Roadburn Festival Press
Release:
Roadburn is very pleased to
announce that Tom Gabriel Warrior, founder of the illustrious Hellhammer
and Celtic
Frost, has agreed to act as the curator for our festival on
Friday, April 16th 2010, and host a special event at Roadburn,
called Only
Death Is Real.
Tom's duties as curator include personally selecting
the bands that will play on Only Death Is Real, as well as to
perform the first major headlining set with his latest incarnation, Triptykon.
Tom
will be Roadburn’s third curator, following up on David Tibet in 2008 and
Neurosis earlier this year, and we would call his election a perfectly natural
progression.
We are overjoyed to have
secured Tom's
involvement in Roadburn this year, as he stands as a truly
groundbreaking artist, with his previous bands having been extremely divisive,
as is often the case with truly unique and original works of art. Ultimately
his canon of work would prove not only legendary but hugely inspirational for
an entire generation of musicians in the metal, doom and dark psychedelic
scenes.
Tom has always enjoyed pushing the envelope
musically and challenging boundaries, and it was entirely that mindset that
made him a perfect fit to act as our curator. It has been a constant goal of
ours to keep Roadburn a festival that not only celebrates the
established but charts new territory, and we could think of no better spirit
guide than Tom
Gabriel Warrior. We are looking forward to the new ideas that
he will bring to our festival, as we feel that we are truly kindred spirits.
Tom
Gabriel Warrior: It is a surprise and an honor to be asked by Roadburn to act as a curator, and I am accepting this extraordinary
opportunity with much gratitude and due humility. In my eyes, Roadburn is one of the most courageous
and artistic festivals in existence, and its history is, in essence, a list of
concerts by groups I deeply admire. It is quite a challenge to follow such
footsteps, both as a curator and as a musician. I will try my very best to
ensure that the groups I intend to propose to the organizers of Roadburn will be as ravishingly dark,
unique, and exciting to the festival's visitors as they are to me.
Holland’s very own Roadburn Festival
has become Europe’s leading underground festival for psychedelic, avant-garde,
doom or any other variation of leftfield sonic pleasure at pushing the
boundaries of music.
In addition to the music, Roadburn
has earned a reputation as having a unique camaraderie between the
festivalgoers, bands, organizers and staff, and ranks as one of the best and
most laid-back festivals to be experienced.
Roadburn 2010, including Tom Gabriel Warrior's Only Death Is Real,
will run for three days from Thursday, April 15 to Saturday, April 17 at the
013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an
additional afterburner event on Sunday, April 18, 2010.
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