[gigs] Pavement tour Australia in March

The rumours were true, Pavement are touring Australia in March including a show here in Adelaide. Full details here. Looks like Australia will be the very first stop on their world tour. This blog grew out of an email gig guide which ran intermittently between 1997-2007, and it all started with me advertising Pavement’s July ’97 shows at the Metro in Sydney to my friends. None of them went, but I persisted with pestering people about gigs anyway. The setlists for the first two shows were (with some tracks out of order)

Tuesday 22nd : Old to Begin \ Stereo \ Transport is Arranged \ Date w/
Ikea \ Give it a Day \ Cut Your Hair \ Perfume-V \ Starlings of the
Slipstream \ The Hexx \ Shady Lane/J vs S \ Kennel District \ Father to
a Sister of Thought \ Cream of Gold \ Unfair \ Fin \ Box Elder \ Here \
encore: Blue Hawaiian \ Elevate Me Later \ Type Slowly

Wednesday 23rd : Date w/ Ikea \ Silence Kit \ Summer Babe \ Type Slowly \
Passat Dream \ Conduit for Sale! \ Black Out \ Stereo \ Transport is
Arranged \ In the Mouth a Desert \ Stop Breathin \ Shady Lane \ Blue
Hawaiian \ The Hexx\ Grounded \ Grave Architecture \
encore : We are Underused \ Range Life \ Debris Slide

Also in the gig guide emails, in June 2004, when the Pixies first got back together, I did a feature on other possible reunions and assessed their likelyhood including this prediction regarding Pavement – “All Tomorrows Parties in 2010 perhaps?”.

Back when I last saw Pavement I was also regularly going to gigs by Kim Salmon & the Surrealists but I think the last time I saw them must have been in 1997, so I’m very keen to go to the Corner Hotel in Richmond to see them play at the Low Transit Industries Xmas party, together with Adelaide’s No Through Road plus a bunch of others. I haven’t been to the Corner for about 10 years but have fond memories of shows there by Tortoise and Mercury Rev.

Watch out for lots more announcements of gigs next week. On Tuesday 20th the Laneway festival details will be announced (and after a BDO with very little that interests me I’m holding out hopes for good stuff at Laneway). Also next week (22nd) is the launch of the Adelaide festival (which brought us Ornette Coleman last time), that should also include the first announcement for the big 4 day WOMAD. Feel Presents are still to announce the details of their Don’t Look Back shows for early next year, and also Fowler’s Live haven’t updated their site for a while, but I expect they will after the Laneway announcement so at that point they might add some other good stuff that they have coming up early next year.

Something else coming up in March is an Australian tour by Jandek with his band, details have yet to be released so no idea if an Adelaide show is likely.

One more thing is that on Sunday the 8th of November you can hear the sounds of Le Rayon Vert at the Metro between 4-7pm.

OCTOBER

  • 16th Like Leaves at the Ed Castle.
  • 16th No Through Road & Bing Goes to Monaco support the John Steel Singers at Jive.
  • 17th Cheer Advisory Council at the Metro with The British Robots and The Honey Pies.
  • 23rd Bing Goes to Monaco with Aviator Lane at the Jade Monkey.
  • 29th & 30th – The Wagons at the Wheatsheaf.
  • 30th Philadelphia Grand Jury at the Ed Castle.

NOVEMBER

  • 8th Le Rayon Vert DJ set at the Metro
  • 12th Casiotone for the Painfully Alone at Jive.
  • 13th Ned Collette and Laura Jean at the Metro
  • 14th Blackeyed Susans at the Norwood Hotel.
  • 24th The Buzzcocks at the Gov.
  • 27th Lightning Bolt with The Grey Daturas at Fowler’s Live.
  • 28th Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective at the Gov.
  • 28th Batrider and No Through Road at the Metro.

DECEMBER

  • 3rd Paul Kelly at HQ.
  • 4th The Church at the Gov.
  • 5th The Crayon Fields at the Metro with Hit the Jackpot and Bing Goes to Monaco.
  • 10th Jarvis Cocker at HQ.
  • 18th Sandy Cenin & Paul Champion’s Xmas show at the Metro.
  • 23rd (Melbourne) Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, No Through Road and lots more at the Low Transit Industries Xmas show at the Corner Hotel.

MARCH

  • 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park
  • 7th Pavement at Thebby
  • 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)

On the Stereo

  • Love of Diagrams – Nowhere Forever cd (Unstable Ape)
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly ‘Country on the Click’) LP (Action)
  • The Smiths – The Queen is Dead LP (Rough Trade)
  • The Smiths – Meat is Murder LP (Rough Trade)
  • Mick Turner / Tren Brothers – Blue Trees cd (King Crab)
  • The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary – From Cells of Roughest Air 10″ (Bangor)
  • DJ Food – Kaleidoscope 2LP (Ninja Tune)
  • Subtle – Wishingbone cd (Lex)
  • Subtle – Yell & Ice cd (Lex)
  • Autechre – Anti cdep (Warp)