Godspeed You! Black Emperor new album ''Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!"!

[nostalgicbummer]

I got the chance to see them a few weeks ago and it was absolutely amazing, one of the best shows iv been to

the projectionist is off the chain!!!!

[Guest]

I saw them play two nights a couple weeks ago and I agree, it was fantastic and the projections are wonderful.

[jared]

Saw them play two night awhile back and totally agree. Also, forgot my ear plugs and I was right up front.

[drds89]

A FEW WORDS REGARDING THIS POLARIS PRIZE THING

hello kanada.

hello kanadian music-writers.

thanks for the nomination thanks for the prize- it feels nice to be acknowledged by the Troubled Motherland when we so often feel orphaned here. and much respect for all y’all who write about local bands, who blow that horn loudly- because that trumpeting is crucial and necessary and important.

and much respect to the freelancers especially, because freelancing is a hard fucking gig, and almost all of us are freelancers now, right? falling and scrambling and hustling through these difficult times?

so yes, we are grateful, and yes we are humble and we are shy to complain when we’ve been acknowledged thusly- BUT HOLY SHIT AND HOLY COW- we’ve been plowing our field on the margins of weird culture for almost 20 years now, and “this scene is pretty cool but what it really fucking needs is an awards show” is not a thought that’s ever crossed our minds.

3 quick bullet-points that almost anybody could agree on maybe=

-holding a gala during a time of austerity and normalized decline is a weird thing to do.

-organizing a gala just so musicians can compete against each other for a novelty-sized cheque doesn’t serve the cause of righteous music at all.

-asking the toyota motor company to help cover the tab for that gala, during a summer where the melting northern ice caps are live-streaming on the internet, IS FUCKING INSANE, and comes across as tone-deaf to the current horrifying malaise.

these are hard times for everybody. and musicians’ blues are pretty low on the list of things in need of urgent correction BUT AND BUT if the point of this prize and party is acknowledging music-labor performed in the name of something other than quick money, well then maybe the next celebration should happen in a cruddier hall, without the corporate banners and culture overlords. and maybe a party thusly is long overdue- it would be truly nice to enjoy that hang, somewhere sometime where the point wasn’t just lazy money patting itself on the back.

give the money to the kids let ‘em put on their own goddamn parties, give the money to the olds and let them try to write opuses in spite of, but let the muchmusic videostars fight it out in the inconsequential middle, without gov’t. culture-money in their pockets.

us we’re gonna use the money to try to set up a program so that prisoners in quebec have musical instruments if they need them…

amen and amen.

apologies for being such bores,

we love you so much / our country is fucked,

xoxoxox

godspeed you! black emperor

 

I'm 100% sure that they hired BBF3 to write the acceptance speech for this award.

[nostalgicbummer]

for those lucky enough to have gotten to see them play 2 nights in a row, were the set lists different between the 2 nights?

[agaetisbyrjun]

Did anything happen with that guy on Reddit who found the Godspeed tape?

 

This was his last post. His reddit account has since been deleted

 

Sample has been uploaded here:http://bayfiles.net/file/Wiiz/tZNQJO/Godspeed_-_Moncton_Blues_-_Dadmomdaddy.wav

 

*One last update for the time being. I may have been a bit of dick walking away from this yesterday. For all the people being rude there are a good portion of you who seem to understand the dilemma I find myself in (For that I am grateful) This is what I've done. I've spoken to a friend who I trust and he's agreed to sell the cassette on ebay for me. Before It comes to that though, I've also emailed Constellation records and explained how I came into possession of the cassette. I've also explained that there is a rabid fanbase that would like nothing more than for me to post my rip of the cassette. I've asked them for permission to do so. I will not auction off the tape or post a rip of it until I hear from them one way or another. Perhaps I should have just posted the thing for sale but I want to do right by my family, the band, and for some reason...you guys too. I don't imagine I will get a response from them on the weekend but I'm hoping to hear back from them soon. When I do, you guys will too.

[radiatorhums]

*One last update for the time being. I may have been a bit of dick walking away from this yesterday. For all the people being rude there are a good portion of you who seem to understand the dilemma I find myself in (For that I am grateful) This is what I've done. I've spoken to a friend who I trust and he's agreed to sell the cassette on ebay for me. Before It comes to that though, I've also emailed Constellation records and explained how I came into possession of the cassette. I've also explained that there is a rabid fanbase that would like nothing more than for me to post my rip of the cassette. I've asked them for permission to do so. I will not auction off the tape or post a rip of it until I hear from them one way or another. Perhaps I should have just posted the thing for sale but I want to do right by my family, the band, and for some reason...you guys too. I don't imagine I will get a response from them on the weekend but I'm hoping to hear back from them soon. When I do, you guys will too.

 

Man, I would have ripped that thing the second I physically could.  Considering how incredibly rare this thing is, there is no reason why it shouldn't be ripped and circulated.  The band won't be out any money because of it and I'm guessing if they planned on releasing these recordings to a wider audience, they most likely would have done so already.  I hope that wherever this does end up, it gets ripped.  For posterity!