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Anyone checking out the Boredoms on their tour next month? I'm really curious as to what their set-up/general stage show will be like. Anyone seen them before?July 2nd in Toronto...psyched about that.
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06-30 Calgary, Alberta - The Warehouse
07-02 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
07-07 Brooklyn, NY - Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (Brooklyn Bridge Park)
08-04 Helsinki, Finland - Nosturi
08-05 Tampere, Finland - Klubi
08-08 Oslo, Norway - ??ya Festival
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-12 Copenhagen, Denmark - Radio Concert Hall
10-18 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
10-19 Hasslet, Belgium - KC Belgie
10-20 Kortrijk, Belgium - Sonic City Festival
10-22 Manchester, England - Academy
10-13 Glasgow, Scotland - Arches
10-24 Aberdeen, England - Moshulu
10-26 London, England - The Wire/Electra Festival
10-28 Dublin, Ireland - Deaf Festival
10-30 Cardiff, Wales - The Point
77 drummers?
Seen them on three different tours, and they felt like three different bands. First as a genuinely shocking noise outfit, then as a metal band, and finally playing their 45-minute Hawkwind-meets-Alice Coltrane sets.
Loved all three shows.
i gotta check that out!
These dudes are enormously influential these days. Seems like everyone's in a psychedelic drum circle these days.
June 26, 2007
JELLYNYC AND VICE PRESENTS:
BOREDOMS - 77BOADRUM
7/7/07
Legendary Japanese iconcolasts BOREDOMS, a visionary band who has
spent over twenty years pushing itself toward new frontiers, will
stage the most extraordinary concert of their career on July 7, 2007.
A once-in-a-lifetime performance featuring 77 drummers, and meant to
be performed just once (on 7/7/07), BOREDOMS will create 77BOADRUM as
a free show in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn
Bridge Park.
Located directly on the East River and majestically framed by the
Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park
section of Brooklyn Bridge Park provides an arresting stage for this
audacious performance. The free show will begin at 4pm and will
feature performances by First Nation and Soft Circle and DJ sets from
Gang Gang Dance before the 77-minute 77BOADRUM commences. Guests must
RSVP on www.viceland.com/77BOADRUM.
A volunteer army of 74 of the best players in New York City's
avant/experimental underground were selected by the event's music
director Hisham Bharoocha, including members of Gang Gang Dance, No
Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Excepter, Sightings,
Onieda, and more. They will join BOREDOMS drummers YOSHIMI, YOJIRO
and SENJU, alongside 77BOADRUM mastermind EYE on electronics,
effects, and vocals. A live sculpture built of musicians, BOREDOMS
stand at the center as 77 drummers on full 5-piece, 3-cymbal drum
kits snake around them in spirals, like the coils of a boa
constrictor.
The number 7 resonates on many levels to BOREDOMS. The Japanese
people descended from the Amur, a primitive people living on the Amur
River in Russia, to the North of Japan. The Amur were followers of
Amaterasu, the sun god. The Amur River snaked down from North Russia
to what's now known as the Sea of Japan, delivering the Japanese
people to Japan, who celebrate a cosmic connection with all that's
north, or above, the world. 77BOADRUM helps reconstruct the river
into a river stars in the heavens. On July 7 all of Japan celebrates
Star Day. "7 is the number when we try to express sun as sound," says
Yamatsuka Eye. "When I look at the sun, I see number 7."
The influence of BOREDOMS in underground, experimental, noise, and
performance-based music cannot be overstated. Starting in 1987 as a
hyperactive unit blasting quick sonic punches of chaotic intensity,
their early albums and violently happy live shows won them great
support in the Japanese underground and art scene. This incongruously
lead to one of the strangest major labels signings in music history,
as Warner Brothers started releasing their albums both in Japan and
the US. With support from bands like Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, and
Nirvana, the band built a following in the US and won a spot on the
1993 Lollapalooza tour. Around this time BOREDOMS were beginning to
evolve away from the chaos-rock of their past, zeroing in on tribal
percussion, electronicized krautrock, and trance-inducing power rock,
exemplified in the Super Roots series (1993-1999), recently reissued
by VICE Records. Their most recent studio album, 2005's Seadrum/House
of Sun (VICE), and their recent live shows, take another step toward
the cosmic in the way of ecstatic long-form ceremonies of percussive
intensity. 77BOADRUM marks another new chapter in the constantly
evolving soundworld of one of music's most imaginative bands.
77BOADRUM music director Hisham Baroocha is a writer, photographer,
and musician who collaborates frequently with BOREDOMS. The
Japanese-born Baroocha was previously a member of Lightning Bolt and
Black Dice, and performs currently as Soft Circle and in Pixeltan.
77BOADRUM is being produced by JellyNYC and VICE. JellyNYC was
founded on true creativity and the integration of many talents and
ideas. The company is an inter-media collaborative specializing in
creating one of a kind experiences for their audiences and partners.
They seek to create and support projects of the highest artistic
quality that resonate across the lines. The members of JELLYNYC are
constantly pushing through barriers, seeking out new ways to bring
people closer together on many different levels whether that is
through great music or authentic brands. VICE is an independent media
company founded in 1994 which encompasses Vice Magazine (distributed
in 18 countries worldwide); VICE Records; VICE Films; VBS.tv, an
online video network; and VIRTUE, a creative agency. VICE Records
released seven BOREDOMS records in 2006 and 2007.
77BOADRUM is supported by Nike, Scion, American Apparel, Sapporo,
Howling Monkey Cola and Slingerland Drums.
WEBSITE http://www.viceland.com/77BOADRUM
Best band of the last 20 years? I think so.
This shit is going to be completely insane.
i am a little scared.