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This is the new location: http://www.ovellanegra.com/es/grup/megataverna.asp
Sure looks like a tourist trap and the cave-like hall does not look as if it would create a good sounding enviroment…
Apparently tonight's concert in Barcelona has been moved to a new venue due to technical problems. The concert will now take place at La Ovella Negra (Zamora, 78, esquina Pallars).
http://corazonderockroll.blogspot.com/2011/04/atencion-rock-sound-informa-cambio-de.html
Of course, Ratmaus! Now that is an intreguing thought! They never did a stand-alone version of "The other one", only inside "My best friend" and "Cornucopia". Btw, the Dead have a song called "High time" too and with "Go To California" as next song… hmmm…?
Found myself browsing the extensive UnOff archive (like so many times) and found an interview from 2002 during which the interviewer Scott Heller (SH) discusses "Motortrades" with the band. Thought I quote it here, some cool stuff:
SH: Have you heard of this group on the internet called Motortraders? It is a very exclusive group that you have to be invited to join of people trade nearly exclusively MP recordings.
Geb: Ok… cool.
SH: There are 45 members and it is run by some Norwegian guys, two of which will record every night of this except tonight. It is easier to take the ferry to Hamburg then to come here first. But… they are very dedicated…
Bent: That's good!
Geb: We might know them if it is Anders and…
SH: Yes.
Bent: Great people. I think it is fun. We have been playing along with this whole Grateful dead thingy all the time anyway. It is free music. Go and get it… as long as you don't steal it. To see that people pick up on it and see that it is worth it to tag along on a whole tour and record the whole thing, is a tip of the hat to us. It means that we are doing something that is valuable. That is a good feeling for us, that people care that much, is mind blowing.
SH: I totally agree. I think it is a tribute and an honor for any band. I think it's quite rare that a band can pull together an interesting and diverse selection of music that differs enough that people will follow them. I would guess there are 20 or 30 bands in the world that do that.
Geb: Yeah. Thats right. Are you one of these Motortraders?
SH: Yes, I am… For example, for the last tour, I have one of the nights from Trondheim, Rome, Copenhagen, Halden, Kristiansand, Biel. And they are very interesting to hear all the differences.
Geb: Kristiansand, that is with horns, right…
http://motorpsycho.fix.no/thisis/media/auralinter1_02_eng.htm
13.04.2011 – Azkena, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
Bent, Snah & Kenneth / 105 min / Attendance: 100-150 / Support: Two Cow Garage
Year Zero
Whole Lotta Diana ->
Starhammer ->
You Lied ->
Sparks ->
High Time ->
Hallucifuge ->
Go To California
All Is Loneliness ->
Mountain ->
Nothing To Say
Notes: The first concert of Motorpsycho's second tour in Spain after the band had first toured the country in 2002. A concert was booked for Bilbao in 2002 too but the show was canceled the day of the show due to poor ticket sales so this is Motorpsycho's first appearance in this relaxed city. Azkena is a small bar with a small stage and a famillial vibe. The audience is relaxed and the band plays a "trance rock" set. There is no encore due to a curfew at the venue. The inclusion of "Hallucifuge" is unconfirmed, a sms-report says "Hallucifuge (? Bent)" and the setlist states an unknown number in this slot. "Go To California" was the last time played in Trondheim 19.12.2008 (late show).
setlist:
a picture of the backline:
Thanks to Heidi, Arenna and Anders.
Great!
Updated:
13.04.2011 – Bilbao, Azkena (ES) + Two Cow Garage
14.04.2011 – Barcelona, Rocksound (ES)
15.04.2011 – Murcia, 12 & Medio (ES)
16.04.2011 – Madrid, El Sol (ES) + Moongardening Inc.
