ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008
April 17 - 20, 2008, 013 venue Tilburg, Holland
Here's (by the hand of spanish label / distro / promoter ALONE Records) fat info about next ROADBURN.
Here's another newsletter from Roadburn's HQ. It's kinda along as there's a lot to tell about the line up [Boris, Jesu, Grails & Neurosis' Scott Kelly added to the festival line-up David Tibet curates a day-long event on Sunday, April 20th, 2008. CURRENT 93 will be performing as well as OM].FIRST OFF: PRE SALES WILL START SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1st.
I'll forward all the ticketinfo and the direct links to ticketservice, and ticketing via the Roadburn/013 website throughout next week.
There will be a festival ticket for Friday April 18 & April 19 -the core of the 13th Roadburn Festival. [there will be no daytickets available for Friday or Saturday]
There will be seperate tickets for The Afterburner with The Glasspack [Sunday April 20th] and David Tibet's long-day event [Sunday, April 20th] . Please note: the After burner and David Tibet's long-day event are totally different events. We'll divide the 013 into 2 different venue's: 013's mainhall for David Tibet & Current 93. The Green Room and Bat Cave for the Afterburner.
There's gonna be a seperate ticket for the Roadburn pre-heat on thursday as well -I'm still working on the line-up. More info to follow.
We're also working on the campsite as well. More info to follow.
NEUROSIS' SCOTT KELLY TO PERFORM ACOUSTIC SOLO SHOW AT ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008
Roadburn is pleased to report that Neurosis' Scott Kelly will do an acoustic solo show (his first ever in Europe!) at Roadburn 2008, which will take placeApril 18-19, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Scott Kelly will perform songs from his forthcoming solo album for Neurot Recordings as well as some tracks from earlier records, on Friday April 18, 2008.
Scott Kelly comments: "Acoustic songwriting and performance has been a focus of mine over the last few years. It is a challenge that I embrace with all of my heart.The simplicity and gravity of this type of communication is something that I hid from in my earlier years of writing and performing live music. In this type of setting there's nowhere to hide, all scars are evident, all mistakes are obvious, and all intentions are known. I have been very inspired to go deeper into this experience and bring things from myself that I had previously buried. I will be performing songs that I have written for a forthcoming solo record on Neurot Recordings as well as a couple of previously released tracks. Roadburn is the place that I feel I need to bring this to light for the first time outside of the U.S. I will give it all."
Grails have also been confirmed for the Friday Roadburn date, April 18, 2008, and with the addition of Boris & Jesu to the Saturday Roadburn date, April 19, 2008, the line up of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival is now complete.
DAVID TIBET CURATES A DAY-LONG SPECIAL EVENT AT THE ROADBURN FESTIVAL IN HOLLAND ON APRIL 20, 2008
David Tibet has been invited to to curate a special long-day-event as part of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take place April 20, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Current 93 will be performing as well as other special guests to be announced soon.
David Tibet comments: "I am proud and delighted to confirm that I have been invited by the wonderful Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland to curate a special day-long event. Current 93 will be performing, as well as some special guests that I have invited to accompany us. I can confirm that the majestic OM will be appearing, and that I am presently discussing the appearance of 2 or 3 more of my favourite artists. Roadburn is perhaps the pre-eminent festival of doom, stoner, psychedelacidic and othercoloured metal, and I am very touched and happy to have been invited by Roadburn to bring some of those artists whom I love to a festival whose work I have long admired."
Founded in 1982 by David Tibet, Current 93 has created a highly personal musical and æsthetic entity over 23 years, subliminal and dramatic, an opulent and complex music made of psychedelic Coptic jazz, distorted folk memories, apocalyptic ballads, gothic chorals, nursery rhymes and Roman electronics. Tibet's musical influences are wildly diverse, ranging from psychedelic rock bands from Ramases to Patripassian, from Gregorian Chant to Sahidic Threnodies.
Current 93's sound varies, according to Tibet's choice of collaborators, but it has oscillated between apocalyptic tape loops, minimal piano-and-voice settings, electronic hymns, massed drone attacks and children singing at the end of the world, whilst always featuring Tibet's own idiosyncratic singing and guitar playing. David Tibet has worked with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Marc Almond, folk goddess Shirley Collins, Stephen O'Malley, Attila Csihar, Andrew W.K., horror writer Thomas Ligotti, Nick Cave and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and many others artists.
OM, comprised of Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, the former rhythm section of stoner-legends Sleep, combine minimalist vocal mantras with propulsive drumming and vibrating bass to channel mind-expanding paeans of spiritual awakening.
Tickets will be on sale on December 1, 2007, and cost € 32,50 for the day. For more information (including the other guests David Tibet will announcing), please visit www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival.
Later
Walter
ISIS TO HEADLINE FRIDAY ROADBURN FESTIVAL DATE, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008.
