Kraftwerk

Trying to get a connection on the telephone line
You're so close but far away, I call you up all night and day

Got tix for night 2, wasn't allowed to book more than one night.

wow! what number? how many redials?

0208 887 8888 is the one I got through on

That's coming through as invalid now.

Tried for roughly 2.5 hours on the original number then I saw on FB that people were getting through on the 8888 number and got through right away.

Oh shit!!! sorry 0207 887 8888 nor 0208

ah, I see what you did there!

Reading FB, people seem to have more luck on the 8888 number.

oh the irony of computer servers breaking down forcing people to book KW tickets on analogue phones

eh? most of these albums were recorded on analogue gear no?

No luck on the 8888 number.. getting familiar with the line busy tone...

come back Ticketmaster, all is forgiven.

I wonder if everyone answering the phone have gone on their lunch break? On hold for 45 minutes and counting.

got tix for radio-activity after 7 hours of trying the phone numbers and then 45 mins on hold, i feel like a shell of a man. guy on the phone said they still had a few for techno pop, the mix, tour de france.

friend got some for Radio-activity too. I had to at least pretend to be doing some work, sadly.

radio6 just ran a piece about the people who turned up at ticket office in person eventually persuading them to sell them some tickets...

Kinda annoyed that I wasn't allowed to buy tix for two different nights, has that always been the case?

It was always so, saw that when the original link was posted.

original posting said:

"There is a four ticket limit per person for a single show and it is not possible to buy tickets for the whole series. This is to ensure a greater number of people get to experience Kraftwerk at Tate Modern."

ah, I guess it didn't explicitly say "only can buy for one night", true.

20 mins on hold, on the standard number, just yielded two tickets for Tour De France - which is the one I wanted all along. Faff and a half!

*sigh* I guess I'm a little slow, still, better that I had to make a snap decision on the phone than agonize about which one to go to for weeks.

So if I called back to buy for a different eve (but with the same credit card) I would be refused?

that is a rhetorical question i hope

er, hypothetical

Yea, kinda :)

ah, unless the answer is "no" right?

Only Techno Pop left...

Nah, to be honest after 3.5 hours of being a redial bunny I'm pretty burnt.

Poor Techno Pop

i wouldnt mind going to see Techno pop - lost gem as they say

Going to nights 1 & 2, getting excited, anybody else?

I am also really curious about how they're going to perform Morgenspaziergang

got Autobahn tonight then Man Machine saturday, very excited.

I'm going to Radioactivity tomorrow, v excited too. Man Machine would have been my top pick.

dying with jealousy at anyone going to Radioactivity.

dying with jealousy at anyone going, period

Going to Radioactivity tomorrow too, this 3D had better be good

Kraftwerk, Knife, which K-band will be next on my presale disaster list

Wishing all of you lots of fun & excitement, of course.

Krokus?

I was reading DJ Food's diary and he writes that at the Dusseldorf concerts there was only about 800 people, he speculated that the Tate may be doing the same thing, i.e. not selling the space out to capacity.

http://thequietus.com/articles/11321-ten-things-you-possibly-don-t-know-about-kraftwerk

i knew one of those things

I'm going to see them with the writer of that very article.

The tate shows are going to be about 900-1000 people maximum


5) Two of Kraftwerk's most famous sound effects came from a speaking-aid for deaf-mute children, and a popular toy. The Vortrax was invented in Detroit in the early 1970s. A hand-held machine that looked a bit like a pocket calculator, it produced the distorted vocal choir sound that can be heard on 1975's 'Uranium', which was later sampled in the opening build-up of New Order's 'Blue Monday'.

This is slightly off; the Vortrax was used for the vocodered spoken word part, but I'm about 99.4% positive that the 'vocal choir' sound mentioned is just an Orchestron keyboard, the same one they use for Radioactivity (and the same one Popol Vuh used for 'Aguirre' etc). It never occurred to me that 'Blue Monday' lifted a 'Uranium' sample directly, but now that it's mentioned that makes sense!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DXJJ2Ek4bmQ#!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMow2Sn67A

had never heard of the vortrax speech synth before. it definitely sounds different when you tell it to speak in german.

The tate shows are going to be about 900-1000 people maximum

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, thanks Jamie, glad to hear, just from the point of view of processing tickets and all that malarkey.

Going tomorrow night for Radioactivity too. Was in the turbine hall for a Jeffrey Lewis gig a couple of years ago. I guess the experience will be quite different!

high five to Radioactive ILXors!