Kraftwerk

Thanks Geeta, seems like an odd place acoustically? Hm.
Stevie, I went to the Showclix site and it does look like you can purchase two tickets only. Huh. "There is a two ticket per person limit for the entire series. Once you have purchased two tickets, you will be unable to purchase tickets for any other Kraftwerk performance."

That is kind of a drag. Oh well. Fingers crossed we can get something. At the very least, we will come for the exhibition at PS1...

Oh, and the tickets go on sale on Wednesday, Feb 22, at 12:00 PM EST.

found this short review i wrote of the last time kraftwerk played NYC, almost exactly seven years ago

http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-31/music/be-stiff/

yes, definitely an odd space acoustically! the trend towards big museums underwriting gigs by interesting bands is something i support, but when they stick them in a big open-air atrium or something like that i start to wonder. museums weren't designed for great sound

hammerstein ballroom was definitely a great venue to see kraftwerk--kind of like the warfield in SF

I was there at Hammerstein! :D And in DC two nights previously! Uh oh, I am outed as a fan-girl!

there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a kraftwerk fangirl: i have been one since age 13

here's an essay i wrote some years ago, where i talk about being a teenage kraftwerk fan (and other stuff)

http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-02-01/news/i-robot/

there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a kraftwerk fangirl

i agree, vigorously

yea, I was at that hammerstein show too. everyone cheering during the 'chernobyl, hiroshima, etc.' into to 'radioactivity' was o_O

seriously great show tho. one of the best I've seen.

I saw them at the Manchester Velodrome a couple of years back, one of the best gigs I've ever seen; I still get chills just thinking about the opening, "The Man Machine", with that arpeggio and then thunderous bass and the crowd going *completely fucking nuts* as they were revealed. That run of shows at MOMA looks epic.

sorry, the tix time is noon ET on next Wednesday

^^That's where the real-life cyclists came on the Velodrome track during "Tour de France", right? Saw it on youtube, amazing!
Saw them in '04, so so great. Would love to be able to see the 3d show. A friend told me he read tweets suggesting they'd do a similar run at Tate Modern/London. Does anyone know more?
xpost

They were pretty awesome when I saw them a few years back, too. Great light show, great sound. Want to say I saw Massive Attack the same year at the same venue, and the shows were oddly analogous in terms of quality and surprise entertainment value.

They were pretty awesome when I saw them a few years back, too. Great light show, great sound.

saw them in '07 - don't remember anything about the light show but I have never and I mean never heard better live sound

just wanna +1 all these comments

God, I'm really really worried there will be absolutely no way for me to get tickets to these

('08 I mean, having re-read the thread - xp to me)

New song up on youtube under the klingklang account. Sounds an awful lot like the last album. Maybe there will be another night at nyc, to debut the new album? *jozz in my pants*

link plz!!

A friend told me he read tweets suggesting they'd do a similar run at Tate Modern/London. Does anyone know more?

― willem, Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lots of people are requesting it. The source of the rumours seems to be this tweet by these guys, who I've never heard of.

It's some serious getting-hopes-up stuff though.

think I'm gonna take a shot at Man-Machine and maybe Computer World (on the theory that Trans-Europe Express will be the most popular ticket)

^^^man machine is their best anyway.

but i'll be out of town for that one :-/

Really re: TEE being most popular? It seems like it'd be CW and Man Machine by a long shot, followed by TEE and Autobahn, and then Radioactivity, Techno Pop, The Mix, and TDF being way behind

TEE is the first one I bought bc of its heavy status w critics. but I'm not sure if that proves much of anything.

holding out for ralf & florian night btw.

I'd see 3-way tie between CW, M-M and TEE, then the rest. I would kill to attend ANY of these shows btw

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Lots of people are requesting it. The source of the rumours seems to be this tweet by these guys, who I've never heard of.

Guy from KW mailing list. There were noises about the Tate back at the time of the Munich Lenbachhaus Kunstbau show/concert at Alten Kongresshalle.

^^^man machine is their best anyway.

yeah I agree

Really re: TEE being most popular?

I have no idea, just thinking that's their most widely known track because of "Planet Rock" (see post above about black, white, young, old, hip-hop, techno)

i really want to get man-machine but think it will be the most popular/quickest to sell out. it's on my birthday!!! i think techno pop will be my second choice.

also i dearly wish they were doing ralf und florian, because it's my favorite.

man, i'm so jealous of the techno pop lovers. try as i might i just can't get into it as heavily as the others

Would love to see them at Tate Modern or similar in London. I saw them at Tribal Gathering '97. I was in the 'Detroit' tent most of the day but they shut that down for an hour or so because none of the acts (Terrence Parker, Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson etc.) would play during Kraftwerk. They were late coming on and then.. BOOM!

xpost I dunno, I can 'get behind' people thinking "we wait all that time, and it's pretty much what we'd expect", but apart from that I can't detect a massive drop in quality.

The kids were doing the 'B-boom-TCK!' after I'd had a KWork splurge in the car, a few years ago.

Again - as I said upthread - I cannot imagine this would be the only performance of these shows - it does not seem to make any kind of business sense to rehearse and do the programming for all these songs for just a one-off in a smallish venue.

the entirety of their "business sense" over the last 30 years has been "it interested Ralf at the time" though

hmmm, see, no disrespect to Ralf (and Florian) but I have the feeling that most of their activity in the last 10 years has been somewhat financially driven (which doesn't take anything away to how awesome it's all been)

I remember someone once saying that the accent they use on "Autobahn" is 'strong dusseldorf' which is their version of 'brummie'

Which means, to their home nation,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y

sounds like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGwYPd6ajTk

>A friend told me he read tweets suggesting they'd do a similar run at Tate Modern/London.

Wld kiw KW in the turbine hall 4REAL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4yohA0ZVt4

hitler otm

lol @ JW

it is hilarious - good work jw

my one pedantic note: there should be an umlaut over the 'u' in 'führer'

Fuck in already getting way upset about not getting tickets

I'm

haha i posted the video to twitter

250 new hits in the last hour

Haha that video is awesome

the whitney declares war on kraftwerk at moma - they're bringing the red krayola april 14

http://whitney.org/Events/TheRedKrayolaPerformance2

Hm.
http://www.brandingmagazine.com/2012/02/17/volkswagen-america-sponsors-kraftwerk-performance/
"...They will perform selected songs from all of their albums in chronological order featuring 3-D visualization, dubbed Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8..."

i am going to make a serious attempt to go to one or two of the TEE/M-M/CW shows, hope i get one!

I hadn't realized they'd been touring a 3D show for a bit now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwuks2_rtRc

So wait - "selected songs" = not doing ENTIRE album each night? Why did I think they were doing full albums?

None of the albums are that long, they can't possibly be taking stuff out.