The Crimson Projekct Touring Australia

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Terrific show last night in Melbourne from the Crimson ProjeKCt! Over two hours of grooving noise, improvs and the best of Crimson! Adrian Belew's mangled guitar sound was in fine splintering form (and his vocals in excellent shape too), and the rest of the members like Pat Mastelloto and Tony Levin were a treat to watch. Six musicians offering a dynamic and intelligent alternative to brainless, shallow commercial music. I was also lucky enough to get Adrian and Tony to sign some of my Crimson albums! Terrific night, although it was the noisiest gig I've ever been to, my ears will be F'd for at least the next 24 hours - but totally worth it! Will try and post a setlist and some photos! UPDATE - Anyone not going because `There's no Robert Fripp' is missing out BIG-TIME. Dont let this opportunity pass you by, as Markus Reuter is a superb musician who more than holds his own, and was espeically impressive during the improv sections.

Terrific show last night in Melbourne from the Crimson ProjeKCt!

Over two hours of grooving noise, improvs and the best of Crimson! Adrian Belew's mangled guitar sound was in fine splintering form (and his vocals in excellent shape too), and the rest of the members like Pat Mastelloto and Tony Levin were a treat to watch. Six musicians offering a dynamic and intelligent alternative to brainless, shallow commercial music. I was also lucky enough to get Adrian and Tony to sign some of my Crimson albums!

Terrific night, although it was the noisiest gig I've ever been to, my ears will be F'd for at least the next 24 hours - but totally worth it!

Will try and post a setlist and some photos!

UPDATE - Anyone not going because `There's no Robert Fripp' is missing out BIG-TIME. Dont let this opportunity pass you by, as Markus Reuter is a superb musician who more than holds his own, and was espeically impressive during the improv sections.

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - June 26 2014 at 19:47

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Anyone else from Melbourne going to this on Thursday? I'm heading off with Archives member Stratcat, be cool to know there's other Archives regulars there as well!

Thanks for this info, Sagi! I've been a bit unwell lately, so I'm dreading the show a little just because I don't think I'm quite recovered enough.

My friend that I'm going with was asking what would be the best Crimson related discs to listen to in the lead up to it, could you perhaps suggest which material they mostly drew from?

Anyone else from Melbourne going to this on Thursday? I'm heading off with Archives member Stratcat, be cool to know there's other Archives regulars there as well!

Hi Brian

CryoftheCarrots wrote: Just maybe they could add a show in Adelaide to coincide with the Adelaide Guitar Festival. Now that would be awesome. Guthrie Govan and The Crimson ProjeKct in one festival..... please!

I have already pestered the promotor to do an Adelaide show and they point blank refuse.
See if you can persuate them that people in Adelaide do go to gigs, he reckons we don't.
Beats we why Womadelaide and the guitar festival seem to have audiences.
As did Return To Forever, Dream Theater, Tull etc etc.
Good luck mate

Actually maybe tickets weren't the main problem, at least not now- Oztix indicates Melbourne & Sydney are now sold out.

Edited by Kazza3 - January 03 2014 at 04:48

Update.

Bad news, fellow Melbournian and Australian Crimso freaks. Just got this message from a friend off Adrien Belew's Facebook:


"Breaking News! (look ma, I'm CNN!) the Crimson Project tour of Australia is being moved. most likely to June 2014. we're hoping this will result in more fans enjoying this rare opportunity and perhaps an additional date or two. we will announce the new tour dates soon. for all of you who already have tickets, we thank you very much and apologize for the wait, but your tickets will be honored of course. more on this soon."


Hmmmm....the line about `we're hoping this will result in more fans enjoying this rare opportunity' sounds to me like tickets barely sold, and that they're delaying in the hope more tickets sales will eventually tick over?