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  • From: "Sorren Thule" <sorren23 AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: enon links
  • Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:57:07 -0500

you could try also www.enon.tv


----- Original Message ----- From: "grady" <grady AT ibiblio.org>
To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:54 PM
Subject: Stuff to do, Week of March 3, 2005


Thursday, March 3
Enon [http://www.seethrubroadcasting.com/enon/], Swearing at Motorists [http://www.swearingatmotorists.com/]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Thursday, March 3
Uncle Woody Sullender [http://www.deadceo.com/unclewoody/], Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com], Spacelab
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Uncle Woody Sullender lived here for a while, probably while attending UNC, during which time he made a lotta noise of various types & planted the seeds of his Dead CEO label before packing up & moving to Chicago along with all the other noise-lovers. Now he's touring around the country with his banjo and a cellist, presumably to hide behind while playing the banjo.

Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan are a "power trio" in the tradition of great "power trios" throughout history. Spacelab involve a lot of hunching over consoles, and minute adjustments of knobs.



Thursday, March 3
King of November, Fashion Design [http://fashiondesignband.com/]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Fashion Design are young & sassy and Britdrone-influenced and not above utilizing echoey devices. King of November is apparently a side-project of Fake Swedish guitarist Eric Haugen.



Thursday, March 3
Continent [http://216.117.191.68/continent/], Cheers To No Tomorrow, Joe Taylor
The Treehouse, Chapel Hill

The Treehouse is the sometime-meatmarket bar on the ground floor of the building that also houses Hell and Bub O'Malleys. No word yet on whether this new Thursday-night indie-rock thing is a replacement for the karaoke, or a supplement, or what. Either way, it's a little scary.

Continent are from Raleigh & they include former members of the spazz-core band The Ladderback and the 90s-era sludgecore band El Sucio. They're pretty fucking massive.

Cheers to No Tomorrow is the side project of Fin Fang Foom bassist Eddie Sanchez. Joe Taylor was in the Chapel Hill band Capsize 7 back in the 90s, and more recently was half of the duo Lystra.



Friday, March 4
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers [http://www.prayersandtears.com/], Nathan Asher & the Infantry [http://www.nathanasher.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

If anybody tries to convince you that irony killed the local music scene, you need look no further than this lineup for refutation. Although I actually don't know how seriously Prayers and Tears prime-mover Perry Wright takes himself & his project; maybe he just really digs a long phrase.

Nathan Asher, on the other hand, is, as they used to say on the playground, serious as a heart attack. Serious about politics (he's somewhere on the left); serious about human relations (he's in favor); serious about the power of music to change peoples' lives for the better. Serious, as well, about his love & admiration for, apparently, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. Or perhaps it's just that everybody that earnest winds up sounding like this.



Friday, March 4
Tigersaw [http://www.tigersaw.com], Lazarus, Castanets, The Strugglers [http://www.thestrugglers.org/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Dunno about anybody but the Strugglers, but what I know about the Strugglers is that they're a drop-dead gorgeous slow-folk/country-core setting for frontman Randy Bickford's cracked-voiced songs of loss, longing & dissociation. Their "Fair Store" EP was one of my faves of 2004 and the promise of a new Strugglers full-length in 2005 is one of the things getting me through this fucking endless freeze we're under.



Friday, March 4
Jett Rink [http://www.jett-rink.com/], Art Lord and the Self Portraits [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com], Pykrete
Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh

It's about damn time for a new Jett Rink record, and I'm not gonna say anything else about 'em until I hear one.

Art Lord and the Self Portraits are *another* weirdo "concept" band from Greenville; singer Locke Ernstfrost is the Art Lord, and his band of clones of himself are collectively his Self Portraits. And they play minimalist Casiotone dance-pop. With big muttonchop sideburns.

Pykrete is the minimalist bleeps-and-scrapes electro-noise project of Chuck Johnson, who has worked in many guises over the years, most recently as one of the guitarists of Shark Quest.



Friday, March 4
Fashion Design [http://fashiondesignband.com/], Dynasty Electric Duo [http://dynastyelectricduo.com/], Spader
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Saturday, March 5
Hotel Motel [http://www.hot-mot.com], Calabi Yau [http://www.calabiyau.com/], The Whole World Laughing, Royal Bangs [http://www.theroyalbangs.com/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Hotel Motel are even more confounding, in their own way, than their sister band Cantwell Gomez & Jordan. The songs are generally only a couple of minutes long, but after hearing a couple of them I find myself wanting a good hour or so to think about them. But the bastards keep right on playing more.

