Maximum Black Festival Club Tour

[jules]

MAXIMUM BLACK FESTIVAL CLUB TOUR

with Deerhoof *, Six Organs of Admittance, Frog Eyes, Dirty Projectors, Alexander Tucker & Stephen O'Malley %, and Max Tundra ^

28 Feb 2008 - Vienna - Arena *
Tickets here: oeticket.com 26,20 EUR


29 Feb 2008 - London - The Forum %
Tickets here :TicketWeb £19.57 (incl booking).
and here: See Tickets £21.50 (incl booking)

Venue Link: www.arena.co.at/AWU/
Venue link: www.kentishtownforum.com/

02 Mar 2008 - Berlin - Postbahnhof *^
Tickets here koka36 (cost 25.90 €)
Venue link:Fritz Club
Venue link:Fritz Club

* Deerhoof plays Berlin and Vienna
% Stephen O'Malley & Alexander Tucker play London
^ Max Tundra plays Berlin



Timetable for the shows
These are very strict so make sure you're there on time

Wien Show
Door 7:00
On stage:
Frog Eyes: 7:30-8:10
Dirtry Projectors: 8:30-9:10
Six Organs: 9:30-10:10
Deerhoof: 10:30-11:10
Final Fantasy: 11:30-00:30

Aftershowparty at the same venue but in a different room

London Show
Door:7:00
On stage:
Frog Eyes: 7:20-8:00
Six Organs: 8:10-8:50
Dirty Projectors: 9:00-9:40
Alex & Stephen: 9:50-10:20
Final Fantasy: 10:40-?


Berlin Show
Note: These are split between Small and Big Stage
Door 7:00
On stage:
Frog Eyes: 08:00-08:40 Small
Dirty Projectors: 08:50-09:30 Big
Six Organs: 09:40-10:20 Small
Deerhof:10:30-11:10 Big
Final Fantasy:11:30-00:10 Big
Max Tundra:00:30 - ? Small

Aftershowparty is at KIM (Brunnenstr)

[franx]

Wow, wish I lived there.

[jollyness]

Thanks for the heads up Jules.

[jollyness]

any link?

[funkage]

Yer cheers, a link would be superb, cos im in London then, YAY!!!

BABEL TRULY ARE TERRIBLE AT TRANSLATING

[malone]

oh, i am so hopefully at the berlin gig.
p4k has a video of the rip-off track, and it really is weird. the voice-over is really cheesy too...

gotta say though, this is a really good solution by owen to a weird situation. nice one

the original german is here:
nonstop.twoday.net/stories/4518453/

the curators are owen, patrick borjal, and susanne herrndorf.

[funkage]

Brilliant, where does it say in thet article that its in Kentish Town Forum. And have tere been any confirmed ticket prices or date of ticket release yet?

[funkage]

I have just checked Tomlab, and they mention the maximumblack festival but dont mention the London date, I am worried now!!

[jules]

funkage said:

I have just checked Tomlab, and they mention the maximumblack festival but dont mention the London date, I am worried now!!

You just have to have faith in the system. Have I lied to you that often?

Okay so there was the cabbages thread... but other than that have I lied to you that often?

[funkage]

This is true, you keep your lies to a minimum. Its just, Ive had several disappointments with getting tickets recently, from The Arcade Fire to Morrissey. It has been very frustrating, and I'm being overly cautious to avoid further disappointment, as I especially dont want to miss Final Fantasy, Frog Eyes and Deerhoof!!!

[funkage]

Sorry for another post, but ive just found this on pitchfork...

www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47592-final-fantasy-song-jacked-for-ad-leads-to-strikeangerstrike-strikelawsuitstrike-totally-sweet-music-festival

It says a different date for the London show, and that it will not be with Deerhoof, unfortunately.

It claims the gig will be on 27th February at the Roundhouse, Camden

[ejusw]

Hail to the Curator

[jules]

funkage said:

Sorry for another post, but ive just found this on pitchfork...

www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47592-final-fantasy-song-jacked-for-ad-leads-to-strikeangerstrike-strikelawsuitstrike-totally-sweet-music-festival

It says a different date for the London show, and that it will not be with Deerhoof, unfortunately.

It claims the gig will be on 27th February at the Roundhouse, Camden

Could be my info is out of date or their is....we'll need to get a confirmation. Shame if Deerhoof will not be at the London show as i was looking forward to seeing them. Wonder who headliner will be instead.

