throbbing gristle to play live!

[Sheridan]

my friend informed me that throbbing gristle is playing live at a festival in may of next year. it will also include performances by coil and many others. there are full details at www.throbbing-gristle.com

anyone interested??

WOW, Yes MH and I have looked at that do at Camber Sands, we are thinking of going but its like £500 for a chalet for 5 people, does anypone else wanna share a chalet? Lydia Lunch, COIL, Merzbow, Scanner and Pansonic are playing too! I HAVE to go to this!

[invisibleplanet]

we were talking about this at the weekend....I'm recently introduced to COIL, and very impressed with what i've missed. It'd be great to get a chalet share together for this with some of u lovely no-future members. i'm definitely interested. It' over the weekend of 14/15/16 May, and u don't have to leave RETG until the Monday am for this one so it really is 3 evenings of music and visuals.

[c s]

could it be it's an errm... a bit bizarre location?!

[wheezer]

that is a sweet, sweet lineup

[decadnids]

i am a big fan of TG and Coil et al.

[Lady E]

that weekend is my 30th birthday and guess what, im going to another wedding!

would love to go to this otherwise...

[wheezer]

whoa, 30. I'm hanging out with a bunch of methusalems here

[Hazell]

Originally posted by c s
could it be it's an errm... a bit bizarre location?!

Same place as where they held ATP this year...

Having definately left a part of myself their back in April, I am wondering, IF I go too this, just how much me will make it back!

It's a HEEEAVY line-up though... This really is a one-off opportunity to see TG play - I s'pose it'd be rude not to!

Would love to see Coil play a LOUD set too - They were amazingly good @ ATP but I did feel a little dissapointed that they didn't blow my socks off!

It's a real shame, they never managed to secure a performance from Swans too... They would have fit right in with all the sonic mayhem.

[Lady E]

i like swans. not the cheeriest of bands though.

[Hazell]

No, defintely steer clear when feelin' 'fragile', hehehe.... (Then again same could be said for most of the TG-fest line-up.)

You ever see them play Emma? Seen them a few times @ The Astoria(although unfortunately not in their earlier days - I was about 6!!!) and the first (and most intense) was hilarious if nothing more than for the pretrified looks of blatantly tripping people hastily leaving the corwd in order to get their head togther... (Including a mate of mine, who I'd always considered to be pretty 'thick skinned' when it came to that sort of thing.)

10mins in to the set he was off like a shot...

All he could desribe was a "Huge dark wave".... COOOOL!!!

[Lady E]

no never saw them
can imagine it might be intense...
i only got into them a few years ago

dont have many of their records - 3 i think...

my cat and boyfriend dont like them

[Hazell]

Typically, as Michael Gira got older, the music mellowed somewhat(although the lyrics certainly didn't!!!)... and to look back there is a a nice level of diversity accross their recorded history...

I own predominantly later, accoustic based(In the BROADEST sense) stuff, but am eager to once again get recordings of the wickedly harsh Industrial era stuff like 'Greed' & 'Filth'... Love Of Life was always a bit of a favourite(although once again somewhat less intense), of which they even released some 'floor friendly' versions as singles... Real trance inducing stuff, but I don't think they'd go down too well on the dancefloor circa 2003!

I recommend the book Gira released in the mid nineties - The Consumer - I don't know if I still have my copy, but it arguably makes the music seem like childsplay!

http://www.younggodrecords.com/

[decadnids]

Originally posted by Hazell

Would love to see Coil play a LOUD set too - They were amazingly good @ ATP but I did feel a little dissapointed that they didn't blow my socks off!

i thought COIL where pretty fine at ATP - really got into them, loads of extreme pulses and drones - I was pretty fucking stoned tho - and that helped.

[Hazell]

Indeed, and I also thoroughly enoyed what they DID do, but I would like to hear 'both sides of the coin', as it were...

[decadnids]

Yes - true, the thing is a mate of mine saw them in london, and it was a pretty bad side of the coin by all accounts - with them doing some "ritualistic" stuff, and he describes the musick as being very "general midi" - so I think at ATP we got a good deal even if John Balance was well fucked up !

[decadnids]

now if Whitehouse where to play!!! (they nearly played in brighton this year, but it was canceled)...

[Hazell]

Yeah, man was ultra gutted not to make it to the night they did at Elekcrowerks at the end of last year(Regis played in support too if I remember rightly.)...

Here's a reveiw:

http://www.geocities.com/hagshadow/chris.html

[decadnids]

that would have been well raw!!!.

shame they didnt play in brighton, as it was gonna be in a well small venue!.

also shame Nurse With Wound aint playing.. .like that shit too. oh well cant have it all!

[Hazell]

The man from Delmonte, he say "MORE, you fuckers!"

[c s]

well, when saw the swans on their farewell tour, the music was definitely not "mellowed" - in fact i left the venue for it was just guitar noise chaos, nothing else. i loved the records but the live experience was totally disappointing. they had pan sonic as support act though which was cool.

[pille'ocheoni]

sounds interesting. also what the hells up man? how have you been ole sheridan? hope all is well

[grobelaar]

this is definitely on my list of things to go to next year... ...well I'm going to try and go to everything... ...as opposed to nothing that I did last year...

[animal night train]

definitely indending to do RE: TG next May. ATP was a life changing experience for me but I think it was entirely down to Autechre's line up and programming. Next year there's 2 ATPs, one in March (brrrrrr) and one in April. 6 days, each day with a different curator. Sounds good but rather fractured so I think I'll blow out and do the TG thing in what should hopefully be a nice sunny May weekend, getting down and dirty.

Thought Coil were wicked at ATP, I'm more into their droning stuff myself ("Time Machines"...mmmmmm) and like Hazell was incapable by that time on the Sunday of doing anything other than lying on my back on the carpeted area to the side of the stage and absorbing the vibe. I have an acceptable quality recording of their set on mp3 at home. Love the bit where he's going on about having a tranquilised horse in his chalet!!

[invisibleplanet]

i have a thing for COIL's 'Love's Secret Domain' Album. They're quite new to me (decadnids turned me on to them) and so far, this is my fave by far, and I'd like to hear more.

Black Light District is my fave by COIL, do you have it IP? If not I will have to send it you.

[animal night train]

Black Light District is wicked. Dark as. You don't have Time Machines though do you Me?

I think I do actually, I would have to hunt it out though, I think I have got all of them now.
If you like COIL you must try Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell stuff, they have also done stuff with Mick Harris, if you love that dark kinda thing. I love it!

[animal night train]

You have all of them? hmmm.

Yes about 20 or so LPs