iVARDENSPHERE TO PLAY SHOWS WITH FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, TOUR WITH COMBICHRIST, REL

[pyradraculea]

From Synthetic Entertainment:

iVARDENSPHERE TO PLAY SHOWS WITH FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, TOUR WITH COMBICHRIST, RELEASE NEW ALBUM

Synthetic Sounds is happy to announce that Noise EBM up-and-comers iVardensphere will be hitting the road opening up for club industrial monsters Combichrist and Aesthetic Perfection for the MONSTERS ON TOUR, blazing a trail across North America this November. Joining iVardensphere, Aesthetic Perfection and Combichrist on the tour for select dates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle will be God Module.

The running order on the tour will be iVardensphere - [God Module where applicable] - Aesthetic Perfection - Combichrist.

After a killer well-received set at this year's Kinetik Festival in Montreal, a couple of special appearances with 16Volt and Chemlab on their MIDI Ghetto Tour, various remixing successes and a recent jaunt across North America with Iszoloscope and Ad·ver·sary, iVardensphere was hand-picked to open up for Front Line Assembly this September 10th and 11th in Edmonton and Calgary. These will be Front Line Assembly's first North American shows in more than 3 years.

Speaking of hand-picked, iVardensphere was asked by Combichrist's Andy LaPlegua to open their November North American tour. Also on the tour is Aesthetic Perfection lead by Daniel Graves.

And if all that weren't enough, Scott Fox is currently hard at work at Noise Haus Studio on iVardensphere's second full-length album. The Synthetic Sounds release will coincide with the start of the Combichrist tour.

For more information, email mark@syntheticentertainment.com and for interview or other press requests, contact pyra@syntheticentertainment.com


MONSTERS ON TOUR DATES:

November 3rd - New Orleans, LA - Howlin' Wolf
November 4th - Austin, TX - Elysium
November 6th - Scottsdale, AZ - Venue of Scottsdale
November 7th - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Ford Theater
November 8th - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
November 10th - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
November 11th - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
November 13th - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
November 15th - Minneapolis, MN - The Cabooze
November 16th - Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge
November 17th - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
November 18th - Montreal, QC - Le National
November 19th - Hartford, CT - Webster Theatre
November 20th - New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre
November 21st - Philadelphia, PA - Polaris
November 22nd - Washington, DC - Fur Nightclub
November 24th - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade

[faelaenx]

Damn, why does Detroit get skipped so often =/

[Drewthetexan]

Damn, why does Detroit get skipped so often =/

I hear you.  I've gotta drive 3 hours to see anything good, with a few rare exceptions.

[Dervish]

Did you guys go to the Iszoloscope/Ad-Ver-Sary show in Detroit two days ago?

[Dervish]

I've seen their show. It was frigging great!

[Drewthetexan]

Did you guys go to the Iszoloscope/Ad-Ver-Sary show in Detroit two days ago?

I actually live in the Dallas / Fort Worth area.  The clubs suck out here. I've talked to some of the promoters, and the one viable industrial venue here doesn't want to be known as a place for live events. So it's really hard to get other venues, if promoters even bother trying at all, unless the group coming through is really established or a guaranteed money maker. 

I talked to the guy who promoted Assemblage 23, and he had hell getting a venue. We got special mention on A23's website, but not in a good way.  On the subject of their 2010 tour, dated march 1: "Also, we now have a venue for the Dallas show, the Prophet Bar.  So here are the final dates:"

Dallas was announced 5 weeks prior to the show. 50 people showed up. Maybe 50. Tom talked briefly about the shows in Texas here, at about 1:09. While the pollen here in the spring really is as bad as he says, I think it was convenient way to escape saying anything else about what a crappy turnout there was.


I sometimes drive down to Austin, to Elysium to see shows or at least get to go to a club that's open on weekends and plays good music, (DJ Void is great at what he does)  - point being, I've talked to some of the groups that come through there and they say they just can't get anyone to promote shows in Dallas.

In the case of Iszoloscope/Ad-Ver-Sary, apparently Jarius Khan of Ad-Ver-Sary said on facebook, "We tried so hard to get some southern shows. Dallas, Austin, NC/SC, Albequerque, Atlanta, Memphis... couldn't find any promoters who wanted to put it on, even when we said we'd be fine with a door deal and crash space. We have to drive through the south anyway, so it'd be better to play a show even if we don't make anything at the door, just so we're not spending money on hotels."
source: here, if you are interested.

[Salah]

Recently here in Nashville at the Project Pitchfork/Ayria concert we had about 20 folks show up, and that's being generous. The problem with getting shows in the South, other than Atlanta, is just the lack of any stations that play Industrial music in general. We have our one specialty show on Thursday nights done by Ichabod, but aside from that there's nothing. If we want more shows in the South we need to show the club owners that we're serious about the music, and not just another niche genre.

[Dervish]

It's interesting how you reference us not just another niche genre. In many ways, that is exactly what we are, even though many of us would be loath to admit such a thing. Industrial has always been a niche market and, realistically, always will be. I've made peace with that fact long ago. Even if that Pitchfork show had gotten 400 people out, it's still a niche market when you compare it to what's going on at your local big venue.

All the bands out there are struggling to get by with the live shows. Most of the artists know there is no money to be made in the genre (well, not much in relative terms) but we do it because "insert one of a million reasons that don't involve getting rich here."

Touring bands can get by on 20-50 people going to the show provided those folks buy merch. That is the key for the bands.
Promoters, on the other hand, get hurt worse with small turnouts. I can't count the times I've seen promoters lose their shirts over folks not coming out to support them. Promoters losing shirts are the #1 reason more cool industrial acts are not touring in your neck of the woods. If your Jerry could be sure he will get x amount of people out at x $$ then he'll book the show.

I've seen too many promoters at the end of the night walk up and offer what they got at the door plus $300 of their rent to cover the show expenses.

Supporting your promoter IS supporting your scene. Period.