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dac 09-21-2010 11:06 AM

Just bought two tickets to go see them in March in Detroit. You guys can suck my **** left handed. This is going to be the best.

WeeLittleHobbit 09-25-2010 01:59 PM

Are the Philly tickets already sold out? I CANNOT miss this, dammit!

Sebastian 12-10-2010 03:16 PM

I read few of the first pages and it kinda made me sad.. People should really listen to the band with thought before making incorrect arguments like "You too can be a genius by playing the same 4 notes for half an hour."

What I like in GY!BE is that you always find something new when listening to the songs you've already heard a thousand times. And the 4 note argument is just wrong. The songs build up with many instruments and emotional melodies that just break you in to pieces (Storm, Moya, Sleep etc.) and the songs usually have three parts that climb up and blend in to the other parts.

I'm really lucky to see them next year. Next month actually if I remember correctly :D

GravitySlips 12-18-2010 06:22 PM

MINDBLOWING live. So happy to have got the chance to see them, they have total and complete control of their sound and dynamics and it's so impressive to see live. They're streets ahead of most of the bands they're compared to.

dac 03-30-2011 10:03 AM

Saw them last night. Best experience of my life. I have nothing left to live for. It was mind blowing on absolutely every level. It was worth the price of admission for their projector display alone.

Key 03-30-2011 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by dac (Post 1027504)
Saw them last night. Best experience of my life. I have nothing left to live for. It was mind blowing on absolutely every level. It was worth the price of admission for their projector display alone.

You don't want to know how jealous of you I am right now.

Sneer 03-31-2011 08:33 PM

I'd give a teste to see them live, for sure.

Alfred 03-31-2011 09:09 PM

I am incredibly pissed off that I won't be able to attend their all ages show in Toronto on the 24th on account of my family traveling to Niagara Falls and me being the only person in my family who likes Godspeed. Ugh, I'm gonna be mad about this for years.

paradive 04-04-2011 09:25 PM

for the record, i think they're officially dead.
and a silver mt. zion has turned to crap. which only leaves esmerine (the best standing side-project). =/

Key 04-04-2011 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by paradive (Post 1030844)
for the record, i think they're officially dead.
and a silver mt. zion has turned to crap. which only leaves esmerine (the best standing side-project). =/

I am confused as to why some people come into a band thread with the motive to rag on the band.

If you don't like the band, don't go into the thread.

stillunusual 04-05-2011 08:26 AM

I really like their John Peel session from 1999 - just one long track called "hung over as the oven at maida vale" - it's never been officially released but is quite easy to find on the web.... :)

Exo 04-09-2011 02:23 PM

I saw them a couple weeks ago in NYC. If it wasn't for a mind blowing concert by The Mars Volta a couple years ago, this would be my favorite concert ever. The projection was ****ing incredible. They played Static with a projection of an oil factory fire. DO YOU REALIZE HOW INSANLEY BADASS THAT IS??? It was so loud in there that I felt like the music was passing through me like an entity. It was unreal. They also played as well as they do on the albums.

It an experience that I'll never forget. Ever.

Laurent Quinn Proper 04-10-2011 06:46 PM

I am truly jealous.

ListenUp 05-17-2011 05:11 AM

I have still never got round to listening to Godspeed..not sure why. I get the feeling that i a seriously missing out!

Sneer 05-21-2011 04:39 AM

Anyone heard Menuk's new solo album? Pretty damn good.

Mykonos 05-22-2011 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu (Post 1057182)
Anyone heard Menuk's new solo album? Pretty damn good.

He's been doing albums outside of Mt. Zion?

Oh yeah, as my profile says, Godspeed are my favourite band of all time. They're the kind of band that could record themselves going to the toilet and turn it into music, and I love them for that.

Laurent Quinn Proper 05-23-2011 12:01 AM

Every time someone bumps this thread, I get a little angry at GY!BE for not coming to Austin this year. And reading "Exoskeletal's" post, time after time, only adds insult to injury.

Mykonos 05-23-2011 12:32 AM

Yeah, there's one guy I know down in Brighton who's got tickets to see them. I'm absolutely furious that he'll get to see them and I won't, so I feel your pain.

stillunusual 05-30-2011 03:08 PM

I was away when they played in Manchester last year but have just bought a ticket for THIS - can't wait!

Laurent Quinn Proper 06-01-2011 04:28 AM

New album?!

PLEASE! I need to see them live.

Mykonos 06-01-2011 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Laurent Quinn Proper (Post 1062929)

You, sir, have just made my day. I might finally actually get to buy a brand new Godspeed album. I can't wait!

Laurent Quinn Proper 06-03-2011 03:48 AM

Yeah man, I'm so stoked too! The possibility of buying a new GY!BE record and FINALLY seeing them live is making me jittery as ****!

Mykonos 06-03-2011 03:59 AM

It would be interesting to see if Thee Silver Mount Zion whatever-they're-called-now have any influence on their new record. With Moya back and Menuck showing that he can actually sing, could vocals be a possibility? Not sure if it would work, but you never know.

Mykonos 08-02-2011 01:54 PM

A friend of mine got to see these guys live the other day. He put a review up basically just to taunt me with his luck, but I felt you guys should be taunted by it as well.

