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I wish I can bring back all those people who made this board worth coming to! :/ Edit: ^Nope, definitely not, I've got the best friends in the world to cover for that! :smiley: Why did you decide to come to this forum?

oh it's ONN!! :shocked2:

:D Hope it starts between the 2 of you, now! *does the same as Rolle and brings the popcorn*

Trying to make this board alive again! :smug: (yea, right.. like that will ever happen! :rolleyes:)

:laugh3::laugh3: Shouldn't you be included in this alleged fight, since you've started all this from the first place? :wink3::P

:lol: Naah, just messing with ya! :angel:

ohh! and what a moment it was! :nice: :P

@Rolle: haha.. Well, I surely second that! :D EDIT: ^ ohhh, too bad! :(

It really is.. :(

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Nope, can't see them Mo! :/

Haha, well yes, indeed! :D But you have to know, that I wanted to watch it for quiet sometime and couldn't find it in the DVD store and so I was very glad to know that Dubai were showing it! :cool: Oh and Die Hard, was crazzzy! some of the action sequences were so jaw-dropping! :shocked2:

Alright, well it may quite take a little while.. but as soon it's finished I will PM it to you :wink:

I could upload it for you, if you want :)

The Royal Tenenbaums - 10/10 Excellent, Excellent movie! Great cast and performances as well as the story is just superb! loved it! :nice:

^ No, I actually was talking about the new Elephant Gun EP, with the songs "Elephant Gun" , "Transatlantique" and "Le Moribond / My Family’s Role In The World Revolution" ;)

But there is already a cover of that song, it's featured in Elephant Gun EP oh and how was Jacques Brel's music? It's a really good idea btw, I may do the same thing too hehe..

^ Oh wow, Carole! long time no see.. hope everything is going fine with you :nice: I have to admit, all this excitement and great reviews about the movie are making me want to watch it more than ever... and I will, soon! :D

OCTOBER 9!!!!!! can't waitttt :dance:

Beirut Announce Album Release Date, Tracklist, Tour Photo by Danelle Manthay Before we even had a chance to miss them, Beirut are back with their second album, the one Zach Condon discussed at length in a Pitchfork interview last month. Although Condon suggested LP2 would bear the name The Flying Club Cup, the official title has not yet been announced-- but we do have some tasty tidbits to tide you over until that time. Indeed, it's a tracklist, and holy Moses, a release date. The former, complete with a track #0 (whatever the hell that means-- maybe you have to hit the "rewind" button on your CD player past 0:00 on the first track?), can be yours to cherish and share just after the jump. Calendars ready? The latter is October 9, a day that will go down in infamy as the day a little band that could called Beirut dropped their second album (via Ba Da Bing!). The new album was mixed and mastered by Griffin Rodriguez (of Icy Demons and Bablicon) and features string arrangements and guest vocals from Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett. It includes many of the act's first tunes laid to tape since Beirut evolved from boy-in-bedroom (as on last year's smash Gulag Orkestar) to boy-with-bodacious- band-at-his-disposal (as on this year's Lon Gisland EP). Just don't expect Beirut's beloved Balkanisms on this one. As Condon told us last month, "I was listening to a lot of Jacques Brel and French chanson music-- pop songs shrouded in big, glorious, over-the-top arrangements and all this drama...very much throwing myself in the world of classical pop music" while writing and recording the latest LP. And in fact, a Brel cover turns up on the flip of the latest Beirut single, "Elephant Gun", which the 4AD crew fires off in the UK on June 25. Catch Beirut across Europe this summer, and back in North America for a couple week's worth of dates this fall-- with the exquisite Colleen opening. Tracklist: 00 A Call to Arms 01 Nantes 02 A Sunday Smile 03 Guyamas Sonora 04 La Banlieu 05 Cliquot 06 The Penalty 07 Forks and Knives (La Fête) 08 In the Mausoleum 09 Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route) 10 Cherbourg 11 St. Apollonia 12 The Flying Club Cup

