Sonic Circuits Roll Call

Speaking of which…how do you think it's looking for tickets on Saturday and Sunday?  I'm horrible with guessing these things.

azaghal1981 wrote:
It's easy to see why they're on the bill.
They'll sell tickets.

its fucking faust though, wouldnt that sell it self

hell even rat bastard

I doubt sunday will sell out, saturday might though…

can't find the set times for saturday…can anyone post it again?

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Snailhook posted them somewhere in another thread. I forget which one, though.

found it…

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we just worked out the sonic circuits schedule for the 26th.  i can't promise it will be to the minute, but we do have to follow this schedule closely:

jandek: 9-10
kotra: 10-10:30
ergo: 10:45-11:15
tim hecker: 11:30-12:15
gunter hampel: 12:30-1:15

you could see jandek first, run over to see MONO, and then get back to see some tim hecker or gunter hampel. that's a pretty killer night of music, imo.

Actually, he PM'd be this undated list last week:

Velvet Lounge
SESSION I: 2pm-4pm
Sean Peoples
Pilesar
Soft Pieces
Second Land
Jeff Carey

SESSION 2: 4pm-6pm
ige*timer
qfwfqduo
ayyoko confidential
Olivia Block+Tomas Korber

SESSION 3: 7pm-9pm
Jandek
Northern Machine
Blevin Blectum
Kotra

SESSION 4: 9pm-1am
Ergo
Tim Hecker
Gunter Hampel
Fckn Bstrds

Ruiner wrote:
we just worked out the sonic circuits schedule for the 26th.  i can't promise it will be to the minute, but we do have to follow this schedule closely:

jandek: 9-10
kotra: 10-10:30
ergo: 10:45-11:15
tim hecker: 11:30-12:15
gunter hampel: 12:30-1:15

that's relieving. should i buy my ticket in advance for saturday?

And hopefully by the time Faust are on, the chatty hipsters will have left.

one of the most depressing events of the year was seeing the crowd of 300 or so who attended the magik markers/ghost show in williamsburg dwindle to less than 100 by the middle of ghost's set. we barely deserved the encore that we got. faust deserves better, and hopefully so.

it really is depressing, the state of things for experimental music. azaghal is 100% right on this: the only reason why health is on the bill is to sell tickets. kohoutek was supposed to open for faust but we got bumped by the black cat not wanting more than five acts, and because some of the european musicians have such a strict touring schedule, you're gonna see alexie borisov and anton nikkila instead of kohoutek.

epstein, rat bastard has no draw in dc.

i bet there will be more people traveling from richmond and baltimore to see faust than people in dc.

jandek goes on at 7. you could see that and go to polvo afterwards, or stick around and see tim hecker and gunter hampel.

health may be there to sell tickets, but they are a good band.  :P

jandek at 7?!  damn…what time is tim hecker hitting the stage, approximately?

snailhook wrote:
i bet there will be more people traveling from richmond and baltimore to see faust than people in dc.

Would that make this a natural Richmond show? HUTCH TO THREAD!!

BTW, what is RatBastard's real name/band name?

teepo wrote:

Ruiner wrote:
we just worked out the sonic circuits schedule for the 26th.  i can't promise it will be to the minute, but we do have to follow this schedule closely:

jandek: 9-10
kotra: 10-10:30
ergo: 10:45-11:15
tim hecker: 11:30-12:15
gunter hampel: 12:30-1:15

that's relieving. should i buy my ticket in advance for saturday?

And hopefully by the time Faust are on, the chatty hipsters will have left.

one of the most depressing events of the year was seeing the crowd of 300 or so who attended the magik markers/ghost show in williamsburg dwindle to less than 100 by the middle of ghost's set. we barely deserved the encore that we got. faust deserves better, and hopefully so.

I found the Magik Markers to at least be an appropriate opener for Ghost. They're on the same label and there is definitely cross-over between fanbases. However, Health are on sunday's bill only because they'll draw in a few hundred extra heads (the majority of whom will know nothing about any of the other acts playing).

azaghal1981 wrote:
I found the Magik Markers to at least be an appropriate opener for Ghost. They're on the same label and there is definitely cross-over between fanbases. However, Health are on sunday's bill only because they'll draw in a few hundred extra heads (the majority of whom will know nothing about any of the other acts playing).

Except that it will be that few hundred (perhaps more than a quarter of the audience?) that will make sure the club can actually pay the other bands, at least without going into the red for the night. An evil perhaps, but a necessary one. And likely one of the reasons this show is at the Black Cat and not a much smaller club or space.

Edit: NM, i see from your previous posts that you pretty much agree with me. Sorry for the redundancy.

so who should be blamed for booking Health at the BC? Sonic Circuits festival organizers?  ::)

No blame necessary. It only makes sense that they did it from a financial standpoint like Redsock said.

saw Gunter Hampel tonight in Richmond, totally raging free-jazz, hard bop. ecstatic fucking vibe playing. totally rad.

See that motherfucker.

Borisov/Nikkilä had a few moments of brilliance.
Airaksinen's
set was pretty and hypnotic.
Health stuck out like sore thumbs as expected and thankfully, the hipsters filed out like lemmings after their set.
Grier/Krieger/Rat Bastard was a fun noisy mess of guitars.
Faust played an excellent career-spanning 90 minute set.

so who should be blamed for booking Health at the BC? Sonic Circuits festival organizers?

it was a joint decision. health were touring through the same time we had sonic circuits, and both the black cat and the sonic circuits organizers (which include me and a couple of others) felt that adding health would be good for the draw. they are also just "experimental" enough to fit on the bill.

they really didn't help with the draw, to be honest. total attendance for the night was roughly 120. it might have gotten to 150. health was thoroughly mediocre noise-rock, beating a dead horse that died a few years back. i'm surprised anyone gets excited by these dudes. it isn't bad, just generic.

anybody see jandek? playing with him was a total trip. i felt it was a reasonably cohesive set, and apparently, jandek liked it. also totally unpredictable.