RTP-area local music and culture

[keith <wardke1 AT yahoo.com>]

      Sights&Sounds has been gracefully subjugated to the plentitud of names, 
times, dates and event details discovered by the minute on myspace.com.  
Hence, it has slowed in it's weekly dissemination.  Though the list maintains 
breath, its purpose to inform of our daily artistic and musical surroundings 
has been met, though with some limitations.  Hopefully the recievers have had 
their interests met as well as attaining expanded knowledge and enjoyment 
about the funky going-ons around town and elsewhere in the globe.  Same time 
next week?
   
  Thursday - 6/14 - Daliami - Serious electro funkiness for Little Friday.  
People here are known more for dancing than the 'stand and look'.  Music by 
Keith.  11p.  Mosaic, 517 W. Jones St., Midtown Raleigh - 
www.myspace.com/keithmward
   
    Friday - 6/15 - dJ Castro - This night one of the Neu Romance crew soley 
brings the heat with classic and progressive funk.  And I think he even uses 
those big round black plastic discs too!  10p.  Riviera, 135 S. Wilmington 
St., Downtown Raleigh - www.myspace.com/shauncastro & 
www.myspace.com/riviera_resto

   
  Friday - 6/15 and Satuday 6/16 - Douga Douga x 2 - Who wouldn't be hyped 
after being mentioned in the Washington Post?  
(www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061201851.htmlYou)
 But that won't swell the head since what swells is crowd on the dancefloor, 
the patio and in the Casbah room.  No flip flops allowed but that's no cause 
for attitude since we all want is champagne sangria and to feel 
sophisticated.  In Raleigh.  Music by Keith.  11p.  Mosaic Wine Lounge, 517 
W. Jones St, Midtown Raleigh - www.mosaicwinelounge.com   
   
  Saturday - 6/16 - FAME:  Luau - Hawaii comes home for the weekend.  It also 
brings coconut bras, bikinis and limbo in the jiggly context of bangin' house 
and tropical sips.  Music by LeMoore. 10p.  Ringside, 308 W. Main St., 
Downtown Durham
   
  Saturday - 6/16 - dJ Romaric - The former don of hot sweaty nights at the 
Red Room moves the party downtown.  Bangin' Euro house beats.  10p.  Riviera, 
135 S. Wilmington St., Downtown Raleigh - www.myspace.com/romaric & 
www.myspace.com/riviera_resto
   
  Also happening:
) -   
    Thu - 6/14 - dJ Madcow (soul n house) @ Riviera (Raleigh) - 
www.myspace.com/freakoamerican 
  Thu - 6/14 - 6/17 - Bonaroo Music Festival (Manchester, TN) - 
www.bonnaroo.com
  Thu - 6/14 - Avatar (international/house) @ Mosquito (Raleigh)
  Thu - 6/14 - Open Mic @ Aries (Raleigh) - www.myspace.com/arieslounge
  Thu - 6/14 - The Real Return w/dJs Joe Bunn & MarkT (hiphop/R&B) @ Bogarts 
(Raleigh)

  Thu - 6/14 - Soul Psychedelique @ Oliver Twist (Raleigh) - 
www.myspace.com/soulpsychedelique
  Thu - 6/14 - Latin Night @ RedRoom (Raleigh) - www.trianglefiesta.com
    ) -   
Thu - 6/14 - Electronic Bliss (electronic dance night) @ Talullas (Chapel 
Hill)

  Thu - 6/14 - 6/17 - Art Basel - (Basel, Switzerland) - 
www.art.ch/go/id/ss/lang/eng
  Thu - 6/14 - Venice Biennale Opening (Venice, Italy) - www.labiennale.org/en
Thu - 6/14 - Sasha @ Cielo (NYC) - www.cieloclub.com/flyer/2007/june/sasha/
  Thu - 6/14 - 6/16 - Sonar Festival (BCN, Spain) - 
www.sonar.es/portal/eng/home.cfm 
Thu - 6/14 - Ian Friday & Osunlade @ Sapphire Lounge (NYC) - 
www.myspace.com/afromosaicsoul
  Fri   - 6/15 - Electrosole w/Keith (lounge/house), 6p-10p @ Red Room 
(Raleigh)
  Fri   - 6/15 - dJ Marco (funk n' soul) @ 305 South (Durham) - 
www.myspace.com/soulmarcosa
  Fri   - 6/15 - 7/31 - Icons and Angels (dance) @ Through This Lens Gallery 
(Durham) - http://throughthislens.com
Fri   - 6/15 - Kiss n Grind (LA) - www.vikterduplaix.com/kiss.html
  Sat  - 6/16 - Costamundo w/Keith (lounge/house), 6p-10p @ Red Room (Raleigh)
  Sat  - 6/16 - dJ Romaric (house) @ Riviera (Raleigh) - 
www.myspace.com/romaric
  Sat  - 6/16 - L in Japanese @ Cats Cradle (Carrboro) - 
www.myspace.com/linjapanesemusic
  Sat  - 6/16 - Ebb & Flow w/Dae (downtempo/house) @ Alivias Durham Bistro 
(Durham) - www.aliviasdurhambistro.com
  Sat  - 6/16 - Battle of the DJs @ Talullas (Chapel Hill) - 
www.trianglefiesta.com
  Sat  - 6/16 - 9/23 - Documenta (Kassel, Germany) - 
www.documenta12.de/aktuelles.html?&L=1
Sun - 6/17 - Sacred Rhythm w/Joe Claussell @ LOVE (NYC) - 
www.musicislove.net/jun17.html
  Tue - 6/19 - ElectroBistro (djs - electronic) @ Fuse (Chapel Hill)



