From Greg Clow Sent Fri, May 8th 1998, 00:45
From Greg Clow Sent Fri, May 8th 1998, 00:45
On Thu, 7 May 1998, NoZe Brotherhood wrote: > Are any of the Tortoise or Oval releases available at the concert? How > about t-shirts and other merchandising? According to the tour page at the Thrill Jockey website (www.brainwashed.com/thrilljockey), there'll be a couple of tour exclusive releases available at the show - a Tortoise 7" and a CD collection of the Tortoise remix 12"s that came out a year or so back. I'm guessing they'll probably have some regular releases there as well (they did last time). > I've never heard Oval's music > before and was wondering why someone said that their sound didn't come > off too well live. Who are they comparable too? No-one, really. I can see that it mightn't work well live, but I'll probably go anyway. Which reminds me - to once again follow up on a couple of earlier messages I've posted on this topic, Oval *is* going to be appearing at the make-up dates at the end of the Tortoise tour after all. He's doing the first half of the tour, leaving to do some shows with Jim O'Rourke during the second half, and then rejoining for the last few dates. Info at the website mentioned above. > Also, does anyone have any info on what the Gary Numan show will be like? > Is Switchblade worth catching??? Good lord, NO!!! They're absolutely horrible. Or so I've been told. On record, they're relatively bearable goth-pop type stuff, but according to my wife and several friends who caught them when some friends of our's opened from them in Toronto a few months back, they were shite. Totally mismatched to be opening for Numan, but that's the fault of the label, Cleopatra. I'm making a point of showing up late at the show in Toronto tonight so I don't have to see them. For those who'd like to do the same, the official Numan site (www.numan.co.uk) lists door times and on stage times for every show on the tour. Greg