Matmos Live

Saw them last night at the Triple Door... first time seeing them, so I had no idea what to expect, but it was great. The encore.. oh man... I'll never see "clicky house" the same ever again.

Sunday, free show at Easy Street Records in Lower Queen Anne.. will be totally different from Sat. night set... if you can easily see but miss this chance, you a choad. Ok, that was mean, but you'll be missing something. especially the DREWHAWK! :-D

ffwd to tonight, kickoff of the Balloon tour with Wobbly opening for West Coast dates, and Snacks for the rest.

You should be hip to the sounds of this Wobbly cat, chief. I hear engines roar when you get this guy revved up, chacha.

Support for the West Coast dates is Wobbly and the East Coast/Midwest dates will be Snacks.

7-Seattle, WA @ Triple Door [w/Wobbly]
9- Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater [w/Wobbly]
10-Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater [w/Wobbly]
12-SF, CA @ Great American Music Hall [w/Wobbly]
13 - LA, CA @ Echoplex [w/Wobbly]
15-Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theatre [w/Wobbly]
18-New York, NY @ LPR (formerly Village Gate on 158 Bleecker St) [w/Snacks]
19-New York, NY @ LPR [w/Snacks]
21-Toronto, ONT @ THe Music Gallery [w/Snacks]
23-Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center [w/Snacks]
24-Detroit, MI @ Detroit Institute of Arts [w/Snacks]
25-Pittsburgh, PA @ Andy Warhol Museum [w/Snacks]
27-Chicago, IL @ Lakeshore Theater [w/Snacks]

oops, finally found the Matador page.. OffTheSky is the opener for the Boulder show, not Wobbly, and then there's dis Baltimore shore

17-Baltimore, MD @ Whartscape

ok, DO NOT MISS DO NOT MESS

Tonight's show had fucking teeth.

Question for Drew: if you guys get offered ATP vs the Fans, would you actually play it? I have too many bands I want to vote for, but have never seen Matmos and would be ecstatic if I could.

I thought I'd post this here, from the ILE thread.

Our myspace tends to list shows but we're getting really lazy about listing stuff and I don't like to bother the Brainwashed folks until we have major news.

Upcoming shows of note:

Oct 27 Soft Pink Truth show with Vice Cooler at the hExagon in Baltimore

Nov 21 Matmos show with Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley at Disney Hall in LA

Jan 16 Matmos show at SFMOMA in San Francisco with lots of cool people

and that's it for this fall/winter, lotta touring plans for later next year when I am on sabbatical and we finish and release our album with So Percussion and tour with them in the US and Europe but that's not fully worked out yet, just finishing mixing that album at the moment so it's too soon to spell things out.

OH, and sorry to momentarily hijack WDYLL

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:07 (2 days ago) Permalink

Matmos. With Kronos. And Riley. Come the fuck on! Take it to Europe! To the Netherlands, at least. Would love to see you guys perform in whatever formation so I'm rooting for those 'later next year' dates to occur somewhere nearby...

^^ Cosign!

Has there been new Soft Pink Truth material in the works?

I honestly think seeing Matmos in 2006 may the best concert I've been to in my life, so please play Toronto again!

Nov 21 Matmos show with Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley at Disney Hall in LA

Need to get tickets for this...

Get one for me too. And a plane ticket. If you please.

Or write about the show somewhere. That'd be appreciated.

Can Drew maybe tell a bit more about said show? How did it come about and what's the premise, if any?

Free (!) show at the SF MoMA last night was vrry sxxxy. Opening amorphous ambient sound-blogs morphed into surprisingly percussive click funk. And that was just the first 12 or so minutes. Thanks for coming, boys

wait THAT WAS FREE? a friend told me it was like $60 or something. fuck, totally would have gone.

heard they ended their set with some rolling drum 'n bass!

Do you know what time you guys are supposed to play for your Toronto show tomorrow, I want to see if I can negotiate two events that night.

