Lots of parties and shows this week. The biggest one is Luminous Flux hosted by the Space Virgins. This issue will also include my (annual) Ballard Seafood Fest downgrade as well as an upgrade for Big Boogie Nights @ Tony's Bar & Grill. You will also find three semi-private parties (DJ Superjew's bday, Inertia and 13 Moon Masquerade) that you probably haven't heard of.
But instead of diving into Seattle's nightlife I will drive up to Vancouver BC again and after returning from my trip I will pack for my 10 days vacation in Mexico. I can't wait to escape from the software manufactory I work at for a couple of weeks and I promise you some Cold Lava reports from my adventures in Vancouver and Mexico.
The sun is shining, the weekend is near, and my inbox is filled with party invitations.
Life is good!
Friday, 7/23
8:00 PM? Mae West Fest 2004 @ CHAC (7/22-7/25)
9:30 PM Globalista and Six Degrees Records at the Mirabeau Room
10:00 PM SUPERJEW AND PLASTIQUE ERIQUE joint birthday sensation
10:00 PM 13 Moon Masquerade
Saturday, 7/24
10:00 AM? Ballard Seafood Fest (7/24 - 7/25)
11:00 AM Capitol Hill Block Party
7:00 PM Illuminares in Vancouver BC
8:00 PM Space Virgins present: Luminous Flux @ Catwalk
9:00 PM "A Midsummer Night's Scream" @ The Fun House.
9:00 PM JAMES LAVELLE & EVA & BPM @ CHOP SUEY.
9:00 PM Big Boogie Nights @ Tony's Bar & Grill
Sunday, 7/25
2:00 PM Inertia Party in Jenn's back yard.
Tuesday, 7/27
8:00 PM IRON COMPOSER (CHAC)
10:00 PM SEATTLE LAPTOP BATTLES @ Lo-fi
Wednesday, 7/28
7:00 PM? Arts Night at Teatro ZinZanni
9:30 PM Mercan Dede @ Century Ballroom
Friday, 7/23
Mae West Fest 2004 @ CHAC (7/22-7/25)
CHAC is proud to sponsor and host the 8th Annual Mae West Fest, featuring over 90 performances of "original theater by original women."
The Mae West Fest, founded in 1996 by Heidi Heimarck and Elena Hartwell, sprang from the need to have more women's work onstage in Seattle. This year even more women artists participate with the addition of a visual art show, titled "Making Scenes", curated by Jess Von Nostrand, and film screenings, curated by Associate Artistic Director Stacey Plum.
Globalista and Six Degrees Records at the Mirabeau Room
Darek writes:
Hi,
This Friday we're giving away free CD's from Six Degrees Records. Great stuff, not the usual schwag.
DJ Advent and I will be spinning. James Whetzel on Tablas
and voice. Deepayan Acharjya on Dhol. E-Tastik on the Visuals.
Arabic Dance, Bhangra, Bollywood, Asian Dub, etc. etc.
Modern Global beats to make you happy...and we all want to be happy. yes.
Mirabeau Room, 529 Queen Anne, 9:30
SUPERJEW AND PLASTIQUE ERIQUE joint birthday sensation
Madame DJ Superjew is inviting us to celebrate her birthday:
kittens,
This email is intended to coerce you into coming to my much-awaited and
lauded joint BIRTHDAY PARTY with Mr. Plastique Erique (of "the Girls")
this Friday. Now, for you true afficionados, you may know that my
birthday isn't really until monday, 7/26--but that's no fun, now is it?
(thought I was born on a monday and I'm a handful..)
the details:
SUPERJEW AND PLASTIQUE ERIQUE joint birthday sensation!!
friday, july 23rd
twilight exit (off 23rd and Madison)
free! 21+! liquor! exclamation marks!!
