― Vic, Friday, 6 December 2002 00:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Yellow EP and Another Day, Another Dollar EP are also good.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
HANG ON A SECOND, that's a fantastic song, you nutter. Until the end, when it just kind of forgets that it's over and keeps going.
The greatest moment of like the past year was driving around with two jackasses who'd been wearing Russian military outfits for a week straight for fun when this song came on. "Suddenly this song isn't really f unny anymore." They finally changed their frigging clothes after that. It was beautiful.
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.seetickets.com/xxxtickets/event.asp?e%7Cartist=GANG+OF+FOUR
― mark h, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Midnight ROFFLEr (haitch), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah, that live version of "what we all want" is a real monument.
frank kogan called them "teachers' pets" somewhere on ilm, which popped the balloon for me i'm afraid.
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"To Hell with Poverty" greatest fucking moment for Gang of Four? I wish I'd been in a band in college just to have played the song in the little smoky bar where all the school bands played Sublime and shit. I love the "Ow ow ow OWWWWW"s and harmonics.
― PB, Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link
A reunion tour rarely excites me, but since Gof4 was one of my all-time faves, I'm interested, but mostly cuz I've seen them 5 times, but never with Dave Allen on bass. What's this about a new album? http://www.gangoffour.co.uk/
I wonder what their US dates will look like. I figure 5 or 6 shows apart from that Couchella (sp?) thang in CA.
― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Thu, 05/05/0509:00 PM Gang of Four McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR
Tue, 05/10/0507:00 PM Gang of Four Quest Club Minneapolis, MN
Wed, 05/11/0507:30 PM Gang of Four Metro Chicago, IL
Thu, 05/12/0507:30 PM Gang of Four Metro Chicago, IL
Sat, 05/21/0508:00 PM Gang of Four Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
Sat, 05/14/0506:00 PM Gang of Four The Phoenix Concert Theatre Toronto, ON
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Well maybe if some of the Brits hurry up and get on here...of course it's only 7 AM there, so...
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 27 February 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
"New album to come"
― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
HANG ON A SECOND, that's a fantastic song, you nutter. Until the end, when it just kind of forgets that it's over and keeps going. "
hahaha OTM
― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, "I Love a Man in a Uniform" is one of the best songs ever obviously.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Oooh. Didn't hear about that! Do tell!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Hoping for "He'd Send in the Army" ....
― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
By the way, does anyone else think it's kinda fucking lame that this is a Clear Channel tour? I mean, I don't expect everyone to toe the indie line on that but for a band that talked so much political B.S. in their day I find it irksome.
Still, I'm going and (thanks to my...cough...CC connection....I'm going for free!) Yay me!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd let it slide, because how else would they be able to tour North America? I doubt Warner Bros. was going to give them tour support for a 25 year old album.
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
had you paid for it already? I think this is going to happen to me every time I get willcall tickets.
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I dunno, I've seen people like The Soft Boys and Richard Thompson, and Mission of Burma do reunion (non Clear Channel) tours at First Ave in recent years...they can't be getting much in the way of tour support.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― box of socks, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
i didn't even TRY to get tickets, by the time i caught wind i knew it was a done deal.
so BoS if you want to stand outside and smoke i'll watch for you and tell you abt it later...
― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― box of socks, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey there, here is a recording of the Brooklyn gig if you want it, it went up online today and I sent it to a friend who is a diehard fan.
https://www.fromsmash.com/BiS2D6db8e-bt
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
Ah nice! Thanks man!
FWIW, I found this NY Times article about their 2005 reunion, published on Jan. 24, 2005. Gill's passing aside (I'm still sad he's gone, and I never saw him perform), it's amusing to read in light of the current tour since they joke quite a bit about their age.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/arts/music/after-postpunk-postpostpunk-by-the-gang-of-four.html
A relevant excerpt for those who encounter a paywall:
"The goal is to be as incredibly intense as we were the first time around," Mr. Allen said. "What we have to do is leave them with their tongues hanging out again. If not, we don't retain our authority in the musical canon. There's no excuse that we're 23 years older."
Mr. Burnham added, "I realized that we could do it because we all still had our hair."
