Stale fish at auction

[imomus]

People often ask if and when I'm next playing a concert in Berlin, and usually the answer is "I'm not!" My music shows tend to happen in other places, making a home-town performance relatively rare. It's slightly irksome, then, to have to tell you that the Momus / Top Model show previously announced for July 20th won't happen on Sunday 20th after all, but on the following day, Monday July 21st. Same place, though, Kreuzberg's West Germany. If it's already in your diary, please change the date now!

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Since I'm playing Newcastle two days later and Glasgow on the 27th (details for all these shows on the LastFM Momus events page), and since the Newcastle show will be "An Evening with Momus", and since I've decided to do a never-played song off each of my twenty albums for that show, I think that's what I'll be doing at West Germany too. Support comes from Top Model, who make pleasingly messy glockenspiel avant folk. I've also asked performance artist Michael Portnoy to do an 8-second reverse Tsukiji fish auction in between each song. So the general result will be of me auctioning off old, unwanted songs -- not-so-fresh fish, if you like -- to the lowest bidder.

Momus / Top Model
West Germany
Skalitzer Straße 133
10999 Berlin
Germany

9:30pm Monday July 21st 2008

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Comments

[god-jr.livejournal.com]

this is great news. your local fans smile widely, and i am SO there!

Newcastle

[janglyjan.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Newcastle! Do you know what time you will be playing? The site says 8pm. Is that when you'll be going on or will there be support? I live in York and the trains don't run so late...

Re: Newcastle

[imomus.livejournal.com]

There's no support, it's An Evening with Momus and it starts bang on time!

Re: Newcastle

[janglyjan.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I'm so excited!

[(Anonymous)]

old boring man

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I may not agree with you, but I will slaughter foreigners for your right to say it!

The check is in the Mael

[thomascott.livejournal.com]

At some point you could emulate Russell and Ron and flog the entire fishmongery!
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/01/sparks_prepare_to_hit_21_album.html

long red

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

tosspot -

that is not nice, not necessary, and not true!! Gasface for you.

Slightly more irksome I find the fact that...

[(Anonymous)]

...just after having moved to Berlin from Edinburgh, I read a certain blog post announcing a rare and rainbow-coloured life performance by a favourite artist of mine... the day after the performance takes place. Zippity-doo. Guess I'll have to listen to a Xenakis remix of George Brassens to compensate.

-Leon.