"Andrew Kohnen" <andylists@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines 05/17/01 Portland, OR (TBA)
>>05/17/01 Portland, OR (TBA)
>
>I'm fucking there!
>If it's over 21, people will die.
You probably don't have much to worry about. The venue still says TBA, but
ever since Mike Thrasher took over Pine Street, almost every electronic show
has played there (and Satyricon's booking has been throttled by his
ridiculous vise grip on the touring companies). So you can look forward to
bad ventilation and disgruntled alcoholics, but you can probably also look
forward to a show. Although, come to think of it, the last Warp act that
came through hit Lola's, so you might still have to sit on crossed fingers
for awhile or use this as an excuse to finally pick up a decent ID
(Oregon's, luckily, is one of the easiest to make yourself).
As for peeps complaining because some big cities have been overlooked for
small ones this time around--- well, I for one am grateful. I'm assuming
Autechre has played Toronto before, but they definitely have not played
Portland, at least not since I've been paying attention. Nice of them to
drop in on our fair city. And it really is good to see them playing
irregular midsection stops like Columbus. I do hope that anyone who wants to
see them is able to, but the "only the biggest cities, only the biggest
crowds" approach to touring, while understandable from the band's
perspective, generally means that it's the same people who get to see
everything, and it's nice to see Autechre departing from that in a few cases
even though they're making only a small tour.
<<preparing to move even *farther* off the main touring path.....>>
M.
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