To celebrate the release of Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life, the album will be on sale for $3.99 (in MP3) as “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” takes over MatadorRecords.com starting at 12am EST tonight.
The catch is, the album will only be $3.99 for about 2 minutes. That’s right. From midnight until noon tomorrow, the price of the MP3 album will be steadily going up until it hits full price once again.
And that’s not all…. while we can’t compete with Fucked Up’s physical world antics in Toronto, our version of “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” will also include a virtual pop-up store with a screening room, characters from the “story”, a live webcam from Toronto “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” and a preview of our just about ready to launch “MataCloudTM.”
Can’t get your head around all of this? That’s cool, because all you will have to do is check back at this space in 15 hours to really understand.
Well, sort of. Here’s an amazing short documentary about Fucked Up and their new album David Comes To Life, directed by Robert Semmer. Required viewing, no shit:
The fourth (and final) part of Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life is out now as a download for Buy Early Get Now people:
ACT FOUR: A revelation from Vivian sheds more light on Veronica’s death; Octavio and Vivian explain their motives, and David is reborn.
14. I Was There
15. Inside A Frame
16. The Recursive Girl
17. One More Night
18. Lights Go Up
That completes the early part of this thing – BEGN fans will also be getting four 7″ singles with extra tracks from the album sessions, as well as a poster and bonus MP3s. It’s not too late to join up if you want these things – simply preorder from the Matador Store, or locate a more convenient mail order or retail location on the map at buyearlygetnow.com.
You can also do a simple regular preorder for just the LP, CD or digital, or just wait for the album to come out on June 7.
More details on the David Comes To Life album and story at davidcomestolife.com.
Today Fucked Up release part 3 of David Comes To Life for Buy Early Get Now participants.
Most of the album’s 18 tracks have now gone out to BEGN fans:
ACT ONE: Love, then tragedy, strikes the town.
1. Let Her Rest
2. Queen Of Hearts
3. Under My Nose
4. The Other Shoe
ACT TWO: David loses Veronica, and then himself, as he succumbs to guilt and despair.
5. Running On Nothing
6. Remember My Name
7. A Slanted Tone
8. Serve Me Right
ACT THREE: Another character is revealed, putting the responsibility for Veronica’s death into question.
9. Truth I Know
10. Life In Paper
11. Ship Of Fools
12. A Little Death
Act Four, containing tracks 13-18, comes out for BEGN participants tomorrow morning. To join, preorder from us or via another store (click the link at top to find one convenient to you) and buy the BEGN package – you get lots of extras like bonus 7″es, a poster and more.
Part two of Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life is out TODAY for Buy Early Get Now customers.
They’re getting the next 4 songs on the record in MP3, FLAC or stream according to their choice, along with PDFs of the lyrics from the booklet. Parts 3 and 4 come out tomorrow and Friday.
It’s not too late to preorder for Buy Early Get Now – not only will you get the record in early digital form, you still get the physical format of your choice along with bonus MP3s, four unreleased 7″es, a poster and more. Go to buyearlygetnow.com to find a convenient mail order source (including the Matador Store), or a brick-and-mortar retailer near you, to place your preorder.
For everyone else, the album is out June 7, and you can have a sip of the juice by checking out the four free pre-release singles.
To those participating in BUY EARLY GET NOW, today marks the part 1 stream & download from Fucked Up’s June 7 LP, David Comes To Life. Parts 2 through 4 of the album are to follow this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
If you’ve not signed up for BEGN, it’s not too late!
You can order now via mail order from the Matador Store, order in person or mail order from any participating retailer on this map. Or if you are in the UK or Europe, order from our UK store.
All BEGN details can be found in this previous post.
But here’s a reminder on all of the goodies you get :
-NOW Instant download of 5 non-album tracks plus the 4 digital singles already released -MAY 10-13 (EARLY) Full 192k album stream and high-quality album download in 4 parts, one per day
-JUNE 7 (RELEASE DATE) Pick up the physical album and poster at the store you ordered from, or if you mail ordered, delivered to your door, plus a download of the Record Store Day Exclusive ‘David’s Town’ LP
-JUNE 28 The 4 bonus 7″es are available for pick up / delivered to your door (or as MP3s/FLACs if you ordered the all-digital package)
So, the time of Primavera and ATP festival (sadly their last ever May weekender) rolls around again and a ton of our bands decide it’d also be a good time to visit our (at the moment, rather sunny) shores. Just like last year.
