Jandek live?

How cool would it be if he turned out to be one of the most skilled rappers of all time, just mind-blowing flow and lyrical dexterity, but no one knew until this point including him.

The hip hop updates are 3 days late, right? And Jeff Porcaro is drumming in place of Alex Nielson?

In September he will play Incubate in Holland http://incubate.org/2009/act/115/Jandek

There's also a tour of Ireland coming up with David Keenan and Heather Leigh Murray in the band. People of Larne, your moment has come.

curious on that one!

Yeah, it's a strange one. First tour he's done I think, he's playing about 5 dates, most of those in fairly small towns.

its keenan playing drums isn't it...hmmmm...the trio w/ Heather and Alan Licht was cool, tho, so wld go if...

He's playing in Vienna on the 14th October too..

Jandek's doing an in-store at HMV in Belfast!

http://thehiddenreverse.blogspot.com/2009/07/tate-tower.html

Bonkers!

Will he be signing records too?!

Unrelated to Jandek, but Keenan's new "Hypnagogic Pop" thing has an even more stupid name than New Weird America.

Haven't quite mustered the requisite intestinal fortitude to read that article in its entirety yet. Seems like a phrase you'd apply to MBV or something shoegazey though rather than whatever he's talking about.

David Keenan's write-up of the Irish tour:

http://thehiddenreverse.blogspot.com/2009/08/into-wild.html

some v funny pics too. (there) judging from the reports 3/4 of the tour was unlistenable, Keenan had never drummed before (or something?) this obv. fits with the Jandek experience.

That "John Plays Drums" guy that seems to be playing on his albums through at least the early nineties = totally ineffable style.

Jandek live on WNYU on Wednesday with Tom Carter, Marcia Bassett, Karl Baur, and Pete Nolan.

Jandek playing tonite in Vienna!!!

With help from Eric Arn of Primordial Undermind.

a little bird told me that he's going to play in Baltimore with a very special lineup

any general timeframe ..? need to start looking at flights

I wish he'd release that Texas funk-jam show on CD.

At the w/end I bought the DVD of his solo acoustic London show from 2005 and was very happy to see my friend Fiona, who I went with, bright as day in the opening shot! Performance was in a church and we were sat in the balcony...alongside the camera, as it turned out. Don't imagine its anywhere near as compelling if you weren't there...production values are well on the lo-fi side. Anyone sat through any of the other Corwood DVDs?

Any sort of info you could divulge about a Baltimore show would be much appreciated.

Show over... Played for about 90 minutes.. About half instrumental, half 'songs'.

The dirgy stuff got a bit tiresome after a while, but when they got a groove going it was pretty grebt.

Here's some vids shot on my iphone. Lighting was pretty bad so don't expect to see much, sound came out surprisingly well....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2bv790w1IM

here's some more....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffy-0duPPb8

another one to follow later....

JANDEK

Performing with:

Susan Alcorn (electric pedal steel)
Twig Harper (electronics)
Jason Willett (electronics)
Dan Breen (percussion)

Saturday, Nov. 14th @ the LOFt (Load of Fun Theater)
120 W. North Avenue
8 PM
$10 presale/ $12 at the door (online tickets will be available through Brown Paper Tickets)

There will also be a free event in the Gallery of Load of Fun before the show to coincide with the Second Saturday events in Station North. This will be announced shortly.

(Baltimore)

so, whose going to this? just found out that the AXEMEN are playing B-More tomorrow as well! seriously thinking about hopping a plane...

this was pretty rad tbh. noize Jandek.

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Jandek at Incubate

So -- Jandek is playing UC Irvine in January.

With Mike Watt on bass.

See you there.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144087528975525

Tickets can be bought here:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139412

See you all there too!

This thread needs to be linked here too:
JANDEK: OVERPOWERED BY FUNK

Is he going to recreate the madness of that one jazz funk show?

xp :)

the stars are falling i don't know what to do

UC Irvine show in two days! My preview story is up:

http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-01-06/music/jandek-bj-miller-mike-watt-acrobatics-everyday-uc-irvine/

Any pre-show FAP ahead of time? Otherwise we'll just see you there...

Still think it's brilliant that his first show in SoCal is at UCI!

Something's in the works! I'm still debating locations (the campus pub itself, the most logical spot, is closed on Saturdays).

Okay if anyone else would like in, we'll be meeting up here between 5:30 to 6:

http://www.steelheadbrewery.com/irvine.htm

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=steelhead+brewery+irvine&fb=1&gl=us&hq=steelhead+brewery&hnear=Irvine,+CA&cid=0,0,9536922179682985129&z=16&iwloc=A

Doors open for the show at 7:30.

great piece Ned. agree with Miller about the acoustic non rocking drums live performances being the most interesting.

Jandek has never released anything on any other label.

of course some 'Dekkie' is always going to nitpick, but he did release a track on a Finnish compilation. (it was an excerpt from his live performance in Helsiniki, which featured harp and piano, up til the point it started boring the harp player actually heh, or so i heard from reports)
(http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0796)

and what about re-releases of his vinyl on Jackpot records?

Haha, true indeed about that comp appearance though I take that as the one-off (so far) it is. You're right about the rereleases but -- in an oversimplified way -- I was referring to new/original albums.

a cdr on some Scandinavian label doesn't count, i quite agree ;)

those vinyl re-releases though, Off-topic, i almost feel like making the argument that he shouldn't have done it/have allowed it. let the original vinyl be MYTHICAL. (which it already is, i know) but that's another story.

Ultimately to me it's about the music being available in some form. But that's me. (Anyway, thanks for the compliment!)

it's still amazing how this all happened!

i wonder why he made the decision and how much it changed his interior life? obv. his public life has changed greatly.

It is changed and yet he's still him, I figure. Am in the audience now, waiting.

Very good so far, no breaks in between songs, Watt and Miller keeping up a variety of rhythms, Jandek stalking the stage slowly.

I was thinking Pink Floyd 1970, Elvis Telecom figures _Red_ era King Crimson.

Anyway, here's my photos from the audience:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/sets/72157625657770689/

I wanna read Jandek's tour rider.