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| Europe Venture - Part 7 |
| 2008-06-12 10:38:00 |
So for the last Europe tour update, a bit late, but the last couple of shows and places we got to sleep there was no access to WIFI, so had to wait until we got home with updating here.And getting home from those 14 days, was kind of a knockdown. Pretty tired after 2 weeks of approximately 2-5 hours sleep every night.So to round up the tour (which is really not over until tomorrow evening where we play Prague) heres some notes on the last couple of shows, and off course also some live music.04.06.2008 - d:qliq - LuxembourgAfter our show in Reims the night before, we chose upon driving the approx 200km to Luxembourg where we had an apartment available, supplied by the d:qliq venue. After a pretty obvious quiet drive with most of us sleeping we did arrive in...
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| Europe Ventures - Part 6 |
| 2008-06-04 03:17:00 |
It's early morning and I woke up just a short while ago, I'm pretty much always the first one up from sleep in Late Night Venture. When touring, I consider 5 hours sleep like a good long sleep, everythings working on the pumps.I don't feel tired at all, just a way of living for a while. I'm sitting here at d:qliq's office in luxembourg after sleeping in their apartment. We got a show here tonight and I'm looking real forward to it. d:qliq is a cool place.Remember to go check the new pictures at : FLICKRSunday - 01.06.2008This was just our day off in the Amsterdam area, so we didnt do anything than just go to Amsterdam and relax, having some good food and just inhaling the moods of the canals. Amsterdam is such a nice city, I will definately come back another time, when I'm not touring.My C...
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| Europe Ventures - Part 5 |
| 2008-06-01 05:44:00 |
Friday - 30.05.2008 - EindhovenFriday was in many ways a very stressful day, we had to leave Duisburg a bit early to drive to Amsterdam and record a live session at Amsterdam FM radio and then after that drive to Eindhoven to play at TAC.We always calculate for some amount of queues, but not quite this much, so after an immensely and unfair long drive from Amsterdam to Eindhoven we arrived unacceptably late at the venue, like at 7.30PM .This always leaves us in a stressful situation because we then have in sight that the soundcheck will be non-existent and time to just get ready for the show would be too short for us to relax.But nothing like that happened and this is very much thanks to the crew at TAC, a bunch of well organized and very kind people, that in every way were extremely helpf...
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| Europe Ventures - Part 4 - Radio |
| 2008-05-31 08:47:00 |
Just after the show in Duisburg and a late night venture in the nice peoples garden, we head off for Amsterdam to play some songs in Amsterdam FM radio. It was a fun experience, a bit hectic, but we got to play two songs in a minimalistic setup with acoustic guitar, piano and only one drum.We played the two songs - After - Love/Respect CallBoth songs were recorded intermistic with a camera and put online by the staff from Amsterdam FMSo here you can watch itand You can also go to the amsterdam fm site and listen to the show : Amsterdam FM...
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| Europe Ventures - Part 2 |
| 2008-05-31 02:31:00 |
As the days go we have a good time doing the tour rituals, which is pretty much.1. Wake Up2. Panic for Coffee3. Freshen up and get the gear together4. Drive for quite some while in an extremely hot tourbus5. Make soundcheck6. Play show7. Get late to bedIt's pretty much that mantra we live by these days. It's a bit hard, but for every day that goes everything just goes more and more smooth towards excellence and we play better and better shows, changing the setlist everyday to make some difference.Thursday - 29.05.2008This night was at the venue called Steinbruch in Duisburg in northern germany, close to the netherland border. Probably the best venue this far in the tour, with very kind people, a perfect stage and really good sound.Steinbruch is situated just on the outer rim of Duisburg an...
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| Europe Ventures part 1 |
| 2008-05-29 18:09:00 |
Monday - 26.05.2008After a well relaxed weekend together with Utopium, having some good food and in general getting ready for the tour, for example by panicking over a lost Fender Amp, that we forgot after the gig at Studenterhuset last friday, we took off in good shape monday morning towards Witten.Previous plans about bringing a PA system acoustic guitars, extra amps and other nice additional gear was pretty fast neglected due to a not so big bus for the tour. Since we are 7 touring (5 Late nighters, a sound engineer and a healthcare manager) all carrying luggage as well.We arrived fine at Witten pretty much on time, discovering that the place was huge, but the actual room and stage of the place we were going to play was not the biggest, but very sufficient. It was a bit slow night, not ...
