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Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:38 am**

sonicsaboteur wrote:# Shellac
05/29/07 - L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland

and I know that Slint will play in Switzerland on May 25th or 26th, between Paris and Italy. It's just not been announced yet......

:lol:

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:42 am**

i read an interview in which steve said they were lining up some uk shows. oh well, ill just go to paris. and eat cheese and that.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:47 am**

sonicsaboteur wrote:# Shellac
# 05/19/07 - All Tomorrow's Parties, Somerset, United Kingdom
# 05/22/07 - Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands
# 05/23/07 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
# 05/24/07 - Vooriut Kafee, Gent, Belgium
# 05/25/07 - Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France
# 05/26/07 - La Bataclan, Paris, France
# 05/27/07 - La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
# 05/28/07 - Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland
# 05/29/07 - L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland
# 05/30/07 - Interzona, Verona, Italy
# 05/31/07 - Velvet, Rimini, Italy
# 06/01/07 - Vecchia Fortezza, Livorno, Italy
# 06/02/07 - Init, Rome, Italy
# 06/03/07 - TBA, Catania, Italy

# Slint
# 05/21/07 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
# 05/23/07 - AB2, Brussels, Belgium
# 05/24/07 - Bataclan Club, Paris, France
# 05/28/07 - Estragon, Bologna, Italy
# 05/29/07 - Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome, Italy
# 05/31/07 - Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain
# 08/20/07 - Barrowlands, Glasgow, United Kingdom
# 08/22/07 - Koko, London, United Kingdom

for all the europeans fans

It pisses me off that the legends of US underground rock never come to cool countries when they go on tour in Europe. It's always Holland, Belgium (WTF?), France, Italy, etc. Shellac's not even coming to Germany this time (double WTF?).

Once in a while, they'll show up somewhere like Ljubljana.

But generally, they never come to the cool countries. Like the Czech Republic, or the newly independent Montenegro....

Don't they realize that France, Italy, et al, are the Disneyland part of Europe and that it's not punk rock to play there?

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:54 am**

You lucky Italian bastard!

Shellac, please come to Israel!
(We'd also like to see Slint)

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:03 am**

Dear Mazec,

I understand your "disappointment" but I guess that Shellac organize their tour without official tour booking agency like a big rock'n'roll band. For example, in Italy, I am pretty sure that the tour is organized by Uzeda (Giovanna and Agostino) not by Clearchannel or other big agencies that organize european tour.

Ciao ciao Jacopo

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:46 am**

sonicsaboteur wrote:Dear Mazec,

I understand your "disappointment" but I guess that Shellac organize their tour without official tour booking agency like a big rock'n'roll band. For example, in Italy, I am pretty sure that the tour is organized by Uzeda (Giovanna and Agostino) not by Clearchannel or other big agencies that organize european tour.

Ciao ciao Jacopo

Sure, I totally accept that they're not using big corporate asshole booking agencies, that's not the problem.

What irritates me is that when you look at the tour listings on a website like www.southern.com, for instance, you'll see that nearly all of the bands keep playing the same four or five countries every time they come to Europe.
Now, there are 27 countries in the EU alone. These kind of patterns make it look as though most of the bands are just not thinking about any fans they might have in the rest of them.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:24 am**

I can´t blame them for not playing in Germany. Audiences are the least enthusiastic in Europe. The weather is shitty and the food tastes boring.

These are the times, i ask myself why i still live here.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:34 am**

Matthias wrote:I can´t blame them for not playing in Germany. Audiences are the least enthusiastic in Europe. The weather is shitty and the food tastes boring.

These are the times, i ask myself why i still live here.

There, there. The Germans have become some of the biggest self-flaggelators in the World. I, at least, can't think of anyone who comes close. But as a foreigner living in Germany, I must say, it's a cool country, no matter what anybody says.

Outside of Bavaria, that is.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:38 am**

Matthias wrote:I can´t blame them for not playing in Germany. Audiences are the least enthusiastic in Europe. The weather is shitty and the food tastes boring.

These are the times, i ask myself why i still live here.

Food only tastes boring because you're a vegetarian.
Advice from a friend:
Spend some time in a foreign country. I've seen audiences in the UK that would have made me want to punch them if I had been on stage.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:40 am**

Mazec wrote:Outside of Bavaria, that is.

Probably...

I am just happy to live close to the French border. It takes just an hour and a half to drive to Strasbourg so i don´t really bother if they play in Germany or not. Where do you live in Bayern? Is Strasbourg that far away from you?

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