Fiery Furnaces To Open For of Montreal !!! Goodies Below

So who couldn't be more excited about the upcoming Skeletal Lamping tour? Us! All of us, we hope, especially those who live in or around Florida, as BP has dropped on us perhaps one of the happiest surprises so far, in the Townhall thread about Fiery Furnaces:

guess who's opening for us in florida?
but only as a two piece....

:-O The Fiery Furnaces could perhaps be the finest group to ever open for of Montreal. Strong words, we know, and strong music - not always easy to digest, from what we've heard from a couple of you. This is a band like of Montreal that often takes at least a few repeated listens to "get" the song and it's insane structure. And even more than of Montreal, Fiery Furnaces, when performing live, take their recorded songs and stretch them any which way but loose, and this two-piece lineup of brother Matthew and sister Eleanor should prove to be an interesting show.

Starting with this post, we're going to highlight the bands opening up for of Montreal on this tour, to help you "learn" them, too, and maybe appreciate a little more what you're going to see live. And for the special treat of the band including the Fiery Furnaces (oh, please do a communal jam at the end, and extend the siblings duty beyond Florida), we're going to give you a special treat, and hopefully a bit more insight into this mysterious band.

These first two tracks come from the Fiery Furnaces' debut album Gallowsbird's Bark, a much more straight-ahead affair than the rest of their catalog:

Fiery Furnaces "Inca Rag/Name Game"

Fiery Furnaces "Crystal Clear"

And here's one from their most recent release on Thrill Jockey, the ambitious double live album Remember, which takes (varying sound quality) recordings and cuts from various FF shows and lineups and mashes them into the approximation of many of the best moments of a live Fiery Furnaces show:

Fiery Furnaces "Single Again" (live)

And here's a special rare treat for you: an incredible quality soundboard/audience matrix bootleg, recorded and mastered by wolfattack (thank you whoever you are), from the Fiery Furnaces last appearance in Austin, October of last year. Here's a couple of samples, and then the entire show for you to download:

Fiery Furnaces "Ex-Guru" (2007/10/27)

Fiery Furnaces "My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found" (2007/10/27)


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DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE CONCERT:
FIERY FURNACES - 2007/10/27, Austin, TX, Emo's


01 Inc a Rag/Name Game
02 Birdie Brain
03 Navy Nurse
04 Duplexes Of The Dead
05 Automatic Husband
06 Ex-Guru
07 Straight Street
08 My Egyptian Grammar
09 Evergreen
10 Black-Hearted Boy
11 Bitter Tea
12 Japanese Slippers
13 Widow City
14 Restorative Beer
15 The Garfield El / Candymakers Knife In My Handbag
16 Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Second Street
17 Seven Silver Curses
18 Slavin' Away
19 The Philadelphia Grand Jury
20 Clear Signal From Cairo

21 Encore
22 Blueberry Boat
23 My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found
24 Tropical Ice-Land

Insound has all of the Fiery Furnaces albums, but always check the individual labels and buy from them when it's possible and cheaper and if you want Blueberry Boat, that is the one album available direct from the band, just click "Store" on the FF site

Id Engager/Alter Eagle single

You can hear a short preview of Alter Eagle on amazon.com (thanks garyw)

Laser Light Listening Party In Seattle

of Montreal continues its string of pre-release "listening parties" for Skeletal Lamping, but the latest one takes it, to paraphrase MadTV, to a whole... nutha.... level. BP shared the press release at the Townhall:

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PRESS RELEASE

of Montreal’s Skeletal Lamping Laser Listening Session
Friday, September 12th @ 9:15pm sharp

ALL AGES * Tickets $8
Seattle Laser Dome @ Pacific Science Center
200 2nd Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 443-2850

http://www.seattlelaserdome.com
http://www.myspace.com/seattlelaserdome

Be the first hear of Montreal's brand new masterpiece in its entirety before anyone else... set to LASERS! (ha!)

Band will not be in attendance.

Tickets on sale now here (link)

Special thanks to our sponsors:
230 Publicity, Polyvinyl Records, Easy Street, The Stranger.com, Three Imaginary Girls, and The Vera Project.

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Off Festival Download

In case you missed it at the townhall, of Montreal's performance in Poland at the OFF Festival (8/8) is available for download, not bad quality, vocals out front, lots of energy and a "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal". Huge thanks to Sweet And Tender Hooligan for the download!

DOWNLOAD OF MONTREAL @ OFF FESTIVAL 8/8/08


Suffer For Fashion /Sink the Seine /Cato As a Pun /I Was Never Young /So Begins Our Alabee /Gronlandic Edit /An Eluardian Instance /She's a Rejector /We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leafing /Oslo in the Summertime /October is Eternal /The Past is a Grotesque Animal /Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse /The Party's Crashing Us

RIP Arlene

thanks to graham, for the photo

At yesterday's of Montreal show at the Field Day Festival, after a set-ending performance of "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal", Kevin smashed his longtime guitar Arlene to bits. Thanks to new user Jasmus for the heads up in this thread. Perhaps it's an exclamation mark on his statement in the YANP interview about never playing the pre-Satanic material again, a definitive break from the past. In that YANP interview, Matt from YANP asked Kevin about Arlene:

So I wanted to ask you about Arlene… [Kevin’s guitar has “Arlene” scratched into it]

I was living in Minneapolis. When I got out of high school, I moved around a lot trying to find people to play with and I’d heard Minneapolis had a scene. I just happened upon this used guitar shop and I got Arlene there really cheap. And it’s a great guitar.

I don’t know the story behind the etching. It was there when I got it and the guy at the store didn’t know either. I mean, imagine just some weird dude, maybe some metalhead dude just like “this is for you, babe…” No one has ever come up to me and been like “man, that was my old guitar!” but maybe one day. [Laughs]

It's even funnier now - that metalhead's old guitar an even bigger part of of Montreal (and modern music) lore. But still sad in a way, as this wasn't any old guitar, but that's what makes the smashing a more powerful statement and less a Towshend throwback tribute. RIP Arlene, you made some damn fine music.