10pm (or somesuch)
starring:
dj mamma casserole
dj kerrin b
your special guest dj superjew
I'm also playing the Vera stage at 3:30 on Saturday for the Block Party
so come and heckle me if you so fancy. But I damn better see you all on
Friday! And on Sunday and Monday -- send productive vibes my way
because
I will be busy finishing my project for the upcoming CoCA
show....Ommm...
chip chip,
superjew
Happy Birthday, Marianne!
www.mariannegoldin.com
flyer: http://www.mariannegoldin.com/22bday.jpg
twilight exit (off 23rd and Madison)
free! 21+! liquor! exclamation marks!!
10pm (or somesuch)
13 Moon Masquerade
The invitation says: "This is an invite only event for the members of Party
Volcano to rejoice in the music that binds us all..."
13 Moon Masquerade
-a celebration of perpetual harmony
Featuring live music by:
Nu Sol Tribe
-voted #1 soul/r&b band in the Seattle Weekly Music
Awards, Nu Sol is the phattest funk band to hit
SeaTown.
Marmalade
-everyone's favorite hybrid of improvosational funk
and hip-hop from members of PhatSidy Smokehouse and
the Tribe.
and on the 1's and 2's:
Cory, Oracle Gatherings
-a special guest appearance from one of Seattle's
illest breaks DJ's, you don't wanna miss this one!
Shapeshifter, SFM
-rockin the darkest breaks and drum & bass Seattle has
ever heard with a splash of conscience-aware hip-hop.
***midnight fire performance
***drinks provided by Kay's Bar All Star's
***dress as your inner cosmic creature
S.I.R.
3631 Interlake Ave N.
(38th/Interlake in Wallingford)
Friday, July 23rd
10pm-4:30am, $10, 21+
Saturday, 7/24
Ballard Seafood Fest (7/24 - 7/25)
Are you expecting a downgrade? Here you go:
Ballard Seafood Fest, July 24th and July 25th. A summer staple with something for everyone: a main stage with a beer garden for the adults, a family stage with puppets for the kids, and seafood for all!
My personal favorites are the two big eating contests. If you go to the Lutefisk Eating contest you should make sure that you don't pick a place where the wind will blow the sweet, rotten stech of lutefish into your face:
Ballard Market Watermelon Eating Contest
Back by popular demand, kid’s can try to out eat the competition for the coveted prize of a bicycle.
(Saturday July 26th at 1:45 PM on the Family Stage)
Lutefisk Eating Contest
The name says it all.
(Saturday July 26th at 1:45 PM on the Family Stage)
Ballards own version of "cross dress for less" is their Couture Coverall Contest:
Couture Coverall Contest
Perhaps one of the most unique events at SeafoodFest is the Couture Coverall Contest. Folks start with that traditional costume in Ballard—the coverall. Artists alter them, decorate them or do whatever to them. The possibilities are endless! Just look at the photos from years past.
This year’s Third Annual Contest will be bigger and better than ever, with more participants, better judging and a trophy! 2003 judges include Tracy from Anchor Tattoo, a creative type who appreciates an edgy design when he sees one. Entries come from all over the community and make for healthy competition between area retailers, businesses and residents. Rumor has it that Archie McPhee is in it to win it!
This is not some hick festival somewhere in the mountains of Washington state. This is actually happening in our town right next door to areas where normal people live.
Maybe it's time to consider moving to New York like Emily Hall just did? - The possibilities are endless!
Capitol Hill Block Party
July 24-25, 2004 -- What better way to celebrate summer than a weekend-long block party featuring 50 Northwest bands, beer, theatrical acts, community activists, artist and food booths and local politicians who are working to support the local music scene. The Capitol Hill Block Party is a huge, two-day explosion of bands and a great opportunity to see something new while getting blasted in broad daylight in the middle of the street.
Already Confirmed! Over 20 more bands to be announced...