03.05.2011 – Helsinki, Tavastia Club (FIN) + Master Musicians of Bukkake
04.05.2011 – Tampere, Klubi (FIN) + Goathound
25.06.2011 – Steinkjerfestivalen, Steinkjer (NOR)
09.07.2011 – Kongsberg Jazzfestival, Kongsberg (NOR) + Primus
14.07.2011 – Burg Herzberg Festival, Breitenbach (GER)
15.07.2011 – Sonnenrot Festival, Eching bei München (GER)
19./20.08.2011 – Parkenfestivalen, Bodø (NOR)
02./03.09.2011 – Verket Music Festival, Mo i Rana (NOR)
I somehow knew they would feature a song from Dresden! I attended Bremen, Leipzig, Haarlem and Köln (if it's the 2009 concert). Cool!
Motorpsycho
Roadwork vol. 4 – Intrepid Skronk
RCD2110 / RLP3110
EAN: 7033662021109 / 7033660031100
This is the latest installment in Motorpsycho's ongoing series of live documents "Roadwork". It was recorded across Europe over a three-year period spanning 2008-2010, and is the first live record released featuring the Snah/Bent/Kenneth line-up of the band. As finding a complete show fit for release proved difficult, and modern technology makes it real easy to fake a chronology that would work well from a listeners point of view, "Roadwork vol 4: Intrepid Skronk" is a collection of moments from the last several tours Motorpsycho's undertaken since Kenneth Kapstad joined on drums in 2007, and features material from all phases of their career.
The previous installment in this series, "vol 3: the four norsemen of the apocalypse" – released as part of the “Haircuts†DVD in 2007, was a recording of the Snah/Bent/Geb/Baard line-up of the band recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in 2003. It documented a band disintegrating from ceaseless touring and ever increasing differences of ambition: flaming out, but still bravly trying to – and in parts actually managing to – connect with the muse. Let's just say the tension is tangible.
This is a different cup of tea. This is a living, breathing muscle-car of a rock band in full flight, stretching the limits of their imaginations (and sometimes the patience of their audience!) by going some place new as often as possible – creating a new collective identity for themselves and the reimagening the material in the process.
The focus of the two volumes – and the series as a whole – is the same though: the improvising rock band. The versions of the songs contained herein all have one thing in common: they are all really different from the studio incarnations of themselves. “All is Lonelinessâ€Â, an acoustic five minute hymn in its original state on “Demon Box†(1993), is here an eighteen minute electric behemoth sloutching towards …eh, Haarlem (?) to be born anew. The somewhat stilted orchestral psych version of “Landslide†from the 2002 “Phanerothyme†album, has become something altogether more organic and jazzy here, and “Arnie Hassleâ€Â's kozmic kayaking escapades from last years' “Heavy Metal Fruit†had grown into epic proportions by the time it hit Leipzig last summer. It's this kind of reinvention that is the focus of everything going on here, and although the adrenalin wins out in places and the kinetic energy the boys amass sometimes becomes almost too much for them to handle, the power trios' antics makes for an exciting listen. Riding the tiger indeed, the band sometimes tethers on the brink of fusion, jazzrock, and other 'unentartete' forms, but mostly manages to rein in the beast on the right side of taste. Mostly.
“Intrepid Skronk†is therefore an apt description of this music, and if that doesn't scare you off and you keep your ears open, you might discover something in these grooves that you never thought a rock record would provide.
Oh, and the Dutch are just great most of the time!
Bob LeBad
esq.
[Thanks to C. K. J.]
Another review at Icon Music Mag.
