[Floor2] 8/31 thru 9/6

[Chlöe Mandel]

Hey events list folks!

I'd apologize about the lack of events email yesterday, but I know  
you were all too busy being totally awesome to care. Anyways, I  
remembered today and here I am again, hoping you'll all come out to  
AS220 for some sweet shows we have coming up in this first week of  
September.

The first Sunday of the month means The Empire Revue is gonna knock  
your socks off with an unpredictable array of cabaret variety show  
entertainment. Music! Dancing! Burlesque! Sketch comedy! It's  
nouvelle-vaudevillian entertainment worth checking out this Sunday  
night.

Regardless of your state of employment, celebrate the working (wo)man  
in style at our Labor Day Sidewalk BBQ with folky tunes and burgers.  
The band, Jennifer Gentle, plays twangy avant-pop along with Cadence  
Green, The Dodos, Spokane and The Chris Monti Acoustic Band while our  
very own Jeffrey Alexander grills delicious food for your eating  
enjoyment. All this for $7?!? This is what Americana means.

Jeremy Boyle kicks off a night of truly progressive music with his  
musical project featuring a midi-controlled pneumatic guitar and drum  
kit, along with Rick Gribenas from Antennacle, Bastard Noise and  
Baylies Band on Wednesday. Baylies Band has their Myspace profile set  
to private so I can't tell you what they sound like, but they have  
weird roster of bands they've played with, including Lightening Bolt,  
Arab on Radar, Staind and Godsmack, among others.

Alright! Peace, love, and tenderness, babies!
Here are the listings for the week!

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Friday, August 31, 2007
7pm Noisefest 2007 - Day One

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Saturday, September 1, 2007
3pm Noisefest 2007 - Day Two

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Sunday, September 2, 2007
8pm The Empire Revue
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Monday, September 3, 2007
6pm LABOR DAY SIDEWALK BBQ with Cadence Green, Jennifer Gentle  
(Italy), The Dodos, Spokane and The Chris Monti Acoustic Band
$7

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
6-9pm Life Drawing
$6

10pm UM: Jazz with Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, Dave Zinno and Leo Genovese
$7

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
9pm Baylies Band, Rick Gribenas and Jeremy Boyle
$6

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Thursday, September 6, 2007
7:30pm Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam
$4

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Friday, August 31, 2007
7pm Noisefest 2007 - Day One
It's time, once again, for the annual Providence Industrial Noise  
fest... FORCED! MUSIC FEST 2007... brought to you by Force Of Nature  
Productions. 3 days of Breakcore, Darkstep, Noise and more! FRIDAY  
NIGHT 8.31.07 from 7pm-1am at AS220. SATURDAY ALL DAY 9.01.07 from  
3pm-1am, also at AS220. but WAIT - the final day (SUNDAY 9.02.07)  
will not be here -- go to Club Hell on Sunday, mmmK ? Check the links  
below for more info on purchasing advance tickets and artist lineups.  
$50 in advance for the 3-day pass - click the links, booyah.

http://www.forceofnature.cc/ http://www.forceddistro.com/ 
product_info.php?products_id=278&osCsid=62b613a914e36b991e74cd8f050a766c



Saturday, September 1, 2007
3pm Noisefest 2007 - Day Two
It's time, once again, for the annual Providence Industrial Noise  
fest... FORCED! MUSIC FEST 2007... brought to you by Force Of Nature  
Productions. 3 days of Breakcore, Darkstep, Noise and more! FRIDAY  
NIGHT 8.31.07 from 7pm-1am at AS220. SATURDAY ALL DAY 9.01.07 from  
3pm-1am, also at AS220. but WAIT - the final day (SUNDAY 9.02.07)  
will not be here -- go to Club Hell on Sunday, mmmK ? Check the links  
below for more info on purchasing advance tickets and artist lineups.  
$50 in advance for the 3-day pass - click the links, booyah.

http://www.forceofnature.cc/ http://www.forceddistro.com/ 
product_info.php?products_id=278&osCsid=62b613a914e36b991e74cd8f050a766c



