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TG SCOTLAND & GRISTLEIZER FUN
It looks like the 2009 Euro tour will only be 3 cities and 4 dates: London (x2), Copenhagen and... Glasgow!
WEDNESDAY 17th June - GLASGOW
"Apparition Foretold" - An evening with Throbbing Gristle
Presented by Industrial Records & Optimo in conjunction with Tramway Visual Arts Dept.
at Tramway 1, Glasgow (tramway.org)
Doors open 8 pm- TG onstage @ 8:30 pm
Tickets £20 exclusively from Tramway
By Phone: Tramway Box Office: 0845 330 3501 (calls charged at normal rate)
Monday to Saturday 10am -8 pm . Sunday 12 noon - 6pm
In Person: 25 Albert Drive., Glasgow, G41 2PE
Counter sales from Tuesday to Saturday 10 am - 8pm, Sunday 12 noon - 6pm
Please note their are no online sales for tickets to this event.
Throbbing Gristle’s first ever performance in Scotland!
The evening will consist of two sets by TG - a live film soundtrack to a short film by Cerith Wynn Evans,
and a full TG live set of material from across the groups career.
This second set is based on TG’s recent USA tour set which received ecstatic responses,
to sold out audiences across America.
Cerith Wynn Evans will perform a short DJ set mid evening.
The event is presented in kind collaboration with local heroes and longtime TG supporters, Optimo.
DJ sets by JD Twitch & JG Wilkes.
This event is celebrate the forthcoming August exhibition by the Tramway and the UK premirer of a large scale
collaborative sound sculpture piece with international visual artist Cerith Wynn Evans (White Cube Gallery)
entitled “A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=ON” (2009).
The sculpture was originally shown earlier this year in Japan at the
Yokohama Triennale where the piece drew much attention and praise.
Follow this LINK to images from the Yokohama Triennale
There will be an exclusive TG event specific T-SHIRT available on the night for this show.
In anticipation of the show TG were interviewed in The Scotsman, read the interview here.
So have you ever wished you could have your very own Gristleizer and warp sounds in that wonderful way only TG could? Well now your childhood dreams can come true! Professionally made, and band sanctioned, Gristleizers have been produced using original schematics and are available for $375. More information, images and a video of Chris utilising two can be found here.
LIVE UPDATE
New shows have been added to both London and New York due to rapid sell outs of the other shows. TG are now playing three nights in New York, with tickets still being available for an April 17th "Greatest Hits" show, and an evening set has been added at London's Heaven on the 21st of June.
A radio interview is also taking place:
WEDNESDAY 15th APRIL - 8PM EST
W F M U
Throbbing Gristle Live Phone In and Interview on 'Strength Through Failure'
with Fabio WFMU 91.1 fm (NYC/metro NJ) 90.1 fm
www.wfmu.org (streaming and archiving)
Studio line 201-200-9368 - Call in and ask TG questions.
More information on the shows is available on the TG's site.
EUROPEAN INVASION
The TG farewell tour is making it's way to Europe, currently only Copenhagen and London have been annoucned, but wait on baited breath for further dates.
FRIDAY 19th June - COPENHAGEN
The European Premiere of Throbbing Gristle performing a live soundtrack
for Cerith Wyn Evans (who will attend the event) film
"The Sky Is As Thin As Paper Here" & other TG sound works.
Presented by Lars Top Galia for artFREQ
artfreq@gmail.com www.myspace.com/artfreq
TICKETS ON SALE EARLY MARCH
SUNDAY 21st JUNE - LONDON
HEAVEN
The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London. UK.
'A Crisis In Taste'
THROBBING GRISTLE + S.C.U.M.
myspace.com/scum1968
DJs TBC
Tickets £17.50 + booking fee. Exclusively via ticketweb.com
Limited number of tickets for 16 years old + (age proof ID required) @ £8 (+booking fee)
Also 14 years old+ @ £8 (with adult full priced ticket +booking fee)
Doors Open 4pm - Please Note: this event ENDS at 8PM
RETURN TO THE NEW WORLD
After years of saying TG would, almost certainly, a four city US tour has been announced! Read on for information, and note the mention of a new album available at the shows.
THROBBING GRISTLE 2009 USA TOUR
THURSDAY 16th APRIL
NEW YORK
Masonic Hall
Fort Greene Brooklyn
317 Clermont Ave at Lafayette Ave.
TG’s first ever New York and East Coast performances and their first in the USA since May 1981.
Brooklyn NY Event is now SOLD OUT!