With 3 European tours starting over this weekend, plus more to come over the next we have the following shows taking place over the next 25 days….. (though I’m not sure how much Golf they’ll have time for)
Esben and the Witch
9th – Manufaktur, Schorndorf, Germany
10th – Mascotte, Zurich, Switzerland
11th – Spazio 211, Turin, Italy
12th – Circolo degli Artisti, Rome, Italy
13th – Plastic, Milan, Italy
14th – Covo, Bologna, Italy
16th – Palace, St Gallen, Switzerland
17th – Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
18th – Doornroosje, Groningen, Netherlands
19th – Bitterzoet Club, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20th – Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands
21st – Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium
22nd – Les Nuits Botanique (Orangerie), Brussels, Belgium
24th – Gleiss 22, Munster, Germany
25th – Karlstorbahnhof, Heidleburg, Germany
26th – Atomic Cafe, Munich, Germany
27th – B72, Vienna, Austria
28th – Seewiesen Festival, Linz, Austria
29th – K4, Nurnberg, Germany
Kurt Vile (& The Violators)
8th : King Georg, Koln
9th : Feierwerk, Munich (+ O’Death)
10th : Chelsea Club, Vienna
11th : Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
12th : Vega (Small Hall), Copenhagen
13th : Voxhall, Aarhus
14th : All Tomorrow’s Parties. Minehead (curated by Animal Collective)
15th : Tivoli, Utrecht
16th : Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
17th : Les Nuits de Botanique (Rotunde), Brussels
18th : Charlatan, Gent
19th : Rough Trade East, London (free in-store, 1pm)
19th : Corsica Studio, London SOLD OUT
20th : Kazimier, Liverpool (Sound City)
21st : Captain’s Rest, Glasgow (Stag and Dagger Festival)
This is it – the culmination of four pre-release singles from Fucked Up’s upcoming album David Comes To Life. “Queen Of Hearts” sets the stage for the 18-track mega-opus, a story of love, death and redemption:
You can download the first three singles here, here and here, if you missed them. If you’ve listened to all of them, you now have had a pretty good look into the depths of the record. Starting next Tuesday, May 10, Buy Early Get Now customers can download the album in four parts, one per day. For everyone else, the album comes out on June 7.
The band embark on their European dates, starting in the UK, this Friday:
20th – Stag and Dagger @ Village Underground, London – UK (tickets)
21st – Liverpool Sound City @ Kazimir, Liverpool – UK (tickets)
and announce June-July dates in North America:
Sat-Jun-4 Houston, TX – Free Press Summer Fest
Sun-Jun-5 Austin, TX – Mohawk – Chaos in Tejas
Thu-Jun-23 New York, NY – Terminal 5 *
Fri-Jun-24 Boston, MA – Royale †
Sun-Jun-26 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church †
Mon-Jun-27 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel †
Tue-Jun-28 Raleigh, NC – Kings Barcade †
Wed-Jun-29 Atlanta, GA – The Earl †
Thu-Jun-30 Nashville, TN – Exit / In †
Fri-Jul-1 St. Louis, MO – Firebird †
Sat-Jul-2 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall †
Sun-Jul-3 London, ON – Call the Office
Sun-Jul-31 Montreal, QC – Osheaga Festival
* with Dinosaur Jr. and OFF!
† with JEFF the Brotherhood
Keep your eyes on this space for more Fucked Up summer touring news.
Sometimes, as much as you try to get things ‘right’ they always come out ‘nearly there’. Yesterday we opened orders for BEGN for the upcoming Fucked Up release of ‘David Comes To Life’ and some European customers may have experienced issues with their digital downloads.
If you are a UK or EU customer, you may have experienced problems redeeming your voucher code, thus unable to download the MP3 delights promised to you. If this was you, we sincerely apologise. All gremlins have now been removed from the system and regular service has resumed. Please do not try to pay again, we’ll only keep your money. Instead, head back to www.buyearlygetnow.com, log in, re-input your code that you received from Sandbag yesterday and you should be on your way to aural pleasure. Please note: in the “retailer” field, enter ‘Sandbag’ (not Sandman). Any other problems, please comment below and we’ll help you out, or refer to the help page on Sandbag.
As announced last week, our ninth Buy Early Get Now promotion goes live today, for the new Fucked Up album, David Comes To Life.
You can preorder NOW via mail order from the Matador Store, preorder in person or mail order from any participating retailer on this map, or if you are in the UK or Europe, from our UK store.
