Thought some of you would dig this:
--- "Eric H." <burnout@heathers.stdio.com> wrote:
quoted 172 lines Subject: [Fwd: NEGATIVLAND TRUE/FALSE 2000 TOUR]
> Subject: [Fwd: NEGATIVLAND TRUE/FALSE 2000 TOUR]
>
> Negativland wrote:
> >
> > NEGATIVLAND TRUE/FALSE 2000 TOUR
> > http://www.negativland.com/
> >
> > On the eve of Negativland's 20th anniversary as a group, they embark upon
> > their first national live tour in seven years.....
> >
> > For up to date tour info, interviews, press, true or false rumors, etc.,
> > contact Negativland's
> > trusty tour manager, Paul McGoonis, care of his assistant, Will Linn at
> > will@blasthaus.com
> >
> > Tour dates and radio spot links are at the end of this
> > announcement.
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-
> > NEGATIVLAND TRUE/FALSE 2000 TOUR
> > http://www.negativland.com/tour
> >
> > Negativland is about to call it quits. One member is now in
> > federal prison for hacking into classified DieCorp think tank
> > documents. Another has become a Native American casino
> > consultant in the Southwest and wants nothing more to do with "low
> > paying alternative music." The band's drummer recently gave up
> > sticks and skins for a more lucrative life of insider day trading. The
> > Weatherman now installs customer satisfaction monitoring
> > equipment full-time for Global Cable, Inc. and has no further desire
> > to "create" anything. Crosley Bendix, the group's longtime senior
> > mentor and cultural advisor, has left the United States for good to
> > spend his twilight years at a mechanical drawing table interpreting
> > crop circle formations for MI5 in England. His final words on these
> > shores were, "music is basically dead. I'm not going to waste any
> > more time on it." It looks like the slow, agonizing demise of
> > Negativland has finally reached fruition after so many years of
> > trying.
> >
> > TRUE or FALSE?
> >
> > Well, like everything else you have to read these days, it's difficult to
> > tell. There may be some grains of truth in the above "information,"
> > but where exactly are those grains located? (Answer available only
> > from Negativland's currently-out-of-business address.) The only
> > truth you can be sure of is that nothing characterizes our
> > over-informationalized society more than our collective inability to
> > personally verify anything. And the spinning just keeps spinning
> > faster.
> >
> > As so called "culture jammers", the group known as Negativland has
> > for many years held a mirror up to the media world, broken it, and
> > shuffled the pieces back into very different shapes. So it is fitting
> > that, perhaps for the last time (believe it or not), Negativland now
> > returns to the highways of America with a live performance about
> > modern info-life and its many confusions.
> >
> > Negativland's 20th Anniversary TRUE/FALSE tour (and first
> > nationwide tour in seven years) celebrates the group's first two
> > decades of musical observations and sticky lawsuits with a
> > millennial concert lasting over two and a half hours, including a great
> > deal of never-before-heard material, as well as a few reworked
> > "tunes" from their twenty years of recordings. Rounding out this
> > over-stimulating evening of entertainment is an elaborately collaged
> > brew of film, video and slides, an actual puppet show appropriate for
> > all ages, and the first national appearance of longtime Negativland
> > collaborator, Pastor Dick.
> >
> > Expect to remain seated for maximum absorption during this long,
> > densely- packed performance, designed to help you to discern
> > TRUE from FALSE.
> >
> > NEGATIVLAND TRUE/FALSE TOUR DATES
> >
> > Fri. Apr 07 '00 --- Lincoln, Nebraska --- Royal Grove
> > Sat. Apr 08 '00 --- Minneapolis --- First Avenue
> > Mon. Apr 10 '00 --- Middleton, WI --- The Annex
> > Tue. Apr 11 '00 --- Chicago --- House Of Blues
> > Wed. Apr 12 '00 ----Evanston --- "O.T.E. Mobile", WNUR FM (tentative)
> > Thu. Apr 13 '00 ----Pontiac --- Clutch Cargo
> > Fri. Apr 14 '00 --- Toronto --- Opera House
> > Sat. Apr 15 '00 --- Cleveland --- Agora
> > Sun. Apr 16 '00 --- Pittsburgh --- Club Laga
> > Tue. Apr 18 '00 --- Philadelphia --- TBA
> >
> > This next part of the tour dates is not 100% solid yet, but will be
> > starting on the 3rd of May.
> >
> > Wed. May 03 '00 --- NYC --- Irving Plaza
> > Thu. May 04 '00 --- Washington DC --- 9:30 Club
> > Fri. May 05 '00 --- Poughkeepsie, NY --- Bard College
> > Sat. May 06 '00 --- Boston --- Copley Theater
> > Mon. May 08 '00 --- Chapel Hill, NC --- Carrboro Arts Center
> > May '00 --- Columbia SC --- TBA
> > Wed. May 10 '00 --- Atlanta --- Variety
> > Fri. May 12 '00 --- Tampa --- Club More
> > May '00 --- Pensacola --- Sluggos
> > Sun. May 14 '00 --- New Orleans --- Howlin' Wolf
> > Mon. May 15 '00 --- Houston --- TBA
> > Tue. May 16 '00 --- Austin --- Stubb's BBQ
> > May '00 --- Dallas --- TBA
> > May '00 --- Tulsa --- TBA
> > Sat. May 20 '00 --- Denver --- Bluebird
> > May '00 --- New Mexico --- TBA
> > May '00 --- Tucson --- TBA
> > May '00 --- San Diego --- TBA
> > Thu. May 25 '00 --- Los Angeles --- El Rey
> > Sat. May 27 '00 --- San Francisco --- Palace of Fine Arts
> > May '00 --- Palo Alto --- TBA
> >
> > Also at http://www.negativland.com/tour/index.html :
> >
> > TRUE/FALSE TOUR PHOTOS
> >
> > Hi-rez TRUE/FALSE Tour Photo - Color
> > Hi-rez TRUE/FALSE Tour Photo - B&W
> >
> > TRUE/FALSE RADIO SPOTS
> >
> > These radio ads are for both radio types and fans alike. They are
> > mp3s encoded at the highest quality (320 kbps), and a lower quality
> > for those who connect to the net with 2 tin cans and a taught string
> > (or a 28.8 modem). There are 10-15 seconds of a background
> > sound bed at the end so the venue and time can be announced with
> > out all that noise.
> >
> > Hold down your option (Mac users) or your alt (PC users) button
> > down while clicking the link if the file isn't downloading.
> >
> > Highest Quality
> > 60 second ads - (2.3Mb)
> > 1. Insult
> > 2. Electric Mud
> > 3. Stealing
> > 4. Wrong Place, Wrong Time
> >
> > Highest Quality
> > 30 second ads - (1.1Mb)
> > 1. Day In Day Out
> > 2. I'd Rather Be Dead
> >
> > Slightly Lower Quality
> > 60 second ads - (1.1Mb)
> > 1. Insult
> > 2. Electric Mud
> > 3. Stealing
> > 4. Wrong Place, Wrong Time
> >
> > Slightly Lower Quality
> > 30 second ads - (0.5Mb)
> > 1. Day In Day Out
> > 2. I'd Rather Be Dead
> > --
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > http://incomplete.net
> > If it's not here, it's incomplete!
> > jland@incomplete.net
> >
> > Guinea Pig cam available (and under
> > development) at
> > http://incomplete.net/espicam.html
> > ---------------------------------
>
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