Tuning The Air Special Event
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Oct 28, 2011
Next week's Tuning The Air concert in Seattle promises to be something special.

They write: Next Thursday's performance is going to be unique, even by Tuning the Air standards.

As you read this, the Tuning the Air team is sequestered at a little summer camp near Gig Harbor. We are on retreat, and joining us are 7 extremely gifted guitarists who have also been performing for several years in a weekly show, as well as touring extensively. This is their first visit to Seattle. On this retreat we are pooling our resources, sharing our repertoire and experiences, and discovering what we can come up with together that is entirely new.

Our guests will be joining us for this week's performance of Tuning the Air, and together we will be sharing with you the results of a very creative week. We don't yet know who will do what, or how the whole event will be orchestrated. But there will be at least 15 guitarists performing for you. Oboe? Mandolin? Violin!?

You'll just need to be here to find out. This is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime event!

And don't forget, the countdown is ON: only 6 more performances of Tuning the Air!


TUNING THE AIR with special guests
Thursday November 3, 2011
8pm, doors open at 7:45
Fremont Abbey Arts Center
4272 Fremont Ave N, Seattle
$10 at the door

Grooveshark Strikes Back!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Oct 27, 2011
Paul Geller of Grooveshark has given this interview where he talks about how his company prefers to do business. Really.

Problems With DGM Mail Order
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Oct 27, 2011
All orders for the 40th Anniversary of S&BB and Discipline have been shipped.  Due to manufacturing delays, the US release date was moved to the 25th of October.  We sent an email to each person who had pre-ordered either release stating that the ship dates were being moved to mid October, and it is has come to our attention that many customers did not receive this notification.  Our apologies for this and we wish to ensure you that we continue to improve our mass notification systems to ensure greater percentage of e-mails sent arrive to the recipient and are not lost as spam.  We are also responding to emails sent to mailorder@dgmlive.com as quickly as possible.  If your order has not arrived by Friday, October 28th, please let us know to this email address.

Frippertronics Bundle
:: Posted by David Singleton on Thu., Oct 27, 2011

The Frippertronics Tour Bundle is alive and well - and you really do get twelve shows not ten.

When the website was built, the "man with the specifications" (yes, I think that would be me) did not plan for two shows by the same artist on the same day (duh!), and so these multiple shows appear in mysterious ways. If you click forwards through the tour, you see the Evening Shows, and if you click backwards through the tour, you see the Afternoon Shows. Our very own version of a hidden track.

But if you buy the bundle, you definitely get all of them!

Frippertronics Tour Bundle Problem
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Oct 27, 2011
A number of folks have written in to point out that there are in fact 12 not 10 shows available in the bundle - clearly this Sod Smite character has cloth eyes as well as ears! Seriously though, there’s a coding glitch in the backend of the site which is making the or the afternoon and evening shows on August 1st and 2nd difficult to spot for folks.  Alex and Eric are working on putting that right. We note also that cover art is also missing for the afternoon show of August 1st and so Hugh will put that right. Thanks for your patience. Life was so much easier with just a guitar and two revoxes! 

Where RF Goes Others Follow?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Oct 26, 2011
My thanks to Tommyticklemouse for sending in this link to a story about the trend for artists to perform in churches. Pew rock 'n' roll!

Under The Influence...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Oct 25, 2011
Her name is Charlene Soraia and her debut album out next month is called Moonchild. According to this piece she cites Robert Fripp as one of her influences and, if you read on, she apparently experiences cyclothymic moods! 

Saluting King Crimson At The Crescent
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Oct 25, 2011
Check out this review of the 2OAPT turn in Phoenix. 

1981 Frippetronics Tour Bundle Available
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Oct 24, 2011
There are 10 Frippertronic gigs bundled together for just $45 Flac or $35 MP3. These consist of Fripp's residency at the Washington Square Church and Inroads, both in New York during 1981. The bundle starts on 27th July and ends with 7th August.

Bowness Blogs!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Oct 24, 2011
Tim Bowness offers his thoughts about the recent No-Man gig and the new Slow Electric album (amongst other subjects) over on his blog.