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  • From: Ben Davis <ben_dontspamme_davis AT unc.edu>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Week of February 17, 2005
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:28:42 -0500


It HAS to be over by 10 - when the 2nd show starts - -
So it cant start any later than 8:30 at the very latest..

grady wrote:
> Is it for real for real early? Because we tried to go to the supposedly
> 9-11p.m. show at Nightlight last night (Dynamite Club + 2 Japanese
> bands) only to learn, once we got there, that it had somehow been merged
> with the Triple-Ts dance night that was to follow, and thus the first
> band wasn't going on til 10:30 or something.
>
> Hmm.
>
> Ross
>
> Ben Davis wrote:
>
>> as if there wasnt enough...
>> you can eat and catch an early show...
>>
>>
>> Friday Feb 18th
>> Early Show at Nightlight (Skylight Exchange, ) Chapel Hill, NC
>> 405 1/2 w rosemary st chapel hill NC 27516 919.933.5550
>>
>> *********8 pm********** for real
>> Ben Davis (solo) Lovitt Records
>> Panoply Academy of Legionaires – Secretly Canadian
>>
>> Come out and see an amazing band, the Panoply Academy of Legionaires,
>> on tour from Bloomington, IND. Arty rawk that will shake your butt and
>> your brain –the veteran band's live energy has made them a fan
>> favorite for every young scrapper who has been lucky enough to see
>> them perform on their dozen tours across the US between 1996 and 2001
>> in which they played every sweaty basement DIY club in the midwest and
>> on both coasts. -vintage avant-kookiness perfected across three
>> full-lengths ,an EP and countl;ess compilation tracks – NOT TO BE MISSED-
>>
>> Ben Davis will open with some solo renditions of songs from his 2 CDs
>> on Lovitt records – A set created uniquely for this show involving a
>> laptop and a keyboard - .
>>
>> grady wrote:
>>
>>> Thursday, February 17
>>> Dynamite Club [http://www.dynamiteclub.com/], Guva
>>> [http://homepage3.nifty.com/fact/], Piccarensu
>>> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>> Dynamite Club are from NYC but either one of them is Japanese or
>>> they've otherwise landed on the mysterious asia-touring-circuit;
>>> their website is filled with references to headlining huge festivals
>>> in Taiwan, plus of course here they are arriving at Nightlight with
>>> two Japanese bands in tow.
>>>
>>> Details are sketchy about Guva and Piccarensu, other than their basic
>>> Japaneseness. What we know about Dynamite Club is based primarily
>>> upon the photos on their website, which involve seemingly frantic
>>> gyrations & playing guitar in one's tighty-whiteys. Also: kung-fu
>>> and/or wrestling. The songs are evil, but in a good way.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thursday, February 17
>>> Eugene Chadbourne [http://www.eugenechadbourne.com/], Han Bennink
>>> [http://www.epitonic.com/artists/hanbennink.html], Kolyma
>>> [http://www.myspace.com/kolyma], Sunshine Radio [http://www.thenein.com]
>>> Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh
>>>
>>> Dr. Eugene Chadbourne (he's a doctor of ethnoweirdmusicology) has
>>> devoted most of the past 30 years to destroying the boundaries
>>> between the indigenous musics of the United States: blues, jazz,
>>> country, bluegrass. I dunno if he's taken on hip-hop yet, but I
>>> suppose it's only a matter of time, provided he can figure out how to
>>> play it on a banjo or his electric rake.
>>>
>>> Han Bennink is an avant-garde drummer from the Netherlands. How
>>> badass is he? He played on Eric Dolphy's "Last Date" album in 1964,
>>> for chrissake.
