YYYEESSSS: LCD soundsystem reforming for gigs 2016

peteeeed

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/lcd-soundsystem-to-reform-a6687021.html

Right Turn Clyde

peteeeed wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/lcd-soundsystem-to-reform-a6687021.html

That's great news but I'm not a bit surprised.

peteeeed

Off again http://m.pitchfork.com/news/60997-lcd-soundsystem-not-reuniting-despite-reports/

Idaho Ver. 3

If it happens I'm not sure if I'd admire their marketing ability in milking the final show or dislike them for their complete dishonesty....!

Technocentral

Reforming rumours denied?

peteeeed

Technocentral wrote: »

Reforming rumours denied?

yes according to pitchfork

nervous_twitch

This has legs apparently:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/12/lcd-soundsystem-share-christmas-song-ahead-of-2016-reunion-tour/

And the added gift of an LCD Christmas anthem. Tis the season.

peteeeed

Yep apparently playing coachella

iancairns

If they're touring and playing here (which you'd hope) where do you think we'd most likely see them?

EP? Standalone Marley gig or possibly Longitude steal them?

Ferris_Bueller

This would be brilliant if they were touring, would love to see them come to Ireland. Don't know where they would be most likely to play but I think I heard before that James Murphy has played at almost every Electric Picnic in some capacity, whether it was with LCD Soundsystem, Despacio or him DJing himself.. So I'd guess that he would be pretty likely to play there if they were to tour.

homerun_homer

I love LCD Soundsystem but....

I hate the idea of them reforming purely because James Murphy has been a good man of principle and he made such a stink for years about retiring the band that reforming them now will just make him look like a prat. Some bands have this long a gap between albums and tours anyway so he made a big fuss, selling out extra "break up" shows, not to mention people who got screwed over by the touts in NYC, the documentary, the image of him crying while looking at the band's equipment before it got sold off. It all looks like a con now.

iancairns

I completely agree with everything you just said and am truly amazed he's doing this after all he said, and he of all people should be hyper aware about what people will be saying about it. But I will completely put all that to one side and just enjoy Someone Great or All My Friends for just one more time.

homerun_homer wrote: »

I love LCD Soundsystem but....

I hate the idea of them reforming purely because James Murphy has been a good man of principle and he made such a stink for years about retiring the band that reforming them now will just make him look like a prat. Some bands have this long a gap between albums and tours anyway so he made a big fuss, selling out extra "break up" shows, not to mention people who got screwed over by the touts in NYC, the documentary, the image of him crying while looking at the band's equipment before it got sold off. It all looks like a con now.

ghostdancer

at first I kind of thought the same, but if he/they miss doing it, then why shouldn't they get back together? obviously at the time the plan was that it was an end, but clearly they've changed their minds in the meantime.
I'm pretty sure at the time Murphy didn't rule out getting back together at some point in the future anyway.

GoldenTickets

homerun_homer wrote: »

I love LCD Soundsystem but....

I hate the idea of them reforming purely because James Murphy has been a good man of principle and he made such a stink for years about retiring the band that reforming them now will just make him look like a prat. Some bands have this long a gap between albums and tours anyway so he made a big fuss, selling out extra "break up" shows, not to mention people who got screwed over by the touts in NYC, the documentary, the image of him crying while looking at the band's equipment before it got sold off. It all looks like a con now.

I agree completely. I love the music, but any reformation will do away with all credibility for Murphy now. I'll be genuinely disappointed if this turns out to be true. I thought he'd go the way of David Byrne, stick to his guns and let the band rest in peace. The Christmas track is not a good sign re: quality of new material either. Hate to be a spoilsport, but I hope This Isn't Happening. Yep, I went there.

Corholio

ghostdancer wrote: »

at first I kind of thought the same, but if he/they miss doing it, then why shouldn't they get back together? obviously at the time the plan was that it was an end, but clearly they've changed their minds in the meantime.
I'm pretty sure at the time Murphy didn't rule out getting back together at some point in the future anyway.

There was such a big deal made of it though, don't get me wrong I loved the way their split was handled, it felt....right. But coming back likes this severely waters down all of that. Also if they do come back they will have to have some pretty barnstorming music to go with it, I don't really want to see the band that they are just touring the old stuff or coming back with average stuff, especially if the Christmas song was any gauge of quality. They have such a good reputation, I'd just hate to see it tainted.

OhHiMark

GoldenTickets wrote: »

I agree completely. I love the music, but any reformation will do away with all credibility for Murphy now.

