four-track

managed to obtain a beautiful collection of five 1/4" tapes as a result of my research on dutch pinkfloyd gigs. eagerly looking out to hear what's on it. if the box delivers what it promises, i'd be in for a treatment.

delft

to the day ten years ago, a tiny little record store in delft opened its doors. graduating from a university study in urban planning was one thing, being stuck in airless conference rooms was a step too far. so why not start a record store; a record label; organise events, and make a promise to quit when it stopped being fun and began looking like work. well, ten years after, it's still not near a normal shop. so here's to henk who shared the passion and helped me in the first four and a half years in delft. cheers!

objects

one of tonefloat's major projects in its anniversary year is a five album 'once we all walk through solid objects'. the set collects 10 original and brand new fear falls burning pieces, reconstructed by renowned experimental artists. each and every contribution makes up a full vinyl record album side. the project promises to be a landmark tonefloat release with truly prolific artwork.

all contributions are now finished, and show the wide context of the music of fear falls burning. not only by the origins of the musicians, from postrock to industrial, but also by the way the original material was treated. not only by reworking their way, but also by adding scapes, tools and instruments. we're please to give you the complete tracklisting. more details on 'once we all walk through solid objects' will be announced on the tonefloat news page, early 2007.


i - fear falls burning vs bass communion (steven wilson/porcupine tree; uk)
ii - fear falls burning vs final (justin k broadrick/jesu; uk)
iii - fear falls burning vs freiband (frans de waard/beequeen; holland)
iv - fear falls burning vs harvestman (steve von till/neurosis; usa)
v - fear falls burning vs birchville cat motel (new zealand)
vi - fear falls burning vs byla (dysrhythmia; usa)
vii - fear falls burning vs aidan baker (nadja; canada)
viii - fear falls burning vs johannes persson (cult of luna; sweden)
ix - fear falls burning vs jefre cantu-ledesma (tarentel; usa)
x - fear falls burning vs stefano pilia (3/4hadbeeneliminated; italy)

gigs

a week jampacked with gigs. starting off last thursday with an impressive george michael at the ahoy' in rotterdam, followed by a more intimate setting at the boerderij in zoetermeer for a gig with paatos and lo ego. stefan from paatos brought some paatos vinyl in return for the discs i gave him last month while on tour with porcupine tree. special guests lo ego were quite impressive. good songs, good band. theo travis (who's slow life i will release on vinyl in january) happened to be in amsterdam for a three day stint with gong at their gong family unconvention. watched him play with two bands and had dinner. lotsa plans for the future. tonight will be the forth and final gig of the week when i am going to see keane, again at the ahoy', thanks to an invitation from sander.

berlin

spent a few days in berlin with tk. made our way through the dark alleys of the world's mst fascinating city searching for those rare records. which were found. a kenya 7inch copy of driver's seat by sniff n' the tears, a copy of the 101ers debut 7inch, some great madchester albums, and more.

shed

burning shed event, norwich, 16 june 2006

1. 9.23pm, bass communion vs fear falls burning

2. 11.04pm, no-man

bowie

went to see the first of three gilmour shows at the royal albert hall. uncle dave brought us some surprises.....

1. 8.12pm, the royal albert hall

2. 9.56pm, high hopes

3. 10.31pm, the cost of freedom

4. 10.33pm, arnold layne

camden

spent most of the afternoon doing very close to nothing at henry beans in camden. catching up with didier and frans who are joining in the for the london gilmour gigs.

1. 9.21am, hotel view from level 3 now

2. 12.12pm, tea

3. 3.11pm, frans

nw

had an enjoyably relaxing sunday in london. started off with a stroll through kensington and ended up spending the afternoon in nw london with steven. following zillions mails about release dates, bonus tracks and stuff like that, it's good to catch up on things.

1. 10.51am, kensington gardens

2. 10.55am, kensington gardens

3. 2.27pm, steven, israeli restaurant

4. 4.19pm, steven, pub

queensgate

back in london after over three months. went to see david gilmour in manchester. uncle dave was in top shape. stayed overnight at the somewhat strange luther king house in m14 with glenn. we drove to bucks round noon the day after and had lunch with richard. arrived in london at 6pm. nice hotel just off the royal albert hall. had a very relaxing and pleasant evening.

1. the inner garden at the luther king house

2. the gallery

3. glenn

4. hotel view at 6.04 pm

5. hotel view at 1.22 am

levin

tony levin at the boerderij in zoetermeer, last night.

radiohead

with their 2000 marque show in nijmegen in the back of my head as one of the greatest gigs i ever saw (sigur ros was doing support for that one), radiohead returned to my daily schedule with a rambling yet impressive two hour show last night at the heineken music hall in amsterdam. a beautiful mixture of those songs known, hardly known and new, the band proved to be still in charge when it comes to writing excellent songs and playing them accordingly. tonight up for a second show with a different setlist.

currently playing:
serenes - barefoot and pregnant
hawkwind - hall of the mountain grill
sonic youth - dirty
the smiths - strangeways here we come
radiohead - ok computer

sunday

a short meeting with peter van vliet of the use of ashes, to discuss the revised artwork for the italian reissue of firetree. we rambled our way through some pictures by bacelice, made during the early nineties firetree era. here's one of them. not going the be used for the final artwork but nevertheless...

poortgebouw

mercy giants at the poortgebouw in rotterdam, last night.

norwich

good news last night when john mailed me concerning an upcoming gig in a small theatre in norwich called the garage, which hosts a gig with tim bowness (of no-man fame), ben coleman (ditto), steven wilson (ditto), alongside michael bearpark and peter chilvers who both appear on no-man's together we're stranger. it's been announced that steven will be doing a solo gig, but a nice setting it is anyway. looking forward to this one. it's 16th june.