Gate European tour, June - July 2009
 

Michael Morley is coming to Europe! :cool:

Michael Morley is not coming to the UK :confused:

Michael Morley has no official website or myspace, so I can't easily find tourdates :(

If anyone finds that Gate is playing near them, please post details here :)

Known dates so far:
12 June 2009 - BOZAR cinema, Brussells, BELGIUM
18 June 2009 - Plano B, Porto, PORTUGAL
19 June 2009 - Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
22 June 2009 - Le Kab, Geneva, SWITZERLAND (co-production with La Cave)
23 June 2009 - Sonic, Lyon, FRANCE
26 June 2009 - La Société de Curiosités, Paris, FRANCE
27 June 2009 - Kunstencentrum, Hasselt, BELGIUM

Also, as part of an afternoon of performances of pieces by Cornelius Cardew on Sunday 7 June, a quartet of Michael Morley, Nina Canal, Nadia Lichtig and Sara Stephenson will be performing The Tiger’s Mind at Le Centre d'Art Contemporain de Bretigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, FRANCE - Lee Ranaldo has confirmed he will NOT be taking part in this performance.

http://www.myspace.com/dewline

not sure this would work as updated source for infos :| ha ha ha
I hope berlusca's new laws on immigration won't scare foreign artists ha ha ahaa.
Weird day today, let's hope for italian dates.

Curiously, I'm hoping for Italian dates too. Venice, Verona or Milan would be nice.

23 June 2009 - Sonic, Lyon, FRANCE http://www.myspace.com/soniclyon

has the uk been ruled out or is that no uk dates have been announced?

i've posted on the dead c yahoo group about this, hopefully it will generate some further info

Didn't know there was a Dead C yahoo group, but I joined right away.

I will see Gate this tour, even if it means going to Belgium.

UK has been ruled out, by Michael Morley. When I contacted him, he didn't know his itinerary, but he knew the UK wasn't on it.


His exact words:

thanks for your mail, i have Gate shows booked for June in Europe, from 7 June -27 June i think, i haven't a list as yet, but soon. No plans for the UK i am sorry to say.
kind regards
michael

it's not very active

On the 22 of June, GATE will play in Geneva, Switzerland at La cave 12.

Michael Morley replied in the Dead C yahoo group with possibly some good news for you:

sorry no UK dates have been planned at present, i did have four dates offered but it was all a little too tight with times in June. Things have changed though and i am going to be in europe from 1 June through to the 28 August now. There may be a chance to organise some dates for later.
thanks
mm

I don't suppose he posted what dates are set up already, did he?

No, but he apologised for the lack of info so far. Hope that helps. :)


According to last.fm Gate will play in Porto on june 18th:
http://www.last.fm/event/1044707


Plus, this would be awesome if it's really happening:

Sunday 7 June 2009
2 p.m. – 5 p.m., CAC Brétigny
Concert
The Tiger’s Mind (1967) Cornelius Cardew
With Nina Canal, Nadia Lichtig, Michael Morley, Lee Ranaldo
(to be confirmed), and Sara Stephenson

Concert
Volo Solo (1965) Cornelius Cardew
With Rhys Chatham

Concert
Treatise (1963-1967) Cornelius Cardew
With Michel Guillet, Jean-Jacques Palix, Marcus Schmickler
and Samon Takahashi


http://www.cacbretigny.com/inhalt/cardew_uk.html

Le centre d'art contemporain de Bretigny is in Brétigny-sur-Orge, which is about 35km south of Paris.
http://www.cacbretigny.com/

 

Cornelius Cardew
and the Freedom of Listening

<version francaise>


A program of events

5 April to 27 June 2009
CAC Brétigny, France


The Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny is pleased to announce an exhibition and program of events that retrace the artistic career of the English composer Cornelius Cardew, who died tragically in 1981 at the age of 45. The CAC Brétigny and the curators will present an exhibition of archives, which breaks with a traditional museum approach, and a series of concerts and performances that testify to the vibrancy of Cardew’s work and his influence on contemporary artistic and musical practice.

The program is curated by Dean Inkster and
Jean-Jacques Palix, with the assistance of Lore Gablier, who have previously organized a number
of related events at L’Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Valence, notably an interpretation of Cardew’s Paragraph 7 of The Great Learning and Michael Parsons’s Walk.

Various internationally renowned artists and
musicians from different generations – Frank Apertet, Nina Canal, Rhys Chatham, Luke Fowler, Michel Guillet, Nadia Lichtig, Michael Morley, Lee Ranaldo, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmickler, Sara Stephenson, Samon Takahashi, Terre Thaemlitz, John Tilbury, Peter Todd, and Annie Vigier – will be present during the exhibition to interpret Cardew’s scores and respond to his work in a variety of forms including concerts, performances, and film projections.

Pierre Bal-Blanc, Director CAC Brétigny

^
Programme for the Cardew events: http://www.cacbretigny.com/press/Cardew/GuideCardew.pdf

I am seriously tempted by this, but only if Lee is definitely taking part. I reckon I can get a ferry out from Portsmouth to Le Havre or Newhaven to Dieppe to arrive early on the Sunday morning, drive to Brétigny, see the show, drive back to Le Havre or Dieppe, catch a late ferry back on the Sunday evening, and be home in time for elevensies on the Monday morning. If Lee's not taking part, though, I'd sooner save myself for a proper Gate show.




Blunderbuss dreams:
Lee's in France now... There are SY shows in Europe late May, then no SY activity until late June... so Lee might be in Europe at the same time as Michael Morley is playing his shows... could they be doing more shows together than just this Cornelius Cardew thing?
(This is pure speculation/dreaming, I hasten to add)

Gate is one of my all time favorite bands. I wish I lived elsewhere.

have you ever listened to luxurious bags?

Email from Lee:

"[...] I'm not doing that cardew event and don't have any other stuff in europe scheduled at the moment..."

never even heard of 'em. will investigate.

18 June - Plano B, Porto, PORTUGAL
http://planobporto.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/loversandlollypops

http://www.festivaisverao.com/Notici...e-14-maio.html

Google translation:
"The next month will see the continuation of this event ("Isto não é uma festa indie" - This Is Not An Indie festival) on June 18, with the performance of New Zealand Michael Morley and the presence of the duo Portuense Throes and Trash Selectror."

they're not really the same as gate but they remind me of gate's more song based stuff