mdg wrote:tonymorc wrote:As a newbie, I thought it might be helpful and indeed pertinent to this thread, to impart a little information that might not be common knowledge; it could also shed some light on the prolonged and interminable delay with regard to BOC's lack of recent output.
I was having a conversation with Ulrich Schnauss in Dublin a while ago and he quite casually dropped this little nugget into the discourse; that Warp were putting the boys under pressure to tour the next album, whatever the release date. He wouldn't elaborate but you can only speculate as to their reaction. Would this have caused pause for thought, would fledgling tracks have to be rewritten, discarded with this in mind or more likely , would they take stock. sit back and review their relationship with their label. Just some food for thought in juxtaposition to the prevailing opinion that they're being mysterious for mysteriousness sake.
This post caught my eye. Not only is this a lot of made-up rubbish, but it doesn't even make any sense. And it's probably not a good idea to be putting words in the mouths of innocent artists, either.
First and foremost , this post was submitted in good faith; one of my intentions to provide a genuine piece of information as opposed to the vitriol and invective so common place on forums these days.
I met Ulrich on the 29th Oct '09 prior to and after one of his performances at the Sugar Club in Dublin, a more forthcoming and self deprecating artist you would be hard pressed to meet. The only provenance I could offer in support of the verity of this encounter would be the copy of 'Goodbye' he was kind enough to autograph with a personal message and some less than HD quality video of Mr Schnauss having a pre concert fag.
I had merely asked him if he would ever consider a collaboration of some kind with BOC and this elicited a response that he didn't think they would collaborate with anyone which led to the comment outlined above. This would now seem to be a lot of words to be putting into the "mouths of innocent artists."
It's very easy to deride a contribution that probably seems to have come out of left field, but to arbitrarily label it as nothing more than lies belittles both the poster and the forum.
It makes me wonder how many people like myself in possession of similar enlightening information hold fast in presenting it to forums for fear of ridicule and offensive rebuttals.
I'm also extremely content in the knowledge that I have no idea what 'trolling' is.
but that's just me, checking from my window, the National Film Board Of Canada, the building where many sounds and general inspiration came from 
