ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS UK tour August 2007
 

Good news for Ashtray Navigations fan(atic)s! They are embarking on their first ever proper tour of the UK. Hey! We will also have some tour T-shirts! and limited edition tour CDrs!
The complete dates are as follows:

AUGUST

10th : Glasgow, 13th Note,50-60 King St, Glasgow, G1 5QT - 0141 553 1638 w/Eye Shaking Kingdom, Ben Reynolds, Nalle
11th :Aberdeen, Tunnels 2, Carnegies Brae AB10 1BF w/Nackt Insecten +Opaque + Kitchen Cynics
12th : Edinburgh, Giant Tank :Henry's Cellar Bar, 8 Morrison Street Edinburgh EH3 8BJ 0131 228 9393 w/Nackt insecten, Ocelocelot, Usurper
13th: Newcastle U-T, with Culver and Jazzfinger, The Telegraph Orchard Street NE1 3NY
14th Nottingham, Mantile/Harbinger: Chameleon (Raffles) Gallery, w/Deepkiss 72o +tbc
15th: Brighton The Greenhouse Effect, just off Palmiera Square in Hove, with Jettatura and Family Battle Snake
16th: Kickin' Back
17th: Eastbourne The Gildredge (Pub) 11 Terminus Road, BN21 3QL w/Deepkiss 720 +tbc.
18th: Bristol, Cube Microplex, with Mark Durgan and very special guests tbc
19th London, Unluck Records:Gramophone, 60-62 Commercial St, Spitalfields, London, E1 6LT Nearest Tube Aldgate Eastw/A Band(!!!) Peter Wright, James Blackshaw £6 www.thegramaphone.co.uk

24th Leeds, Termite Club, venue tbc with el-g + dkan, Chora and Lanterns
25th Manchester, Golden LAb festival: Fuel cafe Withington: info and tickets www.myspace.com/goldenlabrecords
SEE YAS DOWN THE FRONT!



>Ashtray Navigations! "sub-aquatic synth bubble, busted-up
cassette-tape hiss and distorted electric guitar hover that sounds like a mythical god banished from the realm of light and trying desperately to clamber his/her way out of a dark bottomless void where time itself stands still." -James Blackshaw, Foxy Digitalis
>
>Ashtray Navigations! "Todd's mastery of everything even remotely in tune with psychedelia is here in its spangled, sprawlin' glory though he never shoots even so much as a backwards glance - Ashtray Navigations are pushing on into the 41st century and bucking "revivalism" so hard I got saddle sores" - Outer Space Gamelan
>
>Ashtray Navigations! "a trashcan antidote to LaMonte Young." - The Wire
>
>select discography-
>
>ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS USE COPENHAGEN 69 GUITARS AND PARK DRIVE CIRCULAR EFFECTS PEDALS EXCLUSIVELY (Siltbreeze LP 1996)
>FOUR RAGA MOODS (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers CD, 1997)
>UNIVERSAL INDIANS/ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS (American Tapes split CD, 1998)
>TRISTES TROPIQUES (Betley/Blackbean & Placenta CD, 1999)
>YOU CANNOT TELL CIGARS BY THE PICTURE ON THE BOX (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon CD, 2001)
>TO YOUR FUCKING FEATHER'D WINGS (Gold Soundz/Absurd CD, 2002)
>THE LOVE THAT WHIRRS (Last Visible Dog CD, 2004)
>FOUR MORE RAGA MOODS (Ikuisuus CD, 2006)
>A MONUMENT TO BRITISH ROCK (Memoirs of an Aesthete 2xCDR, 2006)
>FLUTE FALLING (VERTICALLY) (Spirit Of Orr CDR, 2006)
>THROW UP IN THE SKY WITH FINE CLINKING MAGNETS (Qbico LP, 2007)
>PISS VINEGAR SUNDAY (Revival CD, forthcoming)
_________________
ashtraynavigations"at" hotmail .com
www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations

Thank you! Great news.

taking shambolism on the road.

I'm crossing my fingers for a Cardiff date. If not, I may travel to one of the other dates. Bristol is closer but the London date sounds more interesting.

why dont you put them one on?

Well, I told my friend Carl about it the other day (he puts gigs on and that) and he was keen to do it. I gave him a gee-up email a couple of minutes ago. He was going to check available dates at a venue today so hopefully he'll arrange something...

great news. hope that it comes off.

