Throbbing Gristle reform for a one off festival - Classic or Dud?

Trust me on this one!

looks like it's worth going in any case. more than a few good things in the lineup.

14 May
Coil
Carter Tutti
Black Dice
Lydia Lunch
Alec Empire
Soft Pink Truth
V V E
films + videos

15 May
Thee Majesty
Scanner
Richard H. Kirk
Matmos
Mego Tag Team
Daniel Miller DJ
Project Dark
Big Bottom
People Like Us
Jack Sargent
films + videos

16 May
Throbbing Gristle
PanSonic
Merzbow
Andrew Weatherall DJ
Thighpaulsandra
Jim O'Rourke
Simon Fisher Turner
John Lacey DJ
films + videos

14-16 May
Site specific Artworks by Jake & Dinos Chapman.
Rare film works from the Derek Jarman archive.
Site specific sound installations
24-Hour in-house TV programming.
Exclusive merchandise.
And many more Industrial attractions.

Out of all the poosible ways for them to reform, this is the absolutely correct answer. I am not into all of the acts, but there is a lot of music I would love to see. I wish I could make it.

Affirmative, only with a slight touch of Carol Channing for good measure

and this interview must be read to be believed. genesis p orridge and phil oakley in the same room! (but john foxx, gary numan, and omd nowhere in sight!!)

priced me out of the game.

26th April 2004
BREAKING NEWS RE:TG EVENT MOVED TO LATER DATE!

FOUNDATION / ATP on behalf of Throbbing Gristle are very sorry to have to announce that it will NOT be possible to put on the RE~TG event as planned.

Despite good sales for the event (in excess of 1600 tickets) unexpected cost rises and scheduling complications would have required the festival virtually to sell out before enough funds were generated to put on the RE~TG festival that TG, Paul Smith and Foundation intended.

All ticket holders will be offered a FULL refund from point of purchase OR alternatively can transfer their tickets to a TG curated ATP weekend event at the same venue on April 15 - 17th 2005, at which TG have agreed to give their last ever concert performance.

All the other artists on the current RETG bill will be invited to play then also, and we anticipate the participation of a number of yet-to-be-confirmed 'high-profile' special guests as well.

TG have asked me to pass on their apologies to everyone for this situation, and to stress that the situation was NOT of their doing.

Mindful that many people will have already booked travel to the UK from afar, TG have decided to invite all CURRENT ticket holders to a PRIVATE RECORDING SESSION at a secret location in London on the AFTERNOON of Sunday May 16th- the same day they would have played at RE~TG .

This invitation is FREE and stands, regardless of whether you also select a full refund of your ticket money or to transfer your ticket to ATP 2005. Ticket holders will be notified and details of how this will work will be on the ATP and TG websites in the next few days.

The result of the recording will be a totally new TG work - TGDVD which will be available thereafter. TG also hope to include a list of the names, and maybe even photos of all attendees in the DVD package.

Incidentally, this session (not open to the general public) will also be a unique opportunity to obtain exclusive TG related artifacts, some intended for RE~TG, which are certain to become collectors items as soon as they leave the building.

We are all very sorry to disappoint those looking forward to RE~TG and are working hard to make up, in whatever practical way we can, for this otherwise insurmountable problem.

Barry Hogan
Foundation /ATP
Monday 26th April

31st December 2005 - 1200 capacity standing event with full Quad Sound system.

yeah, `cos you don't want to miss any of the pithy sonic nuances of, say, "Subhuman" or "Slug Bait", etc.

US tour in the works...

http://www.losanjealous.com/2009/02/04/throbbing-gristle-to-tour-usa-play-6000-capacity-tent-at-coachella-ucla/
April 16: New York - Brooklyn Masonic Hall
April 19: Coachella (Sunday) (7pm-ish, 6k-capacity tent stage)
April 21: Los Angeles - UCLA
April 23: San Francisco -Grand Regency Ballroom
April 25: Chicago - Epiphany Episcopal

April 21st UCLA gig is apparently TG performing a live soundtrack to the 1980 film In The Shadow Of The Sun

I am seriously considering a plane ticket to Chicago, that one is two sets.

omg

Brooklyn Masonic Hall isn't very big.

urggggh

Whoever booked Throbbing Gristle to play a church is inspired and damned.

