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We are off to Venn Festival this weekend, just recovered from the namerica dates with Björk. We leave early Saturday morning, until then we are working on the Radium concerts with Finnbogi and hope to have a release ready very soon. Here is a small information sheet we got from Venn Festival which we duly share!
31st MAY – 3rd JUNE 2007, VARIOUS VENUES, BRISTOL, UK
A Hawk And A Hacksaw with The Hun Hangár Ensemble...Faust with Colin
Potter...Luke Vibert...Spring Heel Jack with M Sanders and J Spaceman...Jason Forrest Band...Paavoharju...Vladislav Delay...KTL...Green Gartside (Scritti Politti)...Extreme Noise Terror...SJ Esau...Lawrence...Quadrode (Portishead/Goldfrapp)...Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip...Ted Milton 'Odes'...Ghostigital ...Jack Rose...Adrian Orange...Baby Dee...V.I....Thee, Stranded Horse...Arrington de Dionyso...Manyfingers...Aufgehoben...Yellow Swans...Goodiepal...Silver Pyre...plus many, many more acts, full art programme, workshops, mistakes and magic
Updates:
- Bargain-priced advance tickets still on sale for all days – see the Venn website for info and detailed Saturday timetable...what's your itinerary to be?
- German legends Faust hit Venn with two more very special guests in tow alongside Nurse With Wound collaborator Colin Potter: GEOFF LEIGH (known for his work with seminal UK avant-rockers HENRY COW) and GERALDINE SWAYNE of feted space-blues trio BENDER. Friday 1st June, Arnolfini
- Check out the Venn podcast - a 55-minute flavour of the festival kindly hosted by our friends at Olo Worms: STREAM IT HERE
- Exciting reports reach Venn of recent Spring Heel Jack/J Spaceman live collaborations – including a nerve-melting take on an old favourite. They play Arnolfini at the climax of Saturday Side 1
- Ghostigital have been tearing it up and scaring the locals in support of Sugarcubes cohort Bjork on the US leg of her 'Volta' tour. They explode into action aboard Thekla Social as part of Saturday Side 1
- Which side of Luke Vibert will Venn see at Clockwork on Saturday night/Sunday morning? Upcoming releases on Planet Mu suggest an old-school acid house party awaits...only one way to find out
- Come one, come all, come Venn.
I, that is Mr.E, is back on board after doing the Chicago concert a week ago. Tonight we have the Shoreline Amphitheater. Me and Curver landed in SF last night after a pleasant 14 hour trip from Keflavik, Iceland.
We left the ever expanding Leifur Eiríksson Airport into Minneapolis and onto SF. Both of us woke up in excellent form. Curver though wanting to show me strength went surfing, I went on the treadmill and hamstered on for a mile or two.
We have not done souncheck yet, we might not as time does not allow that.
And here is a photo of Curver setting up, fortifying the myth we have invisible technical people with us.
IF you need more of Ghostigital, our site is still open
We brought our message of cod and piece to the fair city of Chicago last night amid thunder and lazers. Got zapped up by the powers that be and had a swell time doing what we are doing.
Ghostigital returns to Iceland to play on Wednesday with Finnbogi Pétursson and to return to San Francisco and Vancouver to play with Björk.
[late add review]
Together again
"As longtime fans may know, Einar Örn Benediktsson was the loud, obnoxious, seemingly non-musical character who led the Sugarcubes with Bjork, often inserting himself at the most inopportune moments to shout off-key or deliver a blast of gratingly harsh trumpet noise. Missing in action (at least in America) for a decade and a half, he has resurfaced with his abrasiveness undiminished as part of a two-man band called Ghostigital with producer, guitarist and electronics wizard Curver. They opened Saturday's show.
As Curver delivered a punishingly loud electro-clash assault, Einar ranted and raved, prancing about the stage and sometimes bounding off it to stroll down the aisle, only steps behind a portion of the audience that ran for the shelter of the lobby to ride out the storm. Those of us who stayed were rewarded with a provocative performance in the great electronic-punk tradition of Suicide, making you think, laugh and surrender to the glorious noise and chaos, and reminding veteran Bjork-watchers of when she first started to fly her freak-flag high."