It's now confirmed that the London gig will be at Gramophone near Liverpool Street Station, and Ashtray will be playing along side the newly resurrected A Band!! We think this might be the first time the A Band has ever played London, but I might be wrong!
However, we are working on a Cardiff gig also.

Thanks a lot. I'll be there.

I'll weigh in with the general tone of 'huzzah'. Doubly great is that I can actually WALK to go and see a VERY GOOD BAND rather than having to travel to smelly old London.

Ace. Is that with Carl/Forecast?

i will play at said date if no one else is etc.

Eastbourne??

Which date?

any i supoose.

Right, it looks like Friday 17th is Eastbourne now then. Bristol has kind of fallen through, but we're working to get it back on.

A Newcastle gig is also loking likely, maybe with Culver.

Oh, and Ashtray Navigations' new album of Nirvana covers will be released soon through Starbucks. Kidding!

Are you looking for gigs between the London and Manchester shows?

what! and i got all worked up for that one as well.

No, because Mr Todd is back at work then. just dates between 6th and 20th August(that aren't full already).

6th? The first post says from the 3rd.

No, definately the 6th, sorry. I was guessing because it didint seem important at the time.:o

Bring it on!

I might be able to shout at some Bristol promoters or do an incredibly inept job myself if you're in need of a hand. Also if you need a support group for said city (etc etc).

OK, another date confirmed- Newcastle, 13th August, with Culver and Jazzfinger

Still beavering away on this Bristol date- and Cardiff if it comes off- it would be tempting fate to say more!

I'm so excited about this, the daydreaming gigs fade into insignificance.

Alright, Bristol looks like being the 18th at the Cube
Microplex. More details soon.

unluck recs present

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS
Phil Todd's junkyard aesthetic focuses around an acute misinterpretation of Hindu Classical Music common to many teenage guitar-lashers of his deluded generation. Forthcoming double LP on Ecstatic Peace.

THE A BAND
Only the second live outing since 1994 for this legendary freak troupe whose fluid collective has played an important part on the UK experimental underground. Members include/d Neil Campbell, Stuart Keith (nee Walden), Richard Youngs, Simon Wickham-Smith, Jim Plaistow and many others

JAMES BLACKSHAW
Twelve string solo explorations from one of the most gifted followers of Robbie Basho around. Plenty of amazing recordings available on Important Records, Bo' Weavil and Tompkins Square.

PETER WRIGHT
Born in New Zealand, current London resident, Peter Wright has spent the past decade or more producing limited release recordings of drift-guitar space walks of mesmerising beauty.

at The Gramaphone, Commercial Street, E2 (near Liverpool Street tube)

Sunday August 19th
£6 - 8PM

FUUUUUUUUUCK. The A Band?

dirty, bloody, lucky, bastards.
that's all i've to say.

and i am playing with them in eastbourne.

are you serious or...

serious. ooohhhhh

haha, thats great man.

Nice one Jon! Has your cd been released yet?

very soon! there is a tape coming out soon on beyond repair, details to follow.

I managed to wangle my way to supporting them on the 18th and then it was pointed out that it's a very important birthday that night that I would be strung alive if I missed it, which basically means that not only am I not supporting the mighty Ashtray, I'm also not going to get to see them in my home town. How very, very rubbish.

That's well guff. If it's any consoloation, they aren't playing in Cardiff and I can't make the Bristol gig because I will be in Greenman festival which, although I'm sure will provide mucho fun, doesn't have the best lineup in the world.

Right, managed to finalise the whole shebang, took some time but we got there.
I only realised we're running up against Green Man last week. Nads. Well, anyone who hasn't got a ticket, come and commiserate with us in style.
I agree Iain, that the Green Man lineup looks a little- samey. There just isn't anything to get really worked up about, still, I'm sure there will be some moments to be had.
I hope some of you Bristolians will make it along to London if you can't get to the Cube..
It would be cruel to tell you, but I think the A Band might be playing the Bristol date too. Yipes!

And A Brighton/Hove date has been sorted out, at the Greenhouse Effect. See my original post for all the details.

Any Chance Of The Ashtrays Heading To That Little Speck Of Land West Of The Uk Called Ireland????? Just Wondering. Bands Tend To Forget About Us Paddies!

Argh...I'll miss the A Band! Bum! Oh well, it wasn't to be this time. The Greenman lineup isn't amazing but I am looking forward to a few things (Six Organs, Bill Callaghan) and it should be an ace time, especially if the rains hold off.