       
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AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT: The debut album from THIRD OF NEVER had it's 
start as a script. Guitarist Jon Dawson, who had grown frustrated with the 
musician pool in his native North Carolina, was working on a project that 
would incorporate live rock and roll, film, and a stage play. " I was having 
a hard time finding musicians that would dedicate themselves to the usual 
amount of work that it takes for a band to work, so I wanted to devise a new 
way to put the songs on display, so the original idea was to create a story 
that could be told through a song cycle. The performance would take place in 
a theatre with actors putting on a play, and between scenes the band would 
play a song that moved the story along, and at the same time transitional 
films relating to the play would be projected. The songs were recorded in 
demo form and a rough script was drafted. It actually made it to the 
workshop stage through the efforts of friends in New York, but a chance 
meeting with Kurt Reil of the Grip Weeds turned my attention back to the 
idea of a traditional band situation."

Dawson saw Reil perform with the Grip Weeds at a music festival in North 
Carolina, and was smitten with the bands approach to music. "I was envious 
of what they were doing, as I had tried to find musicians like that to form 
a band around, but had been having great difficulty." As the months 
progressed, Dawson continued working on the idea of the rock band/play/film 
project. He contacted Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken about being involved 
in the project, and during their conversation Dennis suggested recording at 
the House Of Vibes in New Jersey. "Dennis spoke highly of this studio, so I 
went online and lo and behold it was owned and operated by the Grip Weeds! I 
saw this as a sign and immediately approached Kurt about forming a band. 
After a few days of discussions Kurt was on board, and that got us going."

To flesh out the band, Dawson went after a pair of brothers who had already 
made their mark on the indie rock scene. "I was a big fan of a record that 
Kurt and Dennis had worked on with Jim Babjak of The Smithereens, and the 
bass player was Vince Grogan. Kurt said that he was still living in the 
area, so I went after him, and was lucky enough to get him. Now what I was 
looking for was a multi-instrumentalist....someone who could handle guitar 
and keyboard duties, along with vocal support. "Kurt had played me a few 
tracks from this album that he co-produced and played on by CJ Grogan, and 
it was fantastic. I just got the urge to call him out of the blue and 
pleaded my case, and yet again I lucked out and brought him in to the fold. 
I now had the absolute dream line-up that I'd been looking for. It was like 
going from despair to jubilation in a matter of weeks."

The next step was to finish the songs. "I turned over my demos and lyric 
ideas and we just took it from there. It was really a situation of everybody 
throwing in their ideas into a pot and seeing what worked the best. Writing 
with Kurt and CJ was a real education and alot of fun." While the songs were 
being fleshed out, Jon got an email from one of his musical heroes, John 
"Rabbit" Bundrick of The Who. "I'd contacted Rabbit several months earlier 
about being involved in the project, but he was in the midst of recording 
the latest Who album in England, and was unavailable. Luckily for me, the 
sessions were soon over and Rabbit was now available. I originally contacted 
Rab about playing on the Pete Townshend cover that we do on the album, as 
he'd played on the original. However, he asked me to send all of the tracks, 
which I did. A few days later he contacted me and said that he'd be glad to 
play on the whole album, as he was a big fan of what we were doing, which 
absolutely floored me. I'd gone from not being able to get a band together 
at all to having some of the top musicians in the world at my disposal. We 
had a nice little trail of music strewn from Carolina to Jersey to England."

The songs that make up MOODRING follow the story of the original script 
idea. "It's about a guy who has had enough of reality, and the lengths that 
he goes to in order to avoid it. There is a neat little story there to 
follow if people want it, but the songs work on their own also. If you want 
to sit down and listen to the whole thing and have a little movie for your 
ears you'll be able to...if you just want a bouncy little number to listen 
to while you do the dishes, then it'll work on that level too."

The band will be promoting the record through live shows, radio, internet, 
and film projects.

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