Wherever you preorder, you will be given a code that lets you log in to buyearlygetnow.com, where you can download your extras and early album stream/download. If you preorder physical goods, those will be available for you to pick up at the store you bought it from, or shipped to your house if you’ve mail ordered, according to the schedule below:
NOW Instant download of 5 non-album tracks plus the 3 digital singles already released MAY 10-13 (EARLY) Full 192k album stream and high-quality album download in 4 parts, one per day JUNE 7 (RELEASE DATE) Pick up the physical album and poster at the store you preordered from, or if you mail ordered, delivered to your door, plus a download of the Record Store Day Exclusive ‘David’s Town’ LP JUNE 28 The 4 bonus 7″es are available for pick up / delivered to your door (or as MP3s/FLACs if you ordered the all-digital package)
In addition, we released the third single from the album (of 4), “Ship Of Fools,” today. The first 30 people to respond to a Facebook post / tweet made at noon yesterday were overnighted CDRs of the track:
Remember back when we told you that Fucked Up had a new album on the horizon? Well that time is racing towards us faster than you can say “Byrdesdale Spa FC.” However we’ve still got a little ways to go before the June 7 street date. But alas! We’ve found a way to not only get you the whole album early but for you to score a bunch of exclusive content. We’re talking bonus 7″es, non-album tracks, posters.
The time has come for us to welcome back our dear old (and newly trademarked) friend Buy Early Get Now.
For its ninth birthday, Buy Early Get Now is getting the Fucked Up treatment and by placing a pre-order via mail order directly from us*or at a trusted local independent retailer for David Comes To Life on CD or 2xLP beginning Tuesday April 26, you’ll get the following:
- Instant download of 5 non-album songs plus the pre-album digital singles as MP3s on April 26.
- A full 192k album stream and hi-quality album download in 4 parts over 4 days from May 10-13.
- The CD or 2xLP and exclusive poster mailed to your house via Matastore or available to pick up on June 7.
- Download of Record Store Day Exclusive David’s Town comp on June 7.
- 4 bonus 7″es of 7 extra non-album songs available to pick up on June 28.
And, as always, if you don’t live anywhere near a participating retailer, you can always pre-order David Comes To Life directly from the Matador Store.
For more info on Buy Early Get Now click HERE or email buyearlygetnow@matadorrecords.com for more details.
The somewhat unimaginative (but guaranteed to sell out) Reading and Leeds festivals just got a lot better with the addition of Cold Cave and Fucked Up for the end of summer UK weekend festival.
Fucked Up play the NME/Radio 1 tent (Leeds – Friday, Reading – Sunday), whilst Cold Cave play the dance tent (Reading – Friday, Leeds – Saturday) . Interpol were announced previously and play way up the bill on the main stage (Leeds – Friday, Reading – Sunday).
For a full line-up and tickets head to the Reading or Leeds official websites.
All bands have extensive tours ahead of this, click to check the upcoming tour dates of Cold Cave, Fucked Up and Interpol.
Today Fucked Up release the second of four singles from the upcoming album David Comes To Life. Entitled “A Little Death,” the song is track 13 out of 18. Its urgent tone plays against an underlying tale of resignation and defeat, and showcases a different side of this insanely multilayered album from the first single released a couple of weeks ago.
Appropriately enough, the band will be celebrating the release of this (sad?) single with a free show at the ACE Hotel in Palm Springs after Coachella ends tonight. They will be performing multiple songs from the new album. Doors open at midnight. Come and get a free postcard containing more information on the story.
If you can’t make it out to the desert, catch them at the Echoplex in LA tomorrow night. Tickets are only $5.
* To avoid confusion, these singles are DIGITAL singles. There will be plenty of REAL singles coming for you collectors.
Stay tuned for the release of single number 3 on Tuesday, April 26.
Photo credit: Jake Giles Netter (Fucked Up at Matador 21)
We’re excited to report that Fucked Up will be playing Terminal 5 on Thursday, June 23, supporting Dinosaur Jr. (who will be performing Bug in its entirety)!! Also on the bill are OFF! and Henry Rollins (interviewing Dino Jr. live). Ticket on-sale begins this Friday.
In addition, Fucked Up will also be headlining the Echoplex in LA on Saturday, April 16. Ticketing information to follow shortly so keep your eyes peeled for updates. And as previously reported, the band are playing the Ace Hotel, Palm Springs on Friday, April 15.
RSVP to The Ace Hotel show here This show is free and open to the public. Capacity is limited. First come first serve!
To celebrate the release of the second of four singles from their upcoming album David Comes To Life, Fucked Up will be playing a midnight show at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs on Friday, April 15. This is of course during the weekend of the Coachella Festival. The digital single is called “A Little Death” and will be available both here on the Matablog and on iTunes on that Friday.
