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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to do ADDENDUM: WXDU Benefit Saturday Nite!!!
  • Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:35:21 -0500

Actually, I wrote it up but my CMS seems to have eaten it. Hmm. What does this mean? Why do computers hate WXDU?

Anyway, whatever I said would have more or less resembled whatever I've said about the bands previously, so Rick!'s recapitulation of my previous listings is spot-on. Except I think I challenged Aimee to come up with a new name or play under her own, but that would better be done in person via heckling anyway. I'll make a note of that.

xo

Ross

rick sawyer wrote:
Grady may have considered it a conflict of interest to list the
following, considering that the money raised by the WXDU Benefit goes
directly into the maintenance of his radio show and its retinue of
page boys.

Saturday, November 19

WXDU BENEFIT SHOW - Opening Flower Happy Bird, Veronique Diabolique,
Des_Ark (solo), TNT Sound
Duke Coffehouse, Durham

Here's what Grady has to say about the bands:

Opening Flower Happy Bird

Opening Flower Happy Bird put out one of my favorite EPs of the year,
all low-fi bedroom guitar and cheap-keyboard beats and absurdist
lyrics sung in unison by two boys.

Veronique Diabolique

Veronique Diabolique are the French-speaking Goth band from Durham ...
[T]hey've got their own personal Renfield to drive the van & make sure
the coffins are nailed tight.

Des_Ark

Des_Ark survived their tour with Engine Down, barely; I asked Aimee
how it was & she said "ever been to Hot Topic?" Assuming she's gotten
over the exhaustion, she should have plenty of fuel for the frenzied
screaming & falling-over-backwards.

[UPDATE (by me)]: Des_Ark only kind of survived the above-mentioned
tour, in the sense that both musicians would register a pulse if
connected to a machine. Oh, and that Aimee still plays kick ass,
falling-over backwards music under the Des_Ark moniker. Don't expect
to hear any old favorites.

TNT Sound

(Entirely by me): TNT Sound is a dancehall DJ crew. They spin
Jamaican music accompanied by the sounds of bullhorns. It is hot. It's the sort of thing you could've sworn you could find around here
but never could manage to do so yourself. Now's your chance. Show up
early.

On 11/18/05, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
Friday, November 18
Voltage [http://www.voltage.camp-gay.org/voltagehome.php], Dan Friel
[http://www.myspace.com/danfrieldanfriel], Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan
[http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Anne M. Gomez (whose lunging-while-playing thing has gotten
consistently more & more violent over the past couple of years -- it
was pretty awe-inspiring last week at Chaz's Bull City Records)
summarized this show like so:

Voltage is a prog/math/spazz guitar/drums duo from Chicago with a new
CD on Flameshovel Records. They were awesome two years ago when I saw
them and I was the only one in the audience. Dan Friel is in Parts &
Labor; this is his solo electronics manifestation.

Anne plays bass in the 3rd band on the bill, Cantwell Gomez & Jordan,
but hopefully you already knew that, cuz you're already a huge fan.



Friday, November 18
The Butchies [http://www.thebutchies.com/], Gerty
[http://www.gerty.org], Dirty Little Heaters
[http://www.myspace.com/thedirtylittleheaters]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Kaia has cruised back through the Triangle on some kind of vacation
jaunt, and thus the Butchies have returned from the dead, for One
Night Only! Until the next time she passes through town, I guess.

Gerty! snapped up ex-Butchies drummer Melissa York instantaneously
upon the B's demise, and are now a supercharged 80s-retro/dance
inferno machine thing. With graphic design out the yinyang.



Friday, November 18
Transportation, Red Smokes White
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 18
Kennebec
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, November 18
Tennis and the Mennonites [http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com], The
Rachel Nevadas [http://www.therachelnevadas.com/]
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 18
Nathan Asher & the Infantry [http://www.nathanasher.com/], The Close
[http://www.thecloserocks.com]
Kings, Raleigh

Nathan Asher just won a big pricey songwriting contest -- $5000 worth
of studio gear, plus gawd knows what else. Presumably lots of weasels
circling round his door, taking him to dinner, plotting & planning on
how to make him the Next Big Thing. Last chance to see him now, so you
can say you knew him back when he was just a logorrheic kid from
Raleigh with a major Springsteen/Patti Smith jones. And a certain love
for self-promotion. He's no Ryan Adams in that department, mind you,
but I'm sure he's got enough to go around.