The Melvins, The Spits, Cobra High, United State of Electronica, Sir Mix-A-Lot, The Long Winters, The Blood Brothers, Mines, Kiss the Camera, Tractor Sex Fatality, The Lights,
The Red Light Sting, Mea Culpa, Black Belt, The Catch, The Girls, Scream Club, Bloodhag,
Akimbo, Schoolyard Heroes, Senate Arcade, Smoosh, Beyond Reality, Onry Ozzbourne, The Blue Scholars, Popular Shapes, Astrayas
Advance tickets available at www.ticketswest.com
http://www.capitolhillblockparty.com
Illuminares in Vancouver BC
C.D.O. Andrew wrote last year a nice blurb about this lantern festival that I would like to repost this year:
When I went to this lantern festival a couple of years ago, I felt
like I was floating through a waking dream. Islands of light of all
shapes and sizes—fantastical fish, miniature planets, giant birds—
softly flickered across the night landscape. It was, at once, gentle,
chimerical, wonderful. Mostly local Vancouverites attend Illuminares
and nearly everyone brings a candle-lit, paper lantern, whether huge
and elaborate, or basic and simple. It's the best sort of gathering:
free, creative, magical. It is well worth the trip to Vancouver BC.
Make your own lantern and go.
Start Time: 7pm
Procession: 9pm
Fireworks: 10:30pm
Illuminares, July 24th, 2004 at Trout Lake
Free, Trout Lake, Vancouver B.C., festival starts at dusk, lantern
making workshop from 2pm to 5pm, more info:
http://www.publicdreams.org/illuminares.htm
Pics:
http://www.publicdreams.org/images/illuminares/pic1.htm
Clips:
http://www.publicdreams.org/video/illum_01.rm
http://www.publicdreams.org/video/illum_02.rm
http://www.publicdreams.org/video/illum_03.rm
Space Virgins present: Luminous Flux @ Catwalk
The biggest party event this weekend:
The Space Virgins invite you to visit their home planet LUMINUS.
Prepare to be decontaminated upon landing! Learn our native customs in our undulating tourist office. Dance to Virgin tunes under our galactic night sky, trip out to the galactic visuals of VJ Marco, explore the local flora and fauna in the Silver Arbor, rest under the eaves of our vaulted temple, eat tasty native space snacks and ingest our specialty Electric Space Jello Shooters.
Wear your favorite costume, because we're going to throw you on stage for the strut your stuff fashion show! They say when in Rome act like a Roman. When on Luminous Flux, we expect you to party like a Space Virgin!
Evening Line-up:
9:00 - 10:00 DJ King Java - Sexy House
10:00 - 10:30 Burlesque
10:30 - 11:00 Strut Your Stuff Fashion Show: Get On Stage
11:00 - 1:00 Brannon - Breaks
1:00 - 2:30 DjML - Deep & Progressive - House, Techno, Trance
2:30 - 4:00 Baz - PsyTrance
All Night VJ Marco - Galactic Visuals
The great ambient dub band Library Science will be setting the mood at 10 pm in the chill space with DJ King Java providing downtempo grooves between sets and the belly-dancing group Circle will be honoring the Virgin Temple with their dance all night long!
Notice the change of location. It's still the same planet, though...
Galactic Travellers! This is an emergency broadcast from Planet Luminous Flux, the Space Virgin Home Planet! Our venue has changed!
We heard today that a core nutrient - alcohol - has dried up on our current quadrant of the universe, Studio 7, so we are migrating the Entire Planet to the Catwalk! That's right, the Space Virgin party this Saturday will be at the Catwalk!
Luminous Flux
9 pm - 4 am
Catwalk, 164 South Washington Street
21+ 10$ with costume, 15$ w/o
http://www.spacevirgin.org/events/Luminous%20Flux/
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=UXEFTFZIAVRYUGBZSEMK
"A Midsummer Night's Scream" @ The Fun House.
BurningHearts Burlesque
presents
"A Midsummer Night's Scream"
Burlesque Horror Fest, Rockin' Roll Terror, & Living Dead Ghouls!
