The Mars Volta

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When:

Thu 26 Jun ’08, 7:30pm

Where: Logan Campbell Centre, 217 Greenlane Rd West, Epsom Show map

Ticket Information:

Adult: $88.20
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.themarsvolta.com

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The Mars Volta head back to New Zealand in support of their critically acclaimed fourth album The Bedlam in Goliath (out now through Universal Music) – arguably the band’s most accomplished to date.

The Bedlam in Goliath was born after a fateful visit to a curio shop in Jerusalem by Omar where he purchased a Ouija board as a gift to Cedric. Renamed ‘The Soothsayer’ the Ouija board became the band’s post-show ritual. As interaction with The Soothsayer increased, otherworldly instances began to overwhelm the band – including physical ailments, studio flooding, music tracks disappearing and the album’s original engineer suffering a nervous breakdown.

On the eve of restarting their project, Omar buried The Soothsayer, in an attempt to reverse the curse that had plagued them. The Bedlam in Goliath follows the stories told to The Mars Volta by The Soothsayer, as they attempt to reverse curse set upon them.

Upon listening to The Bedlam in Goliath, Alternative Press declared that “The Mars Volta have created the first great record of 2008,” and Mojo confirmed “…The Mars Volta are making music built to last.” Uncut were left content, describing The Bedlam in Goliath as “their most digestible record yet”.

Pre-sale tickets will be available from Monday 14th April via frontiertouring.com

General public tickets will be available from Wednesday 16 April from Ticketek 0800 TICKETEK or www.ticketek.co.nz; and Real Groovy stores nationwide.

Watch this space!

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Rochelle 4 years ago

Yuss! Thanks heaps Gina and The Hive!
Content Editor 4 years ago

Thanks to all of you who entered . . . some of you well and truly scared the bejeebers out of me! Spooky stuff.
The three lucky winners are:
- M Kennedy (what a terrible thing to witness)
- Rochelle (just plain weird - what the . . . ?)
- Toni Kaiwai (you should write a screen play)
Have a great time at the show - it's sure to go off!
Gina @ Eventfinder
mtbm 4 years ago

Where do the cakes go when you've spent all afternoon baking and there's nothing left the next day?
Toni Kaiwai 4 years ago

Part 2 of 2: Nobody could discover what actually went on in there but she had scratched the walls so hard her nails were raw and bloody.
Toni Kaiwai 4 years ago

My MUM's scary, mysterious, weird and spooky experience; Staying in a house in London where one bedroom was separated from the rest and was always cold and had a weird feeling to it. While staying there they would be awoken in the middle of the night by their blankets and sheets being slowly pulled down from the end of the bed. When the light was turned on their was no one there.
And another time at the local large old brick hospital the morgue had been built separately down a long tree-lined avenue, away from the main public area. Every night one of the staff would have to make the lonely walk down to check on the inhabitants. The door needed to be left ajar as there was no way to open it from the inside. A new nurse was given the job and being nervous and spooked by the shadowy tree-lined path she forgot to leave the door open. A night alone with the bodies tormented and terrified her so much that when they found her she was completely insane. Nobody could discover what ac
Rochelle 4 years ago

and again...
guy I know, so his behaviour is a total mystery. Its safe to say though, that next time, Casey and I will just leave him be.
Rochelle 4 years ago

and again...
guy I know, so his behaviour is a total mystery. Its safe to say though, that next time, Casey and I will just leave him be.
Rochelle 4 years ago

Full post didnt show so here it is continued....
Ran down the hall as Craig, on hands and knees tried like a rabid dog to grab and bite our ankles. And then Casey tripped. In a second he was on top of her trying to bite as she desperately held back his forehead. Instinctively I grabbed a nearby bottle and readied myself to smash it on my boyfriends head!! Simultaneously we yelled CRAIG!! and miraculously (and so luckily for him) he snapped out of it.
He went all limp and lay on the floor as Casey got up and we cowered around the corner. After a while we shakily looked in on Craig who was now slumped against the wall blinking furiously and rubbing his eyes. I asked him what the F*** he was doing!?! but he just said "when did you get home?" sleepily. I couldnt believe what I was hearing!
We tried then, and many times since to explain to Craig what happened that night but he has absolutely no recollection of it. He has never sleep walked or even sleep talked and is the most non-violent
Rochelle 4 years ago