>>>
>>> Kolyma is an unholy collaboration between longtime Raleigh
>>> artschool-punker Russ DeSena & free-noiser Crowmeat Bob; Sunshine
>>> Radio is a noisy/droney Nein side-project featuring that band's
>>> guitarist Finn Cohen & its resident noise/loopmaker Dale Flattum.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thursday, February 17
>>> The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], The Rachel
>>> Nevadas [http://www.therachelnevadas.com/]
>>> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thursday, February 17
>>> Randy Whitt and the Grits [http://www.randywhitt.com/]
>>> Fuse, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Friday, February 18
>>> The Sadies [http://www.thesadies.net/], Neko Case
>>> [http://www.nekocase.com/], Visqueen [http://www.visqueenonline.com/]
>>> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>>>
>>> Neko Case is probably famous enough already; she's from Canada, she
>>> belts out the country music in a voice powerful enough to rival that
>>> of the First Lady of Country Music, Loretta Lynn, and she's prone to
>>> absentmindedly touch herself onstage while singing. At least she used
>>> to be. She's released a string of much-admired solo albums, and
>>> anytime her sometime-collaborators the New Pornographers come to
>>> town, the only thing anybody ever wants to know is "Is Neko Case with
>>> them?"
>>>
>>> Visqueen are from Seattle and until late last year were known chiefly
>>> as the more-or-less unknown young turks who'd mysteriously talked
>>> longtime (as in: 20+ years) Fastbacks bassist Kim Warnick into
>>> playing with them. Then she quit.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Friday, February 18
>>> Pulsar Triyo [http://www.duke.edu/~pl15/thepulsartriyo], Pulsoptional
>>> [http://www.duke.edu/~jaf16/pulsoptional.html], UNC Gamelan Ensemble
>>> [http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/], Gerty [http://www.gerty.org],
>>> Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com]
>>> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>>>
>>> This is a Tsunami relief benefit, with quite the dizzying array of
>>> acts, from the synth-fueled 80s-influenced dance-pop of Gerty to the
>>> 21st-century-classical avant-compositions of the Pulsoptional
>>> collective; the guitar-jazz (with Radiohead cover) of Duke's Pulsar
>>> Triyo; the avant-spazz of Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan; and the UNC
>>> gamelan, which they procured from central Java back in 2000. Just so
>>> you understand the complexity of what we're talking about, a quote
>>> from their website:
>>>
>>> "A Central Javanese gamelan consists primarily of bronze instruments
>>> - horizontal and vertical gongs ranging from 6 inches to 4 feet in
>>> diameter and metallophones with from five to fourteen keys - but also
>>> includes several stringed instruments, flutes, drums, and male and
>>> female voices in performance."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Friday, February 18
>>> Jett Rink [http://www.jett-rink.com/], Asobi Seksu
>>> [http://www.asobiseksu.com/], Fashion Design
>>> [http://fashiondesignband.com/]
>>> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>> Oh lord, Jett Rink. Sometimes I forget how good they can be, and then
>>> I'll hear one of their frantic numbers -- "Born Hungry," off the
>>> Bandwidth comp, say, or "I'll Take Everything" from their WXDU
>>> performance last year -- and I fall in love all over again. What a
>>> bunch of fucking spazzes, in the best possible sense of the word.
>>>
>>> Fashion Design bring the rumbly fuzzy MyBloodyValentiney chorus and
>>> the crazy reverb and the 80sUKinfluence & the 4AD sensibility and the
>>> nutty hyperactive drummer named Kuki Kooks, like for real.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Friday, February 18
>>> Weird War [http://www.dragcity.com/bands/weirdwar.html], Valient
>>> Thorr [http://www.valientthorr.com/], Art Lord and the Self Portraits
>>> [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com]
>>> Kings, Raleigh
>>>
>>> Weird War used to be called the Scene Creamers, and before that, at
>>> least half of them were in the Make*Up. They're still all about the
>>> crazy psyched-out acid-soul punkrock funk dancemuzik.
>>>
>>> Valient Thorr are from Venus, and they make old-fashioned
>>> high-concept preach-from-the-stage space-metal, all about rocking,
>>> and being stuck on Earth, and rocking some more.
>>>
>>> Art Lord & the Self Portraits are from Greenville, which is
>>> apparently really close to Venus, and they make minimalist
>>> Casio-tronica with weird fey vocalese.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> Tift Merritt [http://www.tiftmerritt.com], Hotel Lights
>>> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>>>
>>> It's a good thing Tift didn't beat out Loretta Lynn for best country
>>> album at the Grammys earlier this week. Partly because the album in
>>> question, "Tambourine," is a lot closer to "Dusty in Memphis" than to
>>> country. Mostly, though, because I know it would've broken Tift's
>>> heart to beat Loretta; she's just that kind of girl.
