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traceramc alive and djing

Jonny — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:43:44 +0000

alex’s dj set at no dancing, belfast, on the 1st of may 2011. bringing back the nineties…

chris brokaw - king ferdinand

desert hearts - not a car

efterklang - i was playing drums

panda kopanda - a humble god

shellac - billiard player song

pj harvey - a perfect day elise

fugazi - the argument

backwater - your prerogative

blonde redhead - futurism vs. passiesm part 2

cashier no 9 - to make you feel better

alasdair roberts - lord gregory

three tales - the things that we know

vic chesnutt - flirted with you all my life

kowalski - get back

clone quartet - pss-80

13&God - own your ghost

sonic youth - sunday

tortoise - gigantes

amazing pilots - dirty love

tiler - server

jim o’rourke - halfway to a three way

yann tiersen - tabarly

steve reich - electric counterpoint

bjork - hyperballad

yo la tengo - night falls on hoboken

papa m - turn turn turn

low - something’s turning over

there is no excuse for this

Niall — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:53:38 +0000

seriously? late april? the first website update of the year?
Well, there are two rock shows coming up - Belfast this Sunday in the Black Box, supporting Chris Corsano, at night time, for eight pounds.
Next month we are off to Dublin to play a rescheduled date with our more intricae friends and so i watch you from afar. It will cost some Euro and also happen at night time.

In other news, Heliopause (featuring Mike) made an EP at Start Together (where the first fragments of Violence were miserably put together all those months ago), and Mike and Keith formed a new band called Not Squares, who have a whole heap of shows coming up.

Tracer AMC action year 2008, coming soon, hopefully

islands / fluxandform digital release

Niall — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:17:19 +0000

hellllo

our first two albums are now available worldwide for download from your preferred download shop of choice,
while the third has polish and guitar applied to it.

meanwhile, three tracers are playing with julip and one is playing with heliopause next sunday (2nd december) in lavery’s in belfast.

expect amc live action early next year

over&out

rEcoRdiNg

Niall — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:36:09 +0000

We are leading up to a 96 hour period of using Belfast’s Oh Yeah Centre in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast to record next week on the 26th October. We have been buying some fancy microphones to add to our collections and borrowing a couple here and there. jonny is masterminding the cable situations and stands in our kitchen talking about bringing a guitar signal traveling through a multicore to a re-amping box before and after the 143 guitar pedals int the computer and keeping it in a different room while the guitarist can be playing in the control room… or something… it blows my mind..
as a band we have been practising intensely for 2/3 months working on new material. most of this material has matured to the point where we can fine tune and rearrange, but some is still downright bloody childish. This weekend will aim to bring these bits through puberty and make them men or women (either is fine) with enough substantial life experience to at least get the drums. ‘Get the drums’ is a phrase which crops up and is, in my opinion an unfair pressure on the drummer. However, back to current times, tomorrow/sunday and monday will be our final set of whole practises before going in to setup to record our third album. It will have special (and violence) written alllll over it..

cATalySt aRts

Keith — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:18:03 +0000

went really well, it was full of people and had big bright projections on the walls and a smoking terrace which could hold (and did hold) hundreds of people.. Team AMC played well with a 56 minute rendition of their new 8 song.. people roared with delight when it was finally over.. one girl kept lying on the floor and spinning around while drinking buckfast.. nice
krw logged in as ncbh

pause

Niall — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:36:54 +0000

a pause until i figure out how to get a picture in here… ah thats it up there, i love how it is too big for the window and requires scrolling… that should please everyone

oh let’s

Niall — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:50:39 +0000

jonny’s blogging up a storm over on the myspace.
it’s mostly my cack-handed attempt to document last summer’s wonderful UK tour but it’s good for a laugh.

meanwhile, alex made this:

and basically it’s all go.

