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imomusA few bits and bobs of news, opportunities and announcements today.
First, tonight sees the premiere of 'Angriffe Auf Anne' ('Attempts on her Life' by Martin Crimp), which I've done the music for. If you're in Berlin, come along! It's at 8pm on November 16th, 18th, 19th, and 20th and then twice or three times between November 22nd and 28th. (Important update! It seems Thursday's performance has been cancelled. The next one is on Friday 19th November.) There are a few more performances in early January too. The address is BAT - Studiotheater der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin, Belforter Str. 15, 10405 Berlin. It's in Prenzlauer Berg, and you can see it on the map here.
I mentioned a while ago that I'm thinking of moving to Kreuzberg. Now, the lease I have on my place on the Karl-Marx-Allee requires a three month notice period, and I'm spending some time in early 2005 in Japan. So I thought I'd announce here that I'm looking for people who might be thinking of moving to Berlin (perhaps you took my advice and want to exit the 'Roman shell' of Bush's America!) and would be interested in taking over my lease, starting some time before the end of the year. It wouldn't be a sublet, but a direct transfer, and you'd become the full leaseholder. You can see photos of the apartment on a page I made a year or so ago when I sublet the place. A couple of details have changed since then: the rent is now 617,85 euros a month (that's $800 US, wow, the dollar really has weakened, last year it was closer to $700!) and my e mail address to use if you're interested is nickmomus@hotmail.com. The apartment is quiet, clean and well-equipped, there are three rooms and it's 64 metres square. It's rented unfurnished, and things like electricity and gas cost extra. I've had a good two years here, but it's time to move to a new district. There's more information about the street, and Friedrichshain, the district it's part of, in my essay Karl Marx Allee.
Okay, you may not want to live in Berlin, but how about touring Hong Kong? Are you in a band that's put out some records, or are you a solo artist who might vaguely have been heard of by indieheads in Hong Kong? If so, Eddie Cheng, the man who organised my recent smooth-as-silk Hong Kong live shows, wants to hear from you. Eddie is a really lovely man, an actor (he was featuring in some commercials being shown on big plasma screens on the subway walls when I was there) and graphic designer (he made some excellent T shirts for my shows with The Pancakes at the Fringe Club) who wants to get more into concert promotion. He met me at the airport, he took me to dinner, he put me up at a friend's place, and I had a terrific week in Hong Kong. If you think you qualify for the same treatment and could pull an audience of a hundred people or more in Hong Kong, write to Eddie at eddiecst@gmail.com.
There's a low-key Momus show here in Berlin soon. It's at 7.30pm on 5th December at the opening of a new clothing store called Belleville on Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse in Mitte, near the Volksbühne.
The November issue of Index Magazine runs my 1000 word piece about the Paris music scene known (at least to me) as Shoboshobo. It's basically an expanded version of the LJ piece I did back in June about the scene, with interviews added after my trip to Paris in July.
Finally, another archived radio recommendation. Acoustic Shadows is a 30 minute programme in which Robert Sandall (presenter of 'Mixing It' on BBC Radio 3) 'experiences audio treats, from echoes of ancient Mayan temples through to Brian Eno's virtual electronic world of ambient echoes, to assess what makes a good acoustic and how to create the perfect reverberation to appeal to our senses and flatter both audience and performers in a public space.' Interesting stuff if you're into sound.
Oh, and to get really meta, I notice that I seem to have exceeded the limits of my Freefind account, which means that you can't find the topics covered in more recent Click Opera entries by searching with the search box on the front of the Momus site any more. To help remedy this I've added a full index of all of this year's Click Opera entries here. But that still only lists the entry titles, not their content. If anyone knows of a way round this problem, tell me. I'll probably just end up paying Freefind to expand the number of searchable megabytes.
First, tonight sees the premiere of 'Angriffe Auf Anne' ('Attempts on her Life' by Martin Crimp), which I've done the music for. If you're in Berlin, come along! It's at 8pm on November 16th, 18th, 19th, and 20th and then twice or three times between November 22nd and 28th. (Important update! It seems Thursday's performance has been cancelled. The next one is on Friday 19th November.) There are a few more performances in early January too. The address is BAT - Studiotheater der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin, Belforter Str. 15, 10405 Berlin. It's in Prenzlauer Berg, and you can see it on the map here.
