GLIS: going on tour in October... who wants us???

[~glis]

AYRIA & GLIS (Alfa Matrix records) are planning to do a tour together in October...

here are the dates we would *LIKE* to do:
THESE ARE NOT THE FINAL DATES... THIS IS ONLY A TEST TO SEE WHAT IS AVAILABLE... ALL DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Friday - October 10 - Minneapolis, MN
Saturday - October 11 - LaCrosse, WI
Sunday - October 12 - Madison, WI
Monday - October 13 - Chicago, IL
Tuesday - October 14 - South Bend, IN or Cleveland, OH
Wednesday - October 15 - Detroit, MI
Thursday - October 16 - Toronto, ONT
Friday - October 17 - Newark, NJ
Saturday - October 18 - Philadelphia, PA
Sunday - October 19 - Washington D.C.
Monday - October 20 - Pittsburg, PA
Tuesday - October 21 - Cincinatti, OH or Indianapolis, IN
Wednesday - October 22 - St. Louis, MO
Thursday - October 23 - Kansas City, MO
Friday - October 24 - Denver, CO
Saturday - October 25 - Salt Lake City

Already we have contact with DETROIT and TORONTO... but we need more... anyone out there know any established promoters in these cities???

We will have 4 people total on tour... our rider is very simple... please contact me via e-mail or leave your comments below... THANKS!!!

BAND INFO:

GLIS:
Shaun Frandsen (programming & vox)

live:
Shaun Frandsen
Carsten Pedersen
Mike Wimer
Jennifer Parkin

Seattle based act GLIS' debut album "Extract" dazzled club-goers with a mixture of danceable electronic beats and catchy 80's melodies. After scoring two club hits with "Nightvision" and "It's Empty In Her Eyes" (new versions of both songs are available on "Balance"!) and several notable compilation appearances, multi-talented artist Shaun Frandsen returns with new songs that reveal many more dimensions of GLIS. To intensify the impact, Karloz.M of the Noise/EBM project Manufactura was brought on board, and together they conjured a complex and highly refined sound for this greatly anticipated follow-up album. By fusing influences from the genres of IDM and Noise, GLIS' now newly sharpened edge reaches into dark corridors beyond its previously established "pop" sound of "Extract".

Armed with "Balance", GLIS now stands ready to deliver a barrage of new club hits; "Resolution" (also available as a single on Square Matrix 003), "Letting Go" and the harsher "Discontent" are all bound to become EBM classics in no time. After ASSEMBLAGE 23, (additional vocal production on "Balance"), GLIS will be known as the second American band to join the future pop elite league next to distinguished European acts in the likes of VNV NATION, APOPTYGMA BERZERK and COVENANT. Anno 2002, GLIS joined the Alfa Matrix stable.

AYRIA:
Jennifer Parkin (vocals & song-writing)
Shaun Frandsen (programming & production)

live:
Jennifer Parkin
Shaun Frandsen

Ayria is the name of Jennifer Parkin's new project after the termination of her activity in Epsilon Minus. The lesser-known fact is that a great deal of the music and production will be written and arranged by Shaun Frandsen (aka GLIS). Jennifer and Shaun have been working together for a couple of months in the foundation phase and are now ready to launch their combined efforts in the final stages. Taking time out from Glis, Shaun has been contributing production and remixes. The Ayria release will have a track (Horrible Dream - GLIS mix) featured on the next Cyberlab compilation due sometime this summer on Alfa Matrix. The upcoming full-length album tentatively titled "Debris" will be released September 2003.

[~Human Clone]

Does your rider include black socks? :)

Looking forward to the Toronto show!

[~glis]

Originally posted by Human Clone
[b]Does your rider include black socks? :)[b]

Of course! We got them in the U.K. haha! no really... it was sweet!~ aww.

Jenn's got all the TORONTO hook-up... so we will definitely play there... I wanna go to a dark rave! wheee! So maybe I'll be there earlier... hmmmm.

[~Dunkelwerk]

...ha! you listen to scooter and the old celebrate the nun project by them? wonderfull, never heard about scooter fans in the usa... today i´ve got the new scooter single " the night" and it rocks.

greetz from the land of scooter!

[~glis]

cheers! I knew Celebrate the Nun before Scooter and I can't believe they are the same guys! haha! "Stadium Techno Experience" rulez!

[~PTInc]

Man.... yer lineups are pretty incestous.

heh... and for a heads up dont go to south bend, IN. Try for a show at CLub 1470 in Dayton, OH.

And if you have to choose, take Cleaveland over Cincinati.

all this will work out better for draws and such.