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Last night I saw the elder statesmen of post-rock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, playing at the University of East Anglia. For a band who were on an extended hiatus until recently and even then rarely tour, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Norwich does give good music venue, whether it's the subtle grandeur and homeliness of the Arts Centre or the classic sweaty dive club that is the Waterfront. The UEA's own hall, however, fits into much the same categories that most university venues do, a soulless black box with a bar selling the following selection of beers - Carling. But with a huge projection screen slung up behind the stage and the stage itself littered with a staggering array of musical equipment, Godspeed made it their own. They didn't make us wait long before things got going - as the roadies set up, the ominous bass drone from The Dead Flag Blues played on a continuous loop before one by one, the eight band members silently stepped onto the stage and began playing without so much a nod to the audience. There's been a few line-up changes over the years, but the mainstays were all present and correct - guitarists Efrim Menuck, Mike Moya and David Bryant, bassist Mauro Pezzente, double bassist Thierry Amar, violinist Sophie Trudeau and drummers Bruce Cawdron and Aidan Girt made up the line-up last night. So, as the word 'Hope' flickered on and off in huge letters on the screen behind, they began to play a note. And what a note it was, starting off as a double bass and violin drone as walls of guitars, fed through racks of effects pedals and manipulated with violin bows and screwdrivers, built up to white noise whilst drums pounded and clattered with growing intensity. And that was just the introduction.

To put it simply, this was quite unlike any gig I have ever been to. Two and a half hours of continuous music, lush, orchestral and moody instrumental music with songs lasting up to twenty minutes, beginning as barely-there ambient pads and building up to glorious walls of noise then falling down again. No breaks between the songs, no 'Thank you's, no crowd interaction at all apart from a brief wave goodbye at the end in fact. The band all played in a semicircle, all concentrating on their own instruments but somehow interacting almost telepathically with each other, like they were just parts of one single entity. It's seeing them live that makes you realise there really is no other band like Godspeed - even their imitators have managed to capture the sound, but not the point. The audience stood enraptured, cheering whenever a snippet of violin or guitar heralded the beginning of a new song with a familiar melody.

Then, there was what was going on behind. Two mechanical projectors flashed a visual overload onto the screen behind the band - footage of grab cranes and magnets sifting through rubbish at a huge tip next to a busy highway, time-lapse footage of power stations and factories that made them look like they were on fire, several means of transportation heading into gathering storms, and during Providence, endless pages of ancient religious and scientific documents in Latin and Hebrew that scrolled dizzyingly down and across the screens. Coupled with the racket that the band were making, it made for an aural and visual overload.

And then, as East Hastings reached an ear-splitting finale, that was it. As I say, this really is quite unlike anything I have ever experienced in my life. For those who care, the band played (in no particular order) Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls, Mother****er = Redeemer, Blaise Bailey Finnegan III, Storm and the majority of Static, Providence and East Hastings.

I am going to give this gig an accolade that appears quite often in the world of amateur reviewing - 10/10.

Alfred 08-03-2011 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mykonos (Post 1064066)
It would be interesting to see if Thee Silver Mount Zion whatever-they're-called-now have any influence on their new record. With Moya back and Menuck showing that he can actually sing, could vocals be a possibility? Not sure if it would work, but you never know.

I hope if they do decide to include vocals, that they're little more than the humming from "East Hastings". Part of the beauty of Godspeed! for me is how expressive and vivid they are without singing.

Sneer 08-03-2011 10:54 PM

Menuck's 'Plays High Gospel' features quite a lot of singing, and he pulls it off so effectively. Judging by that, I'd be quite happy to see the inclusion of vocals, I think it could add a whole new dimension to what is already a mind-blowing sound.

Alfred 08-03-2011 11:07 PM

I actually haven't looked into any of his solo work... I should probably get around to that.

Sneer 08-03-2011 11:11 PM

Only the one to look up, released this year too. I think you'll dig, it's pretty great.


Laurent Quinn Proper 08-05-2011 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Mykonos (Post 1091676)
A friend of mine got to see these guys live the other day. He put a review up basically just to taunt me with his luck, but I felt you guys should be taunted by it as well.

The day I get to see them live, will be the day I can die knowing that life doesn't get much better than this.

Alfred 08-05-2011 12:32 PM

I was pretty bummed out that I couldn't catch them in Toronto in April. We were gone for the Easter weekend.

Laurent Quinn Proper 08-07-2011 12:56 PM

I would have stayed. Godspeed > Easter holiday.

FaSho 08-07-2011 01:06 PM

http://pitchfork.com/news/39020-gods...kovic-for-atp/

Alfred 08-07-2011 03:11 PM


stillunusual 08-07-2011 04:43 PM

GY!BE were awesome in Leeds on the 25th....

found this 15 minute upload taken at the gig - pretty decent quality....


Laurent Quinn Proper 08-07-2011 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfred (Post 1093299)

****. THAT.

That is an insult.

Alfred 08-07-2011 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Laurent Quinn Proper (Post 1093354)
****. THAT.

That is an insult.

I agree, but I found it pretty funny.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 08-07-2011 09:40 PM

Finally got around to listening. Not bad, not astounding as hyped, but not bad.

Insane Guest 08-07-2011 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra (Post 1093428)
Finally got around to listening. Not bad, not astounding as hyped, but not bad.

What did you listen to?

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 08-08-2011 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Lone Misfit (Post 1093450)
What did you listen to?

Lift your skinny fists like yada yada yada...

Great album.

Alfred 08-08-2011 10:15 PM

That album may be the single biggest grower of my life.


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