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CONSTELLATION CELEBRATES ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY THIS FALL

 

We’re very pleased to announce a series of 15th Anniversary concerts that will take place in Europe this fall.
We’ll be partnering with some of our favourite venues and arts organisations to present multiple-night mini-festival events featuring a diverse cross-section of artists, including newer groups like Sisksiyou and Elfin Saddle, long-standing roster acts like Sandro Perri, Eric Chenaux and Hangedup, and two of the label’s best-known bands: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Do Make Say Think.
Thee Silver Mt Zion will be returning to Europe for the first time since touring behind their acclaimed Kollaps Tradixionales album in early 2010, and premiering new material including pieces released as a tour-only 2×7″ in the USA earlier this year. Do Make Say Think, one of the most consistently acclaimed and long-standing instrumental rock groups of the past decade-and-a-half, will be performing their classic sophomore album, Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead, in its entirety.
At each of the two-night events, Do Make Say Think will close one show and Thee Silver Mt Zion will close the other. Exact line-ups for each night in each town will be confirmed and announced later this summer, but every concert will feature at least 4 bands and sets by at least 8 different artists across the two nights.
The event at Bern’s Reitschule is unique in that it runs for a full three days, starting on Friday 16 November with the final European date of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s fall 2012 tour (a golden opportunity to see the group in a smaller, grittier venue with some truly awesome natural room compression).

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Here’s the plan:
NOV 16-18 • Bern, CH • Dachstock Reitschule
Presented by Heartland Festival and Dachstock
3-night passes available now HERE and HERE

The Constellation event in Bern is a full label takeover and collaboration with Heartland Festival, in conjunction with the Dachstock collective who administer an awesome 700 capacity live room at the Reitschule complex – where many a fine Constellation memory has been forged over the years (and often then half-obliterated in the ensuing post-show massacre of brain cells at the bar).

NOV 17-18 • Paris, FR • La Maroquinerie
Presented by Volume

Running concurrently with the Bern weekend, these two nights at La Maroquinnerie will be anchored by Do Make Say Think and Thee Silver Mt ZIon respectively, with three other bands each night. La Maroq has been a favourite venue of Constellation artists over the years, and the site of beautifully raucous yet wonderfully attentive packed houses for several of the label’s artists. Despite the club’s literally subterranean and cave-like setting, the full range of Constellation sounds have always gone down perfectly there, from the quietest and most fragile moments to galloping punk-rock explosions. La Maroq brings out the passion and devotion of music-hungry Parisians who don’t mind getting a little down and dirty to achieve sustained experiences of musical immersion, levitation and physicality. This will be good times!

NOV 21-22 • Vienna, AT • Porgy & Bess
Presented by Viennale and Blue Bird Festival

Constellation has had a very special and heartfelt relationship with the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) in recent years, beginning with their production of filmmaker Jem Cohen’s “Empires Of Tin” project. We are very proud to be celebrating its 15th Anniversary in conjunction with Viennale’s 50th Anniversary this year, and excited to be partnering with the Blue Bird Songwriter Festival as well, which will be expanding to a four-day event with the first two days devoted to Constellation.

NOV 23-24 • Leipzig, DE • UT Connewitz
Presented by UT Connewitz and Southern DE

Another venue and local promoter collective that is close to Constellation’s heart, UT Connewitz is a glorious old theatre space that has hosted countless of the label’s artists over the years. Like Paris, this will be 4-band bills anchored by Do Make Say Think and Thee Silver Mt Zion each night, in one of our favourite settings, booked by some of the very best people. Simple as that.

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Stay tuned for more information and finalized lineups in the coming months. There will be also be special collaborations and other little surprises at various events, for which we will supply more information down the road (or, regarding the surprises, maybe not, so that they in fact remain surprises). In the meantime, here’s an assortment of MP3s to tide you over:

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Additionally, here's the tour schedule of GY!BE, also fresh from the cst site:

28.10.12 Porto, PT Amplifest
30.10.12 Madrid, ES Teatro Kapital
31.10.12 Barcelona, ES Sala Apolo
01.11.12 Bordeaux, FR Le Rocher de Palmer
02.11.12 Nantes, FR Lieu Unique – Soy Festival
03.11.12 Lille, FR La Condition Publique
04.11.12 London, UK Kentish Town Forum
05.11.12 London, UK Kentish Town Forum
07.11.12 Brussels, BE Cirque Royal
08.11.12 Berlin, DE SO36
09.11.12 Berlin, DE SO36
10.11.12 Dresden, DE Reithalle
11.11.12 Prague, CZ Lucerna Music
12.11.12 Vienna, AT Arena
14.11.12 Ljubljana, SL Kino Siska w/ Dirty Three
15.11.12 Zurich, CH Rote Fabrik
16.11.12 Bern, CH Dachstock Reitschule

anyone knows a taper in Slovenia? That would be some fine night there.