Beirut's rad, so you guys should check Zach Condon and his band out on Wednesday, November 21, and come share a drink with me because I'm (somewhat) new to town!
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(And for the purposes of pretension, and perhaps as a sale pitch, Pitchfork Media gives an 8.0 rating for the Flying Club Cup album)
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Concert: Beirut @ Muffathalle
Monday 30.Jun.2008
I preferred Gulag Orkestar (Especially "Postcards from Italy") to the second album. Wonderful band though, and I should be going that night.
"Postcards from Italy" is what made me fall for Beirut in the first place.
And yay, we can meet!
And yay, we can meet!
Sure, that'll work for me.
And now it won't considering England are playing on Wednesday.
Feck.
Feck.
Just noticed that the gig has been cancelled due to illness.
This is copied and pasted off the Georg-Elser-Halle website:
"***Konzert fällt aus***Konzert fällt aus***Konzert fällt aus***
Mittwoch 21.11.2007
Einlass: 19.30 , Beginn: 20.30
Wegen Krankheit muss das Konzert leider entfallen. Es wird evtl. einen Ersatztermin geben. Karten bleiben vorläufig gültig bzw. können an der jeweiligen VVK-Stelle zurückgegeben werden."
The good news is that now I can be bored to death watching England:)
J
This is copied and pasted off the Georg-Elser-Halle website:
"***Konzert fällt aus***Konzert fällt aus***Konzert fällt aus***
Mittwoch 21.11.2007
Einlass: 19.30 , Beginn: 20.30
Wegen Krankheit muss das Konzert leider entfallen. Es wird evtl. einen Ersatztermin geben. Karten bleiben vorläufig gültig bzw. können an der jeweiligen VVK-Stelle zurückgegeben werden."
The good news is that now I can be bored to death watching England:)
J
Fantastic. Now I won't feel guilty about blowing this one off for the football. Score.
Wha..? No... Oh shoot.
They have announced a new date, June 30th @ Muffathalle.
Definitely have to mark this in the calendar
Definitely have to mark this in the calendar
Yesss! I am going. Thank you tui!
I shall definitely be going to this. Can't imagine there'll be any football in June to distract me from the show.
hey!
i still have my ticket from the nov. show. do you think that will still be good for this show? did you two return the tickets you had?
i still have my ticket from the nov. show. do you think that will still be good for this show? did you two return the tickets you had?
that ticket is still good for this show. Just in case theyre operating an exchange program (new tickets for the old ones), its best to go to the place where you bought the ticket/email the online ticket broker and see whats up.
Looks like the gig on June 30 has been cancelled as well:
http://www.muffathalle.de/cms/veranstaltun...riff=&wann=
http://www.muffathalle.de/cms/veranstaltun...riff=&wann=
Doesn't look good for any future gigs either...
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April 3
A Letter from Zach
It's with great regret that I have to tell all of you that Beirut is canceling their summer European shows. My reasons for doing this are many, a lot of them personal, but I still feel I need to provide something of an explanation.
The past two years have been a mindblowing experience. From the first indications that people were putting songs from Gulag up on their blogs to our incredible tour of Australia and New Zealand that we just completed, everything that has happened has been beyond anything I'd ever hoped could happen with the music I wrote and recorded in my bedroom. Once things started happening, I decided I wanted to do everything as big as possible. So, I set about putting together a large band, and giving that band a huge sound, and making the most spectacular records we possibly could.
I know this can sound like an artist shithead kind of comment, but going through all that really does have its low points along with the highs. The responsibilities of gathering people around your vision, working with great people like those who work directly for the band and those at the label, wanting to insure that every show is as good as humanly possible so that every single person in the audience sees that we put in a real effort, all of that leads to a lot of issues in terms of doing right by people who have done you right.
It's come time to change some things, reinvent some others, and come back at some point with a fresh perspective and batch of songs.
Please accept my apologies. I promise we'll be back, in some form.
-Zach
A Letter from Zach
It's with great regret that I have to tell all of you that Beirut is canceling their summer European shows. My reasons for doing this are many, a lot of them personal, but I still feel I need to provide something of an explanation.
The past two years have been a mindblowing experience. From the first indications that people were putting songs from Gulag up on their blogs to our incredible tour of Australia and New Zealand that we just completed, everything that has happened has been beyond anything I'd ever hoped could happen with the music I wrote and recorded in my bedroom. Once things started happening, I decided I wanted to do everything as big as possible. So, I set about putting together a large band, and giving that band a huge sound, and making the most spectacular records we possibly could.
I know this can sound like an artist shithead kind of comment, but going through all that really does have its low points along with the highs. The responsibilities of gathering people around your vision, working with great people like those who work directly for the band and those at the label, wanting to insure that every show is as good as humanly possible so that every single person in the audience sees that we put in a real effort, all of that leads to a lot of issues in terms of doing right by people who have done you right.
It's come time to change some things, reinvent some others, and come back at some point with a fresh perspective and batch of songs.
Please accept my apologies. I promise we'll be back, in some form.
-Zach
I doubt it. Beirut is pretty much just Zach Condon plus band, so I'd imagine he wouldn't drop the name itself just some members of the band by the sounds of it.
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