One night, my flatmate and I arrived gratefully home after town at about 4am. On getting inside we were surprised at finding my partner asleep fully clothed on our rocking chair with all the lights blazing and the tv loud. We thought the decent thing to do would be to wake him by yelling as loudly as possible and proceded to do so - but to no avail. Spurred on, we began to shake the chair and yell, then poke him in the ear and shake the chair and yell and finally to slap him in the face and poke him in the ear and shake the chair and yell.
And then he woke up.
He snarled and seemed to be looking past our faces, his eyes were red and wide. We looked at each other and were about to laugh at the noises he was making when he launched himself violently at us and began grabbing wildly. I screamed and pulled away and then realised he was serious. His face was all contorted and he looked as if he couldnt see - but he knew where we were. I have never panicked so badly in my life, Casey and I
Jordan Sherwin 4 years ago

happened to past relitives....Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history.
Katie Mclaren 4 years ago

Something weird that has happened to me.....I once had a horrible dream that I was being chased by a hoard of angry giant rats, then they caught up with me and ate me and started eating me alive.....I then woke up with fright, limbs tingling, to actually find a huge rat moving around on the end of my bed....I was very creepy....I proceeded to kick the rat off, and have since decided that keeping rubbish in my room is not a good idea....
cafegirl 4 years ago

I had a dream that a friend from overseas rang me out of the blue and after chatting a few minutes admitted they were back in NZ. A few days later it happened for real. A little spooky
benjahmun 4 years ago

88$ are you serious!
M Kenney 4 years ago

I've had lots of weird things but I'd have to say being in lower Manhattan outside my work on 9/11 and having the 1st plane go right over my head and smash into the WTC in front of my eyes about 8 blocks away. Then the subsequent mayhem that followed, saw at least 50-60 people jump as well as see the 2nd plane hit from my building whilst staring out the window 8 floors up. Depressing story but definitely the most surreal, scariest and screwed up day of my life. Hopefully that will be as bad as it gets!
Bloopy 4 years ago

ummm...my scariest moment?
wen i went overseas in the tsunami-stricken areas, and i thought i was gonna die from being washed away. :(
sonicjett 4 years ago

Thanks gina - I think I found the right place eventually yesterday - did you recieve my entry story for the Mars volta competition?
Antony Rew 4 years ago

Mars Volta, Great. Music to make you think.
Tonyrew@hotmail.com
sonicjett 4 years ago

My strange story for the Mars Volta ticket competition is when 6 years ago I wrote on a piece of paper in the middle of the night a LONG LONG WISHLIST for a life partner (ie a man).
Basic things like caring, and sense of humour, and understanding. I didn't include things like good looking though he was always of course to me.
A few months later, completely out of the blue my boyfriend from school found me (after 38 years of not knowing where each other was).
We got together immediately and it turned out he was my soul mate. I even had a ring with two hearts tattooed on my wedding ring finger (even though the tattooist said they don't do that atall I said I was old enough to know my own mind!).
So to my and his astonishment he amazingly fulfilled all of my wishlist....except that I FORGOT TO WRITE ONE THING ON THE LIST: that we could LIVE TOGETHER PERMANENTLY.
So for the next 5 years we were fated to live in different parts of the country to each other, and commute.
But EVEN HARDER was that (because I didn't write the PERMANENT factor into my wishlist) his cancer came back - he got secondaries 3 months after we got together, and died 3 weeks after we got engaged last Valentines Day. Now I'm left to wonder what just happened.
I'm still going to Mars Volta (AGAIN - I went last year). It suits my mood after the strange events of the last 5 years.
Wai Pihema 4 years ago

Like a little kid in a candy store about this one ladies and gentlemen!!!!!!
SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!
Loved them last year, but i had a seat... Couldn't even stand up to show my appreciation without St James staff making me sit down..... Darn it!
Is it the same with the Logan Campbell?? Do we have to stay seated???..... I'll prob go for the down stairs option this year anyway....
YAY 4 VOLTA :o)