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FESTIVAL Of The DRUMS!!!
Sunday, July 12th, 4pm 'till closing $7
Stork Club, 23rd St. & Telegraph, Downtown Oakland
(510) 444-6174 www.storkcluboakland.com
A torrent of drums. A hurricane of drums.
Roaring class 6 rapids of drums!!!!!!!!!!!
Seven bands adding countless drummers at the Festival of Drums. More thunder than the drum corps. More power than the solo in "Wipeout." More drum solos than a Led Zeppelin concert!
Bands will be encouraged to add extra drummers or percussionists through some or all of their set. Bands will be encouraged to end their sets with an “all star” jam. Audience members will be encouraged to bring percussion instruments and join in under direction of the band! The theme of this BBQ is "graduation" and it will also be Bunny Numpkins & the Kill Blow-Up Reaction's cd release. So dust off your double kick petals, tablas, and kettle drums and get ready to rumble.
The Festival of DRUMS was originally conceived as an epic music festival that would take place in Havana, Cuba with drummers from all over the world, but due to travel restrictions, the Economic down-turn and the inability of our principal performers to get the time off work, we settled for the lively, divey Stork Club in Oakland's beat-friendly Koreatown district. We will celebrate the power of the drum to invigorate the soul, bring lust and desire back into our loins while kicking up such a loud, thunderous racket there will be naked, sweaty dancing long into the night. Blazing in back, you'll find BBQ flames leaping high into the twilight with tables nearby groaning under the weight of so many, many meaty (& veggie) delectables (all included in the price of admission!)
Not to be out-done, the Stork Club's generous bar will be pouring (heavily) all manner of beverages required to slake your crazed rhythm-driven thirst. This is going to be AWSOME!
Static Mind-Fi 11:00
Accidental SlowFood Rhythm Spoor
Static Mind Fi is Scott Franklin, Stephanie Mufson, and Andy League. Scott and Stephanie began playing music together in 2003 in Baltimore, MD. Writing songs influenced by the likes of Califone, Built to spill, the Microphones and sonic youth (just to name a few) they played shows and juggled bass players until 2004, when they up and moved to the San Francisco bay area. Starting fresh, honing in on their sound, they began to write all new songs. In early 2006 Andy entered the picture and it all clicked into place. The result is an unusual take on experimental rock with an affinity for tribal drums and spontaneous static.
The New Dysfunctions 10:15
Suicide Hotline Operator rejects
The New Dysfunctions are a darkly acoustic, lush combination of forces that take the listener on a journey through helplessness, unwanted change, and the desire to give up and accept the inevitable. The primary instruments used are piano, guitar, bass, drums and layered voice along with some violin. Creating a soundscape for the lyrics to inhabit without distracting the listener's attention away from them.
Siddhartha 9:30
Chinese traditional Seoul
Siddhartha was formed the day you decided it should be. You lied to your subconscious and survived a massive disintegration of your psyche. Continue to try and hide and take hands with your brothers and sisters. Because at the end of the day every little part of you is every little part of everything else.
Since 2007, I have decided that we are all a part of nothing. Nothing is something in fact its the radio. I am the radio, and I am the cinema. You'll often find me and my mates hanging out at the end of the bar at your favorite discotheques. All in all, its just music and words. Its easy. I write grants for the spiritually deprived, I help the blind to see. In the end your friend I shall be.
The Happy Clams 8:45
un-pop/Butt-Uggely/un-pop
And on the eighth day God made the place that opened up in the morning and served donuts and coffee. In no time flat we ended up with a lot of people being born in the 20th century. Three of them became members of
the group The Happy Clams, who ride the Back 40 charts of what we know as today's Un-Pop music. One of them had a donut and coffee the other day. Coincidence? I think not.
Bunny Numpkins and the Kill Blow-Up Reaction 8:00
Post-Puppet Angst/ CD Release party!