Sunday, September 2, 2007
8pm The Empire Revue
THE EMPIRE REVUE, a monthly variety show at AS220 featuring music!  
burlesque! performance art! nouveau-vaudeville! more! Hosted by Keith  
Munslow, a veteran performer in the Providence arts and music scene,  
THE EMPIRE REVUE has revived the art of the variety show with this  
cabaret featuring a cavalcade of local talent, every first Sunday of  
the month! Like the fabled Porkchop Lounge, the EMPIRE REVUE features  
a variety of styles, from burlesque to sketch comedy, improv to  
musical acts in a fast-paced 90-minute show featuring local artists.  
Featuring: sizzling music by: Superchief Trio and comedy and mayhem  
by: The Sparkling Beatniks (Marya Errin Jones, Richard Goulis, Hannah  
Devine, Eric Fulford) plus a special-guest appearance by Sonny Roelle  
(of the Sentimental Favorites, and wire art fame!), and a raft of  
talented local performers! Empire Revue is sponsored by: EMPIRE LOAN  
North Main Street, Providence RI.

http://www.myspace.com/empirerevue
$6


Monday, September 3, 2007
6pm LABOR DAY SIDEWALK BBQ with Cadence Green, Jennifer Gentle  
(Italy), The Dodos, Spokane and The Chris Monti Acoustic Band
Hey LABORERS, this is YOUR DAY! AS220 fires up the coals! Come on  
down and eat for free - boo ya. (Sorry street people: only folks that  
pay for the show get the free eats). EARLY SHOW~! Food at 6pm, music  
starts at 7pm and done by 11pm - FOR REAL. CADENCE GREEN is some  
dudes from Newport RI who play a sweet high lonesome (and sometimes  
gritty rockin) indie folk rock - real nice stuff inna Will Oldham,  
Harvesty Neil Young kinda mood. Check out this music video they got  
up onna the youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9wHxR_eYE  
JENNIFER GENTLE (from Italy, on Sub Pop). Two years after the release  
of Jennifer Gentle's critically acclaimed Sub Pop debut Valende, the  
Italian psychedelic avant-pop explorers are back with 'The Midnight  
Room'. Evoking bizarre, otherworldly images of gas-lit street  
corners, abandoned theatres, labyrinthine corridors, The Midnight  
Room marries the intensity of primitive rock n' roll with a renewed  
taste for a certain kind of typically Italian melody - albeit  
deconstructed, shattered and broken into tiny little bits. Think of  
Link Wray, Krysztof Komeda and Federico Fellini rolled into one  
short, dense, cryptic tour de force. ".. acid frazzled psychedelia  
favoured by Syd Barrett, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Os  
Mutantes and the 13th Floor Elevators." (-BBC) THE DODOS from San  
Francisco... "But wait. Here I am making The Dodos sound like Liars  
when they're probably closer kin to Animal Collective. Long's psych- 
folk-pop compositions are smart and tight and melodic and his hammer- 
handed, fleet-fingered acoustic attack always meets Kroeger's thumps  
halfway, awkward toe to toe, chin to chin, heat to intensity. And his  
voice is great. Warm and wobbly and familiar like a brother's or a  
best friend's. Except (or maybe mostly?) when he's yelling like an  
asylum escapee -- anguished, near-inarticulate, tonsil-baring scream- 
sobs..." (-Shake Your Fist) SPOKANE (Jagjaguwar Records): In Church  
Hill, a borough of Richmond, Virginia, there is a small yellow  
cottage. Next to the cottage is an austere replica of a mid- 
nineteenth century, white Federal period house. The members of  
Spokane hand built the structure over the course of 2006 while  
recording and revising their first new album in four years, Little  
Hours. The record is both a document of and an aural parallel to that  
difficult, meticulous process. In the emotional vein of folk singer  
Jackson C. Frank with the textural emaciation of composers Zbigniew  
Preisner and Morton Feldman, the songs themselves are hinged on  
concepts of failure and stillborn ideas, on the conflicted process of  
building or birthing a cerebral image into the world. There are the  
echoes of insistent cats running through the skeletal frame of the  
house, pillaged, infant birds in their mouths, left half-dead at the  
foot of the hole where the stair would be. The brutal gutting of the  
earth to build a foundation wall of concrete and brick, by sheer will  
and intent and arrogance. There is the crude muscling of lifted walls  
that block out the sun and obscure the trees. And the thought of  
future inhabitants, laughing and arguing and sitting, each alone, the  
ghosts of these songs wilting and remnant in the air... Providence's  
CHRIS MONTI ACOUSTIC BAND kicks it all off with a totally acoustic  
sidewalk set... yeah! Dig the cool sounds out front with the BBQ.

