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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Stuff to Do, Week of June 24, 2005
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:20:43 -0400



Friday, June 24
The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], New Town Drunks [http://www.thirdmind.org/featured_artists/NTD/index.html]
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, June 24
The Old Ceremony [http://www.theoldceremony.com/], The Physics of Meaning [http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Read all about The Old Ceremony in the Indy, here: http://indyweek.com/durham/2005-06-22/music.html The Physics of Meaning are Daniel Hart of Go Machine, along with the 2/3ds of Ticonderoga who aren't spending the summer cataloging birds somewhere other than Raleigh, plus cellist Ann Polesnak of Utah!



Friday, June 24
Neil Feather [http://www.neilfeather.org/], Crowmeat Bob, Inspector 22
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

The Nightlight website says:

"Neil Feather is a Baltimore inventor, musician, 'sound mechanic'. John Berndt says: "Upon seeing a Neil Feather concert, audience members tend to rigidly divide into people who are blindsided by his originality and the depth of development of his outrageous musical ideas--and those who are irritated that his music pays so little respect to anything they have heard before even in the avant-garde, finding it opaque and threatening. His music is rich, thick and powerful, but never "lands," not even in the remote sense that freely improvised music usually does. One of the most original musical minds on the East Coast and elsewhere, Sound Mechanic Neil Feather has spent over twenty years building an extremely INTEGRAL orchestra of eccentric and refined instruments, and conceiving the original idiom of music to be played on them. No foreigner to improvised music (he is also an ardent social player), Feather's true brilliance comes out when his music is purified and allowed to assert its own freestanding, weightless, and troublingly bizarre logic…" Crowmeat Bob & Tom Whitelock are the same duo who fried your mind at No Future Fest. Inspector 22 is guitarist / artist / Bananafish illustrator Todd Emmert’s solo project. His CD-R release “Friendship Cemetary Revisited” is available at CD Alley, and it’s really good!"



Saturday, June 25
The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], S.C.O.T.S. [http://www.scots.com/], Chrome Plated Apostles [http://www.demonbeach.com], Snatches of Pink [http://www.snatchesofpink.com/], New Grenada
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is a big (starts at 6:00 and goes all night) benefit for longtime local soundman/recordist Dave Schmitt, who (like nearly everybody else who works in the local-music economy) has no health insurance & is looking at some major dental work bills. The lineup is as follows:

6pm New Town Drunks
7pm New Grenada
8pm Snatches Of Pink
9pm Chrome Plated Apostles
10pm Terry Anderson's Olympic Ass Kicking Team
11pm Southern Culture On The Skids
12am The Meek
1am The Spinns



Saturday, June 25
Erie Choir, Pox Family Singers [http://www.poxworldempire.com], Regina Hexaphone [http://www.reginahexaphone.com]
Ooh La Latte, Durham

This is a benefit/fundraiser for the Troika Music Festival, which is the new name for the new version of the former Durham Music Festival, only now it is, as they used to say, all the Durham and twice the Raleigh/Chapel Hill of the old one. Here are details, from organizer Zeno Gill, about the elaborate bowling pin/artwork auction, to be emceed by Billy Sugarfix & Torch Marauder:

"16 bowling pins painted/modified/decorated by 16 artists will go up for auction on saturday night at ooh la latte in durham. this is a fundraiser for the troika music festival (formerly the durham music festival).

billy sugarfix and the torch marauder are the sexy celebrity auctioneers.

regina hexaphone, erie choir, and the pox family singers will be donating music to the event.

the artists: maria albani, laura ballance, andrew barco, amelia burch shull, howard dvorsky, sima flower, paul friedrich, zeno gill, rachel goodwin, shirle hale-koslowski, harrison haynes, christian karkow, ron liberti, viva massung, mac mccaughan, and one or two of the rosebuds.

it should be a good time -- almost as good and real as your favorite reality tv show. the bowling pins are beautiful. you can see many of them on display at schoolkids in chapel hill. all of them will be on display at ooh la latte all day on saturday.

and it's a good cause, the troika music festival, though the name has changed, is still a non-profit venture now aimed at benefitting the music and arts scene in durham, chapel hill, and raleigh. the new name is here to make the festival feel more inclusive.

come for the music, come for the bowling pins, come for the san pellegrino limonata, or come becuase you have a secret crush on some or all of the pox family singers.

the event formally begins at 8, so that people can browse and socialize and all that crap."



Saturday, June 25
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers [http://www.prayersandtears.com/], The Strugglers [http://www.thestrugglers.org/], Virginia Reel
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Strugglers have a wonderful new album in the can; it's called "You Win" and it's easily the best thing they've done. Won't be released here until October sometime, however, so in the meantime you owe it to yourself to see/hear them play some of it live.

Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers make something akin to "chamber-emo," but I'm already embarrassed for having said that, so I'll cut my losses & not continue.



Saturday, June 25
The Bleeding Hearts [http://www.thebleedinghearts.net/home.html], Chrome Plated Apostles [http://www.demonbeach.com], Dude Garden
Kings, Raleigh



Sunday, June 26
Theremin Contest
The Cave, Chapel Hill

We got an email from Groves:

"please forward this message to any theremin player you might know

hey ya'll there is going to be a theremin contest in Chapel Hill N.C., Sunday June 26th. everyone is invited to compete. no entry fee or pre registration required.

there is a twenty five dollar grand prize.and a panel of three celebrity judges. all non contact instruments allowed. each contestant may compete in one or both of two categories:

1. straight no chaser
2. theremin plus

each contestant will have 10 minutes for each piece. after the contest a special "forest of theremins" free for all. no entry fee. no cover. master of ceremonies Hoppie Newton. contestants should try to arrive by 9pm. any questions feel free to call 919.545.0176 or email me at groveswiller @ aol.com"



Monday, June 27
Eyes to Space [http://www.eyestospace.net/], Something About Vampires and Sluts [http://www.somethingaboutvampiresandsluts.com/], Veronique Diabolique [http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Nerd-rock from Chapel Hill (Eyes to Space) plus arbitrarily French-speaking goth from Durham (Veronique Diabolique) plus ? = ???



Monday, June 27
Comets on Fire [http://www.cometsonfire.com/], Growing [http://www.growingsound.com/], Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org]
Kings, Raleigh



Tuesday, June 28
Transportation, Mowing Lawns [http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html]
The Library, Chapel Hill

The Library is a long skinny club on East Franklin, more or less directly across from the Varsity & Peppers. The stage occupies most of the front window area, and the sound can be iffy, but they've got the Rogue Dead Guy Ale on tap, which makes up for a lot.

Transportation are unaffected 70s revivalists; they like a sweet piano melody & a pretty male vocal and a song that has something to say, and they've also got a soft spot for the occasional bombastic guitar. They're clearly fond of Badfinger, Queen, Wings, pre-Christie Billy Joel, but their affection isn't slavish and they're not really hung up in the past. They just know what they like.



Wednesday, June 29
Tennis and the Mennonites [http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com], Sean Hoots & Hellmouth [http://www.myspace.com/seanhoots]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

I love Tennis & the Mennonites; they've got a nervous energy and a skittish way with rhythm and singer Jerstin Crosby lets his voice crescendo & break & there are the occasional oohs & las and if you like the Feelies, or the local band Pleasant (whose bassist Maria Albani is in T&theMs as well) then you'll likely go away happy.



Thursday, June 30
The Young Idea [http://www.theyoungidea.com], Kitty Little [http://www.kittylittle.com/]
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, June 30
The Know [http://www.theknowrocks.com], The Close [http://www.thecloserocks.com], Monsonia [http://www.monsonia.com]
Kings, Raleigh



Thursday, June 30
David Karsten Daniels [http://www.davidkarstendaniels.com/], ZZZZ [http://www.zzzzmusic.com/], Manishevitz [http://www.manishevitz.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, July 1
Zen Frisbee
The Cave, Chapel Hill

If it's July in an odd-numbered year, it must be time for a Zen Frisbee reunion. My fondness for Zen Frisbee cain't hardly be expressed in words, but suffice it to say that for me, the "Chapel Hill Sound" will forever be best defined by the ZF ouvre. They were a gloriously sloppy band for the first 20 minutes of nearly every show they played, and occasionally a transcendantly brilliant band for the final 15-20.

Guitarists Laird & Kevin Dixon (that's Laird writing the odd, immediately distinctive fingerstyle guitar parts for Shark Quest; Kevin writes & draws the "and then there was Rock" weekly comic for the Indy) feud between every song & then convert that energy to dueling/interlocking guitar parts that bob & weave just below singer Brian Walker's own bobbing & weaving (well, significantly more weaving than bobbing, I guess). It may not be possible to explain the power of the sight of Brian, sweaty, disheveled, leaning on a stool, singing through a megaphone, but there's a reason every woman in town was fascinated by Zen Frisbee, even (especially?) those who couldn't stand them on record.

Which is particularly odd because the great mystery of Zen Frisbee to me was always how they could be so gloriously sloppy onstage and so brilliantly layered & on-point on record.

In any case, if I miss either of this weekend's ZF reunion shows, it must mean I'm stuck under an overturned tractor somewhere.



Friday, July 1
David Karsten Daniels [http://www.davidkarstendaniels.com/], The Physics of Meaning [http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/]
Ooh La Latte, Durham



Friday, July 1
Growing [http://www.growingsound.com/], Black Castle [http://www.enterblackcastle.com], Second Husband
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



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