Sat. July 24th
9:00pm / 21 and up
The Fun House - 206 5th Ave N
Near the Space Needle
$10.00 @ The Door $8.00 in costume
Live Music by: The Hatchet Wounds (Sexy Psycho-Billy)
& The Dead Vampires (You can't kill them they're already dead!)
Costume Contest! Great Prizes!
The Fun House - 206 5th Ave N
www.seattleburlesque.com / 206-898-9067
JAMES LAVELLE & EVA & BPM @ CHOP SUEY.
SAT. 24 JULY / CHOP SUEY
chop suey & perfect hit present
JAMES LAVELLE of UNKLE
(global underground - uk)
along with
EVA & BPM
(definition)
chop suey
1325 east madison street. 14th & madison. seattle. 206 324 8000. www.chopsuey.com
$12 adv. at sonic boom, rudy's barbershops, or at www.ticketswest.com / 800 325 seat
9pm doors. 21+
Big Boogie Nights @ Tony's Bar & Grill
Jill writes:
Dearest PV,
Please consider this event for your prestigious listing. BBW love to
shake it too...
If you are a clubber, are a fat, big, thick person or admirer or
HOWEVER you identify yourself, come out and do the damn thing with us at Big Boogie Nights!
Taking a line from a nightclub promotion from San Francisco: This ain't
your mama's fat girl party. Big Boogie Nights is nothing different than the
other club experience except we are fat people and fat lovers! Looking
for cupcakes and donuts? not at BBN baby!
Join us as we do the damn thing here's the info:
Big Boogie Nights-Northwest!
@ Tony's Bar and Grill
July 24, 2004
9pm until 2am
Price $10.00 all night long!
Featuring DJ Zulu spinning the best in Old School and
Current Dance Music including Hip Hop, R&B,
Dancehall/Reggae, Soulful House and Latin!
I have to say, that I like this event. This sounds much better than Dangerous Curves on 5/14/2004, which received a mild downgrade ("The show will be 50% boring, 50% who cares, and 50% let’s have a beer at Linda's back porch in the sun instead."). I guess, I just gravitate to shows that encourage getting drunk in public - even if it's in Kirkland.
Tony's Bar and Grill
14300 124th Ave. NE,
Kirkland, WA
Sunday, 7/25
Inertia Party in Jenn's back yard.
Check out the Inertia Party!
Sunday, July 25th
2p-8p
338 54th St. (it's a house)
Seattle
Food & Drink provided and donations welcome.
It's a music/art fest in Jenn's back yard.
Featuring:
Djs gLoRy B! & Maga Bo spinning global beatzNgrooves
Phonkbutt
Cycloptopus
The Officials
Subphonics
Cristina Orbe
Wet City Rockers
Jenn's house: 338 54th St., 2p-8p
Tuesday, 7/27
IRON COMPOSER (CHAC Residencies Season Finale)
Capitol Hill Arts Center, in association with Seattle School, presents the first-ever IRON COMPOSER competition amounting to three public bouts of live-action composing at CHAC Lower Level. Hosted, performed and interloped each night by Seattle School, IRON COMPOSER features two competing Seattle-area celebrity composers pitted against each other. Tonight features: Director / Composer John Kaufman (linger, Starball, Line One) versus David Drury of Tennis Pro. Judges include: Troy Mink as Carlotta Sue Phillpott, Marcus Wolland as Orson Welles, Cheryl Serio as Jennifer Tilly.
The audience watches while each composer jumps through aural obstacles presented by Seattle School throughout the songwriting endeavor. One audience member, randomly chosen as the "secret ingredient," gushes about his or her current state of affairs or nefarious past in a five-minute interview. Each composer draws inspiration from the personal life-details provided by the "secret ingredient" and incorporates those into an original song.
Each IRON COMPOSER is equipped with "musical kitchens" with the following accoutrements: one guitar, one piano, paper and pencil and one Sous Chef Line Musician. The Sous Chef relays all information to the house band in parts and conducts live rehearsals with the band on stage. The composers only communicate with the band via the Sous Chef, and have direct access to the band once, during the final performance.