>>>
>>> Hotel Lights are the newish kinda-mournful [but-still-catchy] pop
>>> outfit of former Ben Folds drummer Darren Jessee; their debut album
>>> made a lot of locals' ten-best lists last year, and for good reason.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> Dom Casual, $2 Pistols
>>> Ooh La Latte, Durham
>>>
>>> An all-too-rare live show at Ooh La Latte; it's an excellent space
>>> for live music, but for whatever reason the folks at Ooh La would
>>> rather be a daytime coffeeshop than an all-around
>>> coffee/bar/rockclub, so the live shows are now few & far between.
>>>
>>> Dom Casual are a surf/garage/rock outfit from Durham. $2 Pistols
>>> y'all know about; they've been reliably turning out the
>>> Bakersfield-style hard country for going on 10 years now, and they've
>>> never let up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> Brass Castle [http://www.brasscastle.com/], Matt Meacham, Mt. Moriah
>>> [http://www.coldheavenrecordings.com/]
>>> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> The Moaners, The Pink Slips
>>> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>> The Moaners are Melissa Swingle (ex-Trailer Bride) and Laura King
>>> (ex-Gerty, ex-Grand National); sometimes they're like crazy
>>> psyched-out buzzsaw blues (and sometimes they're like Mr. Airplane
>>> Man's approximation thereof), and sometimes they remind me a lot of
>>> the eccentric guitar/drums backwoods singer/songwriterism of the
>>> really early Trailer Bride, back in '94 or so. Either way, Melissa is
>>> one of my favorite singers in the Triangle, and Laura is one of the
>>> best drummers I've ever seen, anywhere. I'm told Moaners are first,
>>> ~10p.m., with the all-woman garage-rock of the Pinkslips to follow.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> Erie Choir, Autumn Picture [http://www.autumnpicture.com/], Polynya
>>> [http://home.mindspring.com/~polynya/index.html]
>>> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>>>
>>> Eric Roehrig, who is half the guitarists in Sorry About Dresden and
>>> all the songwriters in Erie Choir, sent this email:
>>>
>>> "Erie Choir cordially requests your presence this Saturday, February
>>> 19th at the Duke Coffeehouse in Durham, NC to witness musical
>>> performances by Erie Choir, Autumn Picture and Polynya. Erie Choir
>>> will be up to five members for this evening with the triumphant
>>> return of Robert P. Biggers. Autumn Picture is a fellow named Hubert
>>> from Montreal that the Nein hooked up with during their crusade to
>>> spread rock to the Great White North. I have to admit I haven’t seen
>>> Polynya before, but since Luke from Fashion Design and Amelia from
>>> Ameliorate are seemingly involved, I’ll assume the best.
>>>
>>> If you haven’t been to the coffeehouse for awhile, they really seem
>>> to have the place rocking again. The Wrens show last Saturday was
>>> great and the BYOB policy lets you consume your favorite bevarages
>>> without paying a premium for it. May I suggest bringing a small
>>> cooler since that fridge in the corner no longer works."
>>>
>>> Me again: What I know about Polynya is that some of them were
>>> involved in The Caterpillar, which is the Cure cover band that has
>>> played a couple of shows with The Shankleys, the Smiths cover band
>>> from Durham. I vaguely remember thinking, while watching Polynya,
>>> "gee, they like the Cure" but that's all I recall.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> The Films, Sullentine, Whale Watchers
>>> Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org], Spader, Filthy Bird
>>> Kings, Raleigh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 19
>>> Amish Jihad, Kudzu Wish [http://www.kudzuwish.com/], Thunderlip
>>> [http://www.thunderlip.com/], Can Joann [http://www.canjoann.com/]
>>> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sunday, February 20
>>> Death Ray Davies [http://www.deathraydavies.com/], The People Under
>>> the Bridge [http://www.duckonbike.com/artistinfo.asp?artistid=378],
>>> The Quarantines [http://www.thequarantines.com]
>>> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Monday, February 21
>>> Visqueen [http://www.visqueenonline.com/], Mowing Lawns
>>> [http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html], The Young Idea
>>> [http://www.theyoungidea.com]
>>> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
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