Monday, November 02, 2009

John Cale: Dyddiau Du/Dark Days goes to Hobart, Tasmania

stills form darker days

The multimedia piece Dyddiau Du/Dark Days that John Cale created for the Venice Biennale will be shown in Hobart, Tasmania at the MONA FOMA. It runs from January 4 to 31, 2010.

In a remarkable coup for Tasmania, John Cale's Venice installation will head straight to Hobart after the biennale ends this month.

The masterminds behind this neat little transaction are, unsurprisingly, art collector and private museum builder nonpareil, David Walsh, and the man he appointed curator of Hobart's MONA FOMA festival, Brian Ritchie, best known as the bassist with the legendary post-punk band the Violent Femmes.

(...) Ritchie first met Cale 31 years ago, as a young and enthusiastic music writer.

''I interviewed him, probably for some hippie newspaper in Milwaukee. I was a kid, I was 18 years old. He was doing a gig, and he had members of this great band called the Contortions playing in his own band, it represented a meeting of late '60s New York underground and '70s New York underground. It was a beautiful show. He is always doing different things. So I interviewed him and then it turned into festivities and we hung out. He was very kind. He didn't have to do that,'' Ritchie says. ''And the last time I saw him was the last time I supported him in Milwaukee, three or four years ago.''

When Ritchie called Cale to invite him to Hobart, asking him to be MONA FOMA's ''eminent artist in residence'', the Welsh musician was astonished to learn where Ritchie had ended up. ''I had no idea that he had moved down there,'' Cale says, speaking by phone from Los Angeles. ''I've been to Australia a bunch of times, but I've never been to Hobart. I would never have thought that would be where the (Biennale) piece would go first (after Venice).''

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Gov't Mule 2009 torrents: 2009/10/29 Ithaca & 2009/10/31 Philadelphia

Gov't Mule 2009/10/29 Ithaca, NY
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Gov't Mule
2009/10/29
State Theater
Ithaca, NY

Set 1:
  1. Steppin' Lightly
  2. Broke Down On The Brazos
  3. Railroad Boy >
  4. Monday Mourning Meltdown >
  5. Forevermore
  6. Don't Step On The Grass, Sam
  7. Banks Of The Deep End
  8. Lively Up Yourself
  9. Soulshine
Set 2:
  1. Which Way Do We Run
  2. Trampled Under Foot
  3. Have Mercy On The Criminal
  4. Like Flies > (w/ Les Brers In A Minor Tease)
  5. Drums
  6. Falling Jam >
  7. Fallen Down >
  8. The Other One Jam > (w/ Paint It Black & Gimme Shelter teases)
  9. Effigy >
  10. Hey Joe >
  11. Effigy >
  12. Folsom Prison Blues Jam >
  13. Effigy
  14. E (w/ Jackie Greene): Don't Let It Bring You Down >
  15. Find The Cost Of Freedom >
  16. Ohio

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Gov't Mule 2009/10/31 Philadelphia, PA
photo: Heath Robson mule.net

Gov't Mule
2009/10/31
Tower Theatre
Philadelphia, PA

Set 1:
  1. Under My Thumb
  2. Monkey Man
  3. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo *
  4. Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
  5. Angie
  6. Ventilator Blues *
  7. Shattered *
  8. Wild Horses
  9. Slave *
  10. Gimmie Shelter *
  11. Play With Fire
  12. Paint It Black
  13. Bitch *
  14. Brown Sugar *
Set 2:
  1. Steppin' Lightly
  2. Broke Down On The Brazos
  3. Railroad Boy >
  4. Monday Mourning Meltdown >
  5. Forevermore
  6. Frozen Fear >
  7. Brighter Days >
  8. Blind Man In The Dark *
  9. E: crowd >
  10. Goin' Out West > *
  11. Peter Gunn Tease >
  12. Bang A Gong > *
  13. Goin' Out West *

Notes: entire 1st set and encore with Jackie Greene
"Shattered" - Matt Abts on vocals
* with Steve Elson on Sax

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