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FESTIVALOf ThePUPPETS!!!
Sunday, March28th, 5pm 'till closing $7
Stork Club, 23rd St. & Telegraph, Downtown Oakland
(510) 444-6174 www.storkcluboakland.com
Band members will invent puppet co-stars to join them on stage. Attendees will be encouraged to bring PUPPETS to double the audience.
Folks will be invited to participate in a feature length puppet improv movie filmed exclusively at this event. Watch as the puppeteers get drunk and by means of their inebriated artistry reveal their most intimate inner secrets!
The night ends in an orgy of inhibited group puppetry with puppets ( and puppeteers) snogging, foolin' around, rolling in the corners & sneaking out the back, hooking up and not calling each other thereafter.
Trip ToDOVER 11pm
Rock /Synth Pop / Internaional
Brighton, United Kingdom
TRIP TO DOVER is two Dutch people and two English folks. Olga (vocals/guitar) and Johannes (keys) Lewis (drums) and Rob (bass)
together they've logged an impressive gig history playing all over the UK, Europe (Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic and Sweden) and now the USA!, With a mix of rock and electronic synth based sound and a powerfull female lead vocal TRIP TO DOVER have an original sound and a well-earned reputation for solid and exuberant live shows. Offstage they're the friendliest bunch of musicians you’re likely to meet. let's show them a warm Oakland-stye welcome!
STOVE 10pm
Trip Hop / Electronica / Other
it's really hot in here...
Exploration of sound and innovative collaboration of music is the philosophy behind The Stove. Originally formed in 1997 they emerged onto the scene as G-13, an experimental trip-hop duo, but quickly evolved into something greater. Also, they integrated more elements such as DJ's, MC's and more musicians. Though their name changed, their music remained true to the original concept. Producer Eduard Glukhov envisioned a single cell orchestra. Created off of hardware, The Stove produces original bass lines and drum patterns that sound very electronic, but then have the ability to lace it with acoustic elements that are very fresh and unique . The Stove is nearly uncatagorizable because their sound ranges from trip-hop to jazz to jungle, ambient and to dub step. Needless to say, they are extremely haunting with hypnotically dark rhythms. Fronted by songstress Kristen Muirhead, The Stove relies on her muse-scream/siren-dream/angel-cream voice with beautifully integrated harmonies to capture the hearts of their listeners. The Stove often features rotating members like Katya Murafa, a classically trained violinist, DJ Drastic, Sam Eye Am, Lojiking and Atash Maya Founder Sabrina Fox. Deeply influenced by Aphex Twin, Portishead, Ninja Tune, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos and Bjork. The Stove is an artistically futuristic combination of organic and electronic sounds!!!
The Happy Clams 9pm
un-pop/Butt-Uggely/un-pop
Chinese traditional Seoul
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.
Folk Rock / Garage / Bluegrass
Post-Puppet Angst NSA Marionette confusion...
Guitarist/banjoist Patrick Swayze Double Dragon met bassist Thumper Thighston in Freedom, Oklahoma while performing in a circus sideshow. They decided to join forces and soon hit the road performing on their own. While busking in downtown Tucumcari, New Mexico, they met Lady Mondegreen, a third generation singing hobo. From there, the three of them wondered through the mid west until 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, tbd location in Europe, Fall 2008. Guitarist/banjoist Patrick Swayze Double Dragon hold the world’s record for longest time breathing through a straw while submerged in water in a bathtub. He performs in a glass bathtub, it’s very dramatic. Bassist Thumper Thighston can play music on or in her armpit and likes to whistle at construction workers. She has had 100 x-rays. Drummer Frank Lloyd Wrong is a building demolition expert. Implosion is his other middle name. Vocalist Lady Mondegreen once sang in a doo-wop group that should have been called the Premarital Sextet, but that name was taken by some other project. Together, they are Bunny Numpkins and the Kill Blow-Up
Reaction!
The Clarences 7pm
Pop/Rock/PowerPop
We're The CLARENCES!
Robert A. Medeiros (guitars, keyboards & vocals), Trixie Rasputin (synthesizers, tambourines & vocals), Carlos Nieto II (basses & vocals) and Jeremy Lindsey (drums & vocals)
LANCE BURDEN 6pm
The Spice Must Flow ...
Lance BURDEN 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, Lance Burden 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 us hanging out at the end of the bar at your favorite discotheques. All in all, its just music and words. Its easy.
The
Fightin’Tinnitans in between band sets
Alt/Americana/ Bluegrass
Sloegrass.... for you
Two folks with loud pasts and are now coping with the tinnitus. Fightin' Tinnitans, get it? David claims its Robert's banjo playing that really brought on the condition. David has played in bands such as: Pink Gravy, Average White Sabbath(Iowa), T.D. & the Box (Mass), Very in Case/ Domino Theory (Az), Blow, U.S. Saucer, Merchants of the New Bazaar (Ca). Robert, being the drummer for the Happy Clams as well, has a more complex situation. Other bands Robert has played in include Poor Impulse Control and Youth in Eyes.
Bottle Choir in between band sets
Folk / Indie / Americana
Other Worldly Folk
Hello babies... Welcome to Earth... It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded... At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of babies ... God damn it, you’ve got to be kind..... Meanwhile there’s always about... Thirty Seconds
SPECIAL EVENT!
FESTIVAL
Of The
PUPPETS
featuring:
Trip
DOVER 11pm
STOVE 10pm
CLAMS 9pm
REACTION 8pm
Clarences 7pm
BURDEN 6pm
and in-between sets:
presents
$3 Draft pints all night!
STARTS 5PM!
$7.
21 and over with ID please.
STARTS 5PM!
$7.
21 and over with ID please.
