Boredoms - 77 Drummers

[cliff]

You guys heard about this???

Boredoms Reveal 77 Drummers!
Includes Andrew W.K., David Grubbs, Alan Licht, plus people from Modest Mouse, Man Man, Lightning Bolt, Hot Snakes, Oneida, Excepter, Unwound, Enon, Gang Gang Dance, White Magic
There seems to be loads of excitement brewing over this weekend's 77-drum circle put on by the Boredoms at Brooklyn Bridge Park (going down 07/07/07, naturally). Is it the numeric synergy? A show of support for Japan's premier noise-rockers? Either way, expect the opposite of boredom at what's being billed as 77BOADRUM.

Sure, Boredoms could've chosen any djembe-dragging Joe off the street to fill in their 74 vacant spots (we presume the other three-- and the mysterious "0" spot-- are going to Boredoms members). But no; they had to get members and friends of Modest Mouse, Lightning Bolt, Man Man, Gang Gang Dance, Soft Circle, Oneida, Excepter, Aa, Blood on the Wall, Pit Er Pat, Unwound, Enon, Arbouretum, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sightings, White Magic, No Neck Blues Band, Panthers, Celebration, Negative Approach, Tall Firs, and others, turning this into a veritable Traveling Wilburys of avant-garde percussion.

Something tells me, despite the 76 other maniacs pounding around him, Andrew W.K. will come through loud and clear. From note one. Something also tells me an enterprising production company could turn this into one of the cooler live albums/DVDs we'll see in a while.

In other Boredoms news, they've got quite a few regular tour dates after the drum thing. Scope those and the complete enumerated list of drummers below.

Drum leaders:

01 Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle / Pixeltan)
02 Tim Dewit (Gang Gang Dance)
03 Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)
04 Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band / Under Satans Sun)
05 Jaiko Suzuki (Electro Putas)
06 Jesse Lee (White Magic)
07 Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas)
08 Kid Millions (Oneida)
09 Andy McLeod (Howling Hex / Modest Mouse)
10 Aaron Moore
11 Robin Easton

Other drummers:

12 Sara Lund (Unwound)
13 Jim Black
14 Andrew W.K.
15 Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat)
16 Miggie (Blood on the Wall)
17 Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills)
18 Andee Connors (A Minor Forest / Lumen)
19 John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
20 Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
21 Chris Millstein
22 Abby Portner (First Nation)
23 Aviram Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs)
24 Allison Busch (Awesome Color)
25 Warren Huegel (Tussle)
26 Nathan Corbin (Excepter)
27 Clare Amory
28 Jonathan Lockie (Sightings)
29 Josh Bonati (Aa)
30 Nadav Havusha (Aa)
31 Aron Wahl (Aa)
32 Jeffrey Salane (Panthers)
33 Jim Sykes
34 David Aron (Koi Pond)
35 Michael Catano
36 Spencer Herbst (Matta Lama)
37 Jim Siegel (Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki)
38 Mike Pride (MDC, FUSHITSUSHA, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide)
39 Nick DeCarmine
40 Marianne Kozlowski (The Punks)
41 Than Luu (M. Ward)
42 Dave Bergander (Celebration)
43 Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot)
44 Andrya Ambro
45 Justin DeRosa
46 Hart Mingus (Negative Approach)
47 Matthias Schulz (Enon / Holy ####)
48 Josh Madell (Antietam, Other Music)
49 Matt (No Neck Blues Band)
50 Jim Abramson (Dymaxion)
51 Oran Canfield (Child Abuse)
52 Adriana Magaña (Crash Worship)
53 Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band)
54 Travis Harrison
55 Jared Barron
56 Jason Kourkounis (Delta 72 / Hot Snakes)
57 Eric Cohen (Caroliner)
58 Daniel Franz (Arbouretum)
59 Christopher Brokaw (Codeine)
60 Jared Burak (Wet Cement)
61 Christopher Powell (Icy Demons / Man Man)
62 Sadie Laska (I.U.D.)
63 Pete Vogl (Koi Pond)
64 Barbara Schauwecker
65 AJ Edminson (Favourite Sons)
66 David Grubbs
67 John McSwain (VICE)
68 Dave Abramson (Climax Golden Twins)
69 Alan Licht
70 Rick Prior
71 Kayrock
72 Dave LeBleu (Prefuse 73 / Mercury Program)
73 Lizzy Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance)
74 Alianna Kalaba (We Ragazzi)

Boredoms:

07-07 Brooklyn, NY - Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (Brooklyn Bridge Park)
08-04 Helsinki, Finland - Nosturi
08-05 Tampere, Finland - Klubi
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-12 Copenhagen, Denmark - Radio Concert Hall
10-18 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
10-19 Hasslet, Belgium - KC Belgie
10-20 Kortrijk, Belgium - Sonic City Festival
10-22 Manchester, England - Academy
10-13 Glasgow, Scotland - Arches
10-24 Aberdeen, England - Moshulu
10-26 London, England - The Wire/Electra Festival
10-28 Dublin, Ireland - Deaf Festival
10-30 Cardiff, Wales - The Point

[fvgazi]

i fucking wish i lived in detroit. god damnit. i'm just jizzing thinking about all those drummers being there. brian chippendale, dave lebleu, sara lund, andee conners... total sex

[hospitalcomedian]

fvgazi said:

i fucking wish i lived in detroit.

me too. not usually, but right now.
i am, however going to see glenn branca's symphony for one hundred guitars in a few days. can't wait for this.

[fvgazi]

wait. why did i type detroit? that doesn't even make sense!


...hacks.

[chud]

I was wondering that...haha, I reread the first post a couple of times thinking "Please be in Detroit!" I would love to go to that.

[hospitalcomedian]

ahh fvgazi, you've made me look like an idiot.

[fvgazi]

i tend to make people do that...

[cliff]

There's alot of youtube video out there for this now:

here's one...

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOGRUKqDFY&NR=1

I didn't realize that these guys were bringing their whole kits!

[mada]

Weird, I thought they would be going in waves or something. But thats pretty awesome.

[hospitalcomedian]

i only got to look at few badly recorded video clips of this so far, looks great though. i did manage to get to the glenn branca 100 guitar symphony yesterday. they only got about fifty people to do it. apparently 400 people applied, but mostly because they just wanted tickets. absolutely wonderful stuff though. loads of guitars loads of basses and one drummer. it was four movements and it lasted over an hour, and each piece seemed better and more fucked up than the last. on saturday as part of the same serires of gigs i saw konono no. 1, who were amazing as well. i only stayed for there first song, but it went on for about an hour and ten or fifteen minutes. it was like an odd cross between the boredoms and battles. all repetitive this and polyrhythmic that. only they used hand made thumb pianos instead of guitars and one drum kit instead of 77.

[hospitalcomedian]

finally got to see the boredoms last week in dublin. i missed them last year because my bus was late and the gig was an early starter. this time they kept everyone waiting. it was meant to start around eight but it was closer to ten when they appeard. the first fifteen or twenty minutes were pretty fucking dull so i went outside for a smoke. when i got back in they were starting to improve a lot and got better and better. at first eye was using the glowing orb things but just making white noise with them, then he was using the guitar-neck plank things.