Oh, damn it! Well, this just FIGURES!
Like, literally no freakin’ sooner do I finish selling my Blu-ray player and vast, vast (VAST) collection of Darkwing Duck, Ducktales, Gummy Bears, TaleSpin, Goof Troop, and Bonkers DVDs so I can afford a ticket to their “3D” tour of North America this fall (which will feature all sorts of surround-sound gimmicks and 3D imagery all synced-up to the music and shit) than my BROS in the rad and up-and-coming Beach-tronica band Kraftwerk announce (via Rolling Stone) that they’ve “translated [their] performances to 3D, and in surround sound, kind of like 3D sound” and have been “working on a Blu-Ray to make this available” for the fall.
Oh, cruel fate! I’m SO being driving MAD by the HEAVY IRONY of all this! Seriously, though. Kinda blows. Here’s the full text of what sole-surviving original Krafwerkian Ralf Hütter had to say:
We’ve been doing this and working on a Blu-ray to make this available. It should be coming out in the late fall. We’ve put a lot of work into all the images, transforming from our Kling Klang archives into 3D format and arranging it synchronized with the music, so it’s quite a lot of production. We’re quite a small team of musicians, technicians, computer programmers here at Kling Klang Studios; we do everything ourselves. That’s what we’ve been working in, and still are. When we travel to America, we’ll hopefully be finished with this work.
No more details at the moment, but LUCKY YOU if you didn’t already spend an emphatically NON-ROBOTIC arm and a leg on tickets to this heretofore-unique concert experience. Oh well… I guess I’d better start selling some shit now to save for the Blu-ray.
Hmm… let’s see… Anyone here wanna buy a Kraftwerk ticket??
North American dates:
09.16.15 - Edmonton, Alberta - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
09.17.15 - Calgary, Alberta - Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
09.19.15 - Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
09.23.15 -Denver, CO - Ellie Caulkins Opera House
09.25.15 - Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
09.27.15 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
09.29.15 - Miami, FL - Olympia Theater at Gusman Center
10.02.15 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
10.03.15 - Boston, MA - Wang Theatre
10.05.15 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre
10.07.15 - Minneapolis, MN - Northrop
10.09.15 - Kansas City, MO - Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland
European dates:
11.07.15 - Lille, France - Le Noveau Siecle
11.09.15 - Nantes, France - Cite de Congres
11.11.15 - Monte Carlo, Monaco - Le Sporting
11.12.15 - Marseille, France - Le Silo
11.13.15 - Grenoble, France - MC2
11.20.15 - Essen, Germany - Lichtburg
11.25.15 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
11.27.15 - Hamburg, Germany - CCH 1
11.29.15 - Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle Beethoven-Saal
12.01.15 - Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
12.03.15 - Prague, Czech Republic - Forum Karlin
12.04.15 - Krakow, Poland - ICE Congress Centre
12.07.15 - Leipzig, Germany - Haus Auensee
• Kraftwerk: http://www.kraftwerk.com
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