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  • From: Bob Wall <bob.wall AT earthlink.net>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Week of April 21, 2005
  • Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 02:26:45 GMT

> Monday, April 25
> Mowing Lawns [http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html]
> Fuse, Chapel Hill

PLUS: Hotel Motel will be playing this one as well, so bring yr fucked
up dancing shoes. We play first.


Bob

grady wrote:
>
> Thursday, April 21 - Saturday, April 23
> Sparklefest [http://www.sparklefest.com]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Sparklefest is a long-running local festival dedicated to many things
> power/pop/fuzzrock-related. You'll have to suss out the order/nights
> thing yourself via the website, but here's a semi-orderly list of bands.
> Note the triumphant return of former local Parthenon Huxley, aka Rick
> Rock, whose "Buddha Buddha" is an unjustly-forgotten local classic:
>
> THE NEVER / ROBBIE RIST / DAN BRYK / THE BREAKS / VELVET / JEFF HART &
> THE RUINS / WONDERWALL / PARTHENON HUXLEY / TERRY ANDERSON AND THE
> OLYMPIC ASS-KICKING TEAM / MITCH EASTER / WALTER CLEVENGER & THE DAIRY
> KINGS / TIM LEE / THE RACHEL NEVADAS / THE BREAKUP SOCIETY / WAFER THIN
> / THE SHAZAM / THE MOCKERS / STRATOCRUISER / THE ANDERSON COUNCIL /
> BARRY HOLDSHIP 4 / THE SAVING GRACES
>
>
>
> Thursday, April 21
> Dizzee Rascal [http://www.dizzeerascal.net/]
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Thursday, April 21
> Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org], Mahjongg [http://www.arc6ery.org/]
> Kings, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Thursday, April 21
> Jule Brown [http://www.julebrown.org]
> Fuse, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Friday, April 22
> Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com], Erie Choir, The Sames
> [http://www.thesames.com]
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
> This is the CD-release party for the long-overdue first full-length
> album from The Sames. To celebrate, they've invited the current Robert
> Biggers-powered Deluxx Version of Erie Choir, as well as Raleigh's
> not-really-nautical popband Schooner. Plus I'm told we'll see Torch
> Marauder, as well as an appearance by the Pox Family Singers.
>
> The Sames, in case you missed their debut EP back in 1947, are a
> fresh-faced bunch of lads, one-third of whose songs involve really fast
> strummy guitar bits and another third of which involve chunka-chunka
> downstrokes. Sprinkle in some la-las and a really demented lyrical bent
> & you've got a start.
>
>
>
> Friday, April 22
> The Ghost of Rock, The Young Idea [http://www.theyoungidea.com], The
> Assault, Fashion Design [http://fashiondesignband.com/], The Jones
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> It's the Kings Barcade Spring Fling, which I think just means fine young
> local bands like Fashion Design (swirly big-beat 80s britpop revivalism)
> and the Young Idea (used to wanna rock the Buzzcocks, now they wanna
> rock Wire), and fine old local bands like The Ghost of Rock (all their
> sweaters have elbow patches; all their glasses are bi-focal).
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 23
> The Moaners, Work Clothes [http://www.bullfightparty.org], Cub Country
> [http://www.cubcountry.com/]
> Ooh La Latte, Durham
>
> The show of the week is in Durham? At Ooh La Latte, the venue that swore
> off live music last year?
>
> Well, it's this year now, and this *is* the show of the week. Melissa
> Swingle (ex-Trailer Bride) and Laura King (ex-Gerty, Grand National)
> rock the gtr/drums duo format as the Moaners; it's a format Melissa
> knows well, as it was the Trailer Bride format for the first few years
> of that band's existence. This one's a whole lot meaner & bluesier, with
> Melissa going periodically apeshit with a slide.
>
> Work Clothes are as softly hushed & delicate as they ever were, only
> nowadays they've drafted Clarque Blomquist & John Harrison to hush it up
> a bit more. This works particularly well at the point in the show when
> Lee busts out a massive pickslide and they make a giant wall of rock
> noise for a minute and a half before silencing it back down again.
>
> Cub Country make laid-back country rock with crisp arrangments and
> self-effacing lyrics that never once mention crap about dogs and trucks.
> Drinking and heartache, yes, sure, but in an urban/wintry context.
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 23
> Roh Delikat [http://www.rohdelikat.com/], Jakuta & Carl
> [http://jnc.hlinak.com/], The Physics of Meaning
> [http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/]
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 23
> Chrome Plated Apostles [http://www.demonbeach.com], The Spinns
> [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], Dude Garden, Fake Swedish
> [http://fakeswedish.4t.com/index.html], Chest Pains
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> Another night of the Kings Spring Fling. Things get heavier/garageyer
> with Chrome-Plated Apostles (a slightly rearranged/customized
> chopped/channelled tucked/rolled Bad Checks), the decidedly lo-fi sounds
> of The Spinns, and the intermittently mildly baroque 60s psych-rock of
> Fake Swedish.
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 23
> Countdown Quartet [http://www.countdownq.com/]
> Fuse, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 23