Yeah, bollocks it will. I don't believe for a second that when they broke up he was planning on a reunion in 4 years, but they clearly want to tour again and possibly make more music. He shouldn't be judged for that.

ghostdancer

headlining Coachella, Bonnaroo, FYF Festival and playing at least 1 of Glastonbury, Bestival or Latitude in the UK, according to the journalist who has been breaking the news.
https://www.reddit.com/user/CoS_Alex

new music on the way too:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/inside-lcd-soundsystems-2016-reunion/

dmm82

On their website is now has "2016 tour dates coming soon" !!!!!!!

peteeeed

the band always looked like they were having a ball when they played live, maybe they miss it after 4 years , cant see how this will ruin anything, just means there's going to be a few great gigs to go to , hopefully EP

ghostdancer

http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/793

let’s just start this thing finally with some clarity.

i write songs all the time. sometimes they’re just weird songs i sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that i sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about christmas, or new york. sometimes these songs live in my head for years and have verses upon verses added to them, almost infinitely. sometimes they’re just ghosts of ideas, and sometimes they’re fully-formed things which float in front of me, seeming like they’d be easy to make flesh, only to fight furiously as soon as i try to pin them down in any way. some of them I make with friends in a room with instrument things. only a tiny fraction of these ever become Songs; get recorded, feel like something that should be shared. those ones, i write the title or some lyrics of down on a page in a little book i carry around. or i sing a bit of them into a tape recorder (or now a phone, I guess). i’ve been doing this since i was a kid.

early in 2015, i realized i had more of those than i’d ever had in my life. more of them than when i went in to make any LCD record, or when i recorded tapes upon tapes of terrible things in high school. just loads of them, and i found myself a little perplexed. if i record them, what do i do with them? maybe I shouldn’t record them at all? i considered that, which was in a way the easiest option, but it also seemed like a weird and arbitrary (and sort of cowardly) cop-out. but to record them—well then, suddenly i have, what—a record?

so i asked pat and nancy to come over to my apartment for coffee and told them: “i’m going to record some music. should i make up a band name, or make a “james murphy” record, or should it be LCD?” we all thought a good amount about it. we have had lives for the past 5 years, which has been nice, and those guys have made amazing music with Museum Of Love, the Juan MacLean, and all sorts of other things. i’d managed to do a bunch of fun, dumb stuff which mostly annoyed people who were into the band because, well, subway turnstiles and a coffee aren’t LCD, basically.

at any rate, they both said “let’s make an LCD record”. you see, if they didn’t want to, which i’d half assumed, then there’s no such thing as LCD. imagine this: me making a record, calling it LCD, and then you go to the show and there’s just some guy playing drums over there, or some other person playing keyboards. horrifying. then imagine this: i make a “james murphy” record, or, i don’t know, an “everteen” record, or whatever made-up name i come up with, and there’s pat playing drums, and nancy. maybe al isn’t too busy with hot chip so he comes to play. what the **** is that? here were our choices: 1. make music with your friends and call it something else, which seems hilarious (everteen) or egomaniacal to the point of sociopathic (james murphy solo record). 2. make music, but WILLFULLY EXCLUDE your friends because of the horrors in option 1. 3. make an LCD record with your friends, who want to make said record, and deal with whatever fall-out together. 4. don’t make music, to avoid the horrors of all of the above. 5. make music and, like, hide it somewhere.
we decided, clearly, on option 3, and i was fully prepared for a certain amount of “oh **** that guy” over-it stuff—in fact welcomed it. it’s strangely energizing to have people who don’t make music themselves take potshots at you from the internet. and there’s always been a current of O.F.T.G. with me (i’m saying me and not us because, let’s be honest… no one hates anyone else in LCD, partially because they’re unhateable, and also because they have the wisdom to not shoot their mouths off nearly as much), and that’s just fine. i’m pretty used to it, and find it relatively funny.

but in my naiveté i hadn’t seen one thing coming:
there are people who don’t hate us at all, in fact who feel very attached to the band, and have put a lot of themselves into their care of us, who feel betrayed by us coming back and playing. who had traveled for or tried to go to the MSG show, and who found it to be an important moment for them, which now to them feels cheapened. i just hadn’t considered that. i know—ridiculous on my part. i saw some comments online a few days ago from people who felt that way, and it blindsided me, and made me incredibly sad. i saw some other people replying with stuff like “if that’s what you cared about, and you don’t want them to play anymore, maybe you liked the band for pretty weird reasons”, and it made me think. the truth is, while i get what the replier is saying, i kind of side with the original complaint: if you cared a lot about our band, and you put a lot of yourself into that moment (or anything about us you chose), and you feel betrayed now, then i completely understand that. it’s your right to define what you love about a band, and it’s your right to decry their actions and words as you see fit, because it’s you, frankly, who have done much of the work to sustain that relationship, not the band. i was so clearly expecting the cynical cries of foul, that i hadn’t seen the heartfelt complaint coming. we’ve always talked about how we’d never betray anyone who cares about us, but here we are now. given the chance again to make new music with the people i care about, and who have given a big part of their lives to doing this weird thing together, and who wanted to do it again, i took it. and in doing so, i betrayed whoever feels betrayed by that action. i by no means think that everyone who liked our band feels bad right now. a lot of people who liked our band are very happy, and we’ve been pretty blown away by the almost overwhelmingly positive response. last night i sat with al and nancy in a weird italian bar and we talked about how ****ing awesome it was that so many people were happy to have us back. but that doesn’t take away from those who feel hurt. to you i have to say: i’m seriously sorry. the only thing we can do now is get back into the studio and finish this record, and make it as ****ing good as we can possibly make it. it needs to be better than anything we’ve done before, in my mind, because it won’t have the help of being the first time. and we have to play better than we’ve ever played, frankly. every show has to be better than the best show we’ve played before for anyone to even say “well, that was good. i mean, not as good as they used to be. but, you know. it was good.” we know all that. which is healthy for us, because it means we go back to war, like in the beginning. for us it was always war, but now it’s really with ourselves. maybe we have a chance to make it right.

