Newsletter 8
Autumn 2000
- Shortcuts onlyThe next issue will tell
more detailed stories, this time we'll focus on Shortcuts only. But the
main news is, of course, the present October/November tour with the
magnificent Zu from Rome, and the new recordings in late November for the
new album.
Shortcuts
+++ The last couple of months we've been practising a lot, finishing
the songs that we want to play live first and then record in the studio,
As for the rest, we bought a new van (yellow this time, because the red
ones get stolen too often), and after recording the new CD (in France, and
once again with Steve Albini) in late November, we'll have to search for a
new practice-room, as the building we're in now will be torn down. +++ The
new album will be out on Ex Records Holland and Touch And Go USA, and it's
scheduled for release in April. Simultaneously we will release a CD in
Holland with the live-recordings of the Ex Orkest project we did early
this summer, which was a big success. Sung in Dutch, so you'd better be
careful! +++ That's also the reason the singles-compilation is delayed
once again. (Sok doesn't even dare to mention another release-date
anymore!) +++ Meanwhile the mayor of Amsterdam and his obedient servants
of the law are making fools of themselves by heading for the eviction of
the Kalenderpanden at the Entrepotdok, the best place in town for
interesting non-commercial concerts and exhibitions. Big blah blah about
wishing to make Amsterdam a breeding place for Alternative Culture while
at the same time killing all the spots that already have been breeding
this kind of culture like hell for ages! +++ Kalenderpanden get a lot of
support, from all corners of the local cultural globe, so maybe there is
still a little chance that the city will come to its senses. +++ After
twelve years we return to Croatia (Zagreb) and Slovenia (Ljubljana)! +++
Terrie's successful duo-CDs on Terp Records with respectively Ab Baars en
Han Benink will be released in the US by Atavistic Records from Chicago.
+++ Scheduled on Terp Records early next year is the first CD since a very
long time of Eritrean singer Tsehaytu Beraki. +++ In late November Sok
will publish his first book in Dutch, "Van God Los", a
compilation of the nonsensical no-nonsense columns he wrote over the years
under the name of Goeroe Overflakkee for the alternative Dutch music
magazine Opscene (which, by the way, unfortunately enough ceased to exist
for about two months). In his native tongue though, so start learning to
read Dutch if you wanna know what he had to say all these years! +++ Kat
and Luc will do a one-off gig with the German trombone-player Paul
Hubweber in Oberhausen's Druckluft venue. +++ Kaffe Matthews and Andy plan
to release a new CD within the next few months on the new label Unsound.
+++ 4Walls featuring Luc will tour France from March 22 till April 1st. An
album is scheduled for April also. +++ Maybe The Ex will do a short France
tour in February, too. +++ We're invited to play at the British All
Tomorrow's Parties three days festival in coming April. Other bands on the
bill are a.o. Tortoise, Calexico, Sea & Cake, and very likely Sun Ra
Arkestra, Yo La Tengo, Björk and the original line-up of Television. +++
Maybe we'll manage to organize a little trip through England around this
event. Would be our first one over there since 1994! +++ Okay, that's all.
+++ Newsletter 9 arrives in April 2001. +++ Till then. +++
Andy, Terrie, Luc, Sok,
Katrin, Colin, Grrrt.
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