"ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE" DATES ANNOUNCED (1 Viewer)

[Rimbaud]

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.
US/UK/Ireland tour " 2002: A Space Ordinance tour"
MARCH
9th(sat.) Seattle GRACELAND (with Kinski)
10th(sun.) Los Angeles THE DERBY (with Maquiladora, Bluebird, QUIX*O*TIC)
11th(mon.) Los Angeles SILVERLAKE LOUNGE (with Maquiladora)
12th(tue.) San Diego CASBAH (with 90 Day Men)

All dates from Texas on to the east are with Major Stars.
13th(wed.) Austin In store performance @ 33 Degrees Records at 6pm (also Kawabata Makoto & Charles Curtis Duo performance at 5pm)
14th(thu.) Austin SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST @ ELYSIUM (with Charles Curtis and others)
15th(fri.) Houston THE LAST CONCERT CAFE (with Tom Carter of Charalambides)
18th(mon.) Atlanta EYEDRUM
19th(tue.) Williamsburg COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY
20th(wed.) Baltimore OTTOBAR
21th(thu.) Philadelphia KHYBER PASS
22th(fri.) Brattleboro COMMON GROUNDS
23th(sat.) New York KNITTING FACTORY
26th(tue.) WFMU live broadcast 3PM-6PM on "Brian Turner's show"
more dates to come...

28th(thu.) Glasgow 13th NOTES (with Richard Youngs + Kawabata Makoto)
29th(fri.) Derry vennue TBC
30th(sat.) Belfast venue TBC
31th(sun.) Limerick venue TBC

APRIL
1st(mon.) Cork venue TBC
2nd(tue.) Dublin venue TBC
3rd(wed.) Birmingham THE MEDICINE BAR (with The Heads)

 

[Keeror]

Shame they've only got one day in Dublin again.
A Kawabata solo guitar show (maybe in Road Records...) would be fucking awesome.

"You are the Moonshine" blows my mind every time I listen to it. It's not rock it's....golden sheets of liquid gold...or something.

 

[damien]

anyone have any idea where the dublin gig is going to be, or who is putting it on?

 

[Anne OMalley]

Help you I cannot.

damien (25 Feb, 2002 02:20 p.m.):
anyone have any idea where the dublin gig is going to be, or who is putting it on?

 

[Osimono]

I think timo from U:Mack is putting it on , and they're doing Belfast and Limerick dates as well. Super.

 

[righteous harmony]

oh yeah! gonna git me some 'good' acid!

 

[damien]

sound buzz. the gig there last year was amazing and i was afraid that this time it'd be in a bigger (and undoubtedly shitter) venue.

 

[paulor]

im almost sure its whelans on the 2nd of april.

 

[Rimbaud]

john (25 Feb, 2002 06:11 p.m.):
Yep, oohmack doing it and Whelan's be the venue s'far as I know...

Hey man - your so far "out-there", you don`t need acid!!!
Don`t you know we`re gonna use u as our emblem for acid culture here in limerick - when they arrive??!!???

 

[simp]

U:MACK PRESENT
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE (JAPAN)
SUPPORT TBC
TUESDAY APRIL 2
WHELANS
DOORS: 8pm
TICKETS E 14 FROM ROAD, COMMET & FREEBIRD.
Hi
Just to let you know,
We're doing another show for the awesome Acid Mothers Temple in Whelans on
tuesay april 2. AMT played in whelans last may, and it was pretty incredible.
Here's some info:
ATM are a soul collective from Japan, led by guitar wild man Makoto
Kawabata, who has collaborated with sonic youth and John Fahey (R.I.P.)
amongst others. There's alot of them, thirty members in total, although for
their live shows they're are usually a five piece.

They play real loud Psychedelic rock, and they're concerts are awesome.
Check out the biog, complete with insane Julian Cope review.. its kinda
funny..

Hope life is good
u:mack

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO

BIOGRAPHY :

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (Underground Freak Out)

A freak-out group for the 21st century founded in 1996 by members of the
Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective and led by guitar guru Makoto Kawabata

1997
The group released their self-titled debut album on PSF Records (Japan) in
November. The album was selected as one of the 50 best albums of the year by
the British music magazine, The Wire.

1998
In January, the Acid Mothers Temple family record-label was set up, in order
to document the various activities of the collective. In June, the band
played their first live gig in San Francisco, as part of a tour of America
and Europe. In the UK, they headlined a bill which include The Pastels and
Richard Young's at the Psychedelic Trip Festival at the Glasgow School of
Art. In Berlin, they collaborated with the NASA computer graphics animation
team. during the tour the group also recorded live radio sessions for KFJC
in San Francisco and XFM in London

1999
In March, their second album "Pataphysical Freak Out MU!!" was released by
PSF. From April to June the group toured America and Europe. On this tour,
they headlined the Deep Heaven Festival in Boston, but due to the massive
volume the police were called and the festival was forcibly closed down.
The group headlined at the first day of the F*te de l'Humanit* in Toulouse,
France. Radio sessions were recorded for KFJC in San Francisco and WFMU in
New York. In September, the group toured Japan. In November the group
released their soundtrack to the Russian underground porn film "Wild Gals a
Go-Go" on the Acid Mothers Temple label

2000
"Live in Occident" a double album document of the 1999 tour of the US and
Europe was released by the Detector label (USA). The group's official third
album "Troubadours From Another Heavenly World" was released from PSF(Japan)
in October. An LP of covers of Occitan traditional song "La Novia" was
released from Eclipse (US) in October. From November to December the group
toured America and Europe(UK, Belgium, Norway, Germany and France)

2001
The band returned to the commune to record the fifth proper full length
album. The result "Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!)" was co-released as
a double vinyl album by English labels Resonant & Static Caravan.
The album got rave reviews and sold out in two weeks. The band (slimmed down
to a manageable 5 piece) return for their first proper UK tour in May / June
taking in major cities and their first ever Irish dates. In April the band
are featured in MOJO magazine in an article penned by Julian Cope

Let the freak out commence ...


