Acid Mothers Temple on Tour

yeah that is absolutely how it felt

And they're back! Looking forward to this once again.

Sun 03/21/10 Plush - Tucson AZ
Mon 03/22/10 Casbah - San Diego CA
Tue 03/23/10 Spaceland - Los Angeles CA
Wed 03/24/10 Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco CA
Fri 03/26/10 Mississippi Studios - Portland OR
Sat 03/27/10 Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver BC
Sun 03/28/10 Sunset Tavern - Seattle WA
Wed 03/31/10 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis MN
Thu 04/01/10 The Picador - Iowa City IA
Fri 04/02/10 Empty Bottle - Chicago IL
Sat 04/03/10 Crofoot Ballroom Pike Room - Pontiac MI
Sun 04/04/10 El Mocambo - Toronto ON
Mon 04/05/10 La Sala Rossa - Montreal PQ
Tue 04/06/10 Middle East Upstairs - Cambridge MA
Wed 04/07/10 Knitting Factory - Brooklyn NY
Thu 04/08/10 DC9 - Washington DC
Fri 04/09/10 Johnny Brendas - Philadelphia PA
Sat 04/10/10 Ottobar - Baltimore MD
Sun 04/11/10 Local 506 - Chapel Hill NC
Mon 04/12/10 Pilot Light - Knoxville TN
Tue 04/13/10 Grey Eagle Tavern - Asheville NC
Wed 04/14/10 Cosmic Charlie's - Lexington KY
Thu 04/15/10 Hi-Tone Cafe - Memphis TN
Fri 04/16/10 The Loft - Dallas TX
Sat 04/17/10 Emos Alternative Lounge - Austin TX

Line-up is as follows:
Tsuyama Atsushi : monster bass, vocal, acoustic guitar, cosmic joker
Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, guitar, chorus, dancin'king
Shimura Koji : drums, latino cool
Kawabata Makoto : guitar, chorus, speed guru

And support act is Over-Gain Optimal Death.

New album 'In A To Infinity' coming in April on Important as well, so expect a lot of that chord on the tour.

I was thinking about going to the Pontiac gig next Sat. & reading this thread has confirmed that I will be doing exactly that!

I'm already planning on seeing Mission of Burma at a local dive that same week, so we've got a bumper crop of quality live shit going on here in the midwest (& this is passing up Titus Andronicus, Washed Out, Broken Social Scene & Deer Tick at the same time - all gigs I would have wanted to see, were they not all piled on top of each other!)

I've been up since 6:00am and was planning on doing laundry and going to bed early tonight but SURPRISE! Acid Mothers are tonight. And friends from out of town, too. *coffee*

I been a hair's width from seeing them like 7 times, pretty excited for this.

plz to report back. I am v curious.

considering how little i listen to AMT, it's funny to me that they're the band i've seen play the most in the last decade. but their live shows are so great, i'll never pass them up. definitely going to the knoxville show in a few weeks.

Lineup appeared to be as listed above, though replace "acoustic guitar" with "bitchin' clarinet". I kinda expected them to play one 1-hr song but they played a set of songs kinda! With verses sometimes! Mokoto rubbing his guitar on his ass, holding his guitar over his head by the trem arm, swinging it wildly by the neck. Guitar hanging from the ceiling. Bass dude sings a lot. He makes chromatic shredding groove somehow!? Really liked him. Great, great show.

sadly (FOR ME) my report from the high on fire show says that you won MPLS/STPL shows this evening ;_;

Bummer, what were they like?

My full report is on the rolling metal thread but the general vibe is noodly yet boring

They fucking destroyed Chicago's Empty Bottle, last night. Brilliant from start to finish. Frenzied. Brain-flaying. Superconductive. Etc.

this bodes well for my plans tonight! are they freakishly loud or anything? I don't like to wear earplugs, tho I will if I have to.

Very freakishly loud, though it's a loud venue to begin with. Just white noise, at a few points. You could see them playing, but it was just a wall of static.

fuck that was loud

haha yah

these dudes + titus andronicus in the same week = rawken out

i've been waiting for a band to end their set like that for my entire life. like not specifically two guitars hanging from the ceiling and feedbacking while the rest of the band go nuts rawkin out, but at least that sort of totally unhinged wave of noise that just grows and grows uncontrollably. these dudes understand sweet motherfucking release more than any band i've ever seen.

Been a while since we updated! Even though they pretty much still do annual tours here, so:

http://acidmothers.com/wp-content/uploads/AcidMothersTour-731x1024.jpg

Even better are the California Flashback shows:

https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/03/11/21/50-og.jpg?w=960&h=1200

I'm only going to be able to attend the first night in SF but Christ, that's a lineup.

They're playing a matinee show at Cafe Oto in London at the end of June: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/acid-mothers-temple/

I'm uh hoping to be able to go to the Windsor show