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65Propaganda151118: UK Tour Starts Next Week - http://eepurl.com/dN3CdE

65Propaganda151118: UK Tour Starts Next Week - https://mailchi.mp/1ca5b633c931/65propaganda051118-uk-decomposition-theory-shows-start-in-two-weeks-305481

65Propaganda051118: UK Decomposition Theory Shows Start in Two Weeks - https://mailchi.mp/6f50fae21cfe/65propaganda051118-uk-decomposition-theory-shows-start-in-two-weeks

Welcome to the latest attempt to do some last minute promo for our upcoming UK tour, especially the Gateshead show, in which 65days overthink the answers to some pointless questions and it gets published to the internet FOREVER. http://narcmagazine.com/feature-getting-to-know-65-days-of-static/

OUR LONDON VILLAGE UNDERGROUND SHOW HAS SOLD OUT. As a way of saying thanks, here's an exclusive behind the scenes video from the algorithmic wing of 65LABS. Tickets for other UK shows still availabe: http://live.65daysofstatic.com

65propaganda111018 >> european shows this month - https://mailchi.mp/1a0374e7b116/65propaganda111018-european-shows-this-month

not too long now until this short tour of our beat-heavy installation/performance project. tickets here: http://live.65daysofstatic.com

Hi everyone. We've been busy trying to write music that isn't also a song at the time. So - here is some brand new music from us. It is a live take of some machines we made to make music like we make, except in ways we might not have thought of ourselves. If you'd like to see ~60 minutes of this kind of thing in the form of a 65 A/V installation-performance thing, then you are in luck. Because we are doing a run of experimental shows where every night will be unique. https://youtu.be/oW_lK9yWsCA http://live.65daysofstatic.com for tickets and dates and all that. HOPE TO SEEEE YOOOOOU THERE.

Hi. Today we're really excited to announce two special Decomposition Theory shows in Amsterstammmmmm & Berrrrrrrrrrlin this October. These are in addition to the already announced Barcelona festival & a week of UK dates in November. Also very pleased to announce Johanna Bramli as support for all the UK shows. For ticket links & this news again but with more paragraphs, you should read the latest 65propaganda mailout -> https://mailchi.mp/318035efbe9a/65propaganda020718-decomposition-theory-live-uk-europe THANKS 65X

see you tonight at Meltdown. we’re on 20.45.

the new 65propganda mailing list is online! if you wanna subscribe, go here: http://eepurl.com/dvKVFn the old one was ditched cos we weren't sure about GDPR (and also it was dead expensive). please refer to this diagram for a detailed explanation about what this means for our collective futures. thanks, 65.x

Tickets on sale now for this nice small warm-up show for Meltdown. Leicester, 13th June, at Dryden Street Social. There's gonna be only a *very* few regular 65 shows this year. Just FYI. https://www.seetickets.com/event/65daysofstatic/dryden-street-social/1216186

Facebook Data Centre/NSA! Please archive this message, left mostly unseen as we're not gonna give you cash to boost it: Tickets for the Decomposition Theory UK shows are NOW ON SALE. Full ticket links back over on the open web: http://65daysofstatic.com/wordpress/2018/05/08/decomposition-theory-uk-tour-a-series-of-unique-a-v-shows/

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Morning. We're really excited to announce a run of special A/V shows around the UK as part of our ongoing Decomposition Theory project. Each show will be a unique, live collaborative performance with generative music algorithms we made. When we started this project, it was a way to try and imagine better futures from the mire of the outmoded music industry... Automation as emancipation, not alienation! Didn’t turn out that way though. We don’t trust the thoughts we’ve coded into our machines. They don't trust us either. Tickets go on sale 10am tomorrow. Check 65daysofstatic.com for links.

