RTP-area local music and culture

[Anne Gomez <annemgomez AT hotmail.com>]

8:00 pm, Broad Street Cafe, $7.  Host: Builly Sugarfix.
(http://www.thebroadstreetcafe.com/, http://www.myspace.com/billysugarfix) 
Line-up (in reverse order of appearance, i.e., Dexter Romweber is last): 
Dexter Romweber and the New RomansThe Scott Waite DebacleVeronique 
DiaboliqueThe Late Virginia SummersCalabi YauLAM! LAM!Dave and the Z-Tones 
What it is:  This is the third annual Dorkfest, a musical celebration of the 
fearless and the unique.  (http://www.myspace.com/dorkfest3).  Past festivals 
have included bands like Robo Sapien, Bombadil, The Clang Quartet, and Eyes 
to Space.  What exactly is a dork and what "qualifies" a band to participate? 
 That's hard to put into words.  As Potter Stewart said about obscenity in 
pornography:  "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of 
material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . 
. ." Who they are: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans - Dexter Romweber sold 
his soul at the crossroads when he was three years old in exchange for the 
voice of an angel and the guitar acumen of Lucifer himself.  The New Romans 
are the 10-piece posse that Dex is indoctrinating into his hedonistic abyss 
of demon rock-n-roll. The Scott Waite Debacle - Scott moved here from Seattle 
a year or two ago because he felt that this area did not have enough 
prog/psychedelia with a touch of jazz fusion.  To fill the deficit, he 
immediately set out to find some fellow travellers, and thankfully, now that 
this band exists, we are in musical balance again.  
(http://www.myspace.com/thescottwaitedebacle). Veronique Diabolique - 
sometimes they look classy, sometimes they look scary, and sometimes they 
look downright slutty.  They play morose and/or jangly "goth" overlain by the 
sultry vocal stylings of Domique Diabolique.  They have performed at every 
Dorkfest, which is understandable because they have a song about Derrida, fer 
chrissake.  (http://www.myspace.com/veroniquediabolique). The Late Virginia 
Summers - I've never seen Virginians TLVS, but they come highly recommended 
and have overlap in members with one of my favorite 
bands-that-can-get-an-entire-audience-to-bang-on-broken-cymbals-and-tamborines,
 A New Dawn Fades.  Besides the humans in the band, TLVS list "sawhorse with 
cookware lids," "sheet metal," and "elementary bell kit" as band members, 
thus beginning the new trend of smacking your band members during a show for 
musical affect, rather than because they screwed up.  
(http://www.myspace.com/tlvs). Calabi Yau - Charlotte's Calbi Yau, in their 
own estimation, sound like "a polite goat caught in a mirthful threshing 
machine."  I think they sound like the Minutemen are having a hockey game 
with the Ruins, then there's a brawl on the ice, and all the spectators throw 
marshmellow peeps and the hockey players fall on their asses.  Or maybe that 
was some weird dream I had.  (http://www.myspace.com/calabiyau). LAM! LAM! - 
is Betsy Shane, the flower of Durham, unleashing her inner Borderline-era 
Madonna, with spicier riffs, better dance moves, and a sassier 'tude. 
(http://www.myspace.com/lamlamband) Dave and the Z-Tones:  is me, Dave 
Zielinski, and Doug VonCannon doing our heartfelt versions of three cover 
songs (each band member picked one) on drums, clarinet, sax, and keyboard. 
(http://www.myspace.com/daveandtheztones). ***NOTE THAT DAVE AND THE Z-TONES 
ARE STARTING RIGHT AT 8 (OR VERY SHORTLY THEREAFTER) AND ONLY PLAYING FOR 10 
OR 15 MINUTES SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS OUR SPECTACULAR DEBUT AND POSSIBLY 
ONE-TIME PERFORMANCE, YOU HAVE TO GET THERE ON TIME.*** ***ALSO NOTE THAT 
THERE IS A BEST-DRESSED DORK CONTEST AT 10:00.  WHO KNOWS, MAYBE YOU'LL WIN 
WITHOUT EVEN DRESSING UP.***
 
***SORRY IF YOU'RE GETTING WORD OF THIS SHOW MORE THAN ONCE.  JUST WANTED TO 
MAKE SURE WORD GOT OUT.*** Hope to see you there! Anne
“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind 
of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”  
-          Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 
“Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?”
-          Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“I’m not like everybody else.”
-          The Kinks 
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