Answer to number 3 - start saving now!
Answer to number 2 - get drunk at airports - time flies!
Answer to number 1 - buy some flowers!
Possible Italian & Japanese live dates
Moderators: Ancodia, markus, Pob, nickking
being left on your own with four kids whilst you're partner sods off to Italy for a druken weekend. I don't think a few flowers is going to cut it, gonna take some serious brownie points! 
April Fool
Now I'm definitely not going to Italy just in case Graham tries to get his own back and I get stuck in an Italian jail.
John
John
100% = virtually impossible. Remember, it's 808 and it's Italy and it's promoters, agents, councils, police etc etc... But it's looking promising. Did we mention NewOrder are also playing?Pete wrote:i haven't booked yet, i need to know a def 100% that 808 r playing b4 i book!
Blimey, just realised this was my posting number 808
If that isn't an omen. Better book my trip now
From Neworderonline:
"New Order's Exclusive Italian Date
Today - 1:27:50 AM
(Traffic Festival) Traffic Turin Free Festival - II Edition
from June 29 to July 2 in Turin
with
New Order's Exclusive Italian Date (July 2)
Only show in continental Europe of the reformed Throbbing Gristle (June 29)
After the success of the first edition, Turin will be again protagonist of an event unique for its features and totally free, which means to place the city at the centre of the contemporary youth culture: Traffic Turin Free Festival, from Wednesday June 29 to Saturday July 2 (for info to the general audience: 800015475 - http://www.trafficfestival.com ).
The artistic direction is by Max Casacci from Subsonica, Fabrizio Gargarone (director of the legendary venue Hiroshima Mon Amour), Alberto Campo (music journalist from Repubblica and director of Rumore) and Cosimo Ammendolia (director of Suoneria and Radar/Metropolis).
Amongst the exclusive events in the bill there is a day dedicated to the musical scene of Manchester which will peak with the concert by New Order, Saturday July 2 on the stage at Parco Della Pellerina.
A feature of Traffic Turin Free Festival is to twin the city each year with another city after social, economic and cultural reasons. In the first edition Detroit was chosen, as Turin an industrial city transforming also through its vital music scene. The same can be said for Manchester, where music has had an essential role in its postindustrial growth. The idea is to represent whithin a day the crucial period began at the end of the Seventies, straight after punk (Joy Division, from which came New Order, invited to play live on the festival main stage on Saturday July 2, only Italian date of the current world tour) through the scene at the end of the Eighties called Madchester (represented by techno pioneers 808 State, by former Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder and Hacienda DJs Mike Pickering and Graeme Parks, all present in the day in different performances).
Protagonist and witness of the entire story, and as such invited to be the master of ceremony, is Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda. A charachter of which the story has been told by Michael Winterbottom in the movie 24 Hour Party People, which will be premiered in a national preview in the afternoon of July 2 at The Cinema Museum.
Opening the festival, in the evening of June 29, will be the only performance in the whole continental Europe of Throbbing Gristle: legendary group founder of the industrial genre (it's not by chance that the scene of this performance is the area of the Limone Foundry in Moncalieri, one of the biggest postindustrial areas in the city), for this event with the support of extraordinary DJs (Martin Gore from Depeche Mode and Peaches) and of the concert of Pansonic from Finland.
This year the events of Traffic will happen again in representative places of the city: Parco Della Pellerina, Murazzi Del Po, Spazio 211, Fonderie Limone, Cinema Massimo...
The Traffic Turin Free Festival, in collaboration with the City of Turin and the Region of Piemonte, is sponsored by Telecom Italia.
Milan, April 29, 2005
Traffic Press Office: Silvia Danielli for Parole E Dintorni (director Riccardo Vitanza) Tel 0220404727 "
"New Order's Exclusive Italian Date
Today - 1:27:50 AM
(Traffic Festival) Traffic Turin Free Festival - II Edition
from June 29 to July 2 in Turin
with
New Order's Exclusive Italian Date (July 2)
Only show in continental Europe of the reformed Throbbing Gristle (June 29)
After the success of the first edition, Turin will be again protagonist of an event unique for its features and totally free, which means to place the city at the centre of the contemporary youth culture: Traffic Turin Free Festival, from Wednesday June 29 to Saturday July 2 (for info to the general audience: 800015475 - http://www.trafficfestival.com ).
The artistic direction is by Max Casacci from Subsonica, Fabrizio Gargarone (director of the legendary venue Hiroshima Mon Amour), Alberto Campo (music journalist from Repubblica and director of Rumore) and Cosimo Ammendolia (director of Suoneria and Radar/Metropolis).
Amongst the exclusive events in the bill there is a day dedicated to the musical scene of Manchester which will peak with the concert by New Order, Saturday July 2 on the stage at Parco Della Pellerina.
A feature of Traffic Turin Free Festival is to twin the city each year with another city after social, economic and cultural reasons. In the first edition Detroit was chosen, as Turin an industrial city transforming also through its vital music scene. The same can be said for Manchester, where music has had an essential role in its postindustrial growth. The idea is to represent whithin a day the crucial period began at the end of the Seventies, straight after punk (Joy Division, from which came New Order, invited to play live on the festival main stage on Saturday July 2, only Italian date of the current world tour) through the scene at the end of the Eighties called Madchester (represented by techno pioneers 808 State, by former Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder and Hacienda DJs Mike Pickering and Graeme Parks, all present in the day in different performances).
Protagonist and witness of the entire story, and as such invited to be the master of ceremony, is Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda. A charachter of which the story has been told by Michael Winterbottom in the movie 24 Hour Party People, which will be premiered in a national preview in the afternoon of July 2 at The Cinema Museum.
Opening the festival, in the evening of June 29, will be the only performance in the whole continental Europe of Throbbing Gristle: legendary group founder of the industrial genre (it's not by chance that the scene of this performance is the area of the Limone Foundry in Moncalieri, one of the biggest postindustrial areas in the city), for this event with the support of extraordinary DJs (Martin Gore from Depeche Mode and Peaches) and of the concert of Pansonic from Finland.
This year the events of Traffic will happen again in representative places of the city: Parco Della Pellerina, Murazzi Del Po, Spazio 211, Fonderie Limone, Cinema Massimo...
The Traffic Turin Free Festival, in collaboration with the City of Turin and the Region of Piemonte, is sponsored by Telecom Italia.
Milan, April 29, 2005
Traffic Press Office: Silvia Danielli for Parole E Dintorni (director Riccardo Vitanza) Tel 0220404727 "