They could pull a Tangerine Dream at Reims Cathedral

Episcopalians are down with Satanism and that sort of thing.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b93/ohmybeautiful1/father-ted-careful-now.jpg

bought my two show pass for the Empty Bottle

looks like tix already gone for nyc show

I'm not big on reunions but the endless not was so fucking god, this is just them picking up where they left off

I saw them at the Astoria in 2004 and it was almost impossibly good. there's a difference with reunions when every one of the individual members kept at their solo careers. they play the old songs, but they sound new. while at the same time, you actually get to see TG playing things like 'What A Day', which did my head in, it was so alive

burt_stanton will be there. will u?

bought my two show pass for the Empty Bottle

Me too. Any idea what the VIP passes were? Looks like those are gone.

grand regency ballroom eh? i don't think i could be more excited

In The Shadow of The Sun - TG at their sleepiest!

TG Live - D-U-fuckin'-D.
Trust me on this one!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, July 18, 2003 5:23 PM (5 years ago)

Well... sort of. Chicago show was certainly not one of the greatest shows I've ever seen, but it was one of the most special just for the fuzzy feelgood family reunion vibes everybody (band included) were feeling. But I was reminded that they really aren't a very technically adept group. The songs didn't have endings, just kind of lurched to a halt. I certainly don't regret the plane ticket.

Strange to think they've spent as long in their reunion phase now as they were together the first time around. So much has happened, two of them lost their life partners, it must be nice to do a tour with what amounts to some of your oldest friends after a few hard years.

setlist, I think:
Very Friendly
Persuasion
Something Came Over Me
new song that fried my brain, Gen played white violin
Almost A Kiss
The Endless Not
another new tune
What A Day
Discipline

i was sorta unimpressed, too. the percussion and bass were insanely loud/deep, making it near impossible to hear any of the effects sleazy was doing. they seemed to make a lot of the songs muuuuch faster; "discipline" at the end wound up sounding like some sort of mutated happy hardcore number. which maybe was the point. but i guess i don't like this new digital sheen they're going for. cosey was delightful, tho

also they kept the lights on throughout the show! not a fan of this

As a besotted devotee, I was pretty ecstatic about that TG Chicago show. I think the best part was the balance between how totally immersive, spacy, woozy and "formless" (in the best way) the 7 pm "In the Shadow of the Sun" concert was by contrast with the TG-go-pop format of the 10 pm show. They had lots of range. "Very Friendly" was incredible! And I like the insistently clinical bright white lights the whole time- it was a very TG move to make it a little bit alienating and factual. Another good "guarantee disappointment" gesture was to follow their most gruesome track "Hamburger Lady" with the incredibly sentimental "Almost a Kiss"- that's the kind of wrenching jump in sensibility that clearly threw everybody off balance- precisely because you're all moody old goths dressed in black you have to sit in a bright room and hear a crooned/warbled love song- exactly what the fanbase DOES NOT WANT. Gen's stage patter was hilarious too: in response to an audience member saying "turn off the lights", he shot back "But we're GORGEOUS! Don't you want to see us? Four beautiful people in an ugly world. . . . "

There was plenty to like about the SF show. Genesis' patter was so laid back: 'Who are you twisted people ... ? How did you get this way? Well you didn't get it from us, that's for sure'

But I kept thinking about the thin line between laid-back and bored. The 2004 Astoria show, they were all so acutely uncomfortable and tense with the situation that it just boiled over into the music, by the end of that set I remember Genesis just howling through almost every track, it was transcendent. This definitely felt more like the professional 2009 US tour, all their gear fitting into carry-on bags, the songs trailing off instead of twisting into the next piece...

I got the joke with the lights. They were on bright for the first three songs, then started fading down sllllowly with 'Hamburger Lady' and you could feel the room start to sway, mounting excitement but then halfway through the song the lights started coming up again... we've been had

The sub-100Hz plummeting sweeps at the end during 'Discipline' though, I would have left happy having paid twice, it was just great to see them

having had a night of sleep and a day of travel has made me appreciate the show more. I was cool with the lights on (it made it easier to admire those crazy open circuit boards Sleazy was messing with), and that "4 beautiful people" line was classic. I think the "Discipline" wasn't necessarily faster, but the rhythm was different. The crowd was fascinating, very mixed in terms of age/gender/race/fashion etc. and the whole "Shadow Of The Sun" part was great, significantly different than the old recorded version (those choral samples!). like being in a black hole of sound and video.

