« free ONEIDA shows - Sound Fix, Highline Ballroom & Trash | Main | CSS played some shows ++ the many outfits of Lovefoxxx »
Posted in music on June 5, 2007
Who stayed all 27 hours at the Bang on a Can marathon?
The 26-hour Bang on a Can Marathon took place this past weekend at the World Financial Center in NYC.
6am @ the 26 Hour Bang on a Can Marathon, NYC - June 3, 2007 (CRED)
Bang on a Can turned 20 this year. Marking the occasion it mounted its most audacious offering to date: scheduling a 26-hour marathon from Saturday night at 8 to Sunday night at 10. The performance was staged at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, a co-production with the primarily pop-oriented River to River Festival and arts>World Financial Center.........By Sunday morning the schedule had slipped by nearly an hour; even with one piece omitted near the end, the event ultimately clocked in at 27 hours 10 minutes. [NY Times]
Posted on June 5, 2007 2:02 PM
Leave a comment
Powered by Ajax Comments
« free ONEIDA shows - Sound Fix, Highline Ballroom & Trash | Main | CSS played some shows ++ the many outfits of Lovefoxxx »
Comments (16)
the real question is how many people left after 5 minutes? Bang on a Can was probably one of the wurstest bands I've ever seen live. I wanted to bang on their testicals when I saw them open for Daniel Johnston
ps - brooklyn vegan rulezzzzzzzzzz
Posted by thigh master | June 5, 2007 2:38 PM
I not only stayed for the whole 27 hours, I liveblogged it:
http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_james_argues_secret/2007/06/liveblogging_th.html
Photos are now up, as well.
Posted by DJA | June 5, 2007 2:51 PM
bang on a can isn't a band. the bang on a can all-stars are a band. bang on a can is a collective of composers. they also have a record label.
Posted by good work | June 5, 2007 3:12 PM
whatever the f$ck they were, they blow worser than john kerry
Posted by thigh master | June 5, 2007 3:18 PM
Great grammatics! You must go to NYU. (ba-dum-bumm!)
Posted by wog | June 5, 2007 3:30 PM
"they blow worser than john kerry"
Did we enter a time warp, is is suddenly 2004 again? I think Kerry is as big of a pussy as the next guy, but didn't the statue of limitations on Kerry references end about 30 months ago?
(P.S. Rulezzzzzzzzz only has 12 z's, not 14, you dumb-ass)
Posted by Mr. Obvious | June 5, 2007 3:33 PM
we muss never forget john kerry, the biggessssst waste of space of this new century. don't blame bush, blame him, and if u dont want to play the blame game then play the valerie plame game!
2004 ruleeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by thigh master | June 5, 2007 3:49 PM
hey dja...the whole 27 hours huh? lemme guess...yr single?
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2007 4:13 PM
Heh. Actually, my girlfriend's away in Vancouver.
Posted by DJA | June 5, 2007 4:25 PM
I was there for six hours Sat evening and four on Sun eve ... highlight for me was All-Stars playing Eno's Music for Airports ... really wanted to see Juana Molina but 3 is a little late
Posted by David | June 5, 2007 5:33 PM
haha, i can vouch for DJA. i have photographs from like 20 hours of the event that I am putting up this weekend. it was awesome and exhausting.
Posted by jason | June 5, 2007 7:00 PM
awesome and exhausting are not the 2 words I would think describe this "event". i would probably use like ear-rape or something along those lines.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2007 8:26 PM
I happened to walk past when those 2 guys were playing the 30 foot long pipes. I couldn't run fast enough out of there.
Posted by Meredith | June 6, 2007 11:01 AM
I went Staurday night to cacht THE BOOKS and Michael Gordon moving performance (doen by TACTUS).
But overall it was severely boring!
Posted by Shinobi Shaw | June 6, 2007 8:49 PM
eighteen musicians playing one of steve reich's most beautiful compositions as the sun came up? i cannot think of many things more sublime. if you were not there, you simply missed it.
Posted by Kyle | June 8, 2007 11:07 AM
i finally put up the rest of my photos from the event:
http://flickr.com/photos/jberg/sets/72157600350491401/
http://tirck.blogspot.com/2007/06/bang-on-can-marathon-world-financial_13.html
Posted by jason | June 13, 2007 6:03 PM