Snailhook...

Oh, I like SPRCSS fine; in fact, I'm good friends with one of them.  My "yawn" was directed more towards the blatant Dischord nepotism that is perpetuated within the Black Cat year after year.  Is SPRCSS a suitable opener for The Ex?  Sure.  It's also predictable.  You probably think I have a chip on my shoulder, and you're right, I do.  I once tried to book Kinski at the Black Cat and it got turned down for an Antelope show.  And Damo Suzuki got spurned for some other ex-Dischord band back in 2007.  Their loss…both shows ended up selling out. 

Oh, I hear you and agree with you on that finer point!

Did the Kinski show end up at Warehouse Next Door by any chance? That was a fun one!

Yeah, that was Kinski/Ostinato/Kohoutek at the Warehouse in 2005.  One of the most fun DC shows I saw.

dj/rupture is also opening for the Ex…maybe we'll see a collaboration between him and the guitarist from the Ex?

there's also an early show with Dan Sartain at U Street that day (3/12)..lots going on :/

Currently planning on U St. Music Hall>Velvet.


Snailhook, any clue as to how late Tuesday in Philly will run?

I'm interviewing Andy Moor tomorrow. I planned on asking him if he is going to perform with DJ/Rupture on the tour. I'll let you know what he says.

Azaghal, Rotunda shows do not run too late. We're trying to start as close to 8:30 as possible.  I don't think the show will run later than 11pm.

Great, thanks.

Following up - Andy Moor said no on-stage collab with DJ/Rupture when I asked him on Sat.

Grails and James Blackshaw ending up at the Blowtel rather than Avant Fairfax is sickening.

i am extremely pissed about this.  i was in contact with their booking agent every five days about this, and i offered them a sizeable guarantee.  i can't imagine lambert offering more than i did.  they would have been perfect headliners, and now they go up against michael chapman, amps for christ, the black twigs, and others.  i'm so sick of booking agents not doing what's right for their bands.  i'm sure he's real stoked to get $5 more out of his ten percent.

Hey Snailhook -

Think you could rope Seefeel into playing DC or Baltimore when they are in the US in June?

I finally checked out Dark Sea Dream - I can't even believe my ears!

Really looking forward to seeing them on Friday!

Second Seefeel.


And yeah; if you have not yet seen Dark Sea Dream live yet, prepare to be blown away. Speaking of which, Julian Cope posted a nice review of their last record recently.

Saturday, April 23
Fairfax Old Town Hall
3999 University Dr, Fairfax VA
5pm-1am
All ages!
Suggested donation : "like five or ten bucks or whatever ya got!"

This is the 3rd annual Avant Fairfax Festival. We're lucky to have scheduled performances by the following amazing musicians:

Michael Chapman (legendary UK singer/songwriter/guitarist making a super-rare DC-area performance)
http://michaelchapman.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chapman_%28musician%29

Black Twig Pickers (VHF Records, members of Pelt/Spiral Joy Band playing straight-up bluegrass and trad Appalachian folk)
http://www.myspace.com/blacktwigs
http://klang.org/artists/2-black-twig-pickers

Kohoutek (Prophase/Music Fellowship)
http://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek/

500mg (Michael Gibbons of BARDO POND, solo electric guitar)
http://www.threelobed.com/bardo/home

Caves Caverns (Richmond space-rock)
http://www.myspace.com/cavescaverns
http://breathingcave.blogspot.com/

Human Adult Band (NJ art-punk)
http://www.myspace.com/humanadultband
http://www.dihd.net/

FUN (Philly noise duo)
http://breathmint.net/?page_id=3

Frankzig (solo flamenco from Richmond)
http://www.myspace.com/frankzig

Drums Like Machine Guns (Philly noise bros)
http://dlmg.weebly.com/

Ca$h $lave Clique (DC/VA noise duo)
http://www.cashslaveclique.com/

Nathan Bowles & Scott Verrastro (percussion duo, mem. of Pelt/Black Twigs/Kohoutek)

Think you could rope Seefeel into playing DC or Baltimore when they are in the US in June?

would love to, but doubt i'd be able to front the money for them.  velvet lounge is being very careful about guarantees these days, and i have absolutely nothing right now to back a guarantee if i lose money.  i'll have to do some research and see who is booking them, and what kind of offer they're looking for.

Have you seen this?

Good read. Nothing I hav'nt heard before but coming from Spin?, interesting.

Yeah, that's one of the last places I expected to find that.


New album is pretty decent.

yeah, that's pretty good, surprisingly for spin.  i'm pretty stoked on the new album, as it features victor griffin of the classic '80s lineup.  if you haven't, check out the pentagram album liebling did with internal void, from 2005, called "show 'em how."  it's basically internal void (who were always vastly underrated) backing liebling on some new songs, and reworking a couple of old pentagram gems.