[~SFARAH]

Hey Shaun have you found a promoter in Denver?...if not let me know I have a couple of names....

Samir

[~glis]

Originally posted by SFARAH
Hey Shaun have you found a promoter in Denver?...if not let me know I have a couple of names....

Samir


hmmm, I don't really know promoters down there, but I think Mike (Musicwerks/My live percussionist) may know some... I hear The Gothic Theatre is an awesome venue but maybe a big to *big* for us? Also, there is Club Onyx???

Originally posted by PTInc
Man.... yer lineups are pretty incestous.

heh... and for a heads up dont go to south bend, IN. Try for a show at CLub 1470 in Dayton, OH.

And if you have to choose, take Cleaveland over Cincinati.

all this will work out better for draws and such.

Incestuous??? ha! yup.

Dayton eh? Ok. I'll look into that.

Cleveland sounds better... labelmates Hungry Lucy are plaing there on their tour, so maybe we'll get some info from them about it.

[~omnious001]

Do you have any audio samples GLIS???

[~glis]

http://www.glisonline.com/sound.htm

[~andrew [iris]]

anyone doing a US tour should seriously consider a swing through texas, the scene is very strong here, especially in san antonio

clubs:

san antonio - sin13 - http://www.sin13.com
austin - elysium - http://www.elysiumonline.net
dallas - redblood club / ascension / the church

- andrew

[~omnious001]

Thanks Glis.

I wish the scene here in Houston was as good as they say it's in Austin.

[~SFARAH]

Originally posted by glis



hmmm, I don't really know promoters down there, but I think Mike (Musicwerks/My live percussionist) may know some... I hear The Gothic Theatre is an awesome venue but maybe a big to *big* for us? Also, there is Club Onyx???


Yep the Gothic is a great venue but a bit big....Onyx is a well-know club in this area..Provision and A23 had their shows there....I´m familiar with both places management...will talk to them..

[~side-line]

good news, the AYRIA website, the project involving Shaun from GLIS and Jennifer Parkin from EPSILON MINUS is now online at http://www.ayria.com

[~Scar Chemik]

Don't know how your plans are doing but I have a few things to add. For the DC date, you have several places you could look into.

You could play Baltimore instead which is 45 minutes north and try The Depot (nice but small venue) or Club Orpheus (need to check though if they book on Sunday night). We played at The Depot on a Sunday night so I know that is an option.

In DC, Nation is the big club (well, not as big as 9:30 but big). Other places that book electro are Black Cat and the one a few doors down that I can never remember. All I know is that I saw Covenant there.

I can talk to someone about Baltimore but my DC connections are a little less developed.

Scar

[~rustcwc]

yeah..glis on tour...ever since i made the mistake of leaving seattle ( i will be back for good this winter) i have been starved for live music...so to see that you guys are even considering the kansas city area is amazing...if ya need any help with promo (even if it's just flyers or somethig) or anything like that..let me know and i'll help however i can...might be able to help out with dallas as well...anyway...cheers...chad

[~glis]

I can talk to someone about Baltimore but my DC connections are a little less developed.

That would be great... THANKS !
please have anyone e-mail my tour manager at:

adsr (at) adsr (dot) org

[~IntrospecT]

Shaun,

If I can be any assistance with the Salt Lake City show, let me know! Would love to get you guys out here!

Sean Patrick

Shadowplay Productions

[~glis]

Originally posted by IntrospecT
Shaun,

If I can be any assistance with the Salt Lake City show, let me know! Would love to get you guys out here!

Sean Patrick

Shadowplay Productions

Are you a promoter out there? Would you e-mail my tour manager... or we can contact you...

glis: glis - at - angelfire - dot - com
musicwerks (tour mngr.) adsr - at - adsr - dot - org

cool. thankz

[~IntrospecT]

well, not exactly. Email me, and I'll let you in on more....hehe..

I'm actually trying to start (successfully I must say) an indie-label out here...but thinking of dabbling in the promotion aspect as well. Would be kewl to help make the SLC show a reality!

email me at info@shadowplay-us.com

Hope to hear from you soon...

Sean

[~A04]

I'm a promoter/dj in Tokyo having just graduated from the "watch and learn" stage of things and moving into the "promote or burn" stage of our first event. So far things are looking up. Because I'm not Japanese, I tend to escape the social politics a bit, but there's still some of that around.

In the "reasonable losses" scheme of things, no small promoter here could afford ot fly a unit out, house them, feed them, take them around, and pay them for their performance. It's not going to happen. It would take the cooperation of multiple promoters just to get enough people at a show to cover the venue (unless we had four or five other bands on the bill). And of course, you could do a Tokyo/Nagoya/Osaka tour (not so difficult to set up, but once again the cost to take the bullet train pretty much offsets anything in the means of revenue. Of course, CD sales would always be possible.

