General Phoenix Area Shows

[amyzzz]

That's a Saturday.

[Douchey.McDouche.Douche.]

i know! i don't have to worry about waking up at 4 a.m for work the day after haha

[insbordnat]

About fucking time. Can you tell I'm bitter?!

[NachoCat]

the crystal method @ the monarch theatre.. july 13.

Nice!!

Got Tickets to Zeds Dead

Hard Summer (Saturday Only)

Plan on going to Crystal Method.


Gotta Love summer!

[Mr. Dylanja]

I'll go to Crystal Method if it's a live set.

Per PC2-Violence's orders, I went to Monarch on Saturday to see Nick Warren and Herman Cattaneo do a b2b set, was anybody else there?

[NachoCat]

I still have not been to Monarch. How is it? How was the show?

[Mr. Dylanja]

I dug it, sound is pretty solid, the bass definitely thumps.

The set was fucking great. I'm not even sure what genre these dj's are, but to me it sound like a mix of progressive, and club bangers. They had some fucking jams, but they didn't bring it all the way down to some melodic/trancey/singing bullshit in between the bangers. They kept a solid groove going throughout the duration of their set. I had a great time. And I was half offended and half flattered by how drunk the female bartender tried to get me. Heavy pours, and she interpreted my last call, "water" as a "one more." Oy.

[NachoCat]

Ha! Awesome. With the CM show being on a Saturday I am definitely going to make it out there even if it is a DJ set. Always been a fan.

[westcoastpirate]

Who is going to the Presets tomorrow night?

[Somewhat Damaged]

Jen's gotta work & I'm travelling out to Georgia for my job. Neither event was planned when the show was announced so I'm glad I didn't buy tickets when I had the compulsion to. :-/

[Vic Viper]

Who is going to the Presets tomorrow night?

i'll be there with the five other people who bought tickets. there's like zero buzz around this show; they haven't even been tweeting about it (as opposed to almost all their other dates).

[westcoastpirate]

I'm meeting my buddy at the Presets, but I don't think he is showing until after 9:30pm if he even shows at all. I may be flying solo for this one, which I haven't done in a long time for a show.

[westcoastpirate]

Oh and James Blake on 10/25/13 at Crescent Ballroom.

[nyarlathotoats]

james blake on a friday will be soo good. I'm hoping the tickets won't be too pricey

[Mr. Dylanja]

How much are Presets tix?

[westcoastpirate]

Looks like $33 day of.

[Mr. Dylanja]

Attendance: 100 people +/- ?

[westcoastpirate]

Attendance: 100 people +/- ?

I'm saying +.

[Vic Viper]

guy in line said security quoted about 200 tickets sold. so....light crowd.

[Mr. Dylanja]

Tell me about the Presets, how was it?

[amyzzz]

Oh you missed it. (I didn't go either, lol)

[Mr. Dylanja]

Too buzy getting laid, zzizzy?

[amyzzz]

Well yeah.

[Mr. Dylanja]

MEOWZA

[westcoastpirate]

There weren't that many people there, but everyone was dancing. The crowd was so loose that mid way through the Presets set I walked between the crowd and was 1 person back from the rail without even touching anyone and still had a couple feet of space around me to groove. They played a lot of songs off their new album, Pacifica, and played all the songs I wanted to hear off of Apocalypso. It was really fun, and I had a great time especially with the space to get down and everyone around me getting down.

The area at Marquee between the bar and the venue where they used to sell merch wide open now so that's kind of cool...but the bathrooms were under construction and all they had were 4 portopotties out front for the whole crowd, so it smelled horrible outside as you walked into the Marquee.

[Mr. Dylanja]

Dang, did they knock the whole wall down, or just remove the merch area to open it up a little bit?

[amyzzz]

Eww portapotties. When I saw Phoenix there, they had merch off to the left as you enter.

[Somewhat Damaged]

They knocked the whole wall down. And Dylan, you missed out -- I had 2 free tickets and put one up on Facebook. Even mentioned you in the thread.

I'm so glad I went last night. I thought today was going to be hell at work (surprisingly & happily wrong on that front) and that I was going to need a good night's rest. Didn't happen, got like 4.5 hours of sleep, but they were just so goddamn awesome I couldn't tear myself away. It's too bad the show was on a Monday because the crowd would have been even more off the hook had it been on the weekend. (Although maybe that's why the crowd was so awesome, because it was the people committed to actually seeing them instead of just looking for something to do on a Friday/Saturday night.) The only demerits would be for a couple of songs that were really stupid, which I was unfamiliar with & thus must be from their new album.

Dragonette were surprisingly decent, too, although I think they could've cut their set short by at least 2 songs. Started getting old after a while.

[Mr. Dylanja]

You're lying. I just checked, and I don't have any notifications.

Anyway, I'm glad you had fun, and that's pretty fucking awesomet that they knocked the wall down.

[JustSteve]

the crystal method @ the monarch theatre.. july 13.

Nope.

"IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Brain surgery leads THE CRYSTAL METHOD to announce that they are delaying the release of their fifth studio album.

Per doctor’s orders following recent brain surgery, Scott Kirkland will remain under home medical treatment. As a result the release of the bands upcoming studio album has been delayed and their summer tour dates have been postponed or cancelled.

Scott Kirkland has prepared the following statement regarding his current medical situation and future plans:

"Many months ago I started experiencing short, but painful headaches. Thinking they were related to too many flights (or one too many flights of tequila), I didn’t think too much about it, but during my annual checkup I mentioned the headaches to my doctor. She recommended a brain MRI. Scary, but No big deal, right???

Well, thankfully no tumors, but the MRI did find something called a ‘benign posterior fossa arachnoid cyst,’ which normally would be left alone and monitored with future MRIs. That diagnosis worked for me because Ken and I were busy putting the finishing touches on our self-titled studio album that would be followed up by a big summer tour.

I was referred to the very talented University of Southern California brain surgeon Dr. Chen, who evaluated the diagnosis and explained that complications with my cyst could arise due to my tendency to get a little excited on stage. He recommended surgery.

A date was set for extraction of said cyst and on April 11, 2013, I was given a dose of the ‘good stuff.’ A few hours later I came to with a well-sutured hole four-and-a-half inches long in the back of my head and a pain that was only appeased by a round of pharmies. After a few days in the hospital, I got to go home and a week later I felt good enough to join Ken in the studio for a couple of hours on two consecutive days. Some of you might have seen the picture on our Facebook page.

Just when I thought I was on the mend, I contracted an infection and, due to complications, I ended up back in the hospital where I spent most of my next 10 days in ICU dealing with a painful lumbar spinal drain, aka a ‘Spinal Tap.’

Pain that seemed to be set on 11 held me hostage for the first 24 hours. The line from the movie Spinal Tap—"Given the history of Spinal Tap drummers, uh, in the past, do you have any fears, uh, for your life?"—made me laugh a few times, but all in all it was not fun.

Finally, this past week I got home to my wonderful family and a healthy supply of antibiotics that automatically dose me every four hours intravenously, and will continue to do so for the next few weeks.

I'm itching to get back in the studio and finish mixing the last two tracks for what is an amazing record with Ken, but I recognize my need to rest until I get the thumbs up for a return to work from Dr. Chen.

I can’t tell you how frustrating it is for me that my health has made us postpone the release of the new record and cancel a summer full of amazing shows. But I am fully intending to be back in the studio in a couple of weeks with Ken, and our agents are starting to work on putting together new shows for the fall.

Love you all and Keep Hope Alive,
Scott"