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| Europe tour |
| 2008-05-25 02:15:00 |
So this is it. We're now officially kicking off the Europa tour together with the french band Utopium.I'm pretty sure it is going to be a nice and adventurous journey the next 14 days, bringing us through Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and France, starting off with the first show tomorrow in Witten and ending up in Paris. After that a very short intermezzo to recover before hitting the Czech republic.I will post tales and media from the tour, whenever I get near a WIFI hotspot.Below here you can see the tourplan...
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| A Quick Recommendation from abroad |
| 2008-05-14 08:07:00 |
I've just had the pleasure to go to San Francisco and I'm currently recovering from the jet-lag, trying to convert to the copenhagen timezone.I like San Francisco a lot and been there a couple of times, it's a city with lots of diversity and a very good cultural aspect spiced up with so different areas of residence blended with differences.It's also a sad sign to see how society really is divided in the rich and the poor and the amount of homeless people is pretty scary and in my opinion shows a selfish and superficial policy.One good thing about SF is the Haight District. The district that evolved as a hippie society in the late 60's early 70's. The district still have that "feel" to it, and this is the place to go if you wanna grab that rare 12" you've been looking for. So, as the music...
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| A Couple Of Words From The Cold South |
| 2008-04-21 03:33:00 |
Well - "south" - is maybe a bit of an exageration, but it was south of the danish border, when I was on a short germany club tour with the band Late Night Venture last thursday and friday.I thought i'd just put a couple of words and launch some pictures from the tour.By now, we have played quite a lot of shows here and there in all sorts of venues in denmark as well as in other countries such as Sweden, UK, Finland and off course also Germany, and this time it was the time of playing small clubs : Astra Stube in Hamburg and Intersoup in Berlin.It seems like everytime we go to germany it always ends up in ourselves having a really good time, which is due to a very enthusiastic audience, venues that cares about making everything work as best as possible, and ...
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| Blondes vs. Twins |
| 2008-04-15 04:12:00 |
Once again I've had the opportunity to go to two shows near eachother, with two completely different bands. First of all I went to the highly expected "Blonde Redhead" show at Pumpehuset last Thursday and then Yesterday to another show filled with expectations, namely "The Gutter Twins". Let me just try to tell a bit what I think, and maybe spice it with a bit of background.BLONDE REDHEADFirst show was a show with the NY act Blonde Redhead. A band that I have enjoyed a lot on record. Specially their two last albums:Misery is a butterfly, which is a beautiful masterpiece, very artistic and minimalistic, filled with excellent compositions that you cannot really can't find a match for. In my opinion a very unique sound.23. A more "traditional" album, that lend...
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| The Mountain Came To Us |
| 2008-04-02 08:46:00 |
So yesterday evening was the night where I got the pleasure to see the canadian symphonic ensemble Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band.A band once a side project of the massive post-rock act Godspeed You Black Emperor.The Memorial Orchestra defines itself in making long symphonic and dark voyages beyond what is normally done in neither post-rock or indie as such. It's sort of psychedelica meets orchestra.One of the strengths of TSMZ&TLLB is that they use a lot of vocal harmonies. Everyone in the band, counting all 7 of them, has a microphone and everyone uses it from time to time.Nevertheless there's a feel of Efrim being their "lead singer" (even though he doesn't see himself as such) and the rest is just in for support, but they actually do a very fine job ma...
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| Late Night Discoveries |
| 2008-03-26 08:06:00 |
Just a couple of recommendations on bands that I've been listening to lately, typically discoveried late at night as always :-). All bands that I find very interesting and different in their own ways. I guess I'm in a sort of post-rock mode at the moment so many of them have aspects of that.Gregor SamsaSo first up, is this post-rock act from Brooklyn, NY, US.A very nice and clean sounding dream piece, with focus on simplicity and pure vocal harmonies.This is what makes them quite different from many other post-rock acts.The usage of vocals, to this extend, that this band do, kind of makes them come closer to some of the nice lush & dreamy sounds you hear in for example Slowdive, The Zephyrs and even some Sparklehorse.The music really don't stop at guitar arrangements, but in fact lift...
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| The reinvention of shoegaze |
| 2008-03-22 10:31:00 |
I've always been a sucker for those dreamy, belly-picking, soundscape bands that in the late 80'es early 90'es got characterized as "SHOEGAZE" bands.But so much has happened from that period of time up till now, where some of the new breeds of the shoegaze scene have come out.Some have been here for years and some are new. I would like to come up with a couple of recommendations on very interesting post-shoegaze bands, that I personally enjoy listening to.But to set the scene, let me just start off with a couple of bands from the original shoegaze era that have had a lot of influence on that post-shoegaze scene.MY BLOODY VALENTINEMy Bloody Valentine. The band that kind of introduced the shoe-gaze world to me.Their twangy guitars, their kind of slacky drums, the walls of noise totally outpl...
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| Foundation vs. Sharks |
| 2008-03-17 09:55:00 |
Up to the last weekend, I had the opportunity to go to two concerts in copenhagen area.One of the concerts I attened, was one that I really had looked forward to, due to my rising interest in that peticular bands evolving universe of dark and cracked tales.It was the release party of the band "Said The Shark"'s new album "Silly Kings", held at Loppen in Christiania at thursday the 13. of march.I have already seen one other "Said The Shark" show, when my own band "Late Night Venture" had the pleasure to share stage with them at Hildesheim in germany. One really good show, that I enjoyed a lot, but due to us playing a bit later that night, didn't have the focus enough on the "Said The Shark" show.But what they did this thursday, was a bit like what they did there in Hildesheim. They set up ...
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| A small attempt to include an audioplayer |
| 2008-03-13 10:30:00 |
I'm just playing a bit around with including an audio player in a post, to see if that will work on this blog so bear with me.. Might be a disaster :-) trying even with more songs.. A demo, that probably only will be online shortly.Late Night Venture - Love/Respect CallLate Night Venture - CarouselTake Note that the last song Carousel is just a home demo recorded entirely by myself, for an idea to a song, so when it's been through the Late Night Venture machine, it will probably sound pretty different...
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| Music of the moment |
| 2008-03-11 07:11:00 |
Just a post about some of the interesting and really great music I'm listening to at the moment Snowden To start it all off I was introduced to this band in such an old school way as by "word -of-mouth", the other guitarist from Late Night Venture, Peter, had visited a friend that told him to check this band out, and he then told me, and I went to the myspace page of the band, having no expectations what so ever.But what hit me here was this sound that just caught my attention right away, somehow it kind of reminded me a bit of Interpol but at the same time it also had some references to the playfulness of Arcade Fire . Very rhythmic and with the excellent voice of the lead singer that proved a great diversity between the d...
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| Late Night Venture live video in germany |
| 2008-03-10 09:32:00 |
When "Late Night Venture" tour around in europe, we always carry a pretty old digitall video camera, and sometimes we even have someone filming our shows, so just to give an idea of what it sounds like when we play concerts, I've put together an approx 10. minute video clip with excerpts from different songs that we played at some shows in germany.It's a bit muddy and you know "Amateurist" .-) , but it gives a good view and listen, I think it kind of proves that we're another kind of band live, than on record.The video clip contains excerpts from the songs :- Lazy Star .. A good old song that has been in the repertoire the last 5 years, but was finally released on our album. It's kind of the essence of our soundscape sound...
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| The newborn had to have a name |
| 2008-03-10 09:17:00 |
Well, first of all, there's just loads of places on the net to talk, chat, meet people and discover all sorts of stuff and I admit that one of the best places I know by now, is definately MySpace, I've met so many interesting people there and not the least interesting bands that I hadn't heard of ever before.So obviously I have a profile there and so does the band that I'm a part of have. You should by all means go and take a look.The band: an indie-soundscape or maybe even a "Dark Pop, Alternative Electro Pop, Nordic Dark Voice, or Underground Vibrato Exalted Sound Of Heavenly Masses" band (last quotes taken from a UK review of our album :-) ) is called LATE NIGHT VENTURE and we origin in Copenhagen, Denmark .. You can hear the music, read about us, see th...
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