from: http://www.e6townhall.com/viewthread.php?tid=6592&page=1
hello again.
for the past few months ive been putting together the pieces of everything ive written in the past three years and its been a revelation. whenever i had the time ive been writing melodies and keeping them in my head for later, and songs just accumulate, im not waiting as some have said. i still dont know how we’re going to put it all together, the songs will have more noises and collages in them. because of that we dont know whether this will be korena pang or neutral milk hotel or michael bolton but that doesnt really matter. names are just a box we put things in to separate them, and we’re figuring out what box these songs go in.
we dont have a timetable for releasing the album yet, so dont get your hopes up for new songs now. if you want more “aeroplane” just ignore all of this, the songs are songs but they’re longer and more free. when jeremy came down after his tour we just spent days playing noise while screaming and it was incredibly liberating.
it has been so much fun that we will for sure be playing a show or two, probably more. freedom is a wonderful thing but at a certain point you need the routines of normal life. ive had that for a while but i realized last year at the show with the livys that the best sort of normal ive ever had was on the road with my friends. getting to gigs late with cars coughing and trombones smacking on doors, the giant egg leaks over the masses, the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days. it can never be the same but i need to get as close as i can to that again.
so thats all. everything is happening soon, this is the year.
thanks for listening. jeff.
have they confirmed this is from Jeff or is it ANOTHER hoax?
would be lovely of course, and I know he has been playing some shows, but I'm sceptical.
!!!!!!!!!!
the site administrator who is apparently in cahoots with him has 99% percent confirmed it. for what it's worth.
that's encouraging. I'd say if Will Cullen-Hart confirms it it's a done deal seeing as he is Jeff's best friend and one of the few people Mangum would play any material to post Aeroplane.
hmmm, Little Birds to make an appearance?
with what i know about it i'd think he'd be looking forward not back. releasing songs that are already out there seems to go against what attracts him to get back into it y'know?
Would be nice if this eventuates.. I have my doubts though.
makes sense certainly. I think the rareties collection that went missing is a shame. nicely mastered versions or studio cuts of Little Birds and Oh Sister and My Dreamgirl ... would be nice on the shelf.
i bought some of his drawings off him a while ago. they're nice.
orange julius likes nice.
i would shit if this were true. awesome.
pitchfork would be onto this like worksafe to a commercially successful independent release
billboard carried the story, so its probably more sooner rather than later.
dreamies and the millenium were commercially successful? riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....
was he exhibiting his works online orange julius?
i really hope this is true.
ok it's up on pitchfork now. hmmm. whether that's validation or not remains to be seen.
This would be nice and I hope it's true.
woot
POST ATTRIBUTED TO JEFF
dear friends--
i had not commented on this thread because i wanted to hear back from jeff mangum directly about it-- i sent jeff an email quoting the initial post on this thread yesterday, and he just replied:
hello robert-i am sorry to inform you that this is not my post. could you please inform the good people on the e6 list that this is not my writing? thank you robert. much love-j
this came directly to my email from jeff's email account-- the post attributed to him is 100% FALSE, sorry to bear the disappointing news-- it was a very beautifully written fake post!
you are all beautiful and brilliant kids, it would do the whole world a great deal of good if you took all this great energy and excitement you have been passing around here, rolled it up with your anger and disappointment into a big wonderful pissed-off ball, and recorded a bunch of kickass songs!!! please go right now and make something special, do something great, retaliate against the mediocrity that engulfs us!!
don't just do it for me, or jeff, or elephant 6 (although it would please us all immensely) do it because the world needs it!!
love,
robert schneider (apples in stereo member)
HOAX
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hopefully they bring out elf power with them. any sort of elephant 6 support band will do.
I think they should join the ATP line-up
found this in a dumb ''article'' on junkee
holy moly i missed this news. my heart just did a weird thing. imagine all the assholes singing along, me included. sorry in advance.
What a funny old name for a band!
i love the album. loved it when it came out, love it still.
but will it really be that amazing live?
this is part of what scares me:
So confirmed for harvest... Tell me more about this festival Australia?
^alas i've never attended. i'm holding out for sideshows... one in canberra perhaps;)
Harvest is a festival for aging hipsters.
I love it. I've been to Sydney both years and had a great time.
Well I'm fucking excited
^so for gen Xers then ;)
good news! I enjoy Harvest
but the sideshow policy is maddening!!
what is the sideshow policy? please don't say ''there are no sideshows''. :(
only in non Harvest cities
well selected shows anyway, NMH is one of them
Harvest is a nice festival. Just hope they're on one of the smaller stages. Can't imagine them on that fuck-off massive main stage. Beirut sucked dicks on that stage and it was all due to the stage.
i've heard nice things about harvest, i guess i could give it a chance. still wanna find out about those ''non-harvest cities'' though.
they'd definitely be on one of the bigger stages, whether that's the lawn or the paddock, wouldn't really fit with that tent that had Liars and Chromatics last year
plus AJ is making a pretty big deal about getting them for this
mannn, harvest is mid-nov right? i'm gonna miss it. heartbreak
sooo... canberra could be a goer then ;)