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Mr. Gill is the only band member continuing his recording career, writing soundtracks and producing bands including Killing Joke and the Jesus Lizard. Mr. Burnham, who worked as a band manager and recording-company executive after leaving the Gang of Four, teaches at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Mass. The other two members have followed the band's media critiques with media jobs. Mr. King is the chief executive of World Television, which produces news reports, Webcasts and corporate video for clients from Greenpeace to Nestlé. Mr. Allen lives in Portland, Ore., and works in digital-music distribution and brand marketing with his company, Pampelmoose.
The band members had to shape up for the tour. Mr. Burnham hadn't played drums since 1985; he started exercising with his wife, a Pilates trainer. Mr. King, who is still lean, teased the other band members with e-mail messages about the "celebrity fat club." But as they started to relearn the songs, old reflexes came back.
"The blueprint was still in my body," Mr. Allen said.
On the 9-foot-by-18-foot stage of the Montague Arms, Mr. King flailed and twitched, dropped to the floor and leaped up like a funky scarecrow, as hyperactive as he was a generation ago. "It's the tragedy of old age that people stop doing stupid things," he said before the show. "When you're young, you're reckless and oppositional, and that's what you should be your whole life. Why should you not take a risk?"
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
I got to see the ‘05 tour, definitely was a privilege.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
Burnham appeared at Pop Con a few years ago. Literate guy.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
Also stumbled upon this from 2010: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/gang_of_four_sell_copies_of_new_album_with_vials_of_their_own_blood
Pretty intense "collector's item."
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
Mr. Allen lives in Portland, Ore., and works in digital-music distribution and brand marketing with his company, Pampelmoose
wait what
is this related to the ILX-famous superstar duo?
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
that's Pomplamoose, but very close!
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
I'm connected to Allen on LinkedIn.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
more discussion here :
Gang of Four Live
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 04:10 (two years ago) link
Interesting discovery from another forum:
Not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but I recently got a copy of the standalone Entertainment! LP by Matador, and imagine my surprise to discover it has the full intro to "I Found That Essence Rare" (with the count off and guitar harmonics riff). I noticed that my copy has a different catalog no.—OLE1742LP—as opposed to earlier copies, which have cat. no. OLE1564LP.
Folks who are upset about the missing intro should grab this copy. I wonder if this was just Matador's way of quietly correcting the issue? (If so, that's kinda slimy of them to first deny the mistake by offering a dubious "It's what the band intended" excuse, and then quietly cut and press a second copy with the intro intact.)
I was trying to replace my noisy, worn OG US copy of Entertainment!, and I thought I'd give the Matador reissue a try since it's easy to come by right now, despite the missing intro. Needless to say, I was quite pleasantly surprised to hear the intro there!
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
I love that intro, good news
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 12 January 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
In an answer to someone's question on social media, they said they were planning a more extensive North American tour in 2024.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 23:37 (eleven months ago) link
Who is in the band now?
― dow, Thursday, 25 May 2023 01:10 (ten months ago) link
Looks like the same configuration as last year with Sara Lee and David Pajo. They just did a festival show and have more dates this fall in the UK.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 25 May 2023 01:15 (ten months ago) link
I saw them last week and it was overall a much better show than when they first came through early in 2022. Pajo isn't just copying Andy Gill's guitar lines but instead using them as a launch pad for something more, he and Sara are total MVPs.
This is more or less what it was like...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZbKxC41F0
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 May 2023 02:45 (ten months ago) link
First part of a multi-part David Pajo interview that's going to be uploaded to this podcast:
https://discograffiti.com/podcast/94-david-pajo-part-1-favorites-as-in-records-firsts-as-in-pre-slint-bands-flavorings-as-in-tortoise-yeah-yeah-yeahs-interpol-gang-of-four/
― birdistheword, Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:34 (ten months ago) link
That Damaged Goods video sounds like they need to speed it up a bit
― nate woolls, Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:49 (ten months ago) link
Jon's voice sounds a little tired in that clip. Luckily halfway through he does "that thing live musicians do where they let the crowd sing the chorus."
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:49 (ten months ago) link
I almost went to one of their shows. Looking at that video, I'm glad I didn't. Is it just basically all old people trying to re-live their rocker years?
― Punster McPunisher, Friday, 26 May 2023 01:48 (ten months ago) link
sure looks like it
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Friday, 26 May 2023 01:48 (ten months ago) link
You're not wrong.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 May 2023 05:13 (ten months ago) link
I’m glad I saw the full original lineup reunion in the aughts— Jon was far from tired and seeing Andy shred live was a godlike experience.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 May 2023 13:35 (ten months ago) link