Saturday, November 19
Captured! By Robots [http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/], Plumerai
[http://www.plumerai.com/], Savage Knights
Kings, Raleigh

I saw Crowmeat Bob's Savage Knights band last week at Chaz's Bull City
Records. 2 saxes, bass & drums. Portions of it were as dirty &
groove-driven as Morphine; then there was the bit where Bob put down
the sax and picked up the guitar & they shredded their way through "A
Night in Tunisia." Or was it "Manteca?" I was kinda messed up on cold
medication at the time.

Earlier this year Todd Goss told me that Captured By Robots were the
craziest show he'd seen in a half-dozen years (this from a man known
to hang around with AntiSEEN and a bunch of pro wrestlers).



Saturday, November 19
The Upsidedown Stars [http://www.rabbot.net], Flutter, Projexorcism,
Clang Quartet
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

The Nightlight website sez:

"the upsidedown stars=brutal two man noise outfit(former members of
robotvsrabbit and roaring lion of two fisted kool)

FLUTTER= a trio featuring accordion, clarinet, percussion &
electronics(michael thomas jackson of o.ne. and skoweyajeed)

projexorcism=16mm film and ambient music duo

clang quartet= you know what thats about, amazing !



Sunday, November 20
Hotel Motel [http://www.hot-mot.com], Spader, Torch Marauder
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is the latest iteration of WXYC's Backyard BBQ Live-at-506 thing,
which if nothing else usually involves free BBQ from The Barbecue
Joint in Chapel Hill, which is some of the best BBQ in the Triangle,
even when it isn't free.

It also usually involves bands playing & maybe getting interviewed
onstage, which when it's simulcast on the radio usually sounds like
this: "So, how did y'all meet?" "mmrhrffh shfhbhms hadyhsms hsdhwec"
&etc.

All three of the bands on tonight's bill have songs on the brand-new
Compulation Volume Two, which you've surely acquired by now, inasmuch
as it's crucial, and thus I don't need to tell you much more.



Sunday, November 20
Cities [http://www.citiesmusic.com], White Elephant, Can Joann
[http://www.canjoann.com/]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Monday, November 21
Bearded Child Film Festival [http://www.beardedchild.com/], America's
Next Top Models [http://www.myspace.com/americasnexttopmodels], Torch
Marauder
305 South, Durham

The Bearded Child Film Festival is one of those itinerant traveling
film festivals of weird shorts & various strangenesses; it's stopping
here in part because local filmmaker and ex-Flickerimpresario Jim
Haverkamp has a film in the festival. Movies start at 8:00 & $5 gets
you in, and allows you to stay for the rockshow at 10:00:

Torch Marauder is blue and is a student of Rock Excesses of all
varieties. America's Next Top Models may not be the *only*
foul-mouthed, extremely-pissed-off political punkrock band working the
Triangle at present, but they're certainly the best-dressed. And
considering the lineup (Holy Roman Empire's Joyce Ventimiglia, Maple
Stave's Evan Rowe; CantwellGomezJordan's Anne Gomez) they're probably
the most-potentially-fuckedup and/or forced-face-dissecting around.



Monday, November 21
Ted Leo + Pharmacists [http://www.gernblandsten.com/ted/intro],
Tristeza [http://www.tigerstylerecords.com/tristeza.html], Brandon
Butler [http://www.brandonbutler.net/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Thursday, November 24
The International Noise Conspiracy
[http://www.digitalfarmers.com/tinc/], Danko Jones
[http://www.dankojones.com/], En Garde
[http://www.myspace.com/engardemusic]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

If your folks live around here, then it's a safe bet you'll be
climbing the walls by the time this show starts; go ahead, make yr
excuses (or just step over their unconscious forms on the couch) and
head out for the debut of En Garde, which features the original Sorry
About Dresden rhythm section (James Hepler & Matt "30-foot-leap"
Tomich) backing ex-Strunken White bassist John Booker as he plays
guitar & sings his way through a bunch of his own songs.

Oh yeah, and some Swedes.

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