Kraftwerk

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!

I am sitting by the barrier in the Turbine Hall on a cushion (supplied) listening to quiet space wub noises emanating from the PA

hooray for supplied cushions!

Do you know what the situation was like for people trying to get returns? I work only a few buildings down the road, so tempted to see if I could get a ticket on the night for some of the shows next week...

Wow, I have no advice, everything seemed to be solidly on paper and organised when we came in, today I'm a 'guest' of EMI, but tomorrow I'm am coming back as a ticket buyer, I could def ask for you when I go through.

That's Ok. I'm going to be there tomorrow anyway.

Good to know that at least it seems more organised than the ticketing!

That was a treat!

That was reassuringly brilliant.

Tell us more!

I have to write my review and prepare stuff for tQ before I go to bed and then get back up again at 6am with my son so I'll have to limit myself to saying... I really enjoyed it! Sorry. (There'll be a shortish live review with pictures on the Quietus tomorrow fingers crossed.)