To be perfectly frank, we thought about blowing off Record Store Day this year. It’s not that we don’t support record stores – far from it, it’s what 37 of 38 employees prefer – but the huge glut of supposedly limited-edition releases, the scrum to get to the counter in the morning, and then the instant reappearance of many of the records on eBay at inflated sums are all an unintended and unwelcome side-effect of the event.
That said, we couldn’t help ourselves, and neither could three of our artists, so we proudly announce the following limited-edition items. They’re all awesome, they’re all limited, and if you don’t succeed on getting your hands on them on Record Store Day, just remember that the prices on eBay will (most likely) come down over time.
SO, on Saturday, April 16, Matador will have the following RSD exclusives:
From Byrdesdale Garden City in the UK comes the compilation album DAVID’S TOWN. Featuring 11 unreleased tracks from local bands including Gacy and the Boys, Animal Man, Grain and Hateful Coil, in styles varying from DIY to post-punk to power pop, this limited edition from FU-Discs was recorded in Byrdesdale between 1976 and 1979 and not released until now. An essential document of a thriving scene.
Next comes the new 7″ single from THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, “Moves.” Currently moving up the radio charts, and of course featured in Tom Scharpling’s genius video for the track, it comes with the unreleased B-side “Drug Deal Of The Heart,” recorded at the sessions for the album Together. (Note: the band is playing Coachella on RSD weekend, and then will tour out of there through April and May.)
Finally we have the new 12″ from ESBEN AND THE WITCH, the great trio from Brighton, UK – many of you will have seen one of their great shows at SXSW this month. They just wrapped up their US tour and returned to their homeland. The single is the radio edit of “Chorea” and features a remix of their pounding classic “Eumenides” by Stuart Braithwaite of MOGWAI, along with an entirely unreleased 18-minute version of “Corridors” recorded for The Creators Project and only played at a special installation in London for Karl Sadler‘s Lit Forest. (Note: Esben return to the road in the UK starting this Friday.)
As usual, we will be taking down our webstore in observation of Record Store Day. Get out there, get in line, and spend some money, goddammit!!!
Right from the start, Toronto’s Fucked Up have been pushing musical and conceptual boundaries. Their third album, the 18-song, 78-minute David Comes To Life is a rock opera, an album set to a play. Though no less monumental, it is far more melodic than their breakthrough The Chemistry of Common Life. There are more female vocals, which work in perfect contrast to Damian Abraham’s highly effective wounded bull growl. The band sound tighter, with more space for the flourishes and imaginative songwriting that entwine their love of fey British indie pop with heavy riffing, and some genuinely twisted turns. Perhaps most grippingly, the triple-guitar interplay between Mike Haliechuk, Josh Zucker and Ben Cook has risen to symphonic levels. They channel musicians from Angus Young, Pete Townshend and Noel Gallagher to Bob Stinson and Lyle Preslar with ease and grace.
As for the story – more on that to come.
Here is the first of four DIGITAL singles that will be released from the album leading up to its June 7 release date. It’s entitled The Other Shoe, and you can get it here:
Later this week Fucked Up will be needing to change up their winter wear for something a little cooler as they head down to the summery southern hemisphere as they join the Soundwave Festival around Australia. Seeing as they’re going to be around that neck of the woods they’ll also be heading over to Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore to sample to sites and play some shows.
Hi, our new album is finished. You may remember last time we finished a full length album I made a funny post that counterposed the mastered CD I got sent in the mail by the mastering company against a screen shot from my laptop computer of 2001 “A Space Odyssey” where the earth is eclipsing the moon and the moon is being eclipsed by the sun at the same time or something, and then put the CDR right on the screen as if it was eclipsing the entire thing. A lot of you probably didn’t understand what was going on in the picture, especially because I posted the lyrics from the title track that contains shit like “The Vale the midwife birth the key”, which I myself don’t even really understand. Then I posted a link where you could download the entire album, but it was actually a link to the newly released album by the band Cut Copy, and I guess a lot of people fell for it because there were a lot of nasty comments to that particular post, and this was before people only came to this blog to make fun of me. Nowaways Cut Copy is really famous, and we’re just semi-famous, so who really won? Anyhow, this is not a competition. Especially since our album would later go on to receive a score of 8.8 on popular website “pitchfork” and their new album only got an 8.6. But anyhow, the fact that as many people fell for that as did is kind of a bummer – why would we release our new album for free on our blog the day we got it back from the mastering plant?
