grade and the concert was on a school night & the rants dropped the kibosh on my legendary status as the only person in my generation to have been to a My Bloody Valentine concert). But sersiously: add in the BTS, Tortoise, Shellac, Mogwai and Low and my inner teenage indie rockist is doubling over with multiple orgasms. If I'm going to have a premature mid-life crisis and attempt to re-live my youth, at least this will be a lot less expensive than a Camaro.

Jesus Christ but the indie/alternative kids really are becoming the "I want to hear the classic music of my youth 'cause it was the best music" generation without making any bones about it, eh?

He's right you know.

The mention of Rollerskate Skinny and The Swirlies above made me daydream of a Rocklahoma-esque three-day jamboree of every shoegaze/noise pop/space rock group from the early-to-mid '90s. Maybe next decade..

Probably no Bostrom in the Puppets line-up either. I'll pass on this thanks.

Jesus Christ but the indie/alternative kids really are becoming the "I want to hear the classic music of my youth 'cause it was the best music" generation without making any bones about it, eh?

Which generation HASN'T done this?

They don't state explicitly that there will be no camping or single-day tickets (maybe there never are for ATP - I wouldn't know). They do say that 'limited' accommodation is available - are there really rooms for 3000 at that place? Seems unlikely under ordinary circumstances, but they may be stretching things.

With 6-8 US city shows, LA people have nothing to worry about. I'm assuming there will be an NYC shpw or one accessible at less cost than ATP, but it would be nice if they didn't play footsy with people about it.

Bilinda really is the girl with faraway eyes, isn't she?

colm is mos def in.

I'll believe MBV is playing somewhere when I freaking see it. And does anyone really give a shit about Polvo any more? You mean they couldn't get the Swirlies?

haha the Polvo show in Chapel Hill sold out on presales a month in advance

Which generation HASN'T done this?

I guess, but the people getting excited to go see a bunch of people who haven't made any new music in ages come from the generation who Nelson Muntzed at oldsters going to see Clapton drag Layla out of the grave for the millionth time - for me, I don't care how good the band doin' the "here's the great music we made when we all were young!" was: if they're not making new music, it's sad & pernicious nostalgia

the new music often sucks though. why not just play what was good? this is what made the pixies shows so effective. yes it was a nostalgia trip, but they played that stuff better now than they did then.

anyway I'm looking forward to the Sweden Don't Look Back shows

John OTFM. Fuck a Smashing Pumpkins

That being said, I'm flying to London to see Public Enemy do Nation Of Millions, so I'm as guilty as anyone, I guess.

who says they're not making new music?

But the show is about an old record.

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