Wednesday, June 04, 2008

FRANZ FERDINAND LIVE Secret Show

FRANZ FERDINAND LIVE

Franz Ferdinand
Secret Show
Monday 9th June
The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street
8pm till late
150 tickets only £11.00

First come first served from our Rough Trade East store. On sale 8am Thursday 5th June.


ROUGH TRADE EAST
'Dray Walk'
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
T: 020 7392 7788

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley



Bo Diddley, rock's rhythm king, dies

Bo Diddley's a gunslinger: Bo Diddley, photographed in 2005, laid down rhythms that inspired generations of rock musicians.


ROCK'N'ROLL has lost a founding father. Bo Diddley, known as "the originator", died of heart failure on Monday. He was 79.

Diddley, who continued to play shows despite his ailing health, died at his home in Archer, Florida.

"One of the founding fathers of rock'n'roll has left the building he helped construct," his management agency, Talent Consultants International, said in a statement.

Diddley's syncopated, percussive, propulsive rhythm guitar playing, backed by shuffling maracas, was inspired by an African drum beat. That rhythm helped lay rock'n'roll's foundation.

"Boom da boom da boom, boom boom. That was basically an Indian chant," is how Diddley described it in a March 2007 interview with National Public Radio.

Resplendent in black Stetson hat and thick-rimmed glasses, employing distortion and reverb on his array of self-designed guitars — rectangular or with Cadillac-like "fins" — Diddley boasted on self-mythologising songs such as Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger, presaging many cocksure rockers and rappers.

The driving beat of songs such as Who Do You Love, Roadrunner and Pretty Thing inspired artists from Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things, the Clash, Iggy Pop, ZZ Top, U2 and the White Stripes.

Along with Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Diddley constructed a sound that crossed America's racial divide, appealing to both black and white audiences and musicians. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognised his influence in 1987, and he received a Grammy lifetime achievement award the following year. Exploitation by record companies meant he never received financial rewards commensurate with his influence.

"He was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones," Mick Jagger said in a statement.

Melbourne DJ Mohair Slim, who will be presenting a tribute to Diddley on his show Blue Juice on 3PBS FM this Sunday morning, said Diddley was a true original.

"Bo Diddley didn't really have a predecessor, he was not part of any continuum or musical tradition," Slim said. "Every '60s R&B band had a Bo Diddley song in their repertoire but nobody adopted his whole approach or sound. The guy was such a maverick that he was destined never to get his due."

Born Ellas Bates in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, he was given the nickname Bo Diddley as a teenager after moving to Chicago in the 1940s.

Inspired by John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, he started performing on street corners.

While he had just one top 40 hit with Say Man and collected no gold records, his influence is profound.

In 1956 a Harlem newspaper, the Amsterdam News, on first seeing Elvis perform, claimed he had "copied Bo Diddley's style to the letter". Rolling Stone magazine described his beat as "the most plagiarised rhythm of the 20th century".

Diddley toured Australia many times, including on the Legends of Rock'n'Roll Tour in the late 1980s, when he terrified promoter Kevin Jacobsen by staging a mock argument with Jerry Lee Lewis.

On his 1978 tour, he was so impressed by Brisbane guitar maker Chris Kinman that he asked him to build him a new square guitar, which he dubbed "the Mean Machine".

Playing at St Kilda's Prince of Wales Hotel in 2005, he surprised the crowd by straying from his signature sound in a genre-defying set of funk, soul, doo-wop, psychedelic rock, country and even rap, a genre he often derided.

Diddley also competed as a boxer and served as a sheriff in Los Lunas, New Mexico. In recent years, he worked with his local police department to warn teenagers about the dangers of drugs and gang violence.

June 7th – ICA - Sierra Cassady – Cocorosie exclusive performance




Sierra Casady (Cocorosie)

exclusive performance/collaboration with artist Loris Greaud


7th June 2008 - ICA

On 7th June 2008, in the third series of concerts brought to us by Stage of the Art, the ICA is proud to host a performance by Sierra Casady, best known as one of the two sisters whose operatic vocal techniques lend the lead vocals to Cocorosie.

This exclusive performance will form from an exciting collaboration with one of France's most innovative artist's Loris Greaud whose work Cellar Door is currently being exhibitive at the ICA.

Sierra Casady will be performing a musical interpretation of his work on piano, accompanied by violin and it promises to be a very special occasion.

Cocorosie

Originally from New York City is now part of the ever growing community of international artists now residing in Paris. International renowned for their music they are also very much involved in the art scene in Paris, having opened a gallery for both art and clothes in Paris and New York.

Since surfacing in 2004 with their first album 'La Maison de mon Reve' famously recorded in a Paris coldwater flat, where the two sisters met up and fell under the spell of the city, they have since gone on to release two further albums the last being the critically acclaimed 'Rainbowwarriors'in 2007.

The duo has often been associated with a kind of folk renaissance due mostly to the fragility of their compositions and friendship with Devandra Banhart.

However, the Casadys' really occupy a musical world all of their own.