Back to the point, fast forward to the present and we have another completely full length album. It’s more than 3 years later and a lot of things have changed since I made the original Chemcom post. For one, there are no longer such things as “CDR’s”. In case you are of average age (17) and have no idea what these are – they were little floppy plastic circular disks that stored music and video games made for PC computers (“personal computers”, kind of pre-cursor devices to ipods that were used to download mp3s from sites like “kazaa” and facilitate the playing of such games as “solitaire”). Back in those days when you needed to store and transport large amounts of data (less than 700 megabytes) you would open up a program like “toast” and spend 25 minutes “burning” a CDR – that is, putting the data right onto the physical disk. Then you would put the disc in the “mail” and after 2 or 3 weeks the disc would arrive at some other location on planet earth.
Well that’s what happened with our last record. It got mastered somewhere in America, and a few weeks later the album-containing disc was delivered to my hand by a Canadian mail-delivery person, and I inserted it into my “cd player” (a device used to listen to music on these cds) and played it until I got bored (about 14 minutes later) at which point I continued to use up the “telephone” “land-line” to search for techno mp3s on “soulseek”.
Today I was sent a copy of our new album by an ftp server and loaded it right onto my ipod. I’m not even sure that it touched my desktop on its way to its final place of rest. It was mastered at 8.37pm on February 7th 2011 and at 11.11pm on February 7th 2011 I have already finished listening to half of it, and plan on finishing the other half before February 9th 2011 (it is a really long album). Concurrently with that, our label general Manager has ALREADY finished a complete listening of the album, at his home in New York City. Despite this relative quickness, you yourself have no hope of hearing this album for at least a few weeks before it is leaked by some cretin on a torrent site. But for now enjoy this blurry picture of it’s existence on my personal ipod
ANYWAYS feel free to download our new album “David Comes To Life” right HERE.
(update – lest anyone think [and by extension sue] I was actively trying to leak another band’s new album, I took the original link down. If you still want the original joke [that I leaked the new Cut Copy album for the 2nd album running {which is funny not only because it's another band's album rather than ours, but also because of the stark contrast offered by both bands musical style}] to have the same effect you can click right HERE to actually download the new Cut Copy album, which is a link to where I got it from [google]. You are all in luck though because the new link IS ACTUALLY OUR NEW RECORD.)
We are excited to announce that Damian Abraham of Fucked Up has his own TV show. That’s right, he’ll be appearing on Canada’s MuchMusic network every Wednesday night at 10 PM, as host of the relaunched Wedge. The Wedge is all original music programming, and Damian’s encyclopedic knowledge of underground music history (and indeed mainstream music history) is sure to make the show engrossing and entertaining in equal measures.
“The Wedge played a huge part in my musical development,” said Damian Abraham, host of revamped series The Wedge. “I’m honoured to be able to have the same impact on a new generation of music fans.”
Triumph of Life 7″
“It’s pretty much just a picture of a bird (the extinct Black Mamo) but then when you look closer you see that what makes the picture and the bird significant is the flower it’s standing on, whose petals are perfectly formed to fit this bird’s beak, and no other. This holds with the syncretic message that most FU songs are about, our ‘anti-dualism’ vibes.”
The Chemistry of Common Life LP
“If you look closely you can tell that its not just one image, but a composite of about 35 different shots lined up on top of each other, which is why you have some people and cars overlapping, and explains the relative brightness of the sun, and the lens flare everywhere. The shot is supposed to represent the main idea behind the record, which is the unity between culture and nature, and the idea that the literal source for all human culture and life is the sun. Even though the title is taken from a 19th century book on wild mushroom identification, what it means for the album is how everything that’s cultural about our lives has its source in nature and science, and that there really isn’t a divide between the two spheres.”
Baiting the Public 7″
“Probably my favourite sleeve that we’ve done. This was only our third 7″ release. The front image is meant to be a metaphor for what we thought we were in punk, and what punk was in the world (we were really into punk at that point) – a pack of rats running over a proper looking young woman in bed.”
“The inside was more to the heart of what this record was about, which was more or less a tribute to the Actionists, a radical art group in 1960s Austria. The inner picture depicts one of their ‘events’ which is basically a naked man aiming a naked woman at a roomful of people. The Actionists, along with the Situationists, who were another big ‘influence’ of ours at the time, were admired because of their blatant attempts to challenge and shock rather than pander to their audience.”