04.04.2011:
Fifteen years ago on this day Motorpsycho played the Schlachthof in Bremen (GER) for the first time! This club is considered by many travelling psychonauts to be (one of) the best concert venues to see the band at! After debuting at Wehrschloss in 1995, the band played all following shows in the city (97, 98, 00, 01, 02, 08, 10) at the great Schlachthof! The club's inside looks like a post-industrial ampthitheatre: The floor itself in front of the stage holds room for merely five rows of people. From there steps and galleries are rising up to the roof of the giant former boiler-house semi-circling the stage and thus allowing each audience member to focus their undivided attention on the band! Due to this set up the band is practically surrounded by the crowd facing a wall of people which creates an unmatched directness and communication between the audience and the performer. One of the best spots in the room is to be found in front of the soundboard on the second step from the floor. When standing there one faces the band eye-to-eye with the musicians being just a few metres away. Combined with a dedicated fan-base this setting has produced many sublime Motorpsycho concerts at Schlachthof, where the crowd would listen attentively instead of chatting – total indulgence in Motorpsycho's magic guaranteed!
Check out the setlists of the concerts at Schlachthof:
http://motorpsycho.fix.no/dampsaba/search/?venue=schlachthof&town=bremen&year=&month=&day=&song=
MOTORPSYCHO live @ Schlachthof, Bremen (GER) 30.05.2008:
„Glow → Jam → Hogwash“
Motortrades is a mailing list. The mailing list provider is Yahoo Groups. Yahoo Groups hosts a homepage for each mailing list that contains the entire message archive. Members can also administrate their memberships and settings at the homepage. Other than that the mailing list homepage does not offer any valuable functionality. Basically the mailing list homepage is only worthwile for the message archive, if one is interested in that. All other functions like subscribing, unsubscribing or switching to digest can also be administrated by e-mail (instructions for this can be found at the bottom of each mail distributed by the list). In order to log into the mailing list homepage one needs a Yahoo account (I think, it's been some time, really). So if you are receiving the group messages and don't care for the message archive you basically don't need to bother about the Yahoo Groups homepage.
Motortrades was founded in 2001 because the discussion and trading of live recordings on g35 — back then still the main discussion forum for psychnauts — grew to such a volume that the non-trading members of g35 complained about it. Another reason to move the trading discussion to a more private forum with restricted membership was that the band felt uncomfortable with amateur live recordings being spread effectively and widely to many hundreds of fans. In the fall of 2000 a CD-R-tree was run on g35 which distributed a five disc tour compilation of the "Let them eat cake"-tour to almost 100 psychonauts across europe. During the process an engaged group of collectors and traders formed and eventually the trading discussion was moved to Motortrades. The first years of the mailing list up to 2004 were very fruitful because CD-R burners became a common and affordable technology which made trading live recordings very easy and accessible. It was also the height of Motorpsycho's popularity so there was a huge interest in live recordings. Entire tours (2001 and 2002) were recorded and distributed to the members of Motortrades. A great deal of older recordings was also unearthed and circulated. With the advent of affordable broadband internet access combined with the introduction of the bittorrent technology in the middle of the '00-years the trading world changed radically: It was no longer necessary to find trading partners in mailing lists with whom you would swap physical CD-Rs. Every live recording ever made and then some could be downloaded from torrent sites like Trader's Den, Sharing the Groove, Etree or Dime-A-Dozen, the latter which is still going strong and which is THE resource to get unofficial live recordings. Other trading communities however became pointless when artists decided to release entire tours as well as large chunks from their live-legacy officially. Our community, Motortrades, was of course also affected by the change in the trading culture so the e-mail traffic decreased and people just downloaded the latest show from a torrent tracker. That is why nowadays Motortrades hosts a private torrent tracker dedicated to Motorpsycho live recordings. Access to this tracker is only granted to members of the mailing list and every member receives the info how to be invited to the tracker upon subscribing to the list.
With almost 200 members Motortrades still assembles many long time and hardcore tapers, traders and collectors. However, some important individuals have dropped out of game because you can't just travel to every show the band plays and tape it for so many years. Which means that despite the improvement of technology (regarding both recording equipment and distribution channels) less Motorpsycho shows are being recorded than 200-2003. Until the band actually decides to release complete concerts and tours this is something we will have to work on.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/motortrades
motortrades-owner@yahoogroups.com
Alex
Motortrades