Calabi Yau are from Charlotte, and they make seriously fucked-up spizzle-rock--lots of strings scraping over other strings, and some nonstop demented yapping way in the background somewhere. There were moments of their first album that sounded like Primus's Les Claypool on massive quantities of the *wrong* medication, but I try not to hold that against them.

Hotel Motel's Anne Gomez described The Whole World Laughing like so:

The Whole World Laughing - Dave "wine in a box" Cantwell on bass and Scotty "I am absolutely positive Jesus likes heavy metal" Irving on drums. Do you need anything more?

Nightlight says this of Royal Bangs: "expected to 'infuse some spunk and personality into the rotting corpse of rock.'"



Saturday, March 5
The Trousers, BQs, Kung Flude [http://www.kungflude.com/]
Kings, Raleigh



Saturday, March 5
Indie-Rock Karaoke
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, March 7
Neva Dinova [http://www.nevadinova.com/]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Tuesday, March 8
Lou Barlow [http://www.loobiecore.com/], David Karsten Daniels [http://www.davidkarstendaniels.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Lou Barlow: played bass on the first two Dinosaur Jr records (and will be playing bass with Dinosaur Jr again, apparently, as they reunite in conjunction with Merge's reissue of the aforementioned albums); was/is a significant percentage of Sebadoh; made forty billion dollars after his side-project with John Davis, Folk Implosion, got hugely popular thanks a song on the Kids soundtrack; put out his first proper solo album on Merge last year.

David Karsten Daniels is part of that Texas-expat Bu Hanan Records posse, along with Kapow! Music, Prayers and Tears, and Go Machine.



Tuesday, March 8
Spader, Everything Now! [http://www.everythingnowmusic.com/]
Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh



Wednesday, March 9
Breaker!Breaker! [http://www.breakerbreaker.org/], Boyzone [http://kodakculture.org/katherine/boyszone], Planecrash
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

When in doubt, quote the club website: "B!B! are popminded discopulsing rainbow children who seem to be having a LOT OF FUN in all their videos. The last time Boyzone played the following things happened: bodies on top of bodies, floor-writhing, umbrellas capes, flagellation, enormous mystical tattoos, instruments becoming unplugged, lots of confusion. Planecrash = thugged-out karaoke punk."



Wednesday, March 9
Ambulance, LTD [http://www.ambulancenyc.com/], VHS or Beta [http://www.vhsorbeta.com/], Robbers on High Street [http://www.robbersonhighstreet.com/]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Wednesday, March 9
Bettie Serveert [http://www.bettieserveert.com/], Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, March 10
Goner [http://www.gonertheband.com/], Timonium [http://pehrlabel.com/artists/timonium.htm], Glissade [http://www.myspace.com/glissade]
Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh



Friday, March 11
Jule Brown [http://www.julebrown.org]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is the early show (7:30); no word yet on whether the Jule Brown Psychedelic Light Show will be out in full force for this one.



Friday, March 11
Oxes [http://www.brownpants.com/oxes], More Dogs, Man Man [http://www.wearemanman.com]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Oxes are boys in jumpsuits with wireless guitars who run frantically around the club playing frantic math-metal and colliding with people & things. Man Man are from Philadelphia and work the inscrutable / bizarre / animal-masks / noise / spazzout angles.

More Dogs are from Baltimore & are friends of our Secret Ex-Pat Baltimore Correspondent, who said of them 2 years ago, upon the occasion of their first show here, "Thinks Enoish spreads with Vandyke Parks' niblets of Americana (especially some vaguely Eastern European or Greek bubbles here and there) along side some solid rock music and there you go."



Friday, March 11
The Comas [http://www.thecomas.com], Ticonderoga [http://www.ticonderobics.com/], Vietnam, Bellafea [http://www.bellafea.com/]
Kings, Raleigh

This is CD-release time for Ticonderoga, whose website was sadly too technically involved for my limited abilities; all the songs seemed to play at once, or perhaps it was the same song playing multiple times with varying amounts of delay. It was scary.

The Comas are, on record, a much bigger louder more-overdriven alt-rocky buzzsaw of a psych band than they were a few years ago. I missed them at the Cradle recently but the consensus was positive.

Bellafea have a new EP out this week as well, and Heather has been practicing her dancing just for you.



Friday, March 11
Billy Sugarfix [http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm], Essie Jain [http://www.essiejain.com/], Secret Boyfriend
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



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