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Animal Collective tour datesleaked

When hype heroes Animal Collective were announced on the line-up for Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival in July, our fingers and toes were crossed for a Splendour In The Grass appearance. Sadly, it was not to be and the four-piece was enshrined in our 25 Most Wanted Tours.

Now it transpires there could be a chance we’ll see the masters of psychadelia at a much more intimate affair, Victoria’s Meredith Music Festival in December. A reputable (our Boston Uni intern tells us so) American website called Jam Base has posted four Animal Collective Australian tour dates out of the blue – Meredith, plus three sideshows.

It’d be quite a coup to see the band down under again, after the runaway success of most recent album Merriweather Post Pavilion ensured they have been touring without pause. Stay tuned to FasterLouder for further updates. In the meantime, get re-acquainted with our Animal Collective interview from February and the Merriweather Post Pavilion review.

Animal Collective leaked tour dates, according to jambase.com.

10 Dec – Tivoli, Brisbane
11 Dec – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
12 Dec – Meredith Music Festival
17 Dec – Capitol, Perth

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bhutos

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009



This could be a joke. On the chance it isn't, you're completely wrong. Unlike the others here I'm not really a participant enough to care about individual posters in that way although there are couple of people I respect mainly from individual posts. I've seen MAB cop shit from the others which is how I know about the journalism but I didn't know why he was copping shit, don't care and this is probably the first entanglement we've had. I just have this annoying trait of arguing with the person who's started an argument with me. I know it's funny to respond to direct communication but thats just the way I roll. I would have said the exact same thing to anyone who replied to me in the manner he did. As an unrepentant and single minded cunt, I'd like it pointed out where I haven't argued like a pitbull with lockjaw on any irrelevant point put to me by anyone. I'm here for sport inbetween work, not to be liked.



Everyone here? Really? Seriously?


I said most everyone. This is a self selective group of music interested people who have sought out an online music based forum. If I had to choose a group of people for a band awareness quiz outside of their respective fan forums this would be close to the top. AC has been on Rage for 5+ years which music interested people should have come across, AC has been on Pitchfork for longer, which is a gauge of web popularity, AC has been on JJJ for that period, AC has been in Rolling Stone etc. I'm not going to say you can't be into music if you don'nt listen to the radio, watch music tv, read music blogs or read music magazines, but if I had to bust out the venn diagrams there would be multiple overlaps with the FL crew. "Most everyone here would be aware of them"... I didn't exactly set a high bar as though they had to be walking wikipedia entries and I didn't say everyone. Of course there are some noobs or 15 year old festival blow ins but the statement itself is also somewhat self selective, it assumes an active interest in music for at least half a decade. As far as I'm concered, once you're in the ABC mix of Rage and JJJ, most music interested people are going to be aware of you, even if it's just "oh those guys with that shouty song and green film clip". It's a certain level of penetration that should reach most people here even if like me you don't really listen to JJJ etc. it means they should be on your radar in whatever media you do consume unless you're really heavily specialised in your taste, ie metal magazines, blogs etc which would put you in the "not most everyone category".

bhutos

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Lunchtime philosophy ftw.
The main problem with your argument is that you assume that "most everyone" thinks like you and has known about them for so long.

I've been a dedicated rage watcher since I was thirteen and never noticed Animal Collective until the video of "Peacebone".

Again, never noticed until about 2007 (been listening to Triple J since I was twelve, have had a subscription to Rolling Stone for three years now). Sure, I'm just one person, but there are a fuckload of different people and different tastes here. You can't just lump it all in with "the FL crew".

Don't get so offended that a lot of people are paying attention now as opposed to before.

My lunchtime is over and I have to get back to it now, which is a shame as this post is juicy, you say I make assumptions based on people thinking like me as opposed just referencing the reality of how most music interested people consume music interest media and how AC has featured in that media and then go on to validate my assumptions. How exactly is you watching Rage, listening to JJJ and reading RS against my argument that most people here have exposure to those kinds of media? Secondly you're the one arguing from personal perception, as we've recently discussed, your comprehension isn't the highest. It's not exactly a revelation that AC has been featured in all those media types for the last 5 years and you just haven't noticed it. "Grass" was on high rotation on Rage in '05. I don't know how old you are and can't check atm so maybe that's before you started your dedication.