I mentioned a while ago that I'm thinking of moving to Kreuzberg. Now, the lease I have on my place on the Karl-Marx-Allee requires a three month notice period, and I'm spending some time in early 2005 in Japan. So I thought I'd announce here that I'm looking for people who might be thinking of moving to Berlin (perhaps you took my advice and want to exit the 'Roman shell' of Bush's America!) and would be interested in taking over my lease, starting some time before the end of the year. It wouldn't be a sublet, but a direct transfer, and you'd become the full leaseholder. You can see photos of the apartment on a page I made a year or so ago when I sublet the place. A couple of details have changed since then: the rent is now 617,85 euros a month (that's $800 US, wow, the dollar really has weakened, last year it was closer to $700!) and my e mail address to use if you're interested is nickmomus@hotmail.com. The apartment is quiet, clean and well-equipped, there are three rooms and it's 64 metres square. It's rented unfurnished, and things like electricity and gas cost extra. I've had a good two years here, but it's time to move to a new district. There's more information about the street, and Friedrichshain, the district it's part of, in my essay Karl Marx Allee.
Okay, you may not want to live in Berlin, but how about touring Hong Kong? Are you in a band that's put out some records, or are you a solo artist who might vaguely have been heard of by indieheads in Hong Kong? If so, Eddie Cheng, the man who organised my recent smooth-as-silk Hong Kong live shows, wants to hear from you. Eddie is a really lovely man, an actor (he was featuring in some commercials being shown on big plasma screens on the subway walls when I was there) and graphic designer (he made some excellent T shirts for my shows with The Pancakes at the Fringe Club) who wants to get more into concert promotion. He met me at the airport, he took me to dinner, he put me up at a friend's place, and I had a terrific week in Hong Kong. If you think you qualify for the same treatment and could pull an audience of a hundred people or more in Hong Kong, write to Eddie at eddiecst@gmail.com.
There's a low-key Momus show here in Berlin soon. It's at 7.30pm on 5th December at the opening of a new clothing store called Belleville on Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse in Mitte, near the Volksbühne.
The November issue of Index Magazine runs my 1000 word piece about the Paris music scene known (at least to me) as Shoboshobo. It's basically an expanded version of the LJ piece I did back in June about the scene, with interviews added after my trip to Paris in July.
Finally, another archived radio recommendation. Acoustic Shadows is a 30 minute programme in which Robert Sandall (presenter of 'Mixing It' on BBC Radio 3) 'experiences audio treats, from echoes of ancient Mayan temples through to Brian Eno's virtual electronic world of ambient echoes, to assess what makes a good acoustic and how to create the perfect reverberation to appeal to our senses and flatter both audience and performers in a public space.' Interesting stuff if you're into sound.
Oh, and to get really meta, I notice that I seem to have exceeded the limits of my Freefind account, which means that you can't find the topics covered in more recent Click Opera entries by searching with the search box on the front of the Momus site any more. To help remedy this I've added a full index of all of this year's Click Opera entries here. But that still only lists the entry titles, not their content. If anyone knows of a way round this problem, tell me. I'll probably just end up paying Freefind to expand the number of searchable megabytes.
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Date: 2004-11-16 12:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 12:50 pm (UTC)Dejay from Pancakes is a good songwriter, a very cute girl, and incredibly astute and intelligent -- she speaks several languages and lives from her music, mostly from advertising licenses. I've played with her live three times now and she's lovely. Stereo Radio Left and Stereo Radio Right are her two latest CDs as The Pancakes. They were released within months of each other in 2003, with the same conceptual sleeve design (each one shows one speaker of a stereo radio). These new songs see Dejay getting more Beatles-y, with slightly more unexpected chord changes and lofi George Martin-like arrangements ('Tricycle Riding'). I'm still not sure if I'm a Pancakes fan, though. Dejay's somewhat out-of-tune voice grates a bit. There's something unbearably winsome about this catchy pop, which always strikes me as rather self-possessed and narcissistic, apparently shambolic but actually somewhat tight, commercial and calculated. But don't listen to me, I'm the kind of monster who never liked Talulah Gosh and would happily strangle Hello Kitty.
My Little Airport: The OK Thing To Do on Sunday Afternoon Is To Toddle in the Zoo (Harbour Records, Hong Kong, 2004)
Actually, My Little Airport -- two Hong Kong girls who like to dress up in school uniforms -- sound like The Pancakes, with the same ingenue lyrics, anglophile sentiments, synthy trumpet solos, drum machines and so on. But I like them better. They're a bit slicker. There's nice EQ on the vocal, which is more in tune. The whole thing sounds less winsomely shambolic.
I also like manufactured cheesepop Hong Kong band Twins. You can hear and see them in my Macao radio (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/47055.html) entry.
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Date: 2004-11-16 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:44 pm (UTC)We should do something together maybe.
Those My little Airport girls sound interesting.
I wanted to move to Berlin but now I'm planning to move to Tokyo. Next time I guess !
Antonin
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Date: 2004-11-16 01:53 pm (UTC)