I’ve been asked to follow Nils’ awesome post that kicked off the “Matador Employees Write About Love” series yesterday. I thought I would start with the above Pitchfork TV clip from Vegas, cuz I fucking LOVED Battle Of The Bands at Matador 21.
OK. Well, love has actually been a big theme for me this year, so this should be easy right? Um.
I tell you, I love a Belle and Sebastian song called “I Love My Car”. It’s originally from the “I’m Waking Up To Us” EP, and you can own it as part of the unimpeachable Push Barman to Open Old Wounds collection.
Oh you know what I really love? I love my dog. The GOOOOOOOSE! I also love a painting of my dog that my friends Shana and Timcommissioned as a wedding gift. I just got it today:
I love Twitter. I’m at 99 followers RIGHT NOW. Just saying…
I love the internal debate happening to decide whether or not this is the appropriate forum to discuss how much I love my wife. Maybe set the website public now, Pants.
I love the Mannequin Men Hozac singles club single “Hobby Girl”. Both sides. And I love that Dave Martin was able to get me a copy even though I’m not in the club (thanks Dave and Hozac).
I love that I’ve spent an hour on this post and no one can yell at me about it (thanks Nils!).
I love rock ‘n roll. Put another dime in the jukebox, baby.
Sadly due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ in the Against Me camp Fucked Up’s previously announced european dates with them have sadly been cancelled, however the dates with Arcade Fire later in the year are still all good and going ahead! For refunds on any tickets bought for the Against Me shows please return them to the point of purchase.
You can still catch Fucked Up in Europe later this year at the following shows:
18th November – Atlantica Pavillion, Lisbon, Portugal^
20th November – Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, Spain^
21st November – Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain^
24th November – Le Dome, Marseille, France^
26th November – Halle Tonby Garnier, Lyon, France^
28th November – Zenith, Munich, Germany^
29th November – Philipshalle, Desseldorf, Germany^
So while the mania surrounding Matador @ 21 continues, those of us in Europe need to remind you of tours and things happening over here! Fucked Up have just announced another European tour, this time supporting Arcade Fire at a bunch of arena shows around Europe at the end of November. Before trying to conquer some of the biggest stages they’ve ever played they’ll be playing with Against Me! in the UK – all of the relevant dates are listed below.
Aside from that we’ll also finally have copies of the Year Of The Ox EP available to buy from October the 4th, you might be interested in pre-ordering that from Rough Trade (US customers can pick up the EP now via our friends at Merge) if you can’t make it along to see them play.
Catch Fucked Up live at the following shows:
22nd October – Southampton, Mo’ Live *
23rd October – Manchester, Academy *
24th October – Cardiff, Solus *
25th October – Bristol, O2 Academy *
26th October – Coventry, Kasbah *
27th October – Glasgow, QMU *
28th October – Nottingham, Rock City *
29th October – Leeds, Met Uni *
30th October – Reading, Sub 89 *
31st October – Plymouth, University *
1st November – Cambridge, Junction *
2nd November – Oxford, O2 Academy *
3rd November – London, Electric Ballroom *
*Supporting Against Me!
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18th November – Atlantica Pavillion, Lisbon, Portugal^
20th November – Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, Spain^
21st November – Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain^
24th November – Le Dome, Marseille, France^
26th November – Halle Tonby Garnier, Lyon, France^
28th November – Zenith, Munich, Germany^
29th November – Philipshalle, Desseldorf, Germany^
First off, if these changes have left anyone disappointed or inconvenienced, we’re truly sorry. I’ve been watching videos of the guys in the BP commercials all week trying to strike the right tone for this post, and wouldn’t you know it, MY VIDEO CAMERA IS BROKEN. Bullet dodged.
On the bright side, hey, DEAD MEADOW are playing. The opening VIP gala is still happening at 4pm Friday in the Hardwood Suite with dj sets by Ted Leo and myself. Same room becomes a VIP lounge Friday and Saturday nights, plus late night dj action on Friday (James McNew, Dean Bein) and Saturday (Dave Martin, Robby Morris). Here’s the live entertainment schedule of events. Much like real life, everything is subject to change.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st
THE PEARL
Pavement: 12:00am – 1:00am
Sonic Youth: 10:40pm – 11:30am
Fucked Up: 9:35pm – 10:15pm
Chavez: 8:30pm – 9:10pm
Guitar Wolf: 7:30pm – 8:10pm
Doors: 7:00pm
MC : Jeff Jensen
LATE NIGHT PARTY IN PALMS BALLROOM (LIMITED CAPACITY)
Fucked Up Vs. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists: 1:30am – 2:30am
(One stage. Two bands. At once. They’re supposed to take turns, song by song…but who knows?)