[meryl]

Someone nudge me when tickets surface. No way I'm missing this. And it's the best backstory to a festival ever.

[fiona]

Eat Your Own Ears and Final Fantasy presents
MAXIMUM BLACK FESTIVAL CLUB TOUR

Featuring
FINAL FANTASY
DIRTY PROJECTORS
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
FROG EYES

Friday 29 February
Doors 7pm

The Forum
9 - 17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY 020 7284 1001

Tickets £16 advance from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333

www.finalfantasyeternal.com
www.myspace.com/owenpalletmusic
www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors
www.myspace.com/frogeyes
www.myspace.com/sixorgans

Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy will be curating the Maximum Black Festival in London, Berlin and Vienna in February/March 2008 supported, strangely, by the Vienna Public Utilities company.

Vienna Public Utilties approached Final Fantasy in the hope of using their track “This is the song of Win & Regine” for their ad campaign. When Pallet turned them down, the company approached another band and asked them to record a similar song that ended up as a nearly identical cover, which the company then used.

Pallet used the threat of legal action to twist the company’s arm into backing his festival, Maximum Black.

FINAL FANTASY is the solo project of Owen Pallett ex Hidden Cameras member, violist / arranger for The Arcade Fire and guitarist and vocalist from Torontos Les Mouches who has won fans including David Bowie and U2. Tonight he continues to promote his new album 'He Poos Clouds', out now on Tom Lab.

Performing solo with only his violin and looping pedal, Owen builds up complex, wonderful songs, with catchy hooks and euphoric lush melodies that recall Rufus Wainwright, Philip Glass and in places Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart...

With guest musicians Pallet creates gems of baroque pop music and is currently working with Arctic Monkey’s Alex Turner on another solo project.

"The world's most popular gay postmodern harpsichord nerd." New York Times
"I saw him live and I was mesmerised. I was amazed by his voice and the sound of the whole thing" Kele Okereke; Bloc Party

DIRTY PROJECTORS, the music is many things at once: sophisticated and heartfelt, tender and aggressive, pleasing and miserly in its refusal to please, a mixture between soul, punk, pop, noise and complex rock. Dirty Projectors' new offering, Rise Above, is a reimagining of Black's Flag seminal 1981 record Damaged. It resounds with a kind of elegant simplicity: beautiful interlocking guitar parts, gorgeous three-part vocal harmonies, and some great songwriting.

The music is many things at once: sophisticated and heartfelt, tender and aggressive, pleasing and miserly in its refusal to please, a mixture between soul, punk, pop, noise and complex rock. Dirty Projectors' new offering, Rise Above, is a reimagining of Black's Flag seminal 1981 record Damaged, but not a covers record. Longstreth attempted to rewrite his favorite adolescent album word for word, from memory. A concept so lofty might just be hot wind if Rise Above weren't such a hell of a record on its own terms. It resounds with elegant simplicity: beautiful interlocking guitar parts, gorgeous three-part vocal harmonies, and some great songwriting.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE is the product of Ben Chasny and various recording and live collaborations, including work with drum legend Chris Corsano. Since 1997, Six Organs of Admittance has released on a variety of labels, and in 2005 Ben found a home at Drag City, releasing the landmark School of the Flower. The resultant perfect blend of melody, out-folk, minimalism and noise, earned critical applause and a place on best-of-the-year lists by magazines such
as Mojo, Wire, and Magnet. 2006’s The Sun Awakens features some of the most feedback-drenched, dark, cult-chanting, completely beautiful music ever released by the band. Chasny has also played in the touring band of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and plays guitar in the bands Current 93, Badgerlore, and Comets on Fire.

FROG EYES Carey Mercer’s voice channels a distorted Roxy Music, Neil Young and Thurston Moore over incredibly intuitive and connected music. The band assembled by Mercer both counterpoints and supplants in places, Melanie Campbell has developed a drumming style that challenges her husband’s voice as the primary mover and shaker. Michael Rak's bass playing is steady and precise and it's certain he's studied the great Peter Hook. Spencer Krug's keyboards are an unholy marvel, at once the flock of baroque birds chirping, and at other points the boom and groan of piano earthquake. Mccloud Zicmuse compliments Mercer's guitar, looping melodic blips and squiggles over the cyclone thrash. Frightening and maybe a little frightened, defiantly soulful and impossibly bleak, a hundred thousand years old, a hundred thousand hailstorms, a hundred thousand old photographs, a hundred thousandth of a second from epiphany.

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

ENDS