GangstaFam said:

the general admission is way up top on the grassy area...




im in section 202.

sosgemini said:

You could still try to get Coachella tickets too.

i'm freakin' the hell out over this.

are we all ready for the fam attack tomorrow?

Anx said:

What time?

i'm freakin' the hell out over this.

are we all ready for the fam attack tomorrow?

Anx said:

What time?

i'm freakin' the hell out over this.

are we all ready for the fam attack tomorrow?

FYI-- Top priced tickets are $134.00

Anx said:

I'm not freakin' out. I usally get really great seats at pre-sales. I think I am more excited for the prospect of you guys getting good seats.

FYI-- Top priced tickets are $134.00

were is Coachella?

i'm freakin' the hell out over this.

are we all ready for the fam attack tomorrow?

2007-03-27 More N-America Pres-sales Wednesday 28.March
We will continue now to host pre-sale via bjork.com for the North America concerts. We have pre-sales this week for the East and not so east shows.
This presale start on Wednesday the 28th of March at the following hours:

The New York dates will go up at 10am eastern followed by Chicago at 11am eastern, Colorado at 12 noon eastern and Burnaby at 1pm eastern

Please note this is just for the North America concerts.

BJÖRK PARTY

Out of experimentation, the Icelandic singer will return in May with a definitely more pop album. Exclusively, she gives us some news about her strange and prolific brain..



How did your album start ?

Björk – There wasn’t any precise event, only weariness. I had just finished to record 3 albums in my room, after having discoved that it was possible to work with a portable PC - and maybe I abused too much of this. For me, it’s wonderful to record at my own rhythm in my intimacy. This allowed me to both work and have a baby : I was hiring a babysitter and a sound engineer at the same time at home, so I was going from one to another. But after a while, I started to suffocate, to feel secluded. It was the time for me to go out, to meet some people, to become a bit more physical again. I had to put myself in danger and let the unknown come back at me. During months, while I was suckling I didn’t see what’s further than the top of my breast (laughs)…

Your albums have always been balanced between the physical and the cerebral. On medúlla, the last one, the cerebral seemed to win.

For me, it’s an incredibly physical album, I was feeding while psalming, it was very hard. I was literally exploring my body like if it was an instrument. I wanted to move away from rhythms…It was the end of a circle, the primitive beats, a very complex computer editing; I wanted a "voice" record. In the small world of rhythm programmers from all over the planet, I sorta became like "the award" one would like to win: They were queing before me to pick them in order to decide what will be the “thing” for the up coming months..My rhythms almost became a fashion accessory, and as a reaction to it , I made a record based only on vocals with absolutely no rhythm. It was my rebellion : a middle finger thrown to IBM and the “ intellectual dance-music”. I quit that wave in order to make some kind of Manhattan Transfer record (laughs)…

Have you also stopped dancing ?

Oh no, I would never stop. I constantly listen to pop music and I dance over and over. Thanks to iTunes, I became my personal DJ : in my living room or in a little bar in Reykjavik.

Was your new album recorded faster as usual ?

I needed, like every time , around one and a half year. I need months because most of the time I do nothing at all. I have the privilege of being my own boss: if I don’t feel inspired I don’t work. Even before, when I was a teenager and I used to play in punk bands, I couldn’t stand wasting my time for the rehearsals. This makes music hard-working and installs the routine. Me, I was landing in the studio, writing a melody very fast, a structure and then I was off. The other members from the Sugarcubes were constantly making fun of me because I always kept yawning all the time in the studio…This is why maybe things are going very fast when I find myself with guests/collaborators in the recording studio : I want these encounters to be intense and brief. Even if it means after, staying a year on my computer, to cut out, restick, reorganize... For me this work is not exhausting at all but it's quite appeasing, relaxing, like making embroidery...It's an ideal mix : rough energy, the instinctive one, is on the tapes. And for me to play with them.


Do you use musicians as bait for computers, like experimental mice ?

Me including. I know what I want to do, and I only have a limited space for people I work with. For example, on Vespertine, boys from Matmos arrived only at the very end of the recording session, because I needed them to interfere with the beats, the percussions. I passed 3 years alone on rhythms before, so they understood what I was expecting from them.
For Medúlla, Mark Bell arrived when the songs were finished: He only took a couple of hours at home to set some details. I didn't want to work like that again, I wanted someone to make me change my habits, take me out of my comfort. For exemple we didn't have anything prepared before I met Timbaland in the studio. Three hours later we had four songs. Which took me a year to triturate. When I record live, I don't think about the stakes, it's completely instinctive: it's the right hemisphere of the brain who is expressing itself. As a result, I don't think of the logical and structural parts of the song. I keep myself away a few days before working again and even listening to these tracks. Then the left hemisphere takes the lead : "Let's see,hmm.. what do we have to analyse today?" (laughs)...It is this part of the brain who transforms these creative moments into songs. The more we grow old, the more we trust our left hemisphere. It drives our organisation, our storing. But unfortunately, every informations sent by the right hemisphere get off. It must be frustrated at the end (laughs)...I try to keep a balance between both by cheating on the left hemisphere, by lying to it. This is the only way to disconnect intelligence in order to recapture the instinct. When I want to do something dangerous, I make my left hemisphere fall asleep by sending false previsions to it, and, at the last moment, I change my plans and I chargein a different direction. If I wouldn't be able to access to my pulsions, I wouldn't be able to create more music. I would be cold meat.


