Vic Chesnutt Band

John

Vic Chesnutt is playing the 1st December in the Button Factory with his new star-studded band (essentially A Silver Mt. Zion and I think people from Fugazi). His new album is brilliant, looking forward to this.

garthv

Yeah, I just heard of him from U:Mack's email...sounds very very interesting
Few good tracks on his myspace too.
The Hacker, Miss Kittin and DJ Koze are playing the late show in The Button Factory that night so it would be a crime to miss it.

Then again its the same night as Justice....Decisions Decisions Decisions!

kilinick

"The Hacker, Miss Kittin and DJ Koze are playing the late show in The Button Factory that night so it would be a crime to miss it"

Fraid not. They are playing the Tivoli

the hero game

i'm a huge vic fan and i like the new album a lot..
where is the button factory??

John

It's the Temple Bar Music Centre, it's changed its name.

u:mack

U:MACK presents

VIC CHESNUTT BAND
(Featuring members of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Fugazi)

SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER
THE BUTTON FACTORY


TICKETS €20 FROM ROAD RECORDS, CITY DISCS, SOUND CELLAR, SPINDIZZY & ONLINE AT www.tickets.ie/umack


www.myspace.com/vicchesnutt

Athens, Georgia singer-songwriter legend Vic Chesnutt has just released the finest album of his 17 year career. No stranger to the collaborative process (Lambchop, Van Dyke Parks & Michael Stipe are among the musicians he has recorded with), Vic's latest album was recorded in Montreal with members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The broad cast of players also included amongst others, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and former Arcade Fire drummer Howard Bilerman. The result, "North Star Deserter" sounds intimate and personal and yet at times epic, with choral style singing, wonderful string arrangements and huge waves of electric guitar feedback. "My songwriting process is a very lonely one," says Vic "It's just me locked in a room and in my own little bubble. So it¹s quite good for my heart to join in some sort of collaborative process for the recording itself."

Vic's band for this preformance features:
Efrim Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Silver Mt Zion)
Thierry Amar (Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Silver Mt Zion)
Jessica Moss (Silver Mt Zion)
Guy Picciotto(Fugazi) &
David Payant

VIC CHESNUTT

Vic was born in 1964 in Jacksonville, FL and was raised in Zebulon, GA. He loved music from an early age and, in fact, started writing songs when he was only five years old. He played trumpet in a high school cover band. As he got older and began buying records, his first favorites were Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and The Beatles. After a car accident in 1983 that left him partially paralyzed and the recuperation period that followed, Vic came to "a whole new understanding of music. The first results were what he describes as vacuous pop songs But when he discovered a book called The Norton Anthology Of Modern Poetry (its footnotes were eureka!) Vic had, for the first time, what he describes as that art feeling. It was then that his songs began to take on adult form. In the middle 80s, Vic moved to Athens, GA to study English. He formed a group called The La Di Das and began playing the clubs around town.

In 1988 he quit the band and started playing solo shows, including a summer-long residency at The 40 Watt. It was then that Michael Stipe saw Vic, repeatedly, and was moved to invite him into a recording studio. They recorded the songs that became his debut album, Little and Vics career effectively began. Vic has made 10 albums to date as well as 2 albums in collaboration with Widespread Panic under the name Brute. He was the subject of a documentary in 1992 entitled Speed Racer directed by noted indie filmmaker Peter Sillen. In 1995 he had bit part in Billy Bob Thorntons film Slingblade.

In 1996, Columbia Records put together Sweet Relief II: Gravity Of The Situation - The Songs of Vic Chesnutt, a benefit album to assist musicians with medical and financial hardship. It featured Vics songs covered by the likes of Madonna, Smashing Pumpkins, Soul Asylum, Garbage & R.E.M. In 2000, The Georgia House Of Representatives passed a resolution, honoring Vic for his off-beat musical genius and other purposes. In 2001 he wrote and performed the music for Josiah Meigs and Me, a puppet play done at St. Annes Warehouse in Brooklyn. In January of 2004, Vic participated in the Randy Newman Tribute at UCLAs Royce Hall along with Victoria Williams, Bill Frisell, Rip Torn and many others.

In June of this year, he was invited to share the bill with Rickie Lee Jones for two concerts at the prestigious Century Of Song Festival in Essen, Germany. Over the last few years he has also been speaking on songwriting and creative writing at Berklee School Of Music, Brown University and The University Of Georgia. Vic continues to tour extensively all over the world and has shared stages with the likes of R.E.M., Laura Nyro, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, John Cale, Mo Tucker, The Jayhawks, Allen Toussaint, P.J. Harvey, Wilco, Billy Swan, Giant Sand, Calexico and The Sadies

New album North Star Deserter available now on Constellation

u:mack

eres some links to live footage of Vic chesnutt with members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Guy Picciotto of Fugazi. It was filmed by a member of the audience in Munich at the beginning of November. The performance looks incredible. Next Saturdays show in the Button Factory is going to be the gig of the year. The Dublin show is the last date of the tour. Please note that its unlikey that this awesome line up will ever perform live together again

Splendid (not complete)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZbeK8EC0t8

Rustic City Fathers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LxXk...eature=related

Debriefing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CemAX...eature=related

U:MACK presents

VIC CHESNUTT BAND
(Featuring members of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Fugazi)
SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER
THE BUTTON FACTORY


TICKETS €20 FROM ROAD RECORDS, CITY DISCS, SOUND CELLAR, SPINDIZZY & ONLINE AT www.tickets.ie/umack


www.myspace.com/vicchesnutt

John

I have ticket number one and can't wait, the new album is just awesome!

murmur

Is anyone planning to make a sound recording of the Dublin gig? I would be very interested in trading if anyone does. Please note Vic allows recording at his gigs and distribution of recordings.


You can view and download 3 videos here shot just before vic's show in paris (sponge, glossalia and warm)
http://www.blogotheque.net/article.php3?id_article=3676

Can't wait till Sat.

skydancer

looking forward to it :-)
anyone know if there are any seats in the button fact, what time doors open (ticket says 8, website says 7.30), and whether there is a support??
cheers!

Soundman

murmur wrote: »

Is anyone planning to make a sound recording of the Dublin gig? I would be very interested in trading if anyone does. Please note Vic allows recording at his gigs and distribution of recordings.

Damn it. If I'd known that I could have earned some extra cash. Hehe.

John

Soundman, was that your good work in sorting out the evil G chord? If so, many thanks

Soundman

John wrote: »

Soundman, was that your good work in sorting out the evil G chord? If so, many thanks

I was the one that went up to let Vic know what was going on, he had his own engineer so he was the one with the EQ powers that night.

John

Ah right, I had to move to let you tell Vic that. I was the guy who dropped his camera when Vic was being lifted up onto the stage at the beginning of the night (I think you were standing there at the time).

Soundman

Aha. I think I got you to move once or twice that night. Damn you getting in my way. Yeah, I was one of the two guys (the hairier one) on the floor helping lift Vic up.

John

Cool, I'll say hello the next time I'm in the button music centre

Soundman

The Factory of Musical Buttons? Sure why not.