Doors: 1:00am
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2nd
THE PEARL
Belle & Sebastian: 11:45pm – 1:00am
Spoon: 10:25pm – 11:15pm
Superchunk: 9:20pm – 10:00pm
Cat Power: 8:15pm – 8:55pm
Perfume Genius: 7:55pm – 8:15pm
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: 6:50pm – 7:30pm
Come: 5:45pm – 6:25pm
Girls: 4:40pm – 5:20pm
Doors 4:00pm
MC : Bob Nastanovich
MATINEE IN THE PALMS BALLROOM (LIMITED CAPACITY)
Dead Meadow: 2:30pm – 3:15pm
Harlem: 1:30pm – 2:05pm
Doors: 1:00pm
LATE NIGHT PARTY IN PALMS BALLROOM (LIMITED CAPACITY)
Cold Cave: 2:25am – 3:15am
Esben and The Witch: 1:30am – 2:00am
Doors: 1:00am
THE PEARL
Guided By Voices: 11:30pm – 1:00am
Yo La Tengo: 10:10pm – 11:05pm
Liz Phair: 9:50pm – 10:10pm
The New Pornographers: 8:40pm – 9:25pm
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists: 7:35pm – 8:15pm
Shearwater: 6:30pm – 7:10pm
Doors: 6:00pm
MC’s : Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster
MATINEE IN THE PALMS BALLROOM
The Clean: 4:30pm – 5:15pm
Times New Viking: 3:30pm – 4:05pm
Kurt Vile: 2:30pm – 3:05pm
Doors: 2:00pm
First of all, we know you’ve been waiting patiently for the information below, and we sincerely apologize for the length of time it took to get it together. But if wanting to put together an even sicker bill than previously announced is a crime, PLEASE LOCK US UP.
1) 50 additional pairs of tickets priced at $250.00 per person (not including taxes and fees) will be available via a public lottery sometime next week. We’ll announce the details here and on the 21 site beforehand.
2) Details regarding a limited number of room upgrades will be available at that time.
3) We regret to announce that at present, our supply of VIP tickets has been exhausted. If that situation changes, we’ll let you know.
4) As rumored in a bunch of places (including this very blog), we’re very happy to confirm the following additions to The Lost Weekend Bill ; Liz Phair, Times New Viking, Esben and the Witch, Perfume Genius, The Clean, MC’s Jeff Jensen, Bob Nastanovich, Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster, and a late Friday evening presentation by Austin’s Karaoke Underground. The rough schedule can be found below, and is very much subject to change :
Friday:
4 PM: Gala opening party, Hardwood Suite (VIP ticketholders, limited capacity)
MAIN STAGE (The Pearl):
doors open 6 PM, first band (Guitar Wolf) on at 7 PM
Pavement
Sonic Youth
Fucked Up
Chavez
Cold Cave
Guitar Wolf
MC : Jeff Jensen
2am onwards : Superchunk/Fucked Up/bands TBC, Hardwood Suite (VIP ticketholders only, capacity limited)
2am onwards : Karaoke Underground at Little Buddha (open to all ticketholders, space permitting)
Saturday:
MAIN STAGE (The Pearl):
Belle and Sebastian
Spoon
Superchunk
Cat Power
Perfume Genius
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Come
Girls
MC : Bob Nastanovich
2am : Esben and the Witch, Harlem, Key West Ballroom (open to all ticketholders, space permitting)
Sunday (MATINEE, in Key West Ballroom, open to all ticketholders, capacity limited):
The Clean
Times New Viking
Kurt Vile
Sunday evening :
MAIN STAGE (The Pearl):
Guided By Voices
Yo La Tengo
Liz Phair
The New Pornographers
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Shearwater
MC’s : Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster
Matador at 21: The Lost Weekend takes place at the Palms Resort and Casino in Las Vegas from October 1-3, 2010. This event is sponsored by MySpace Music, Altamont and Incase.
Fucked Up are releasing the next 12″ in their Chinese Zodiac series on September 27th. Being released on Merge in North America and Matador everywhere else, ‘Year of the Ox’ continues in the trend of these releases and clocks in at 13 minutes long. It also features guest appearances from Nika Roza Danilova (Zola Jesus) and Torontian string quartet New Strings Old Puppets. You can hear the track in it’s entirety right now over on Pitchfork.
