"Future Days" Festival (2 Viewers)

[worthit]

where's the info on this coming from?

 

[east hastings]

its up on drownedinsound.com about Matmos

 

[theoootini]

does city discs have matmos tix?

 

[Foggy]

yep

 

[plug]

still tickets available for matmos? also, how much? info is pretty scant.

 

[theoootini]

matmos tix were 18 squid i fink. can't wait!

 

[sweetoblivion]

I thought I wasn't going to be able to make the Low gig and was really upset...but managed to talk work around into not caring if I missed our office night out on Friday...they all think I'm mad for just going to a gig! But it shall be worth it, yes.

Low interview in the Event Guide and last week's Kildare Nationalist (out until tomorrow).

 

[plug]

matmos tix were 18 squid i fink. can't wait!

were!? is it sold out?

 

[Foggy]

were!? is it sold out?

Still tickets available from City Discs, Road, WAV, ticketmaster and tickets.ie

 

[theoootini]

pardon my tenses matron!

 

[Unicron]

I thought I wasn't going to be able to make the Low gig and was really upset...but managed to talk work around into not caring if I missed our office night out on Friday

Just say that you don't like any of them and would rather undergo a prostate exam then spend the night with them. Then point out that you're a lady and this would require a long and painful series of experimental operations.

 

[Foggy]

Stage times for shows will be posted tomorrow:
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A FOGGY NOTIONS & FOREVER FESTIVAL

FUTURE DAYS

Andrew’s Lane Theatre & Vicar Street
Dublin. June 12 – 15

Featuring performances from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Dan Deacon, Low, Jape, Matmos, Deerhunter & many more.


Two of Ireland’s most active independent promoters have joined forces to create an exciting new live music event. Future Days is specifically designed to cater for mavericks in the music world, musicians who are ahead of their time, who have created their own styles and genres.

The inaugural Future Days event presents a series of all-star line-ups mixing and matching iconic veterans such as Will Oldham, Low and Matmos with emerging free spirits such as Dan Deacon, Baby Dee, Atlas Sound and our own Jape. Each act has been carefully selected for their distinctive musical abilities and each bill has been programmed to offer variety and contrast. These events will take place in two of Dublin’s most exceptional live music venues; the prestigious 1500 capacity Vicar Street venue, world renowned for its customised acoustics and spacious auditorium, and the re-opened Andrew’s Lane Theatre, now transformed into an exciting minimal warehouse space like nothing the city has ever seen before.

The performances:

June 12. Andrew’s Lane Theatre. 8pm.
MATMOS
Featuring: J Lesser
& special guests: SI SCHROEDER
An unmissable event, the opening FUTURE DAYS concert presents the debut Irish performance of Californian duo Matmos joined onstage by Matador Records labelmate and renowned fellow experimental electronic artist J Lesser. Also on the bill is Dublin-based artist/band Si Schroeder who made one of the most important Irish recordings of the decade with 2006’s Coping Mechanisms. www.myspace.com/sischroeder

Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel. They make music out of the sounds of objects, animals, people, and actions. They have collaborated with Rachel's, Kronos Quartet and Bjork (with whom they have toured extensively), taught seminars on sound art at Harvard University and the San Francisco Art Institute, and DJ’d at proms for homeless teenagers. They have had pieces in the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, did a 17-day live performance at the Yerba Buena Museum of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, and have scored the soundtracks for five gay porn films, one pinball machine, and one NASCAR television commercial.
Following on from 2006’s conceptual album of sound portraits, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mount of a Beast, the duo’s sixth and latest album Supreme Balloon is a departure into the world of “cosmic pop” and is made entirely out of synthesizers. www.brainwashed.com/matmos
Tickets available from tickets.ie, Ticketmaster, WAV, City Discs, Road Records

June 13. Andrew’s Lane Theatre. 8pm
LOW
& special guests: ATLAS SOUND + THE HOLY ROMAN ARMY
- followed by DJ DAVID KITT
This incredible line-up sees the return of minimalist Minnesota rock trio Low. The band’s last release was the stunning Drums and Guns in 2007, their second album for Sub Pop and their eighth in total.
Low formed in 1993. The band features Alan Sparhawk on vocals and guitar, Mimi Parker on vocals and drums, and Matt Livingston on bass and vocals. Sparhawk and Parker are married with two children; they first met in fourth grade in rural Minnesota. Livingston, the latest addition to the band, replaced longtime bassist Zak Sally, who previously replaced original bassist John Nichols. www.chairkickers.com

Atlas Sound is the side-project of Deerhunter’s Bradford Fox. On the debut album Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel [Kranky/4AD, 2008], Cox moves away from the over-driven effects-drenched rock and roll of Deerhunter to a more soft-focus ambient plane. www.myspace.com/bradfordcox
The Holy Roman Army are a new Carlow born brother and sister duo who blend Endtroducing style samples, blissed-out rock music and moody electronica to great effect. www.myspace.com/theholyromanarmy
Tickets available from WAV, Road Records, City Discs, tickets.ie, Ticketmaster

June 14. Vicar Street. 7pm
DAN DEACON * JAPE * DEERHUNTER
WHITE WILLIAMS * HIGH PLACES
Never to be forgotten, this show is an incredible one-off opportunity to catch five of the most exciting new artists in the world on the same bill. This concert is specifically a celebration of a new era of independent music. These are the songwriters and musicians leading the charge, free spirits each molding the sound and shape of their own careers.

