Is Sunn O))) on tour/planning a tour any time soon?

Mickey is waaaaayyy OTM here; and weed doesn't really help for khanate. just makes it painful.

for sunn, boring is kinda the point i think?

when Malefic took the stage at the church, it was the hail satan moment of the (war on) xmas season.

Hey Mickey, what show did you go to?

Where is the ABC2? I expect i'll go to that.

Who did you see there?

there was something just so gratifying about 200 people packed like sardines in a small room, everyone wearing black hoodies (EVERYONE!) eyes closed in pitch blackness, while an oren ambarchi tape piece played through the mains for like 20 minutes before the band even went on stage... not a word spoken by anyone, just pure deference.

the economy of gesture on display was highly impressive - 90 minutes and a total of 57 notes (i counted!) 3 guys in black graduation robes (without the hats/tassels) - 2 guitar and bass/moog - and yeah the corpsepaint singer came out and just BREATHED into 45 seconds in reverb for 20 minutes at the end while the moog player queued up this really nice and almost rhythmic filtered white noise/lfo sound that came across like a lost eliane radigue piece.

well, needless to say i was and remain entirely impressed. if you're impatient or are just unwilling to submit, it's probably going to be a tough concert. but otherwise... pretty damn colossal...

For you londoners
Frieze Music 2006
Sunn 0))), described by the New York Times as "not unlike listening to an Indian raga in the middle of an earthquake" and by Julian Cope in the Guardian as "taking metal to places you never imagined", are to headline Frieze Music 2006, along with Berlin-based avant-garde rock trio Liars.

Curated by musician Steve Mackey (PULP), Dan Fox (Associate Editor, frieze) and forward thinking promoter and record label Upset the Rhythm, Frieze Music is the off-site music programme for Frieze Art Fair which has won critical acclaim over the past three years. The programme in 2006 is sponsored by Freedom Beer and takes place at the London Hippodrome on 13 and 14 October.

Friday 13 October, £14 + booking fee
Saturday 14 October, £14 + booking fee
Two nights, £23 + booking fee
Tel +44 (0)870 890 0514
www.seetickets.com
Doors open 7pm

Friday 13 October
SUNN O))) Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson bring their theatrical and visceral minimalist drone-metal London for a special one-off performance.

BURNING STAR CORE Cincinatti based C Spencer Yeh with epic, adventurous sounds, by turns uneasy and beautiful.

LEOPARD LEG A 10-plus all girl drum troupe from Brighton and London.

RUSSEL HASWELL Birmingham-born sonic artist.

Saturday 14th October
LIARS Now based in Berlin, Liars' third album has revealed voodoo rhythms and splintering shards of noise; shimmering atmospherics and tender moments of dreamy harmony.

ERASE ERRATA Californian based Erase Errata weld politically charged lyrics to the intense no-wave sound of rattling percussion, razor-edged guitar & trumpet blasts.

BARR The voice and drums project of Brendan Fowler. A self-proclaimed 'motivational speaker'for lapsed indie and punk kids. Also a member of New England Roses with JD Sampson of Le Tigre.

THE CURTAINS Former Deerhoof member Chris Cohen's San Fransisco based project. Eccentric and optimistic - The Curtains are full of poker faced genre disobedience.

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk

This seems as good a place to ask as any - I keep listening to "La Mort Noir dans Esch Alzette" and the Black One bonus disc (downloaded, obv) but haven't realy heard anything else by them. What else should I go for?

i guess recommendations of albums by anyone else would be good too (although i've eg heard some khanate and didn't love it).

There was only 10 left by the time it got to the UK and they all sold in London at £100 each.

Look how much profit that seller got.

here's the details:

http://www.bardensbar.co.uk/events.htm

I think there is, yeah.

gah, i'm unexpectedly in london tomorrow (i thought i would be in germany), and the meltdown show is sold out. any ideas where i might try begging for spare tickets?!

Outside it? (sorry, not much help)

For a similar experience, why not lean a guitar against a Marshall stack and watch Ewoks : The Battle For Endor instead?

Actually the SBC might do returns, you could phone 'em up on the day and ask if any tickets have become available.

good idea, i didn't think that! otherwise i guess i will just have to go down there and hope - any idea if they have any especially limited merchandise i can buy otherwise?

For a similar experience, why not lean a guitar against a Marshall stack and watch Ewoks : The Battle For Endor instead?