The band are in Europe now and play London tomorrow where they headline the 1234 Festival before moving on to play the Truck Festival in Oxford. There might also be a secret show inbetween. After playing Russia at the end of July, they’ll return to the UK on August 6th for three festival shows (Standon Calling, Hevy Festival and Rebellion), finishing up with a headline show at The Hoxton Bar & Grill on August 9th (support comes from Trash Talk).
Finally, the band have also been confirmed for supporting Against Me! this October in the UK.
July Shows
24th July – 1234 Festival, London, UK
24th July – The M**b*th, London, UK
25th July – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
26th July – Klubi, Tampere, Finland
27th July – Klubi, Turku, Finland
28th July – Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland
29th July – Tanci Venue, St Petersburg, Russia
30th July – Aktzal, Moscow, Russia
August Shows
6th August – Standon Calling, Hertfordshire, UK
7th August – Hevy Festival, Kent, UK
8th August – Rebellion Festival, Blackpool, UK
9th August – Hoxton Bar & Grill, London, UK
11th August – Oya Festival, Oslo, Norway
With Against Me !
22nd October – Southampton, Mo’ Live, UK
23rd October – Manchester, Academy, UK
24th October – Cardiff, Solus, UK
25th October – Bristol, O2 Academy, UK
26th October – Coventry, Kasbah, UK
27th October – Glasgow, QMU, UK
28th October – Nottingham, Rock City, UK
29th October – Leeds, Met Uni, UK
30th October – Reading, Sub 89, UK
31st October – Plymouth, University, UK
1st November – Cambridge, Junction, UK
2nd November – Oxford, O2 Academy, UK
3rd November – London, Electric Ballroom, UK
Tickets for “The Lost Weekend” aka Matador’s 21st birthday celebrations at The Palms will go on sale this Friday morning at 9am, PST. Here’s the details you’ve been hassling all of us about over the last week (and don’t think we don’t appreciate it)
a) Tickets/Pricing : An initial quantity will be on sale Friday for $SOLD. .After the $SOLD tickets sell out, the price increases to $SOLD. A Ticketfly.com link will be posted on this site on Thursday, July 8th. Starting Friday, you’ll have the opportunity to reserve standard rooms at the Palms for the discounted rate of $SOLD per night (the full 3 nights of the festival, only). The rooms feature two double bed and occupancy of up to 4 persons is allowed. The above rate is only available when purchasing tickets thru us. If you are interested in upgrading to a larger room or a suite you will be able to do so after purchasing the standard room. TICKETS FOR THE 3 NIGHTS + ROOMS are being sold jointly — we’re not selling tickets to the shows separately at this time, nor are we selling tickets for individual nights.
(ADDENDUM -i) A limited number of 3-day tickets priced at $SOLD—with no Palms reservation required — will be available Friday morning at 9am PST via Ticketfly.com
ii) if, for example, you’re buying 4 tickets to the shows, the $SOLD per night hotel fee can cover up to 4 people. $SOLD over 3 nights divided by 4 is hopefully not an crazy amount to charge for rooms in a world class resort).
B) VIP tickets. A limited number of VIP packages will be available at $SOLD — details about what you’ll get for the $SOLD are forthcoming. You’ll have the ability to upgrade from the regular tickets, assuming the VIP tickets aren’t sold out.
D) MORE BANDS. OK, we’re working on it. But in addition to the 19 artists confirmed on the above poster, we can confirm the original lineup of COME — Thalia Zedek, Chris Brokaw, Sean O’Brien and Arthur Johnson — will be participating. Actually, we already know who some of the other bands are, we’re just trying to drag this out. MORE MATABLOG CONTENT between now and October!
E) Set times - we’ll post these the week before the event.
F) These shows are open to all ages. However, access to the casino floor is limited to those 21 and over.
F) WHAT ABOUT LAS VEGAS HUMANS? Las Vegas’ Zia Records is selling 50 tickets to “The Lost Weekend” starting Friday, July 9. You’ll need a Nevada I.D. Reservations at the Palms are not required to purchase these tickets.
(ADDENDUM II :
INFORMATION FOR TICKETS AVAILABLE IN LAS VEGAS
Zia Records
4225 South Eastern Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89119-5485
702-735-4942
Zia Records
4503 W. SAHARA
LAS VEGAS, NV 89102
702-233-4942
Tickets will go onsale at both stores at 10:00am on Friday, July 9th via lottery. By overwhelming demand by Nevada Residents we will be increasing the amount of tickets available (50 X 2 = 100) . There is a two ticket limit. Nevada state ID required for purchase. Any questions please email 21@matadorecords.com
