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Tours changed, benefits added in wake of NYC, DC attacks
21 September 2001

Beyond the immediate and incredibly grim human tragedy of the 11 September terrorist attacks, every facet of life in America and elsewhere has changed and continues to change. In the world of live music this includes a multitude of benefit concerts springing up across the country, canceled and altered tours, and soul searching among those not directly affected and trying to carry on as usual without communicating disrespect.
    And in one bizarre case in Germany, a series of performances was halted because of inappropriate remarks by the artist—more on that at the end of this article.
    Holly Golightly canceled a major US tour for this month that was to have started 14 September in Hoboken, New Jersey. They Might Be Giants, whose current tour was to have started 12 September in Boise, Idaho, missed the first five shows but picked up this Tuesday in San José, California. The Rapture, all of whose members live in lower Manhattan, are staging their September into October US tour as planned, ending with a two night stand at Brownies in New York city on 27-28 October.
    The first ever UK Farm Aid concert, scheduled for 27 October in Cardiff, Wales, is now off. The famous Knitting Factory club in New York, located just north of the former World Trade Center complex, is shut down indefinitely and may be forced to declare bankruptcy.
    Tomorrow, the Pontiac Grille in Philadelphia hosts an ad-hoc benefit concert for the American Red Cross featuring The Rosenbergs from NYC. On Sunday, all proceeds from the 4th annual Alice @97.3 FM Now & Zen Fest in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park will go the Red Cross. Also on Sunday, the Spaceland club in Los Angeles stages a benefit for the New York City Firefighter’s Fund, featuring Third Grade Teacher, Distortion Felix, Languis, and Gwendolyn. Next Tuesday The Verve Pipe will host and headline a Red Cross benefit at Schuba’s in Chicago.
    Tonight, in an event unprecedented in television history, at least 27 US networks will simulcast a benefit special titled America: A Tribute To The Heroes. A veritable army of entertainers has signed on to appear, among them Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, Stevie Wonder, and Neil Young. Proceeds go the The United Way’s September 11 Fund. There will be no live audience and performance locations will not be publicized to improve security.
    And lastly, from the just-too-fucking-strange department, 73 year old German avant gardist Karlheinz Stockhausen has been banned from performing at the upcoming Hamburg Musikfest after his comments on the recent terrorist atrocities. Stockhausen said to reporters (according to one translation) “That minds accomplish in one act something that we in music can’t dream of, that people rehearse like mad for 10 years—totally fanatically—for a concert and then die—that’s the greatest work of art there is in the entire cosmos.”
    Later, Stockhausen said “If anyone feels hurt by what I said at the press conference, I ask their forgiveness, because I have never felt or thought what was read into my words.”
    Hamburg’s Culture Senator Christina Weiss, responsible for banning Stockhausen’s performance, said “I know Stockhausen’s mental universe very well. Stockhausen lives in his own religious world and is very loose with his vocabulary of demons or of good and evil.” But she went on to say that his remarks were nonetheless “disgusting.” | top of page |

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