Not sure exactly how we spaced on this one, but as always, the Matablog is to roster news what Tom Scholz is to Boston albums.  VERY LATE BUT WELL-INTENTIONED.    From Brainwashed.com : 

It may be a bit short to call a tour – a “tourette”, perhaps? – but our European friends will be happy to know that Matmos will be over there very soon for a few performances:

MAY
22 – Paris, FR @ Cafe de la Danse
23 – Bergen, NO @ Bergen International Festival
26 & 27 – London, UK @ Village Underground (see below for details)
29 – Verona, IT @ Interzona
30 – Bologna, IT @ Locomotiv
31 – Foligno (Perugia), IT @ Young Jazz in Town Festival

JUNE
1 – Zagreb, HR @ Kset Club
2 – Beograd (Belgrade), RS @ Rex

MATMOS AND LONDON CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA
Hugh Brunt, Conductor
Supported by Sarah Nicolls and Micromattic
Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 May 2009, 8.00pm
Village Underground, Shoreditch

An adventurous collaboration between musical worlds is headlined by one of the giants of the electronic music scene, Matmos, performing with members of the LCO on material from Supreme Balloon arranged by the young composer Anna Meredith. In the hands of pianist Sarah Nicolls, that most familiar of instruments becomes augmented and reinvented for the 21st century, a bespoke contraption pushing at the boundaries of performance. LCO’s first commission of the season comes from Howard Quin and Micromattic, a thrilling audio-visual installation integrating live performance, electronic soundtracks and fractal animation.

Tickets available online or via Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891

(Matmos and So Percussion at the Whitney, 2006, pic taken from maggiemoo1’s flickr feed)

We were fortunate enough to receive the following communication from Matmos earlier this week ;

We (Matmos) are playing quite an unusual show this weekend in the extremely important city of New York at a venue called the Kitchen. We are playing with the So Percussion Quartet and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra-at the same time…it’s really quite an extravaganza of sound, both timbre-wise and spacially. Fans of the Acousmonium take note, this sort of thing doesn’t happen often in the United States.

All the information you might need (except plane tickets and stuff, if you don’t live in New York) is here:

http://www.thekitchen.org/

Thank you for reading my spam,
love,
M.C. Schmidt
Matmos
p.s. If you are REALLY in this for the spacial thing, we’re doing this evening again in Princeton itself (considered possibly more pleasant than New York by some) with 25 laptoppists! Count ‘em TWENTY FIVE! A month later on May 16th. Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.

….but if you were cleaning up all the jpgs on your desktop and happened to come across a photo of Matmos’ Drew Daniel a) wearing a Burzum tee and b) standing in front of what appears to be A BURNED DOWN CHURCH, what would you do?

That’s right. You’d post the pic to the Matablog. Enjoy your monday.

Nils was kind enough to forward the following :

Matmos’s Drew Daniel will read from his book on Throbbing Gristle (Throbbing Gristle: Twenty Jazz Funk Greats, 33 1/3 Books), answer questions, and do a Soft Pink Truth performance (aka dance party).

This is all happening at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Saturday, Nov. 15 at 8pm. Tickets are $10.

Matmos will present new improvised material tomorrow night (Sept. 6) at The Stone (2nd and Ave. C, New York City) at 8pm and 10pm, joined by special guests Lisle Ellis and Zeena Parkins.  Y’know, I used to live on Ave. C and 4th Street and that was a very different neighborhood before Applebee’s, Old Navy and the Cheesecake Factory all set up shop. 

On the other hand, there’s hardly any chance of walking into a False Prophets gig by accident anymore, so who am I to say progress is a bad thing?

Matmos, currently touring North America in support of their most recent LP/CD, ‘Supreme Balloon’, will be playing at Chicago’s Permanent Records on July 26. We hope you can attend. Not in lieu of the show at the Lakeshore Theatre or anything, but preferably, both.

(Live in Prague 6/18/08 – Photo via Félix Adorno’s Flickr page)

Tomorrow (Friday, July 11) at 11:00 AM (PST), Matmos stop by San Francisco’s KUSF for a live performance on the program “Hearts on Sleeves”. Bay Area residents can catch the program on terrestrial radio at 90.3 FM, while the rest can access a webstream online at www.kusf.org.

EDIT – Direct from Matmos:

“…We will improvise on Irwin’s show for your drive time pleasure. With Wobbly. Your car will shake. Your booty will clap. Your speakers will scratch their heads, wondering, why has no one pleasured me this way before?”

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

The NYC venue, LPR, might be more familiar to some of you old timers as the former Village Gate.