On Volta, you collaborated with the Malian Toumani Diabaté and the New Yorker Antony...

I've been listening to Toumani Diabaté for years, especially to "New Ancient Strings",a spooky mix between strings, tribal rhythms, brass, kora...It had already influenced me for Vespertine, where I soiled the sound of the too angelical instruments, like the harp or the glockenspiel...
On Volta, I used three sorts of string instruments : a medieval ancestor of the harpishchord, a very ancient Chinese lute and the African kora...Instruments with very vibrating sound, never very distinct, never clinical. And concerning Antony, we have some friends in common in New York and we have already sung together in Iceland.


On Medúlla, you wrote "nor Bush nor Ben Laden". Do you feel this is even more urgent nowadays ?

We 've been terrorised for more than four thousand years with these organised religions ! Earth exists for more than four billion years, I think she's able to defent herself against those tiny four thousand years...This idea , that we cannot live without orders from the left hemisphere of the brain, by completely neglecting the animal part, the pagan ,the physical and the natural one is absurd. How could have we neglect the nature and become rolled up by the Bible or the Coran ? How could have we obediently allow this outrageous 12 months calendar with months we don't know if they have 28,29,30 or 31 days? The body, it knows there are 13 months: women bleed thirteen times during the year, there are thirteen full moons. But the christianism doesn't tolerate the 13th...By deleating this number, it imagined itself stronger than nature. Sky-scrapers, in New York, don't have the 13th floor : that informs so much about the influence of this religion on that country. Even in Iceland, men imagined themselves stronger than nature and start building large dams, in this country which used to be considered as the purest in Europe... Volta, it's a comic horror film : I dream in it that one day nature is going to revolt...I see it, walking heavily and noisily down the streets of New York, entering each building and handwriting a "13" in the lift shafts...It's been four thousand years since she's been asleep and was letting the others do what they want to do with her. But now, it's over : we need to admit that we are only a tribe, who has to live with the nature, has to forget its presumptions of civilization and cleanness. We are fundamentally pagans and we'll need to take that under our account.

We 've been terrorised for more than four thousand years with these organised religions ! Earth exists for more than four billion years, I think she's able to defent herself against those tiny four thousand years...This idea , that we cannot live without orders from the left hemisphere of the brain, by completely neglecting the animal part, the pagan ,the physical and the natural one is absurd. How could have we neglect the nature and become rolled up by the Bible or the Coran ? How could have we obediently allow this outrageous 12 months calendar with months we don't know if they have 28,29,30 or 31 days? The body, it knows there are 13 months: women bleed thirteen times during the year, there are thirteen full moons. But the christianism doesn't tolerate the 13th...By deleating this number, it imagined itself stronger than nature. Sky-scrapers, in New York, don't have the 13th floor : that informs so much about the influence of this religion on that country. Even in Iceland, men imagined themselves stronger than nature and start building large dams, in this country which used to be considered as the purest in Europe... Volta, it's a comic horror film : I dream in it that one day nature is going to revolt...I see it, walking heavily and noisily down the streets of New York, entering each building and handwriting a "13" in the lift shafts...It's been four thousand years since she's been asleep and was letting the others do what they want to do with her. But now, it's over : we need to admit that we are only a tribe, who has to live with the nature, has to forget its presumptions of civilization and cleanness. We are fundamentally pagans and we'll need to take that under our account.

This is what bjork.com is currently saying about presales:

god DAMN i love this woman.

dumb question - is 11am eastern time = 10am chicago time? cuz chicago is central mountain or something like that, right?

Anx said:

I'm freakin' too. We all need to get coordinated tonight.

This is what bjork.com is currently saying about presales:

GangstaFam said:

OOPS. I don't subscribe to bjork.com so no presale for me. There had better be seats left for the general sale two days later.

if i don't get bjork tickets today, i'm gonna go totally veruca salt on the entire world and jump around like donkey kong until i am sedated by the authorities.

Anx said:

eleven said:

the bangkok airport ain't seen nothin like me with no bjork tickets, dammit!