One in which stuttering beats, live alongside plucked harps and piano figures collide with decaying loops created from toy instruments.

There is something unconventional, infinite and dreamlike about the world they inhabit and Sierra's exclusive performance will be nothing less than beautiful.

http://www.myspace.com/cocorosie

Loris Gréaud

25 April-22 June 2008

ICA, Lower Gallery

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), is proud to present a new installation by French artist Loris Gréaud, one of the most exciting and innovative emerging artists in the international art scene. The installation at the ICA is a continuation of a larger project, Cellar Door, which is being presented as a major solo exhibition by Gréaud at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (February 14th to May 4th 2008).

Although Gréaud is often seen as part of the new wave of French artists to emerge in the past few years. Imaginative, witty and aesthetically striking, Greaud's work, his practice is distinct from his contemporaries. fluctuates between the fields of film, sound and installation and is orientated to ideas and processes rather than materials. He studied filmmaking and graphic design before being offered a place to study flute at the prestigious Conservertoire de Musique in Paris from which he was later expelled for setting up an alternative and 'anti-establishement' recording studio. He completed his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris Cergy. This varied background provides an expanded framework for his artistic practice and he often works alongside experts from diverse disciplines - scientists, geo-biologists, engineers, filmmakers, writers, sound and graphic designers. As Gréaud himself has asserted, his process is perhaps best understood in terms of the modus operandi of cinematic production: rather than seeing those relationships as collaborations he thinks them as forms of co-authorship and cross filtration.

Gréaud's enigmatic projects are often open-ended, liable to manifest themselves in different ways over time, and to move between rumor and fact. His exhibitions are often cryptic installations in which he challenges the expectations of the audience and the given characteristics of the medium. There is an almost philosophical touch to his practice and even though very precise, Gréaud's works of art are open to interpretation via a maze of ciphers and pathways of thought.

Gréaud's presentation for the Palais de Tokyo, Cellar Door, centres on a libretto written by the artist in conjunction with the curator Raimundas Malasauskas, and evokes the metaphor of the artist's studio as a space of imagination and potential. Cellar Door is a grand spectacle distended in time and space. It celebrates the creative place, constructing spaces of production and of distriWorking in a specially constructed space in the ICA's Lower Gallery, he will be challenging ideas of repetition and identity, as well as uniqueness and perception creating three identical rooms containing text pieces whilst speakers will play excerpts from the opera.

Gréaud (born 1979, lives in Paris) studied at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris and at the Paris-Cergy art school. His solo exhibitions include Silence Goes More Quickly When Played Backwards, Le Plateau, Frac Ile de France, Paris (2005) and Devils Tower, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006). His group exhibitions include the IX Baltic Triennale, CAC, Vilnius (2005), Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006) and the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007).

EVENT DATES:

Stage Of The Art #1: February 2008

February 21st – ICA: Sebastien Tellier + Poney Poney

February 22nd - Palais de Tokyo:Carl Barat & Dirty Pretty Things acoustic and collaborations on stage with Paris Motel + special guests Laura Marling, Paris Motel and Denis Hopper Chopper

Stage Of The Art #2: April 2008

April 25th - Palais De Tokyo – Aidan .J Moffat + Black Affair

April 28th - ICA – Gonzales+ The Together Ensemble + Poni Hoax

Stage Of The Art #3: June 2008

June 6th - Palais de Tokyo - tbc

June 7th – ICA - Sierra Cassady – Cocorosie exclusive performance

Stage Of The Art #4: July 2008

Curated by Hedi Slimane

July 10th - Palais de Tokyo – The Kills

July 11th - ICA -tbc

TICKETS:

London ticket price: £10

Available from the ICA, London ( www.ica.org.uk) + Ticketmaster.co.uk and Seetickets.com

Paris ticket price: 20€

www.fnac.com

www.digitick.com

In France (in April, June and July) Eurostar and Stage OfThe Art will offer a promotion: a 2-day 'Eurostar Stage Pass' including round-trip travel on the newly opened Paris-London route and tickets to both concerts.

On sale only in France in APRIL

More information to follow.

VENUE INFORMATION:

ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts)

The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Tube: Piccadilly Circus/ Charing Cross

Tickets and Information: 020 7930 3647

www.ica.org.uk

Palais de Tokyo

Palais de Tokyo is a venue that tried since its opening to have all kind of publics meet with the best of the French and international contemporary art scene. Open from noon to midnight, endowed with a staff of mediators, offering a restaurant, a boutique and a bookshop, the Palais de Tokyo is a true living place that dares mixing conceptual art and chain saws, minimalism and zombies, ready-made and mutants, a position that shows the contemporary art in a current and laid-back attitude and, as often as possible, in the artists point of view. Therefore, the Palais de Tokyo welcomes young artists in residence (the Pavillon), sometimes giving them their first monograph (The Modules) or entrusts some artists to curate some of its exhibitions (Ugo Rondinone in 2007, Jeremy Deller coming soon). Aesthetic, sensitive to new trends, polymorphous, the Palais de Tokyo also exhibits abroad (The Chalets).

Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du
Président Wilson
75016 Paris
Tube: Iéna/Pont de l'Alma
Information:+33 1 47
23 54 01

www.palaisdetokyo.com

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15th Festival Internacional de Musica Avanzada y Arte Multimedia de Barcelona






What: 15th Festival Internacional de Musica Avanzada y Arte Multimedia de Barcelona
When: 19.20.21 June, 2008



The 15th incarnation of the world's best music festival has two main themes this year: "female factor" and "hybridism." So Goldfrapp, Roísín Murphy, MIA and Camille, and our recent favourite Chloe all get prominent place among all of the vagaries of boy's noise. Top of the boy's list then is X-102 discovers The Rings Of Saturn (Saturday 21 June, 03.15, Sonarclub) aka Mike Banks and Jeff Mills of Underground Resistance aka the founding fathers of Techno. Also catch Konono Nº1, Buraka Son Sistema and the really amazing Basquiat Strings.

Below Urban Junkies has picked a few of our favorite acts from the festival - although almost anything will do especially when you factor in sleep deprivation, endless sunshine and, to put it gently, Neuro-mechanical rearrangements.

Urban Junkies Mini-Guide to.... Sonar Times, Acts, Venue

Thursday 19.06.08
17.00 Pram [Sonarhall] beating XX Teens by a hair at 17.30 [Sonardrome]
20.30 Basquiat Strings [L'Auditori]
01.00 Leila [Sonarpark]

Friday 20.06.08
16.00 Konono Nº1 (Sonar Village)
19.40 Deepchord [Sonardrome]
00.30 Diplo [Sonarclub]
01.30 Flying Lotus [Sonarlab]
02.00 Justice [Sonarclub]
03.00 Buraka Son Sistema [Sonarlab] & a little bit of Theo Parrish to get you in mood for
05.00 Frankie Knuckles [Sonarpark] & maybe last song by Hercules and Love Affair "Blind" so
aim for 04.45

Saturday 21.06.08
17.00 Matmos [Sonarhall, live]
21.00 Camille [SonarPalau]
00.00 Chloe [Sonarlab, live]
01.30 MIA [Sonarpark, live]
02.30 Clark [Sonarclub, live]
03.00 DJ Mehdi (FR) vs A-Trak feat. Kid Sister (US) [Sonarpark]
03.15 X-102 discovers The Rings Of Saturn [Sonarclub]
04.00 Sebastian [Sonarpub]
05.00 Ricardo Villalobos [Sonarpub]

Monday, June 02, 2008

Chart Fix Monday 2 june 2008 jeffrey reed / Disastronaut [london]

DISASTRONAUT
Chart Fix Monday 2 june 2008 jeffrey reed / Disastronaut [london]


01 autoKratz - Stay The Same/Just Keep Walking (Kitsune)
02 Flying Lotus 'Los Angeles' Sampler (Warp)
03 Moguai - Sittin On Chrome (Punx)
04 Quantic presents Flowering Inferno [tru thoughts]
05 DJ Empty "Meaningless’ (Sampler) [Accidental]
06 Annie – ‘I Know Your Girlfriend’ (Universal)
07 Natalie Walker ‘Over & Under’ (inc Ashley Beedle & Morgan Page remixes) [Dorado[
08 Tricky – ‘Council Estate’ (Domino)
09 Ladyhawke "Paris Is Burning"
10 Christopher D Ashley - Sugar Coated Lies (Justin Robertson/The Third Man/Fear of Theydon Remixes) (Sunday Best)
11 Fake Blood - 'Mars' (Cheap Thrills)
12 Aleem - Felix Yo! (1994 Original/Spider and Legaz/Chef Remixes) (Pro-Zak Trax)
13 Sons & Daughters 'This Gift' (Ashley Beedle remix) (Domino)
14 Underworld- 'Ring Road' (Laidback Luke Remix) [underworldlive.com]
15 Black Kids- 'Hurricane Jane' (Twelves Remix)
16 The Rogue Element - Panic Attacks/Sidewinder (Exceptional)
17 Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Laidback Luke Remix) (Back Yard)
18 Late of the Pier- 'Focker' (Youth Attack Remix/ Kissy Sell Out Edit)
19 Joe and Will Ask - Monster/Warm It Up/Surge (Gulp Communications)
120 Dark Globe - Futures Coming (DJ FEX/Jay Lumen Remixes) (Global Underground)
21 Cazals - Somebody Somewhere (Lifelike/Moulinex/Blamma!
Blamma!/Bloody Beetroots Remixes) (Kitsune)
22 Black Affair "Its real" (CoOp/V2) - Playgroup remix
23 Cryptic (Phones/Dave P and Adam Sparkles/Dubka Remixes) (Kitsune)
24 Jape 'I Was A Man' (Ft Phones and Junkie XL remixes) (CoOp/V2)
25 Stay-Go (Blom/Playmaker/Ali Payami Remixes) (Just For Fun)

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