> Yayhooray [http://purevolume.com/yayhooray], XXXX Squared, Tuntouchi
> [http://myspace.com/tuntouchi], Boyzone
> [http://kodakculture.org/katherine/boyszone]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 23
> Auto-Passion, Golden Dawn, Art Lord and the Self Portraits
> [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com]
> The Werehouse, Winston-Salem
>
> I mention this show ('tis in Winston-Salem, so are you going?) primarily
> because it's a freaking MySpace.com Costume Party. I stopped paying
> attention to the whole Social Networking thing a little over a year ago
> (hey, it served its purpose), but apparently while the rest of the sites
> were sinking into the inevitable lameness of last year's fad,
> MySpace.com was bribing bands with an addictive combination of free
> streaming audio and all the normal social-networking toys, and
> succeeding so wildly that even a grubby underground artrock venue like
> the Werehouse is happy to pay homage to its success. Every band you can
> think of has a MySpace page. This was not true even 3 months ago.
> Celebrate? If necessary, OK.
>
>
>
> Sunday, April 24
> tommygun [http://www.tommygunrock.com], Mogote
> [http://www.mogotemusic.net/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Sunday, April 24
> The Tranny Roadshow [http://www.trannyroadshow.org/]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> From the Nightlight website:
>
> The Tranny Roadshow is a multimedia performance art extravaganza, which
> will be touring the country in the spring of this year. It is composed
> of an eclectic group of artists, each one self-identified as
> transgender, and includes poets, rappers, filmmakers, storytellers,
> breakdancers, rock bands, comedians, actors, folk singers,
> photographers, zinesters, and more. Stationary art (i.e. photography and
> sculpture) will be on display, but most of the presentation is the live
> show, a unique variety show where the expression of gender and the
> expression of self are inseparable. The show is a fluid entity, changing
> to suit the artists and the crowd, but always it is full of
> intelligence, fun and humor. Although the Tranny Roadshow is done
> entirely by transpeople, it is not exclusively for transpeople. It is a
> raucous evening of entertainment, open and accessible to people of all
> backgrounds. While the Roadshow's goals do include challenging people
> and making them think, more important goals are to entertain them, make
> them laugh, and make them dance.
>
>
>
> Sunday, April 24
> New Town Drunks [http://www.thirdmind.org/featured_artists/NTD/index.html]
> Fuse, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, April 25
> Choosy Beggars [http://www.thechoosybeggars.com]
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, April 25
> Damien Jurado [http://www.damienjurado.com/], Two Gallants
> [http://www.twogallants.com/], Sail On, Sailor
> [http://www.myspace.com/sailonsailor]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, April 25
> Mowing Lawns [http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html]
> Fuse, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Tuesday, April 26
> Honored Guests [http://www.thehonoredguests.com/], Tennis and the
> Mennonites [http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com]
> The Library, Chapel Hill
>
> Hope those free Chapel Hill buses do late-night on Franklin Street;
> you're going to need them to jet back and forth between the Library and
> Local 506. Tennis and the Mennonites (I still haven't seen them, so
> fingers crossed) made the first truly excellent popsong of Spring '05
> with their "Magnets" from their Wicked Man EP. Don't miss them, if only
> for a chance to buy a copy of the damn CD.
>
>
>
> Tuesday, April 26
> The Strugglers [http://www.thestrugglers.org/], Hellsayers
> [http://www.goodluckcricket.com/hellsayers]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Strugglers are one of my 10 favorite current local bands of the moment;
> they combine frontman Randy Bickford's fragile/damaged country folk,
> complete with cracked voice & brilliant ear for meter & metaphor, and
> his rotating cast of backing musicians & their willingness to try
> whatever arrangements seem to make sense at the moment, including a
> brilliant show last year at Go with two drummers that was one of the
> highlights of my 2004.
>
>
>
> Wednesday, April 27
> Greg Davis [http://www.reckankomplex.com/springtourbios.html], Keith
> Fullerton Whitman [http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/], Phon
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Thursday, April 28
> Radar Brothers [http://www.mergerecords.com/bands/radar/bio.html], Hotel
> Lights, Lud [http://members.aol.com/~ludkmr/]
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> Hotel Lights are the new thing of ex-Ben Folds drummer Darren Jessee;
> their debut album was on a lot of top-20 lists last year, and deservedly
> so: it's a lovely survey of indie-pop styles, from
> slow/quiet/lush/mournful at one end to chugga-chugga ecstatic/vicious
> poprock at the other.
>
> Lud have a whole slew of material they're working up for their next
> album, and as usual it's a blend of spacious guitar instrumentals and
> third-person electric narrative anthems, all knit together by guitarist
> Bryon Settle's playing, which is so sublime that even the hardened
> punkrockers wish he'd play one more solo.
>
>
>
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