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

i have no doubt uk gigs will happen, there are plenty of people willing to offer.

Vendredi 26 Juin : MICHAEL MORLEY
@ la société de curiosités, Paris, 20h30
Contact lasocietedecuriosites@gmail.com for details of venue, etc

GATE est le projet sonore (guitare + laptop) du plasticien neo-zelandais Michael Morley, membre du groupe seminal The Dead C et collaborateur de Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), de James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, The Stumps, With Throats as Fine as Needles) ou encore de Zeena Parkins. Il a monte son propre label confidentiel Precious Metal dans les annees 1990 et a sorti une multitude de disques sur divers labels (Guitar, Amerika et Metric sur Majora, The Dew Line et The Monolake sur Table of Elements). Sa musique oscille entre drone-rock rugueux et environnement sonore electro-acoustique. Riffs de guitare electrique etales en feedback lancinant, brouillard de fuzz et drones granuleux qui enveloppent une voix mi parlee-mi chantee. Michael Morley est egalement enseignant a l’ecole d’art Otago Polytechnic de Dunedin.

http://instantnet.wordpress.com/la-s...ichael-morley/

Friday 19 June 2009 at 11:00pm
ZDB - Zé dos Bois
Rua da Barroca, 59
1200 Lisboa, Lisbon
Portugal

http://www.zedosbois.org/zdbmuzique/index.htm

ha, yeah.

didn't disappoint.

Brussels and Rotterdam shows didn't disappoint either. Here's my recording of the Brussels gig:
http://sharebee.com/5273b3b9
Gate - June 12th 2009 @ BOZAR, Brussels
I'll throw a lossless version on Dime one of these days too.


BTW: I've heard/read rumours about a European tour for The Dead C in 2010.

thanks

^^there's no survey... you just have to click "skip ad" to get all the links (zshare. rapidshare, etc)


edit: forget that, these are the direct links

DepositFiles

•Badongo

•Megaupload

•RapidShare

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i'll try and torrent it soon, but i'm a bit of a slacker so you may have to remind me in a few days.

- Thanks in advance for the torrent(s)!
- BTW: is that drool on my keyboard? :D

Thank you x1000.

Forthcoming on August 3rd:

Gate "Republic Of Sadness" lp (Ba Da Bing)
The first new Gate record in over a decade, A Republic of Sadness is as much a reason for celebration as indoctrination into the creative genius of Michael Morley. Known primarily for his work in The Dead C, Morley simultaneously has been doing Gate since he's started playing.
A Republic of Sadness comprises the apex of Morley's various interests in one collection. His guitar and vocal drones permeate through looped beats and sounds, arriving at a sound that is not quite dance, not quite noise, not quite electronica and never, ever ambient.

http://www.midheaven.com/item/republ...ess-by-gate-lp

Going by the sound samples it's going to be brilliant!

£10.99 at CD-WOW! fuck me!

http://www.cdwow.com/home/gate-repub...ss/dp/15109127

awesome...

needs to come to the US.

thanks for the heads up. it amazes me how cheap cdwow can be sometimes, especially with vinyl.
then they even have discounts with 1.50 euros or 15% off of everything (usually on mondays, it's good to keep a wishlist and buy stuff when it's cheapest) and every 10th item sent within 60 days of the first gives you a free voucher worth the average amount you've spent over those 10 items. plus they don't add shipping costs to the listed prices. i can't stop buying from those bastards, on average it's more than 10 items a month lately. :o

no, i do not work for them!

oooh new Gate album!

Now in the Ba Da Bing store, $18 US, $21 non-US: http://badabingrecords.com/catalog.php

Mine has been shipped... can't wait!

^
Moi aussi!


Norman Records review:

This guy (Michael Morley) with the shit moniker (see also: Bench, Table or Fence) i've just discovered is a member of scrappy NZ racketeers The Dead C. So downtempo electronica was not what I was expecting therefore. The opener starts off like the ambient intro to West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys and loops beautifully for a few minutes, underlaid with static & crackle and some muffled implicit vocal stylings which both add to & detract from to the lulling atmosphere of the tune. His style of electronica is quite understated, primitive and organic, his vocals on 'All' sounding like the ethereal ramblings of a stoned man in a weird trance whilst the music is built on a lo-fi metronomic beat & a rattly hi-hat sample - the amorphous keyboards summoning up thoughts of Global Communication. Odd stuff indeed! Just when you reckon you've got him figured he funks everything up with this weird chillwave disco experiment, his ever demented vocal stylings becoming a slurry elongated monologue draped carelessly (and amusingly) all over the tune. Fucking bizarre record indeed, side two I'm not commenting on because I need my DINNER! Rah!


Also available for 2,400 Nectar points!
http://www.nectar.com/rewards/whitel...ss/dp/15109127

In my grubby little paws right now!

Best album of the year so far, and unlikely to be bettered.