thursday's and friday's shows:
THURSDAY! THE 29th OF JULY!
MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA (take their drums and beat it)
FEDERATION X (Estrus Records)
the CHEEPS (Bellingham, WA)
WAREHOUSE NEXT DO'OR
1017 7th St. NW
8:30 Doors / 9:05ish Show
All Ages!
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FEDERATION X
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Well the battle of 1812 was a long and hard battle, but was won in the end by
the Indians. During which time our uncle found it necessary to write a book he
called the magna carta which he published at home and never fully finished. But
first a brief history: In 1842 we sacked the Mongols in a mustard eating contest
that would go down in history as second to none, but were aghast at the outfits
they chose to wear at the event. That was before the Hindenberg exploded, and of
course that changed everything. Federation X, founded in 1612, is comprised of
18 crazy Mexicans who all know Don Rickles. Each plays a four string guitar
composed of the most agile and consummate materials, with the heaviest wound
strings available. All guitars are played through a 2X15 and a 4X12 cabinet,
with Sunn amplifier heads to achieve maximum mayonnaise. For instance, a number
of authors question what it means to speak for one??s self and one??s community.
It was not necessary to build an airplane !
made out of bicycles and yamakas, but we did it anyway and while we were flying
over portugal with ali baba we made a pitstop in Cleveland to slap tonkies with:
Dead Moon, The Fireballs of Freedom, Supersnazz, The Whip, The Murder City
Devils, Gaza Strippers, Cherry Valence, Drunkhorse, the tight bros from way back
wheny, C-average, 400 Blows, the Cheeps, 20 Miles, Supersuckers, the Bellrays,
and Botch. this was fun, but no one could decide what shoes to wear to any of
the shows. While drunk skiing, we went disco dancing at a trendy night- club on
Mt. Olympus and then went home. Tim Green recorded our vital signs and took our
pulses at Louder studios in Kansas Missouri Spain and concluded that minimal
brain damage had occurred from the sandwich building contest that took place the
night before. Steve Albini did not agree with mr. green's diagnosis upon further
inquiry at a later sandwich building expose at his summer home in chicago USSR.
this time the focus was on low calor!
ie flame retardant pancake sandwiches and i feel that everybody learned a great
deal, although steve's speech was a little long. Speaking of discoteques, we've
opened 8 of them located throughout the great lawrence kansas area. A
full-course sit down discoteque LP and two drive up breakfast combo discoteque
7?s on Molasses Manifesto Records and a waffle pancake stack mix 7? on ??Tapes?
Records from the Brooklyn towne, two full-tilt weenie roast hamburger basket LPs
on Estrus Records, a single on wantage records of us impersonating budgie, and a
four band double lp split with no humour added also on wantage records USA, do
or die. We??ve shit in every bathroom across the United States 8 times, and the
ones on the west coast we??ve shit in ??a whole lot more?, and we went to europe
and shit in some of their bathrooms too. In our days of painting landfills with
phyllus diller, our television broke and isntead of getting it fixed we started
a miniture golf business with : The Dub Na!
rcotic, The Monkeywrench, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Billy Childish, Comets on Fire,
Fleshies, The Narrows, Lost Goat, Bantam Rooster, Last of the Juanitas, The
Quadrajets, The Catheters,Immortal Lee County Killers, Fatal Flying Guilloteens,
Scared of Chaka, The Swarming Hordes, The Bangs, Zen Guerilla, ...And You Will
Know Us By the Trail of the Dead-a-doo, The Fucking Champs, Gas Huffer, Pretty
Girls Make Graves, Japanther, and Seattle??s favorite loony birds-Zeke.We have
played over 300 tonkers, unfortunately none yet with Martin and Lewis. While we
were on tour we took turns beating the broccoli out of a ??77 Impala dragging a
trailer, with 57 hungry horses in it, horses and occasionally rhinocerouses are
vital for "serious" touring. But now our Impala is broken so we bronzed it and
got a van. i'd just like to take a moment to say that i haven't made my bed
today and i don't give a damn who knows it.
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http://www.thecheeps.com/ http://www.geocities.com/federationxonline/ http://planariainc.com/mmr +++++++++++++++++++
Clavius Productions presents:
From Quagmire
Gutterhelmet
Christophe Albertijn
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th Street NW
Washington DC
Friday, July 30th
doors at 9:30pm, show at 10
$5
From Quagmire [www.fromquagmire.com]: a DC-based collective with CDs on VHF Records, and comprised of members of Rake [CameraObscura/Eclipse/VHF], Laconic Chamber [Camera Obscura], and The Espers [locust]. "Points of silence, hesitation, the sonic potential of instruments pushed to their limits, but always with a subtlety that demands respect. This is a reassuring voice with the curious ability to transform itself into disturbing hymnody, waves stirred up at the hands of V., the moments of pure beauty when the musical lines all come together in impossible agreement, each moaning with its own voice, hopeless but assured, the rhythm itself equally on the point of breaking, threatening to shove this entire beautiful world into the void...", Fluctuat.
From Quagmire is Dorothy Geller (Laconic Chamber, Elegy) on finger-picked nylon string guitar and hushed vocals, James Wolf (also Laconic Chamber) on violin, and Vinnie Van Go-Gogh (Rake) on guitar, percussion, and situationism. Their second CD, Caught in Unknowing , strongly follows on from their 2001 debut, Tropic of Barren, further evolving the Virginian trio??s exquisite and unique chamber music. Here the spaces between notes seem even more like chasms, the sounds of instruments laid bare by the extraordinary fidelity of their recording. In fact, the compositions on Caught in Unknowing seem like X-rays of songs, their skeleton defined and everything else a ghostly imprint. The pieces on Caught in Unknowing typically center around some kind of basic internalized folk-song core provided by Dorothy??s guitar patterns and whispered lyrics, around which the other members weave sonic exclamations wild violin excursions from James, and the sound of complaining hinges and a spectra of clatter from VVGG.
Many sounds are of indeterminate origin, and for some reason that makes for compelling listening of the ??how did they do that?? variety. The lengthy central track (possibly called "Stale Mate" though it is a little hard to tell with a track listing that appropriately is a circular thing with no obvious beginning or end) wraps up all of these elements into a transfixing whole, and asks the listener to try and think of something else that sounds like this. And that??s a question that doesn??t get asked very often any more, and even less often results in a stumped listener. (from Ptolemaic Terrascope)
Gutterhelmet: The music has elements of Celtic and Eastern European musics, noise, free improvisation and prog rock but without the usual preciousness and contrivances that often go along with "eclectic" music. The duo consists of Alec K. Redfearn and Barnacled of Providence's Eyesores. Matt McLaren on Drumkit and Alec on electrified accordion fed through two amps: one for the keyboard side and one for the bass button side so as to make a power trio of two. There is also ample use of distortion pedals on both channels making for a pretty unusual accordion tone. There are many samples of compositional work at
www.aleckredfearn.com. Christophe Albertijn [Belgium]: Electrified guitar in the tradition of Henry Flint or Tony Conrad or other strands of minimalists/maximalists, but also John Fahey or Joseph Spence. Guitar that is influenced as much by folk/blues music as electro-acoustic music, noise, pop and free-improvisation. Using composed parts in an improvisational framework.