SOME RANDOM REVIEWS ...

JULIAN COPE / MOJO MAY 2001-04-09
Hope springs maternal Brothers from a Mother planet

Architects of infinite Oriental trip-outs Acid Mothers Temple are coming to
Britain. Julian Cope pays tribute to their unique brand of pataphysical
phreakery.


Walking through Armley on the outskirts of Leeds in 1979, I came upon the
best graffiti ever. It was written on the bus shelter wall and went
something along these lines: "I'm writing this to warn you all about Tracey
Dibnar, coz she said she was my mate and I helped her when her boyfriend
left her, and so did all of us here today, but it turns out that she's been
fucking Jan's Gary and acting like nothing's happening, then making it look
like I was the one who was betraying Jan by making snidey remarks to all of
us when she gets us on our own and causing such grief that none of us knew
who or what to believe, then to top it all off, now she's nicked my
boyfriend
Ray, and got pregnant by him at a party and even though he loves me she
reckons they're gonna get married, which I doubt coz she's a fucking tart
who'll get in bed with any bloke that comes along. So please beware."

The music of Acid Mothers Temple is a lot like the graffiti above. It starts
off like every other psychedelically-styled band, but then it just unfolds
and unfolds and unfolds. When I first heard it, it didn't grab me
immediately by the poo-poo or swing me out into the stars, indeed I was
initially suspicious of any band which built its house on such apparently
hoary cosmic rock cliches. And that name alone - are these guys for real?
The presentation and music both had elements of Gong (whom I hate), and Amon
Duul 2 (whom I adore) and the Cosmic Jokers (whom I worship). But, like the
graffiti, Acid Mothers Temple music unfolds from its simple archetypal base
into an infinitely intricate and wildly vibrant tapestry of Motherfucking
genius sound collages that take your head and spin it round in an
Exorcist-like ecstasy. The Bayeux Tapestry looks crude and simplistic until
you realise that there's about two miles of it - and so it is with Acid
Mothers Temple. The five false endings at the end of your favourite western
Live heavy metal double-LP are piddling underachieving drywanks compared
with the 20-minute tailouts of the Acid Mothers.

Led by the incredible acid-rock guitarist and forward-thinking Motherfucker
Kawabata Makoto, Acid Mothers Temple is designed specifically to lead
middle-aged rock'n'rollers away from the boring fucking Beatles and Byrds
remasters section of the record shop and into strange and uncharted regions
called "Contemporary". Whenever my friend Psychedelic Paul is on the verge
of buying yet another 13th Floor Elevators re-package, I grab him by the
nuts and haul him into the section marked "Mad Japs". Then I steal his wad
of cash, pay for the goods AND give him change, too. Kawabata Makoto is a
clever man and a wily magician, with rock riffs to die for and a
determination to get on tape all the tumultuous moods of the very best of
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Barrett Floyd and the Krautrock scene. His group
includes an auxiliary force known as (Get this!) Father Moo & the Black
Sheep, who appear on some of the sleeves naked. As the Black Sheep are young
and female, this grabs the eye of even the most ardent Byrds Bore, and
guarantees that said Bore will soon be back for another rummage, and pronto,
Tonto. Even better. each Acid Mothers Temple LP is greater than the last. I
reviewed their Pataphysical Freak Out MU on my website as
Album-of-the-Month, only to discover that their unearthly and
mind-manifesting Troubadours from Another Heavenly World LP was much
greater. Indeed, if you are looking for a way into Acid Mothers Temple, then
this is the one for you to start with. But lookout! Their stupor-dooper new
LP is soon forthcoming and is called Absolutely Freak Out. And once bitten,
you're gonna shell out!

So don't get hoodwinked by the corporations into paying again and again for
some Parlophoney strategy, like your dad did with Gracie Fields or those
Alvin Stardust 40-somethings with their Mark 1 Vauxhall Crestas and
Confederate flags in the back window. Real rock'n'roll is alive and well and
living in uninvestigated parts of HMV and Virgin. And if it makes you feel
uncomfortable looking through racks of LPs you ain't never seen before, then
think again. When was rock'n'roll ever meant to be comfortable?

 

[Rimbaud]

The venues for the 2002 tour in March/April have been announced and are on the news section of their website -www.acidmothers.com
The Jimmy Cake are supporting apparently(cool)
But they have announced this as their last U.K. tour untill about 2004(not so cool)

 

[cyclotron]

Fuckin' A!!! Missed them last time in Whelans, heard they were awesome and now I get a chance to see them again....

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

There doesn't seem to be a thread for tonights gig. Hopefully theres tickets on the door. I really hope they dont play Pink Lady Lemonade again and yet if they don't I'll probably be disappointed

 

[Space]

I thought there was a thread, say there will be tickets on the door, well there better be. Wizards are on at 8 sharp, you don't want to miss them.

Ps I must get (what I think is) a mutual friend to introduce us...

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'll miss a bit of them, I dont finish work til 8. Im too old for listening to more than one band in a row now anyway

 

[Space]

You can have a smoke break in between.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

So how were they?

 

[Space]

Great.