Manorchestra plays Italy

[imomus]

Reports of the demise of my music career, in the form of yesterday's Wired News piece Star blogger, minor musician, have been greatly exaggerated. Today I fly to Italy for a two-date mini-tour. These will be my first Italian concerts ever, amazingly enough. The first one, this Friday in Venice, is already sold out. Here's how Italian music magazine L'Enoteca reports it (the translation idiosyncracies are all my own):

"Momus. Enough with words, already. He's someone of whom [rock critic?] Celentano never would ask "Is it slow or is it rock?" because Momus is the Pentagram and the Logos. Mister quotation, mister general culture, mister curiosity, mister 360° photography, mister folktronica, mister open book. Momus returns to Venice (he was here at the end of September for Teach Me and an inspection of the campus of Cittadellarte, the very famous Piedmontese Foundation which is still at the suckling stage). On Friday 4th November, this time, he will exhibit his live show for the first time in Italy. The location will be the evocative Teatro delle Fondamenta 9, in front of Saint Michele, facing the open lagoon and Murano. A gale of fresh air is anticipated: it's best to wrap up well, but when we have to confront nature, don't feel sorry for us. Nick Currie, the manorchestra, will also be taking his cultured, coltish loungeries to Turin for Rettilario (a festival with a cooling program: think Matt "Record of the Year" Elliott), on Thursday 8th November: here are the details to post up on your blog, if you like (even if brothers Enzo and Suzuki listen to soul). For once, tough shit, Bologna and Rome (said with sympathy, naturally)!

"The small doll-Momus is the work of Ruben Y Michi, two optimal Madrid designers, absolutely pop: gobble up their website with your eyes, if only for the illustrations of the equipment they use to do their job...

"Thanks to Filippo for introducing me to Momusworld, and to Davide, who's flattened himself organizing the event: it deserves its sold out sign (in fact, two) and more. See you in the osteria beforehand!"

Friday 4 November 2005, 9.00pm
Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
Risonanze
Cannaregio 5013, Venezia
Info 041 5224498
info@teatrofondamentanuove.it
Buy ticket online

Tuesday 8 November 2005, 10.30pm
Café Procope
Rettilario inside
Via Juvarra 15, Torino
Info 011 54 06 75
info@masjuvarra.it
Tickets sold at Teatro Juvarra, Via Juvarra 15, Monday to Saturday, 3.00pm – 7.00pm.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

hi there, mr.momus.

this is somewhat irrelevant i guess, but is there any chance you'd come back to finland someday for whatever purpose imaginable?
i know you've visited helsinki (quite?) a few times in the past, even fairly recently, but i've somehow managed to miss the venues (probably due to my being too young and/or too incognizant,i just turned 20).
anyway, it would be awful great if you did.
also, it's deplorable that your musical output is so difficult to come by, at least for someone with no credit card and a bit awkward relationship with computers as for now...
surprisingly enough though, i did find tender pervert and voyager while rummaging through the recordshelf in a nearby library :)
god, i'm babbling. but i really feel the need to babble some, sorry.
there's this really rather stupid little thing that's been bothering me ever since i became conscious of your existence; namely, is it possible i've seen you appearing (in person) in this late finnish tv-show called "jyrki", somewhere around mid-90s? perhaps with some girl/woman? i've vague memories...

oh and then, this blog is just phenomenal, informative, inspirational and so on and so on. i rarely comment on anything because my english is quite inchoate and i'm not that intelligent either. still i'm hooked on your writing (which as someone stated above is truly more accessible than your recordings). hope you don't think it completely insane, but i consider you one of my most important mentors ever.
so what i'm trying to say is simply thank you,

thespian lesbian or "just" katriina.

[(Anonymous)]

so, Fio (you'll meet her on Friday) is right: your translation -syndicated with google;)- is almost perfect; Celentano (Adriano, the first name) is a well known Italian singer of the 60s, still alive and kicking, who "owns" a tv show on Thursday night, which mixes music and politics, making too many rumours for his 'speeches' against Behr-loo-skow-neeh.

This is a song from him, for instance:
http://www.webalice.it/enverblog/Adriano%20Celentano%20-%20La%20terza%20guerra%20mondiale.MP3

enrico

[(Anonymous)]

making too many rumours for his 'speeches' against Behr-loo-skow-neeh

+++ Still, the grotesque, Berlusconi-led, right wing masquerade is trying to disguise the positions he expresses during his show as illiberal radical leftist critique while the old fashioned singer delivers to his loving audience anti-Zapatero and anti – civil rights for the gay couples messages. A charming, ambiguous, all Italian pop phenomenon.

francesco