Guitarist/banjoist Patrick Swayze Double Dragon met bassist Thumper Thighston in Freedom, Oklahoma while performing in a circus sideshow. While busking in downtown Tucumcari, New Mexico, they met Lady
Mondegreen, a third generation singing hobo. They met drummer Frank Lloyd Wrong working as a bartender at a questionable establishment named Girls, Girls, Girls somewhere along Highway 25 in Wyoming. After being permanently banned from performing at the Wind River Indian Reservation for unbecoming behavior, they moved to sunny California so could dedicate all their time to practicing for the upcoming International Double Dutch Championship Competition. Together, they are Bunny Numpkins and the Kill Blow-Up Reaction.
BITESIZE! 7:15
Alt/pop Quirky-Core
Since the late 1990’s, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Bitesize have been bringing a little bit of sickness to indie-pop, filling their otherwise perfect two-minute long pop gems with awkward stops and starts, weird bursts of guitar noise, quirky vocals, and lots of jumping up and down. The band has released two critically acclaimed CDs (The BEST of Bitesize & Sophmore Slump) received college radio airplay nationwide and have been invited to perform at high profile events such as Noise Pop, North-by-Northwest, Ladyfest Bay Area, Folsom Street Fair, Mission Creek Music Festival, bEASTfest and the San Francisco Pride Main Stage.
Harlan Hollander 6:30
Veteran Music Industry Giant
Nobody lays down a southside Chicago rhythm like Harlan Hollander. This hard working, hard playing blues master packs a lively, punk-infused punch, owing to his days as a session guitarist/songwriter with many of LA's greats
such as the Circle Jerks, The Angry Samoans and the Mentors!
David & Joanna 5:45
Other Worldly Folk
David and Joanna met at a karaoke bar on valentine's day a few years ago. Joanna drunkenly sang "forever in blue jeans" and David asked her to play music sometime. very soon after they recorded three songs for a film. someone saw the film and asked them to play their birthday party. they did. in a living room. they had four songs. they had to write the lyrics down on paper and read them as they sang. it was very last minute. they sat in a window while they played. Joanna chain smoked the entire time. she was scared. people liked it.
DJ Mole, DJ Tidbit, Kelsey on Accordion 5pm & midnight 'till closing
rumblin' rabble-rowsers
Will be spinning vintage '60s pop, Psychedellic Garage, strange B-Sides of forgotten Calypso classics. Really painful live bootlegs of '70s band's extended drum solos and the usual obligatory Kenneth Anger soundtrack. expect the unexpected, like the random accordion break in between by Kelsey!
SPECIAL EVENT!
FESTIVAL Of The DRUMS
featuring:
STARTS 4PM!
$7.
21 and over with ID please.
Have you ever asked yourself why there aren't enough events around that encourage people to drum and be captivated by the drumming?
Well, now's your chance. . .
extra points for wearing drums!
After this, you might ask yourself
"Why there's so many band photos here with Masks and/or fake beards?"
on the internet, your boss
is watching.
so what?!
take that "hangover hour" between the time you arrive and the moment your brain filially began to work
dig up some u tube clips of them that'll do you well in the quarter's salary negotiations
everyone's dirty laundry is on the net.
even yours.
find it.
You never needed that job anyway.
just the money.
and it wasn't exactly execuitive compensation.
what did you pay in taxes?
rent?
mortgage?
so what if you didn't pay taxes.
the rent
the mortgage.
The money comes from where you spend it.
like local dive bars cafes gas stations adult book stores
maybe the odd korean grocery store or two.
When you
wise up, it's
The bartenders,
cafe operaters,
taco truck providers.
whom have taken measure of your contributions to the communty
and cut you enough slack for that.
Maybe you'll live to see 2012
and know how to read mayan heiroglyphics when they form in the sky
right before the whole shithouse goes up
like it really matters then.
STARTS 4PM!
$7.
21 and over with ID please.