Beirut's Condon Talks New LP ("The Flying Club Cup"), Obsession, Exhaustion From Pitchfork: Forget the 1,000 words. For Beirut wunderkind Zach Condon, a picture can contain an entire album. Take the yellowed snapshot that graces the cover of Beirut's 2006 breakout debut, Gulag Orkestar, in which a pair of young women recline, perhaps mid-roadtrip, on the hood of a car parked on the side of a rural byway. (It was taken, as Condon later learned, by Russian photographer Sergey Chilikov.) "I found that photo, and I took it home with me," Zach told Pitchfork recently. "It was hanging on the wall the entire time [i wrote and recorded Gulag], and I always kind of felt like, 'It's got to sound like that. It's got to sound the way that looks.'" As Condon prepares to put the finishing touches on the Gulag follow-up-- which is about to receive string treatment in Montreal from arranger-of-the-moment Owen Pallett (of Final Fantasy and Arcade Fire) and mixing/mastering in Chicago from Griffin Rodriguez (aka Blue Hawaii of Icy Demons and Bablicon)-- it turns out a visual from a bygone era once again provided inspiration. "I'm thinking about calling [the new album] The Flying Club Cup," Zach revealed. "Back in the early 1900s, like the 1910s or 1920s, there used to be this hot air balloon festival in Paris-- it's titled after that and after this very bizarre 1910 photo I found [by Leon Gimpel]. It's one of the first color photos ever made, at the World's Fair, and it...shows all these ancient hot air balloons about to take off in the middle of Paris. I just thought it was the most surreal image I'd seen in a long time. "Immediately it was like, 'this needs to be the album cover for the next album,' Zach continued. "So it's been hanging on my wall in front of the computer for the whole record. There's a lot you can take from a weird image like that." Appropriately, the Gimpel photograph helped conjure musical ideas that are decidedly less Balkan than Beirut's previous output. Indeed, The Flying Club Cup-- which Zach hopes to have out in September via Ba Da Bing in the U.S. and 4AD overseas-- doesn't sound Balkan at all. "I think [people]'ll laugh if anyone says that about this album," said Condon. For the new album, Zach has gravitated to the sound of lushly-orchestrated baroque pop. "It's a new obsession every year, a new obsession overcomes me and that's all I can do. " "I was listening to a lot of Jacques Brel and French chanson music-- pop songs shrouded in big, glorious, over-the-top arrangements and all this drama-- and that was in some sense unfamiliar territory to me. So I started buying new instruments and relying on things I wasn't necessarily comfortable with, like French horns and euphoniums, carrying these big, epic big brass parts that I used to do all on trumpets, and working with accordion and organ instead of all ukulele-- very much throwing myself in the world of classical pop music, I guess you could say." Condon also noted the influence of newfound musician friends, including A Hawk and a Hacksaw's Jeremy Barnes (who plays on Gulag) and Heather Trost. And he's thrilled to have Owen Pallett aboard. "I've never worked with a musician that amazing at arranging before," Zach enthused. "Just five seconds and he's got this orchestra coming out of four violins." Among Condon's Flying Club Cup favorites is "A Sunday Smile", "this organ grinder sounding song that I did on this ancient, half-broken Farfisa organ in New Mexico. Half of the keys work, half of them don't, so I had to write the songs around the broken keys, but...I'm in love with the sound." Another favorite, "Guaymas Sonora", includes "a drastic drum change in the middle of the song that builds into something quite epic." While Flying Club is shaping up to be quite a treat musically, Condon hasn't slacked on vocals or lyrics. The singer, who once called his evocative croons on Gulag Orkestar "happy accidents," has noticed improvement. "I'm finding that my voice is developing a little bit more, and I have a feeling that might have come from singing so much on tour, using my voice so much. I mean, I've never taken a vocal lesson in my life, so I really was just playing by ear. "I'm still pretty strict about trying to get the first take right. The only thing I tend to mess up on is the lyrics, so if I get the lyrics right, I keep the first take, because no matter how many times you do it, nothing's as good as the first take vocally. Especially when the song is still so fresh and exciting to you." Those lyrics will once again find Condon exploring places and feelings from times long since past, times he's only able to experience through stories and photographs. "The entire idea behind a lot of these songs and many of the stories that may come behind them is really just trying to completely throw yourself into another world. I don't know why it is that I do that, and I don't know why it is that that's so attractive to me to hear songs like that, but you scan through my iTunes, it's all old, nostalgic music; it all comes from this other era and this other time, and it's an obsession of mine. That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. There's no reason for it, other than that's how it seems to work." After two more nights in New York, Beirut breaks for a bit before a relatively light summer festival schedule the includes stops at Glastonbury, Roskilde, and Primavera Sound. In general, Condon hopes to rest up a bit-- one album into his career and he's already had to cancel part of a tour (last fall) after exhaustion landed him in a Paris hospital. "It felt like my body was falling apart while I was completely out of control of it," he said, describing last fall's incident. "I remember there were some hilarious things-- in hindsight. I mean, at the time it was the scariest things imaginable: I couldn't see moving cars, my cellphone was ringing in my ears 24/7 even though I'd left it back in New York before I even went to Europe. All these strange things were happening-- it was almost like a psychedelic trip into the unknown. "I was in Europe and I didn't know where I was. I think I walked on stage in Dublin saying, "Hello, Cleveland" or something! It was absolute insanity." Condon's not the only young performer to suffer exhaustion of late-- both Lily Allen and Lady Sovereign, among others, canceled dates recently for the same reason. "It feels like the indie world-- if you can call it that-- has changed so drastically over the past five years," Condon mused. "We're throwing these people that are used to playing grungy little clubs in Williamsburg or wherever their home town is, and all of a sudden [they're] treated like rock stars and being traveled around the entire globe and the most grueling schedules. I mean, these are schedules that the Backstreet Boys used to be doing! Not kids that recorded records in their bedroom...I feel like everybody in my position is all of a sudden feeling quite overwhelmed by the fact that, well hell, this is all blowing up in our face. "And you can't complain about that, because that's exactly what we wanted, but it sure as hell is hard to wrap your head around." Overwhelmed or not, Condon's prepared for the Flying Club Cup aftermath, which will likely vault Beirut even further into the indie spotlight. "This will be a situation that is, once again, entirely new to me," he offered. "So all I can really do is shorten the tours, sleep a little more, drink a little less, try to treat myself like a 40-year-old, instead of...you know."

Happy 18th birthday Josh! :D hope you have a great one!

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