Post-metal icons ISIS have been confirmed as the headliner of the Friday Roadburn Festival date, Friday April 18, 2008 at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Currently celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band, the Boston-to-Los Angeles transplants will help fans take part in their milestone anniversary by releasing their entire catalog in one deluxe 12 vinyl-LP box set, and their headlining slot at Roadburn 2008.
Throughout the years, ISIS have maintained their position in the vanguard of post-metal by consistently exploding the idiomatic strictures that have defined heavy music with each successive release. Roadburn reveres ISIS and feel they warrant discussion alongside such established pioneers as Neurosis and Celtic Frost.
Roadburn is also pleased to report that Swiss post-metal stalwarts Kruger will play the Saturday Roadburn date, April 19, 2008.
The 13th annual Roadburn Festival will take place April 18-19, 2008. Also scheduled to appear on the Friday Roadburn date are Witchcraft, Tony McPhee's Groundhogs, Baby Woodrose, Danava, Mos Generator, Blood of The Sun, Gentleman's Pistols, La Ira de Dios, Zone Six & Church of Misery amongst others.
Seminal avant-garde/metal pioneers Celtic Frost are confirmed as the main headliners, playing Saturday, April 19, 2008. Year of No Light , Electric Wizard, Cult of Luna, Acid Mothers Guru, The Heads, Kongh, Lesbian, My Sleeping Karma, Electric Orange & Nadja amongst others will also play the Saturday Roadburn date.
There will also be 2 additional dates added to Roadburn 2008: Thursday, April 17th [Roadburn's Pre-heat], and Sunday, April 20th [Roadburn's Afterburner --Kentucky's The Glasspack will play an exclusive show, making their European debut ]. The Roadburn Festival is currently talking to David Tibet/Current 93 about a very special curated evening at the festival's main-hall on the Sunday, April, 2008. More info will follow shortly.
Originally a spin-off of the Roadburn web site, the Roadburn Festival has emerged as an event in its own right --it was even nominated for the prestigious 'festival of the year' award in the Netherlands this year. Roadburn brings together bands, fans and media from around the world. Despite its international acclaim, Roadburn retains an underground vibe and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values. Pre-sales start at the end of November.For more information (as more bands will be confirmed in the next few weeks) and Roadburn's partnership with Terrorizer magazine , please visit http://www.blogger.com/www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival
ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008April 17 - 20, 2008, 013 Tilburg, The Netherlands
Here's the first official newsletter of Roadburn Festival 2008.
Swiss advant garde/metal pioneers CELTIC FROST have been confirmed as the main headliner of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take placeApril 18-19, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Although CELTIC FROST are recognized as a pivotal influence on both the extreme metal and gothic metal genres, Roadburn also considers CELTIC FROST a seminal influence on the current stoner, doom and psychedelic scene. Indeed, we feel CELTIC FROST merits notice alongside such established pioneers as Hawkwind and Black Sabbath.In celebration of this lesser-acknowledged side to the metal giants, CELTIC FROST will perform a special one-off show at Roadburn, comprised of a repertoire which will be slightly different from the tour repertoire played in 2006 and 2007. CELTIC FROST will be playing on Saturday, April 19, 2008. Tom Gabriel Fischer: "We are very proud to have been invited to headline Roadburn. Much like Celtic Frost, Roadburn follows an artistic path which deviates slightly from the norm. We all think that Roadburn and Celtic Frost is a perfect combination, and we are looking forward very much to our concert there."
Also scheduled to appear on the Saturday Roadburn date are cult-doomsters Electric Wizard, Cult of Luna, Acid Mother's Guru, The Heads, Year of No Light, Kongh, Dixie Witch, Lesbian, Electric Orange, Nadja and My Sleeping Karma amongst others.
Witchcraft, Tony McPhee's Groundhogs, Baby Woodrose, Danava, Mos Generator, Blood of The Sun, Gentleman's Pistols, ZoneSix, La Ira de Dios and Church of Misery amongst others will play on Friday, April 18, 2008.
There will also be 2 additional dates added to Roadburn 2008: Thursday, April 17th [Roadburn's Pre-heat], and Sunday, April 20th [Roadburn's Afterburner --Kentucky's The Glasspack will play an exclusive show, making their European debut ]. The Roadburn Festival is currently talking to David Tibet/Current 93 about a very special curated evening at the festival's main-hall on Sunday, April 20, 2008. More info to follow.
Please note: there will be separate tickets available for these additional shows.
Originally a spin-off of the Roadburn web site, the Roadburn Festival has emerged as an event in its own right --it was even nominated for the prestigious 'festival of the year' award in the Netherlands this year. Roadburn brings together bands, fans and media from around the world. Despite its international acclaim, Roadburn retains an underground vibe and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values.
Ticketing and camping information will be forthcoming as soon as the lineup is solidified. We're aiming to get this done in November.
Pre-sales start at the end of November. I'll keep you 'burners posted.
For more information (as more bands will be confirmed in the next few weeks) , please visit www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival
Hope to see you all at Roadburn 2008.
I'LL DO.
