hey everyone, shellac are rocking my lovely land of england soon and it will be my first time seeing them live, im excited but wondering are they that good live as everyone says they are?

no. everybody is lying to you.

Steve really sucks at pool, so challenge him to a game. You'll be able to take him for all he's got.

Have a good time.

The first time I saw Shellac was in Fargo, ND with Six Finger Sat..

It was maybe the 3rd punk rock show I'd even seen. Without getting too flowery, it made a big impact on my brain.

It was the repition, mostly. Those type of patterns I hadn't heard before, at least not at that volume. Something about "Didn't we...." made eveyone just sort of stare and rock back and forth. It was really strange. There was a story told about a man building a plane in his basement and losing two fingers and a wife during "Wingwalker".

I was, what, 18 or 19 at the time. Not to make too much of a rock show, but it was certainly a watershed moment.

NOW, remember, sheltered small town kid, middle of fuckall, and then being confronted with such a tremendously great band live. It was all pretty neat.

So, that's my story.

I've seen them 4 times since. Each time has been special. The Brick Layer Cake, Blonde Redhead, Shellac show at 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis, MN was really, really special, though.

Have a good time, and enjoy yourself.

Ike in Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Repetition.

Sorry.

Repetition.

Me talk good real soon
Ike

Im going to be cheeky and try and use my english girlie charm and say Mr Albini if your reading this, im coming to see you play at the Scala in london in december and i would love to be able to come and meet you guys with my friend who is a huge Shellac fan. I thought that even if you say no at least ive asked, sorry if this sounds cheecky but hey if you say yes its not every day i get to meet such a cool person in music.
lynx

holy smokes!
i would NOT try to talk to him!
you know all the articles about how much of a dick albini is?
and not only is he a dick, but he'll ruin your recording too!

What should you expect?

Confetti canons, plain and simple.

Also, the first three rows WILL get wet.

wear swimming trunks

also: make sure you yell out a bunch of big black song titles

or you could be original and yell out rifle sport song titles