Boredoms Put Out Call for 77 Drummers

Psych-loving, post-millennial krautrock drummers: this is your chance. Legendary Japanese collective Boredoms, led by the enigmatic Eye, have put out a call for drummers to fill out their oft-postponed "77 Drum" performance installation.

As previously reported, the piece calls for 77 drummers to join the band for a performance in Brooklyn on July 7. But now, that performance has a location: the lawn of the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The free show is in celebration of the band's 20th anniversary and will take place at 5 p.m. (doors open at 3 p.m.).

Boredoms need volunteer drummers to fill out the ensemble, and a handful of those 77 will serve as drum leaders from whom the rest will take their cues. Though we don't expect this thing to be particularly organized, it's hard to imagine it not being at least 74 or 75 different kinds of cool.

Interested drummers should contact Hisham Bharoocha (currently of Soft Circle and formerly of Lightning Bolt and Black Dice) at [e-mail address retracted at Bharoocha's request] for more information. Former Minuteman/current Stooge Mike Watt and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley are helping to spread the word about the performance, so there should be all sorts of cool people involved.

Thanks to reader Jesse Kraushaar for the tip. The rest of the band's previously reported tour dates are listed below.

Dates:

06-30 Calgary, Alberta - The Warehouse
07-02 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
07-07 Brooklyn, NY - Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (Brooklyn Bridge Park)
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival