04/14/00
Patience is a virtue, just ask Boards of Canada fans and prospective concert promoters. Never fear, the band are working feverishly-like in Scotland’s Pentland Hills on their follow-up to ‘Music Has The Right To Children.’ No release date has been set, so don’t ask.

11/15/99
Turns out Bonfire Night (kind of like the 4th of July in the UK, but colder and drearier) coincides with the last Warp Nights, where everyone’s full of anticipation for the appearance of Boards of Canada, this being only their third set ever. You’ll be pleased as punch to know they pulled it off with aplomb. The sound was massive and the new material was really good. The action on stage wasn’t robust but visuals kept everyone focused. They walked straight off the stage just after the last note died, passed me out the door and straight back to Scotland, I was told. After that, it kind of became a hazy...

07/24/89
Big news this week: Matador is proud to announce we'll be releasing Boards of Canda's Music Has a Right to Children in North America. The Boards are the Scotland-based duo of Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin, who've been recording in one form or another since 1983. The full history and a discography is right here. And there's also a pleasantly straightforward web page and an interview (in French!) c/o the Virgin Megastore site. We've licensed the rights to their double LP/CD Music Has the Right to Children from Warp and Skam. Our version will have a bonus track, "Happy Cycling," a John Peel session, and it'll be hitting stores September 8... the same day, incidentally, as burger/ink's Las Vegas CD, mentioned here briefly a couple weeks ago. We'll have more bio info from Mike Ink (whose work on Warp, Mille Plateaux, Chain Reaction, Force Inks. and others some of you should be familiar with) and Jorg Burger up soon. And sound clips, too. The works!

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