Also, hire a smoke machine and fill the room till you can't see your hand an inch from your face. It'll be just like the real thing!

ha, i didn't realise i'd seen sunn o))) with nurse with wound:

http://forums.southernlord.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25050

The london gig?

yep.

Oh wow, Sunn were SO GOOD at ATP, even before Anderson lamped O'Malley.

Pretty damn good at the Forum also, although the collaboration with Boris proved to be the highlight - massive titanic waves of glacial sonic rumble transporting one to meditative states where time was an irrelevance and experience could only be measured in terms of bass frequencies coarsing through the floor and body. I could have watched that shit forever. There was a slightly weird vibe on stage, a bit like "lets get this over with" which was all explained when I returned home to my internets. The ending to the ATP show sounds amazingly harsh: three or four vintage Sunn Beta Leads crashing to the floor and the sound of valves shattering through that massive PA must be something else.

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v153/227/125/550065000/n550065000_1831987_3081.jpg

Sonned 0)))

Huh? Did something weird happen?

Yeah, fill us is. I didn't hear about this.

I wasn't at ATP, only the Forum show the day after but basically the set seemed to in an altercation between Anderson & O'Malley which ended with O'Malley getting punched and falling in to that precious Sunn O))) backline leading to the scenario pictured above. Pretty crazy. What did you see from where you were Craig?

No mention on it on the SL board, so either it's all been censored or no one knows.

There's plenty of discussion here (and some fuller reports - I meant to post this link above):

Sunn live at Minehead Butlins Yesterday: WTF?!

Yeah someone just pointed me to it, cheers.

The fite seemed like part of the ritual. Maybe it is time that some of ((((SUNN))) released their life energy, to immanentise the eschaton.

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Hmmm

The phrase WTF? was coined with this situation in mind.

I've been away from machines all weekend. Any ideas what was going on over there?

I would imagine they were sick of reading gossip about themselves.

It was mostly in the part of the forum noone read though! No doubt they will say its other things/people. There were a few new posters who were dicks but nothing major.

MV who were you over there? I was pfunkboy

Oh I was a lurker (of chalice) only. That place made ILM look sane!

Only because of Doom Dom!

It seems quite drastic to remove the whole forums. If it's a permanent thing then that's a real shame, as there was a lot of good discussion and information and community there, along with a whole lot of bitching, moaning and arsehole-ish behaviour, of course.

Well, check the emails you signed up with. Goat Shed II is happening with same log in details as the SL board.

Completely rubbis that they've pulled the forums - had a good mix of people: the metal heads, droners, noise dudes, etc. It's very rum of them to pull it without any notice to the community that grew up around it.

...maybe Mr. Doom Dom should post on ILX...

oh god don't say that!

and head over to the new forum. Doom Dom is maybe getting his own area.

ILX wouldn't know what's hit it if he posted here.

I read the board fairly regularly and it's great for upfront info on new stuff coming out and just people who know their stuff generally but some of the shit people talk on there is mindblowing. Like if ILM had a rap thread that even remotely resembled any rap thread you ever read on there there'd be like a Jonestown of bannings before you knew it. (I realise you don't go to the Southern Lord forum to get RAPOPINIONS4U, but even so.)

I never usually read those threads but there's some real genuine hip-hop heads on SL. But if it's anything like the rnb thread that was on there once, there's probably people moaning that it doesn't belong on SL. But most people would tell that kind to STFU. It's the fact anything is discussed is what keeps people there and so enjoyable.
Plus on the new forum(same login details as before) DV says zero-tolerance on wankers. So it should be even better.

It's moved to a permanent site now
http://www.foreverdoomed.com/ same username and passwords as the SL site. And the bonus is everyone lost their post count so you cant see how much time you wasted :)

The disappearance of the SL board means I've forgotten what the name of the next live album was supposed to be, so I'm having trouble googling to work out what it's called/when it's due out. Does anyone know? I remember it was recorded in a cathedral - maybe Bergen?

Anyone who's into both Sunn O))) and the 33 1/3 books might be into Lee Klein's Neutral Evil ))). It's not a 33 1/3, and it's not about a record of theirs, but it is the same physical dimensions of a 33 1/3, and it's 109 pages of modern autofiction about/around the author's experience seeing them live, and the live show is sort of the band's real record anyway. Plus, Lee is a swell dude who may or may not be the same one who started this thread.