What has happened - artists happen to be coming over here to eat sushi or meet some of the hottest women in the world (one reason I'm still here), contact a promoter and the promoter then scrambles to get a gig set up to take advantage of the situation. While here, they usually end up crashing at the promoter's place.

So if that appeals to you, we'd love to have you. By the way, I'll be playing "Resolution" this weekend at Project:ELEKTRA. I'll let you know how it goes over.

[~menschrek]

Oops!

[~glis]

So if that appeals to you, we'd love to have you. By the way, I'll be playing "Resolution" this weekend at Project:ELEKTRA. I'll let you know how it goes over.

That would be awesome! actually we have contacts in Tokyo... I'm sure if flight costs were covered we'll have a place to stay and eat food... I would like to talk too you more about this... please contact Mike or Shaun at:

adsr (at) adsr (dot) org

Actually my live drummers band NOXIOUS EMOTION just played there a while back.

I think it's time to F-up some J-pop :)

[~rivetbadtz]

Originally posted by A04


So if that appeals to you, we'd love to have you. By the way, I'll be playing "Resolution" this weekend at Project:ELEKTRA. I'll let you know how it goes over.

Holy moly...they have EBM/synthpop clubs in Japan? I woul dassume, being Japan is all things futuristic(yes, Im naive)...

Oh Shaun man...if you could ever afford a trip to Japan, that woul dbe the ultimate place to perform! I want to see in the not too distant future a bridge formed between Japanese, European, and American industrial/techno/rivet/cyber/future culture.

My ultimate dream woul dbe to perform in Japan...someday...someday^_^;;

[~A04]

Originally posted by glis


That would be awesome! actually we have contacts in Tokyo... I'm sure if flight costs were covered we'll have a place to stay and eat food... I would like to talk too you more about this... please contact Mike or Shaun at:

adsr (at) adsr (dot) org

Actually my live drummers band NOXIOUS EMOTION just played there a while back.

I think it's time to F-up some J-pop :)

I'll definitely be in touch. Noxious Emotion actually played at Club Cybernetics which is connected to Project:ELEKTRA. DJ SIN is the organizer of that event and also DJs for ELEKTRA.

Out of curiosity, airfare for how many would we be thinking about?

[~SFARAH]

Same thing with synth bands going to South America... (Red flag did it, they loved it)...people down there are hungry for shows like these....there´s great interest and enthusiasm..the problem obviously becomes money....Unlike Japan, Latin America´s economy makes it really expensive to bring even small acts charging a reasonable fee in US dollars....I am in touch with some promoters down there and they have a hard time making artists understand that the reality is different ....it seems that for some of them the pleasure of sharing their music with new and enthusiastic fans (plus beach, sun and sand) is not enough....

[~glis]

Out of curiosity, airfare for how many would we be thinking about?[/b]

We would be 4 people total... if we did come we would prolly stay with Kelly (a friend of Mike's) from the band Ninth Circle. That's what the Noxious crew did last time... Mike has been talking to me about playing over there and my label recently landed a distribution deal over there so that's prolly why you have heard of GLIS? I know Mike has given Kelly some of our first CD's to sell over there... hmmm, they actually play GLIS in the clubs huh?

[~Provision]

Gils..i hope you guys kick ass live..
im seeing you tomorrow open for Funker....
heh

[~A04]

Unlike Japan, Latin America´s economy makes it really expensive to bring even small acts charging a reasonable fee in US dollars....

Economy or whatever, I'm going to lose a lot of money bringing over an artist even if I don't have to pay them. Most venues charge a guarantee that would fill the place at the price most
clubgoers are willing to pay. To give you an example, this weekend I don't get out of the red until 50 people go through the door, and the club has a max capacity of 60 (and it will feel very cozy after 30). Go figure, huh? If I brought a band over, I'd have to go bigger venue, thus bigger guarantee.

Mike has been talking to me about playing over there and my label recently landed a distribution deal over there so that's prolly why you have heard of GLIS? I know Mike has given Kelly some of our first CD's to sell over there... hmmm, they actually play GLIS in the clubs huh?


I heard about GLIS from EGN and joined the Alfa Matrix mailing list. Pop-up ads work. I'm taking considerable pride (as he glows) thinking that I'll be the first dj to play GLIS material. Considering who is coming to the club, I know I won't be the only one for long.

No one (in the 'scene' here) seems to have heard of Fischerspooner either, and that would be really cool if I was the first to play them.