in other, more pedantic news: we’re not just playing coachella. we’re playing all over. we’re not just having some reunion tour. we’re releasing a record (sometime this year—still working on it, actually), so this isn’t a victory lap or anything, which wouldn’t be of much interest to us. this is just the bus full of substitute teachers back from their coffee break with new music and the same weird gear—or as much of it as we still have (it’s very interesting to re-buy the same gear, and in some cases buy gear BACK from people you sold it to), and rambling around trying to be louder than everyone else. thank **** we were never skinny and young. or at least i wasn’t. that always happens with bands… they aren’t fat when they come back, typically, just, i don’t know, thicker. i was lucky to start this band kind of fat and old, so there’s no, like “look how YOUNG they were!” **** to even find on the internet. i mean, we were younger and everything, but we weren’t young, if you know what i mean.

one last note: thank you to everyone who has been absurdly kind to us over the past 14 (!) years. if you have moved on and don’t like us anymore, that’s obviously ok, too. but please, if we ever gave you any joy, just find something new and good that blows you away, and post it on our facebook page or something with, like, “hey **** you guys! this is the REAL ****!” so we can hear new good stuff. that would be the best for all of us.

Corholio

Even though I was semi-critical of the way they 'ended' it and are now back, it's a fantastic, honest statement from Murphy. It's admirable he sees the reactions to their comeback from all angles, even when he admits he hadn't foreseen the genuine complaint. It certainly makes it sit a lot easier for me now after that. Roll on the new system tunes!

nervous_twitch

homerun_homer wrote: »

I love LCD Soundsystem but....

I hate the idea of them reforming purely because James Murphy has been a good man of principle and he made such a stink for years about retiring the band that reforming them now will just make him look like a prat. Some bands have this long a gap between albums and tours anyway so he made a big fuss, selling out extra "break up" shows, not to mention people who got screwed over by the touts in NYC, the documentary, the image of him crying while looking at the band's equipment before it got sold off. It all looks like a con now.

Ah go ****e. If we listened to your precious sensibilities we'd have no more music. He changed his mind. Big deal. 5 years without LCD and I for one am seriously excited about the new record/tour.

peteeeed

nervous_twitch wrote: »

Ah go ****e. If we listened to your precious sensibilities we'd have no more music. He changed his mind. Big deal. 5 years without LCD and I for one am seriously excited about the new record/tour.

amen

MadYaker

I've got tickets for Glastonbury and EP so surely ill get a chance to see them? Would be amazing.

GoldenTickets

OhHiMark wrote: »

Yeah, bollocks, it will..

FYP

ghostdancer

Rob Da Bank says they're not playing Bestival this year, so that makes EP a little less likely I suppose, especially if they're going to be in Europe early in the summer for Primavera or Glastonbury.

homerun_homer

nervous_twitch wrote: »

Ah go ****e. If we listened to your precious sensibilities we'd have no more music. He changed his mind. Big deal. 5 years without LCD and I for one am seriously excited about the new record/tour.

He never said he wasn't going to stop music. He said he would release music as LCD Soundsystem once they wrapped up but that he was done with being a touring band. He just didn't release much at all in the last few years because he focused on projects he wanted to do outside of the band but that he had been prevented from doing, such as produce Arcade Fire.

ghostdancer

headlining Lovebox in London on Saturday 16th July. day tickets available if anyone wants to make the trip over.

Vinculus

They're also headlining the Paredes do Coura festival in the north of Portugal which is one the best and most well behaved small festivals I have ever been to.


http://www.paredesdecoura.com/

Vinculus

They're also headlining the Paredes do Coura festival in the north of Portugal which is one the best and most well behaved small festivals I have ever been to.


http://www.paredesdecoura.com/

lc180

Vinculus wrote: »

They're also headlining the Paredes do Coura festival in the north of Portugal which is one the best and most well behaved small festivals I have ever been to.


http://www.paredesdecoura.com/

Never heard of this festival, past lineups look great and photos of the setup look brilliant. Might add this festival to the bucket list