TG thank you for supporting this event
Because of the demand for tickets and the unlikelyhood of there being another TG USA tour we
are looking into the possibility of playing a second New York area show on Sunday 26th April.
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR UPDATES
SUNDAY 19th APRIL
COACHELLA FESTIVAL
PALM SPRINGS
Empire Polo Field
81-800 Avenue 51
Indio, CA 92201
Admission:
$99 one day pass
$269 three day pass
www.coachella.com
Coachella Festival is a large scale music festival with live music all day.
TG will perform a 60 minute set from across TG’s history
in a 6000 capcity tented stage sometime in the early evening (on stage 7pm'ish/tbc)
TUESDAY 21st APRIL
LOS ANGELES
U.C.L.A
Le Conte Ave & Westwood Blvd
Westwood, CA 90024
TG will perform a live soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s 60min alchemical film
'In The Shadow of The Sun' ( filmwork 1974, TG soundtrack 1980 & 2006)
This event is TBC.
THURSDAY 23rd APRIL
SAN FRANCISCO
Grand Regency Ballroom
1290 Sutter St
San Francisco, CA 94109
TG will play one 75 minute set of material from throughout their history.
Admission: $30
Doors: TBC
Promoters: Goldenvoice
www.regencycentersf.com
Support : Erika M Anderson
SATURDAY 25th APRIL
CHICAGO
Epiphany Episcopal
201 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607-5301
TG’s first ever Chicago and Mid West American performances on their first tour in the USA since May 1981.
SPECIAL TG EVENT
TG will play TWO sets,
A new live soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s 60min alchemical film
'In The Shadow of The Sun' ( filmwork 1974, TG soundtrack 1980 & 2006)
PLUS a second set of material from across TG’s history.
There willl also be included in the event a TG signing:
to which you are welcome to bring along ONE ITEM from your collection for them to sign.
There will also be for sale special 'TG USA 2009' merchandising
(all new TG CD album, TG T-shirt specific to this event, TG Tour Enamel Badge, TG Tour Embroidered Patch)
Admission: $50, or $20 later set only
Doors: TBC
Epiphany-chicago.org
Promoters: Empty Bottle www.emptybottle.com
Support : Emeralds www.emeraldsohio.com
They have also unveiled a rather slick new logo.
ANOTHER ANNUAL REPORT
Industrial Records is back! The label has been reactivated, and to commemorate the return TG have issued a new live album: The Thirty-Second Annual Report. The release is of the recent live recording in Paris, where the Second Annual Report was played in full.
Released as a single 180g LP featuring tracks from the show, with artwork mimicing that of the original Second Annual Report LP. It is limited to 777 copies and housed in an perspex display frame. With the LP is a CD of the entire show. The release comes with a price tag of £120, however.
Ordering info is here.
For those feeling the pinch of the all consuming "Credit Crunch" the whole recording is available to download for the more affordable price of £7.77 from iTunes here.
There is still no word on the Desertshore or live jams albums, but with IR back we are hopefully nearing closer to a release.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE
So at long last Throbbing Gristle's DVD boxed set, TGV, is available to order! The seven disc set costs £80 (~$160us) and can be ordered here.
Some information on the set:
The Collection includes: From 1979-81 shows at:
• Oundle School
• Recording Heathen Earth at the Industrial Records Studios, Martello St. London
• Sheffield University
• Rafters Club, Manchester
• The Lyceum, London
• Kezar Pavilion, San Francisco
PLUS
• Derek Jarman's famous short film made as a tribute to TG: "Psychic Rally in Heaven" London
From 2004-05:
• A short film of the Cabinet Gallery Exhibition "TG24" by Andrew Wheatley
• Rare footage of TG rehearsing at Mute Studios in February 2004.
• The astounding 'free' 80 minute RE~TG performance at the Astoria Theatre 2004
• All Tomorrow's Parties perfomance at Camber Sands 2004
• Both perfomances from Turin, Italy 2005
PLUS
• A full colour 60-page book with TG photos and texts from 1979 to 2005
Please note: This Collection is made available for purposes of historical record, rather than as conventional 'concert' footage.
The shows from 1979-81 were shot on a single VHS hand-held camera, often in poor lighting conditions, reflecting TG's guerrilla
approach to live presentation, technology and documentation. DVD format is NTSC - All Region.
A quick look at TG's discography on their official site shows the following releases pencilled in for 2008.
2008 - DESERTSHORE ALBUM : Industrial Records
2008 - Untitled 'Jams' Album (title TBC): Industrial Records / Mute
Two new albums? Fingers crossed!
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