My beef right now with the way this has been announced is this: I don't expect to get the full festival pass, but given the high number of interesting concerts already announced, I would definitely get one of the other deals (like 15% off for 4-6 concerts, etc..) - but to be able to do that, the full lineup must be announced. So in the meantime, this might be somewhat unjustified, but from here to April isn't there a risk that some of these 6 high-profile concerts might sell-out? So anyone waiting for those deals would be screwed... Consequently I'm tempted to buy tickets for these six concerts right now, but of course would pay full-price. On a tangent, did anyone else notice John Oswald's name in the Cobra lineup? Nice... but will he be on sax or computer/electronics? And when is this guy going to put out more records... look at this thing I found online: "Oswald is currently the cover boy for the British music mag The Wire. He's just finished helping with James Kudelka's The Contract for the National Ballet of Canada, and is making several trips in the next few weeks to Europe to play sax with Michael Snow's improvising trio CCMC. His first Moving Still to be exhibited in North America, entitled Jacko Lantern, was recently on display in the window of Pages Books as part of both the Images Moving Pictures and the Contact Festival of Photography, while Stills, his first solo show of images, was held over at Toronto Harbourfront's Premiere Dance Theatre for eight months. He is also developing Spinvolver, a stage show with actress/dancer/singer Susanna Hood, who plays his alter-ego. Oswald has just completed 'aparanthesi', a one note electroacousmatic composition, entailing some research in the perception of sonic morphs. He recently composed a "Concerto for Wired Conductor and Orchestra", which premiered at Boston Symphony Hall. He designed the soundtrack and system for Stress, an eight-screen movie by Bruce Mau, showing at the Museum of Technology in Vienna. A new piece entitled "Oswald's First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky, (as suggested by Michael Snow)" was recently premiered in Vancouver by Paul Plimley and the CBC orchestra. He composed a score for the National Ballet of Canada for orchestra, robot piano and the disembodied singing voice of Glenn Gould. For the past three years he has been creating a database of photo portraits for a series of "Moving Stills". One of his plunderphonie video/photo collages was shown at the Royal Festival Hall Hayward Gallery in London and was immediately sold as a gift to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Of recent works, he wrote, directed and produced a radio play in four interwoven languages (Brazilian, Dutch, English & German); wrote, animated, directed & scored "Homonymy" (for chamber ensemble & cinema); scored the stage version of the silent movie classic "Metropolis"; produced the soundtrack album to the gay porn feature "Hustler White"; as well as appearing as himself in John Greyson's feature film "Un©ut" and Craig Baldwin's "Sonic Outlaws", and he was the subject of one of Moses Znaimer's television documentaries "The Originals". " A lot of this sounds mighty interesting... not to mention that he's been supposedly working for years on a new version of Plexure (quite possibly my all-time favorite Avant release.) Why is NONE of this seeing release? There could be CDs, DVDs, etc.. Bruno Bissonnette _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus