EVENTS: December 2005 Archives
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two shows in the next few somethings with PLANTS our good friends and fellow travelers into the realms of drone, string, sing, boy meets girl - boy and girl start psychedelic folk band vibes. yes yes yes you come!
sat jan 28
at gallery 1412 in seattle
bonus
world
plants
na
fri, feb 12
towne lounge
plants
world
oaxacan
i just got this story forwarded to me. its about the ArthurBall happening in LA feb 24 thru 26 2006. there is gonna be a white rainbow healing center at the party...looks like its gonna be a pretty cool festival. sun city girls films! whoo hoo
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-ca-popeye11dec11,0,3212171.story?coll=cl-suncal
POP EYE
ArthurBall to follow ArthurFest
By Steve Hochman
Special to The Times
December 11, 2005
THE outsiders are moving indoors.
ArthurFest, in its mostly alfresco inaugural edition Labor Day weekend on the grounds of the Barnsdall Art Park, showcased leading artists in a variety of underground, avant-garde and outsider movements, with Yoko Ono and Sonic Youth topping the bill. Now it has spawned a winter edition. Dubbed ArthurBall, the event will take place Feb. 24 to 26 in a series of venues along several blocks of Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park.
Among those being booked are Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme (who will team with longtime collaborator Chris Goss for a special project), weird-folk harpist Joanna Newsom and ArthurFest returnees Josephine Foster and Brightblack Morning Light. More acts, from headliners to cult favorites, are being secured, and the event will also include film, spoken word and art installations.
The Echo club will be the central venue, with nearby Taix restaurant, Jensen Recreation Center and perhaps other shops and galleries being used as well. Attendees will be allowed to stroll from spot to spot.
ArthurBall will be smaller than ArthurFest (which drew more than 4,000 people in its two days), but the philosophy is the same. Both draw on the aesthetic of Arthur magazine, which is co-presenting the weekend with Spaceland Productions.
"We're just trying to find people who love what they do and who are good at it," says Arthur founder-editor Jay Babcock. "And we're asking, expecting the audience to be curious or open enough to at least check them out."
Babcock says ticket sales and feedback far exceeded his expectations at ArthurFest, not just for such better-known acts as Ono, Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart and Spoon, but also for a wide-ranging roster of cult figures and newcomers including Japanese noise manipulator Merzbow and neo-folkie Marissa Nadler. Plans for a 2006 ArthurFest are already being made, again on Labor Day weekend, but at a new site, as Babcock says it's already outgrown Barnsdall's Hollywood hilltop. A film from the 2005 festival is being edited by director Lance Bangs, who shot all 42 acts that performed.
"We wanted to do another kind of event, something with a lower ticket price, something that ranged more outside of music with films and spoken word," Babcock says of the February plans. "It will be really fun — people walking around. All the venues are indoors, but you'll be able to walk outdoors, go from one venue to the next. We might use more spaces. And there are restaurants all along there people can check out. We might even run a shuttle bus if we end up using more places farther away."
Among the other confirmed acts at this point are rock band Pearls and Brass, avant-jazz ensemble Unknown Instructors (featuring Mike Watt, George Hurley and Joe Baiza), French-Swedish neo-folk duo Mi & L'au, veteran piano man Biff Rose and Tarantula A.D. Also on board are the Legs & Pants Dans Theatre, ethnomusical films from the Sublime Frequencies team and a "vibrational healing" installation by White Rainbow.
"It will be the mix of people you would expect from reading our magazine and coming to ArthurFest," Babcock says. "You have to stretch your mind in order for it to grow."
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7TH, 2005
7:00 PM
Take it EZ (local animation/video)
(music with/for Zach Reno)
@ The Guild Theater
ALL AGES
$3