The show in New York last night was unabashedly fantastic - you should go!

and this is after I saw them a week ago!

I just saw them with So Percussion in NYC. It was great!

They are a great fit together for sure.

Do you know what time you guys are supposed to play for your Toronto show tomorrow, I want to see if I can negotiate two events that night.

haha emeralds???

Nah, Todd Sines/Basic Soul Unit. Really, though, there is such a ridiculously stupidly disgustingly amazing wealth of stuff going on this weekend.

to remind Gothamites... tonight

http://lcoutofdoors.org/events/full-band-electric-counterpoint-dither-and-friends-featuring-lee-ranaldo-yo-la-tengo-and-mark-stewart-matmos

Saw them perform tonight WITH A RUNNING WASHING MACHINE mic'd up and beat upon and rubbed and it was one of the coolest things I've seen in forever. Was expecting something a little more slapdash, but it was beautifully put together. People were dancing! Don't know if this is a tour thing but it absolutely should be.

they should do surprise shows at laundromats imho

not to be gross and self-promo but hey y'all if you're curious, please come see us!

Chicago March 15th Thalia in the Round w Jeff Carey
Providence March 18th Columbus Theater w Container
Brooklyn March 19th National Sawdust w Jeff Carey
Philadelphia April 13th International House

Uk and Europe this summer too

SPOILER ALERT but someone documented the whole Baltimore show right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmRpzW4uILY&app=desktop

Had totally been wanting to go to the London show tonight but... too cray rn. ;_;

wow, touring with the machine must be a challenge

i saw them tonight. the percussion guy they have with them was excellent. the show was too short, and i dont think they went far enough with it on stage IMO. some really great moments, and it was often weirdly (and no doubt intentionally) sensual how they treated the machine, but i wanted to hear them get into more grooves with it.

thanks for coming! we had fun playing tonight and the bass in that PA was pretty lush. Hope you dug Unica Zürn!

touring with a washing machine IS a challenge honestly- we blew three power transformers in Berghain before we found models butch enough to dish out the requisite power. And getting 30 gallons of water safely on and off stage in the midst of drawing serious electrical power isn't cute either. But we try.

v sad i couldn't make it tonight, you should do your next album and tour for washing machine too so i don't feel i've missed out on much.

the bass in oslo hackney rattles the building very nicely.

next time bring an orchestra of washing machines :) thats what the album sounded like to me!

Had the album played last night at record club and it was great fun.

http://thequietus.com/articles/20380-matmos-at-the-barbican omg this sounds amazing

Holy holy holy shit. Matmos + Robert Ashley = fucking hell I am getting tickets ASAP.

Martin & Drew DJing on Hollow Earth Radio rn: http://www.hollowearthradio.org

west coast shows happening this week:

Dec 09
The Vera Project
Seattle, WA

Dec 13
Gray Area
San Francisco, CA

FYI

Feeling the hard psychedelic edge of extreme jetlag here in the Frankfurt airport en route to @unsound where we will play a Matmos set out of only the finest plastic garbage imported from scenic Baltimore ✈️👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻👑Fans of conceptual electronic music are encouraged to attend 🦠☮️♻️

— DREW “HAUNTED” DANIEL (@DDDrewDaniel) October 11, 2019

Sat Sept 9--“Bring On The Audio Alchemy”- Matmos (electronic duo & Björk collaborators) will be mixing to celebrate 75 years of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings by sampling Folkways Recordings LPs such as the Sounds of North American Frogs, Sounds of the Junk Yard, and Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, and more, into original compositions from 1 to 4 @ 1–4 PM @ Hirshhorn Museum Plaza in Washington DC

It was raining a bit today and I didn't go. I wonder if it happened or got moved indoors and happened there

It happened, I was there for the last hour or so while it was raining. The group were set up under a large overhang so they were protected and the staff put plastic bags over the speakers!