I don't in anyway expect everyone to know of every band that gets mentioned.. There is heaps of shit that falls through the cracks, I'm sure I've come across bands and forgotten them 5 minutes later.. I've had many embarrassing situations where i go "OH THIS SONG!" however the crew here are pretty damn onto it, plenty of times I feel completely out of the loop in comparison.. being aware of a band that has had every album in Pitchfork's toplists is LAMER knowledge in comparison to some of the knowledge around here.. it's fucking Pitchfork for god's sakes.

What makes you think i'm offended? I think it's great. I hate tards that get precious when their band gets popular. The latest flavors they use coincide a little more with what is popular at the moment. That's a good thing, it means they bother coming out here to tour. The only thing that offends me is a malformed understanding of the english language. Call them popular, call them trendy, say they've gone mainstream.. say they're on an ever higher crest of hype from a wave of hype that is half a decade old... Hype by itself however, especially in an article intended for music interested people on the net doesn't really fit their situation. FL isn't Video Hits.

bhutos

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009



I've already stated this. This is useless repetition. It's not a question of individual cases but probabilities based on the weight of the variables involved.

I'm eighteen. I was definitely watching rage in 2005.
I'm watching the video right now and I have no recollection of it. I won't dispute it was on high rotation, but this furthers my point that I can't keep tabs on everything.

I've already implied you didn't recall it.



You are going to make me break out the venn diagrams aren't you. If you're going to guess my arguments, could you try to imagine for a minute that you're half clever and use one of those arguments in my tongue instead of a retarded one. tx.

The argument here.. and please. try to follow this.. is that people here are particularly musically aware.. ok? Now onto the tricky part.. These musically aware people, posting on a forum called "all about the music" who spend their time dumping shit on kids in the festival forums, are statistically very likely to be aware of a band that came second to Funeral in '04 on a site that is so big it's uncool, has been on JJJ and Rage for half a decade etc etc etc. I'd like to say there's more.. but thats pretty much it really in relation to that point I don't know why you haven't been able to wrap your noodle around that.



You know, I ask myself this very same question in the mirror every night while jerking off, but it's not because I don't know personally, it's in third person because my penis has low self esteem.




If I were you I'd start second guessing your comprehension. Offended at the misuse of the word, maybe. Did I not make that clear? Just wait.. want me to repost my first argument now that you seem to be about to put two and two together?


So you were just looking for an excuse to whinge about the demographic?
Jesus Christ.

As tempted as I am to put a stupid explanation in your mouth, I might actually ask what you're talking about here as it might be amusing to me. There are two demographics in that snippet. FL readers and Video Hits watchers. I'm clearly giving FL a compliment by implying they're all musically aware and not "Video Hits watchers". Several pages of discussion have been spent on one line of me saying "most everyone here" would have been aware of AC, which I obviously think is a good thing, with two people arguing I'm giving the forum too much credit in their music nerdness. So it can't be that. The alternative is that I've written 5 pages of vapid tenaciousness in the hope that at the end i'd be able to get a barb in about Video Hits watchers. More angles.. demographics mentioned.. AC fans, AC haters, music media consumers.. festival blow ins... 15 year olds.. Hmm.. I haven't whinged about any of them... just wait.. let us look at what you're replying to:

"The only thing that offends me is a malformed understanding of the english language. Call them popular, call them trendy, say they've gone mainstream.. say they're on an ever higher crest of hype from a wave of hype that is half a decade old... Hype by itself however, especially in an article intended for music interested people on the net doesn't really fit their situation."

lets juxtapose for a second with my initial statement:

"There is also a difference between hype, which is mostly defined as a questionable and deceptive promotion of an unknown quantity or the over promotion of a new entity. I'm not arguing they're not more popular than a couple of years ago, fuck, call them trendy to like, but hype however is a pejorative word in the main and is not very applicable here unless you mention it's the end bit of at least half a decade of hype and overwhelmingly backed up by a similar length of critical acclaim."

HOLY FUCK - I think I almost understand! It's almost as though i've said the exact same thing for two pages! But.. and this troubles me, not only do you still fail to understand what I thought was a very simple issue, but you take my DIRECT explanation "The only thing that offends me is a malformed understanding of the english language" and still fail to understand... You are taking me far beyond C&C Music Factory territory here, let me fetch a compass magnetic to true retard and i'll be back.