tour

fear falls burning will be on an extensive european tour, and i thought i'd pass you the dates. we will also be co-releasing a record to celebrate the tour, which means we exactly have six week to have the whole thing done. interesting. nevermind the bollocks .. here's the tour dates:

18/4 sojo, leuven (belgium) with cult of luna
19/4 vera, groningen (netherlands) with cult of luna
20/4 dynamo, eindhoven (netherlands) with cult of luna
21/4 patronaat, haarlem (netherlands) with cult of luna
22/4 vierkante zaal, sint-niklaas (belgium) @ independent arts festival
04/5 tanzhaus west, frankfurt (germany)
05/5 galerie für zeitgenössische kunst, leipzig (germany)
06/5 az conni, dresden (germany) with fluid
07/5 skam, hamburg (germany)
08/5 venue tbc, prague (czech republic) with birds build nests underground
09/5 n.b.i., berlin (germany) with mint
10/5 galerie scherer8, berlin (germany)
11/5 audio unit, hamburg (germany)
12/5 cuba, münster (germany) with tim hecker, gaumen
13/5 frontline, gent (belgium) with hroptr

darkside

last monday was destined to be a hectic day. with two releases (ghosts and speak) to pick up from the pressing plant, and many many pre-orders to be shipped that same day, things had to be planned in order to work. who else could have gotten in the way but emi. a rush repress order for dark side meant i spent over two hours extra with the friendly people of record industry, waiting for the tonefloat releases to be sealed. finally got back to the office at four, leaving only a mere two hours to get things done. it worked and europeans will have their records in by now.

flyer

been busy with the design of the flyer for the pink floyd day in may. this time the design will also be printed as an a2 size poster (40x60cm). with the programme set, it's time to let the people know about it.

gent

a ninety minute drive got me to the ancient centre of gent (belgium) where i saw the hermes ensemble perform an eclectic set of partly reworked pink floyd compositions at de bijloke. i'd seen them before at the palais des beaux arts in brussels, in september 2004. as before, they brought interesting performances of atom heart mother and a saucerful of secrets, as well as some nifty and partly reconstructed works based on a variety of more experimental floyd tunes.

firetree

tonefloat's first full length album was firetree by the use of ashes. a 1996 cd on the italy based mellow records, the original album was expanded for tonefloat with the four part under the black sun suite on side 4. in 1998 the 2lp was pressed in a very limited edition of 100 copies only and sold out within weeks. had many requests for the album since 1998 and it's good to see the interest is still there. the psychout label, again from italy, made a request to reissue firetree - and the band has agreed. under the black sun will remain exclusive to the tonefloat release and will be replaced by previously unreleased outtakes from the early '90s firetree sessions. the release, again in a limited edition of 300 copies, is scheduled for june.

tfc104/tfc105

picked up tfc104 and tfc105 from the record plant. pre-orders were shipped right on time, yesterday afternoon. again they have been pressed on clear vinyl, this time 180gms vinyl. the second and most likely final pressing of steven wilson's unreleased electronic music also came out yesterday. it's the first repress of a vinyl release on tonefloat, soon to be followed by no-man's together we're stranger.

met up with dirk from fear falls burning / vidnaobmana last night to bring him his c contribution and had a very pleasant evening. lots of exciting plans ahead.