I haven't been to Chicago in 20 years but locals were saying Logan Square wasn't the best place to see bands. I think that explains the weird sound in the 2nd set, Cosey was low in the mix as well.

did anyone else see that they had Gristleizers for sale? during the period when we were waiting outside for the second show some guy came out with one, he said that Chris Carter had given the schematics to a company in Asheville NC and 7 had been made for the tour. He got it signed by the band. somebody asked him how much it was and he said "a lot".

did anyone buy the exclusive us tour cd?

Probably should have dropped the grand and a half plane fare. Sleazy ruled out an antipodean tour when he was here.

did anyone else see that they had Gristleizers for sale? during the period when we were waiting outside for the second show some guy came out with one, he said that Chris Carter had given the schematics to a company in Asheville NC and 7 had been made for the tour. He got it signed by the band. somebody asked him how much it was and he said "a lot".

more info plz

persuasion sounding HEAVY

more info plz

RE: Gristleizer: it had four dials, I think, two were for Depth and Rate iirc. The implication was that they had only made 7 at this point but would make more. Other than that that's all I know.

I got the CD, it is very abstract in a good, murky, swirly TG way. Minimal vocals. I only listened hard once, but it seemed like the two new songs they performed were not on it.

there's photos of the new gristleizers on chris carter's flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/3477451084/

apparently the tour cd is outtakes from the desertshore sessions?

pygmy squirrel's review is pretty much exactly how I felt about the show. No one else has agreed with me! I was not present for the film soundtrack, though

http://revision3.com/xlr8rtv/genesis/

WEDNESDAY 17th June - GLASGOW

"Apparition Foretold" - An evening with Throbbing Gristle
Presented by Industrial Records & Optimo in conjunction with Tramway Visual Arts Dept.
at Tramway 1, Glasgow (tramway.org)
Doors open 7.30 pm- TG onstage @ 8 pm
Tickets £20 exclusively from Tramway
By Phone: Tramway Box Office: 0845 330 3501 (calls charged at normal rate)
Monday to Saturday 10am -8 pm . Sunday 12 noon - 6pm
In Person: 25 Albert Drive., Glasgow, G41 2PE
Counter sales from Tuesday to Saturday 10 am - 8pm, Sunday 12 noon - 6pm
Please note their are no online sales for tickets to this event.

Throbbing Gristle’s first ever performance in Scotland!
The evening will consist of two sets by TG - a live film soundtrack to a short film by Cerith Wynn Evans,
and a full TG live set of material from across the groups career.
This second set is based on TG’s recent USA tour set which received ecstatic responses,
to sold out audiences across America.

Cerith Wynn Evans will perform a short DJ set mid evening.
The event is presented in kind collaboration with local heroes and longtime TG supporters, Optimo.
DJ sets by JD Twitch & JG Wilkes.

This event is celebrate the forthcoming August exhibition by the Tramway and the UK premirer of a large scale collaborative sound sculpture piece with international visual artist Cerith Wynn Evans (White Cube Gallery)
entitled “A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=ON” (2009).
The sculpture was originally shown earlier this year in Japan at the Yokohama Triennale
where the piece drew much attention and praise.

damn, i'll be in Barcelona :(

this:

Throbbing Gristle (Late Show)
Additional tickets available now!

Heaven
9 The Arches
Villiers St
London WC2N 6NG
United Kingdom

Support comes in the form of DJ Cerith Wynn Evans.

Very much enjoyed the interview Stormy posted! I wish it had gone on for a few more hours, though.

Yes, what a lovely interview.

Plz to visit Austin TX soon?

(Yeah right...)

http://www.optimo.co.uk/tgglasgow.jpg

set list for part 2 tonight -

persuasion
live ray
hamburger lady
almost a kiss
springbankistan
what a day
discipline!

assume this board is tapped

nothing short of a total set list!

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