After two years of non-stop touring, the one man carnival-of -fun Dan Deacon makes his third visit to Dublin. The irrespressible Deacon returns with his table of electronic jiggerypokery and trademark glowing skull to get down and dirty among the people for the sort of wild, unfettered and communal live music experience Vicar Street has never seen the likes of. www.whamcity.com

This is a most special occasion for the only Irish representative on this remarkable line-up. Richie Egan’s Jape celebrate the release of his third and finest album Ritual. Egan has become something of cult figure in Irish music circles. Yet with this album of throbbing electronic pop and fascinatingly honest balladry, Jape could well be on the brink of international success. www.myspace.com/richiejape

Deerhunter are no strangers to Dublin having twice blown the roof off Whelan’s in the last six months. Seemingly shambolic on so many levels, the Atlanta five-piece can be equalling devastating, either amidst the stormy maelstrom of noise that so many of their songs veer into or the eerie, brooding pop songs that shiver within. Huge expectation awaits their forthcoming album Microcastle scheduled for release in October. http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com

White Williams is the music project of Cleveland-based musician Joe Williams. Recently signed to Domino Records for the release of his debut album Smoke, Williams has built up a strong internet-based audience with his extensive touring with acts such as Girl Talk, Health, Vampire Weekend and Dan Deacon. Smoke itself is full of icy-cool grooves, surf guitar, West African guitar, and a steady flow of stoned electro-pop.
New Thrill Jockey signings High Places is our favourite new band. The primitivist pop duo specialize in simple productions and infectious rhythms, like Arthur Russell playing Althea & Donna or Beat Happening playing African music. www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
Tickets available from Ticketmaster, WAV, Road, City Discs, Soundcellar

June 15. Vicar Street. 8pm
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
& special guests: BABY DEE + PAUL CURRERI
Will Oldham is an artist who requires no introduction. His history of live performance in Ireland is the stuff of legend with numerous memorble nights at Whelan’s and Vicar Street with many great guests including Andy Irvine, David Pajo, Bill Callahan and Harem Scarem to name a few. Tonight will be extra special with the addition of Bonnie’s latest ally on the line-up, the remarkable Cleveland-born artist Baby Dee. Formerly a harp playing bear and an accordion playing cat, Baby Dee left behind her carnival antics for a world of serious music some years later. Aided by luminaries such as Antony and the Johnsons and Current 93’s David Tibet, Baby Dee now records for the esteemed Drag City label. Her latest album Safe Inside The Day was produced by Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney. www.babydee.org. Paul Curreri is a member of Baby Dee’s touring band and will perform a solo set to open this show with music from his forthcoming fifth album The Velvet Rut on Tin Angel Records. www.myspace.com/paulcurreri

Will Oldham has been calling himself Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy since 1998. He has made some 15 studio albums including his forthcoming Domino/Drag City release Lie Down in the Light. Employing elements of roots, Nashville country, rock and roll, contemporary orchestration and folk-blues, he is considered one of the great pioneering and uncompromising performers of his generation.
Tickets available from Ticketmaster, WAV, Road, City Discs, Soundcellar

June 15. Andrew’s Lane Theatre, 8pm
JOHN & JEHN
& special guest AIN

John & Jehn are a couple inspired by Serge Gainsbourg and The Velvet Underground. Their dark organ-boogie pop songs are embellished with spiraling vocal harmonies and distilled with a classic whiff of French amour. www.myspace.com/johnjehn
Special guest is Kildare indie-folk prodigy Ain. www.myspace.com/notain
Tickets available from WAV, Road Records, City Discs, tickets.ie, Ticketmaster

June 15. Andrew’s Lane Theatre. 11pm
METRONOMY
& special guests: SPILLY WALKER
The closing party of the first ever Future Days festival will feature a late-night blowout in ALT featuring Devon-based electronic artist Metronomy and David Kitt’s exciting new electronic disco project Spilly Walker with his younger brother, Robbie Kitt.
Metronomy is Joseph Mount. He makes the music and performs with a live band featuring bass, keyboards and saxophone. Metronomy is an in-demand remixer and his credits to date include Architecture in Helsinki, The Klaxons, and Roots Manuva.
Tickets available from WAV, Road Records, City Discs, tickets.ie, Ticketmaster

www.myspace.com/futuredaysfestival

 

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pardon my tenses matron!

pardoned. ticket bought. yessss... me twice in dublin in the same year! it's the end of days. and this time, unlike atp, this show won't be almost ruined by herds of jostling loudmouths trying to elbow their way to the front for slint. oh no.

 

[dudley]

very much looking forward to low tomorrow night, hope it hasn't sold out yet!

 

[Foggy]

tickets still available from www.tickets.ie

very much looking forward to low tomorrow night, hope it hasn't sold out yet!

 

[sweetoblivion]

I can't wait for Low, I can't wait for Low, I can't wait for Low!!!