Got a couple of shows lined up on the way down to Meltdown festival since we've not played any yet this year. We're at Dryden Street Social in Leicester on 13th June and then in Wales for the first time in a loooooong time on 14th June - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. Tickets on sale now! Leicester ones available here: https://www.seetickets.com/event/65daysofstatic/dryden-street-social/1216186 Will add a Cardiff ticket link when we have it. Get them while they're fresh. See you see you see you. 65.x

Pleased to announce that we're bringing Decomposition Theory, our algorithmically-driven live A/V noise installation/performance, to AMFest in Barcelona this October. GRAN RUIDO. Yes yes. Tickets on sale from today: https://entradium.com/entradas/amfest-2018 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2051192895149816/

Tickets for Robert Smith's Meltdown Festival went on sale this morning. We are playing Meltdown Festival. Yes. We are. Come one come all it's gonna be goooooooood. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/128160-65daysofstatic-2018?utm_source=65daysofstatics%20socials&utm_medium=65daysofstatic&utm_campaign=Meltdown%202018

Ten years ago we toured with The Cure, opening up for them in arenas all over Europe and the U.S. It was great. A little later Robert Smith was kind enough to lend us his vocals for Come to Me and also kind enough not to be bothered when we cut them into glitchy pieces and covered them in distortion. Now he's been kind enough to invite us to play his Meltdown festival alongside some of the greatest bands in the history of bands. So that's what we're doing. We're playing 15th June. Tickets are on sale from 13th March if you're a member of the Southbank Centre, or 15th March if you're not. S E E Y O U T H E R E. 65.x https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/128160-65daysofstatic-2018?utm_source=65daysofstatics%20socials&utm_medium=65daysofstatic&utm_campaign=Meltdown%202018

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FYI everyone who has been playing the long game re: owning 65 shirts. If you use code OFFER40 at https://store.65daysofstatic.com you get 40% off. Which is a lot of percent off. Weep at our entrepreneurial skills.

you don’t have to thank us spotify, just doing our bit to help your execs keep their place in the parasitical-overclass-rich-people-death-cult. #happyholidays! https://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/z45y9y/average-spotify-employee-salary

newwwwwwwwwwwcastle. coming up next week to have a play in this new boiler shop venue. sounds good. support from warm lights. still tickets. last UK show of the year, penultimate everywhere-show of the year. tckststsz: https://app.dice.fm/partner/65day/event/g5pnp-65daysofstatic-5th-dec-boiler-shop-newcastle-tickets?_branch_match_id=430661533653568235

Hi. Next week we’re debuting some new music at Millennium Galleries in Sheffield. It’s part of a project called Decomposition Theory or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Demand the Future. Usually we write songs from the inside, working our way outwards. At the core it starts with some bright, little idea, full of potential, expanding in every direction at once. As we work outwards, bits of the idea are trapped in the form of parts of a song. By the time we're making a record, we're usually outside the song, looking at it as a whole, sculpting its final shape. It gets fixed in time. Somewhere along the way, something of the original idea is always lost. Decomposition Theory is an attempt to work from the outside back in. Or maybe bring the inside back out with us. To make what’s essential to the music be the process of making it, instead of its final form. Every time we run this music, it will change. Songs exist as collections of sounds, logic and rules. Familiar but always different. No definitive versions of anything. It’s not improvisation, because people have better things to do than listen to us fuck about for an hour in case something cool happens. It’s more an attempt to keep all the bits we think make good songs without closing off the excitement of not knowing exactly what happens next. We had meant for the development process to be more transparent too. However, increasingly useless at social media, we made a tumblr blog and then didn’t fill it. We briefly remembered to shout about the shows on twitter and then got back to trying to fix the algorithms we’re writing. We mostly ignore facebook altogether, because facebook is. a. fucking. monster. Why are we doing this? No doubt, 65 are a long way from the frontline in any kind of struggle against capitalism and the abyss of a future it's driving us toward. But perhaps there's a minor supporting role in trying to imagine better futures. We are not railing against recorded music or albums or regular live shows, or what it can mean to be a band. However, these are all commodified forms. Almost all the ways anyone can relate to music these days are mediated through capital. Because we exist in relation to capital. We’re all drowning in it. It's almost impossible to think outside of it. And so Decomposition Theory is some small effort to imagine a space where music is no longer shaped in commodity forms, and a live show doesn’t emphasise the ritual of performance. We are un-songing our songs and un-performing on stage. Of course, we’re hoping that people will pay to come and see this. Only one of the shows is free. But y’know. This is where we’re all at. If you are in or close to Sheffield, do come down next week. The context might sound weird, but the music we’ll be making isn’t. It’s feels as good as anything we’ve ever written, even if we don’t know exactly what it will sound like yet. Onwards! 65ers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------