http://jennifergentle.it http://myspace.com/jennifergentle http:// 
myspace.com/mericlong http://www.christophermonti.com http:// 
www.myspace.com/cadencegreen http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php? 
name=spokane
$7


Tuesday, September 4, 2007
6-9pm Life Drawing
Come and draw from a live model.
$6

10pm UM: Jazz with Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, Dave Zinno and Leo Genovese
UM's weekly live jazz gig at AS220 is now into it's 13th year! That's  
right - every Tuesday since 1994 - come on down and check it out.  
"Trombonist Hal Crook is a marvel. He has evolved a singular musical  
voice echoing past masters... impressing as a modernist with  
chops." (Jazz Times) http://halcrook.com/
$7


Wednesday, September 5, 2007
9pm Baylies Band, Rick Gribenas and Jeremy Boyle
JEREMY BOYLE (founding member of Joan Of Arc) will be "playing" his  
new work: midi-controlled pneumatic guitar and drum kit that plays  
itself! Check out this crazy quick-time vid: http://jeremyboyle.com/ 
front/drumgtr1.html
RICK GRIBENAS (from Antennacle, Bastard Noise) played here recently  
with Landed and Peter Brotzmann -- tonight he will be presenting a  
laptop set with some custom electronics... BAYLIES BAND from New  
Bedford MA is Eric Baylies: bass, moog, theremin, voice. Steve  
Santos: guitar, theremin. Henry Chandanais: drums. They play mostly  
noisy, acid, and prog rock, with a little punk sometimes. They appear  
on the 75 Or Less Recs Compilation "Rock Out With Your Tail Out" and  
have also been on 2 comps from the Boston label Fan Attics, "Runt Of  
The Litter" and "More Than You Can Chew", a comp from the Hard Knocks  
label in Madison, WI and a comp from Little Mikey's Noise Factory in  
Cleveland,OH. They also had a song in the film "My Drug Dealer" from  
North Carolina in 1998. Baylies Band have played shows with Lightning  
Bolt, Arab On Radar, 6 Finger Satellite, Ultra Bide, Season To Risk,  
Mahi Mahi, Landed, Neptune, Dynamite Club, Ex Models and for some  
reason Staind and Godsmack a couple of times each when they started  
around 1995 or so. Cancer, drugs, drink, marriage, and other madness  
may have sideswiped them along the way, but they have never gone more  
than a couple of months without gigging or recording. 2/3 of their  
early recording lineup did a full length on Load Recs as A Stoveboat.  
Eric also plays in Philly based Temple Of Bon Matin (Bulb, Spirit of  
Orr, Stiltbreeze) who have toured Europe, Asia and about 40 states,  
playing shows with Boredoms, USA Is A Monster, Andrew WK, Gang Gang  
Dance, Thurston Moore, and Volcano The Bear. Temple Of Bon Matin also  
includes Jay Reeve (Drugstore), Vinny Paternostro (who has played sax  
with Violent Femmes and Radon), Ed Wilcox (who has played in No Neck  
Blues Band and Silver Apples briefly) and part time members Arthur  
Doyle (Sun Ra) and Steve Mackaye (Stooges, Radon Ensemble). With Club  
Math Eric has played shows with Lungfish, Metallux, Fat Worm Of  
Error, Can't, Tiny Hawks, Awesome Color, Dynasty, 16 Bitch Pileup,  
and Sword Heaven. A long, long time ago Eric played in Blind Rhino,  
who toured with Nuclear Assault and Blue Oyster Cult, and did shows  
with Swans, Killing Joke, Warrior Soul, Bad Religion, Mudhoney, Soul  
Asylum, Butthole Surfers, Bunny Brains, and Savage Republic. Whew.  
http://jeremyboyle.com http://www.gribenas.com/ http:// 
www.myspace.com/bayliesband
$6


Thursday, September 6, 2007
7:30pm Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam

On THURSDAYS at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly  
program of SPOKEN WORD OPEN MICS, POETRY SLAMS, YOUTH SLAMS, SONGS IN  
THE KEY OF HIP-HOP - OPEN MIC SHOWCASE (on 2nd Thursdays), MUSICIAN  
OPEN MICS, and so on and so forth. Come teach, share, and learn! The  
stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor's,  
ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral tradition alive! The  
Providence Poetry Slam: Providence is one of the most well known and  
exciting Poetry Slams nationwide - The PVD team has made it to the  
National Poetry Slam Tournament semi-finals for the last 5 seasons!

http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam
$4