GET OUR NOISE

find something worth fighting for

Niall — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:17:26 +0000

and so: the exciting, maybe strange rockshow is in the catalyst arts centre on saturday 25th august. it’s an all ages show, at 3pm, which is pretty exciting.
support comes from the wonderfully named Das Sexytime, and David Holmes is DJing. yeah, the david holmes!
it will cost you a fiver, and there is a barbecue.
everyone loves barbecues.

yakuza confirmed for rockshow

Niall — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:23:49 +0000

LITE
+ TRACER AMC
+ YAKUZA

THE BUNKER, BELFAST
SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
4 POUNDS / 830PM

www.myspace.com/liteband
www.myspace.com/traceramc
www.myspace.com/abandcalledyakuza

our serious faces will move people

Niall — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:26:50 +0000

next gig: not in the limelight

Niall — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:57:31 +0000

the show with lite on sunday 9 september is actually in lavery’s bunker.. whoops!
should be able to confirm the third band tomorrow.

the rude gesture: update

Niall — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:59:16 +0000

it seems i’m not the only one to make obscene gestures at the back of photographs taken in the shibuya o-nest at the end of a japanese tour of an indie rock band in 2006!

my shame is lessened.

p.s. i like how arab strap only let westerners backstage..

next gig

Niall — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:28:01 +0000

the next gig is on sunday 9th september in the limelight.
excitingly, Lite are playing.
we played with them on the first night of the japanese tour.

(i say “we”, but actually i was asleep on the stairs due to crippling jetlag, so i can’t say if they’re good or not.)

after the show, they said that when they were in ireland, they drove around with gaju listening to tracer amc, which is pretty weird.

i don’t know who else is playing this show but i’ll let you know when i do!

extraordinary scenes

Niall — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:29:04 +0000

fans of keith’s dancing could do worse than checking out this clip of desert hearts playing ‘dsr’.
will he reprise those moves tomorrow in auntie annies?
time will tell.

p.s. the songs last saturday were: in rivers, elmwood avenue, [a new song], and snow.

last.fm

Niall — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:36:12 +0000

you can now stream some full-length songs at team amc’s last.fm page, here. enjoy.
i think we did something else productive yesterday too, but i’ve forgotten it..

p.s. the tshirts are only £8 including postage in the shop. they’re going pretty fast so get yours now!!!!
p.p.s. no they aren’t

we sold our souls for rock-post-rock

Niall — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:30:41 +0000

alex and i made a tracer amc advert in the pub last night (no dancing on sundays in katy daly’s is really good - they play great music and there aren’t very many people there, which is good because people are rotten, of course). so, i felt a little of my soul die, making an advert and paying for an advert, but it’s only on fastfude.
and it was as much a way of supporting fastfude.org as selling t-amc albums.
(also, there may well be a startlingly attractive picture of keith, along with an interview, in the belfast telegraph on friday).

i see some darkness

Niall — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:55:58 +0000

someone’s commented on the youtube video of paper machete in osaka, wishing it wasn’t so dark.
to that person, i say sorry: that was my idea. i thought it’d be really fun to turn the house lights down to near total darkness for the amc rock show. i can’t remember why, but it’s an idea that’s widely accepted as having been rubbish now.

by the way, i am spending today watching t-amc on youtube. sucks to be me.

buy islands immediately, get our noise

Niall — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:33:48 +0000

it’s now marginally easier to buy tracer amc stuff by clicking here and there on the myspace (myspace.com/traceramc). it’ll probably get easier again soon, and you’ll be able to buy tshirts and eisberg & resnick albums and god knows what.

til then,
don’t be forgetting to be at the rock show on saturday:

wikifun

Niall — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:25:35 +0000

there’s now a wikipedia entry for tracer amc here.
i made it by mucking about with the entry for pay*ola.
probably they will read this, and flick cigarette ash at me again.
it’s not as if i don’t deserve it.

hey, it’s not long til the next gig - saturday 14th july in lavery’s. julip playing too. and heliopause the day after. hurrah!

tracer amc - a guide to the pronounciation

Niall — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:18:48 +0000