jf wrote:Moebius wrote:jf wrote:Moebius wrote:Turbo Moe wrote:Helicoid wrote:i'm seriously considering pawning my Jupiter-6 to get a plane ride there. Would only be worth it if it was a live show. If its just a listening party I can wait for my vinyl. Not sure I want to risk it.
What has been the setting of previous listening parties? Have they been at normal venue locations? If so, the fact that this event is being held in a little known, remote location hints that it's something more than just a listening party.
I wish I had access to TSA records to see if a one Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin have recently crossed the US boarder.
Previous listening parties have all been in major cities, NYC, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, etc. There has been no official BoC event in any place even close to this remote before.
Yeah but Daft Punk recently had a launch party in Wee Waa, Australia. Not sure if BoC would like to pull off the same trick a couple weeks later.
http://pitchfork.com/news/50786-watch-d ... australia/
The Daft Punk event was officially announced and confirmed weeks before it happened and coincided with a fairly major event already scheduled to occur in the area. The nature of the event (as a listening party, not a live show) was well-described. It's apples and oranges.
I simply wanted to highlight the fact that a remote location listening session was achievable, pointing to a recent case. That's all.
Daft Punk is a major commercial act. Nobody was expecting anything obscure from them (oh yeah, they wear helmets...). They market their music as a commercial product. No wonder why the nature of their launch party was massively advertised.
For the past weeks, BoC did the exact opposite. They used cryptic messages and very underground PR (not even sure if we can call it that way) techniques. We do understand that, in the past, they never had listening parties in non-major cities. But this whole campaign is so unique that it's totally legitimate to expect anything that could be "outside of the box".
My original post was simply to answer Turbo's question and highlight that a listening party in a location like this would be unprecedented for BoC.
Could it happen? It could... I'm a bit concerned that they are playing with fire for this, though. It is dangerous to raise expectations by posting something like this without being more upfront about what's going to happen. I mean, they know there are fans willing to go to extreme lengths, so could potentially backfire if it's the event ends up not being what people are hoping for.
By contrast, Daft Punk played it safe by confirming clearly outlining what would be happening, so nobody would end up travelling a long distance (at possibly great expense) on false assumptions.