Think it¹s that easy? This 45-minute competition is divided into five nine-minute segments. Each segment contains a "Mystery Chaos," performed by The Interlopers (Korby Sears and Ben Houge of Seattle School) which distracts the composers from his or her work. As added molasses, each composer drinks a shot of liquor at the beginning of the show and the beginning of each round, consuming six shots in the course of 50 minutes. Only after such consumption does each perform his or her composition.
TUESDAY 7/27 doors 8pm / show 8:30pm
CHAC Lower Level
$5 cover (at door only). 21+ ID Required.
SEATTLE LAPTOP BATTLES @ Lo-fi
Have you ever heard of "Drum Machine Circles"? There used to be a group of young DJs that would meet sporadically and do improvised shows with their electronic drum machines. That group doesn't exist anymore. But instead you might find similar enjoyment in watching Laptop Battles:
SEATTLE LAPTOP BATTLES
http://exploitseattle.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/16/2022219&mode=thread
Monday July 19 - Wednesday July 21
Monday July 26 - Tuesday July 27
Friday July 30 - Monday August 02
The laptop battle is a competitive event for laptop
musicians to match their skills against one another.
Battles are chosen randomly and conducted in 3 minute
rounds. A panel of judges decides which contestant
advances to the next round, single elimination style.
Location: See
[http://www.fourthcity.net/schedule.html] for Event
Locations
Cost: Generally Either Free or $5
Organizer: Fourth City
The email mentions 7/26 and that should be http://www.fourthcity.net/tuesdays.html .
But http://www.laptopbattle.org/ is only listing battles in August.
http://www.laptopbattle.org/
http://www.fourthcity.net/
http://www.fourthcity.net/schedule.html
Wednesday, 7/28
Arts Night at Teatro ZinZanni
Doug Cavarocchi writes:
Dear Party Volcano,
I apologize in advance for the lack of advance notice, but we’re doing
a special added ZinZanni show on Wednesday, July 28 as an artists and
arts industry community night and we would love for you and your
organization to join the celebration.
We’re offering the show at $59 per person for this one night only (rack
rate is $89 - $109). There is no limit on the number of tickets you can
claim and everything is the same as the regular show (dining room
service charge and beverages extra).
This is just an offer to some of our friends in the arts community,
especially those who are kind enough to offer us tickets over the
course of the year, or who help us put on events all summer long.
Please feel free to share this invite with your office, membership list
and friends e-mail list. It is an open invitation to what we hope will
be a spirited and fun night out filled with comedy, cirque, vaudeville
and cabaret served up with a five-course feast designed by celebrity
chef Tom Douglas.
Just call our Box Office at 206.802.0015 to make reservations or if you
have any questions.
Thanks for spreading the word and I look forward to seeing you under
the tent at ZinZanni later this month.
Best regards,
Doug Cavarocchi
One Reel
206.802.0011 x221
Mercan Dede @ Century Ballroom
Wissam writes:
By all accounts, Mercan has given incredible performances in his Secret Tribe Tour, recently transfixing audiences in Vancouver, New York and Detroit.
He will be in Seattle on July 28th at the Century Ballroom, delivering his distinctive mix of Sufi and contemporary electronic sounds, joined by a zither player (Quanun), a trumpet player (Clarinet), two percussionists (Darbuka) and a dancer. His music has appeared on some well-known albums like Popdeurop, Arabian Travels 2, Cafe Oriental 2 and Istanbul, and he was featured on the cover page of this month's Global Rhythm magazine.
Tune in to KBCS (91.3 FM) on Daily Planet this Monday at 4:00PM and to KEXP (90.3 FM) on Wopop this Tuesday at 6:30PM to hear a live interview and music.
Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Time: 9:30 PM
Location: Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine Street, 2nd floor
Phone: (206)324-7263
Ticket: $20
http://www.culturetheory.com/MercanDede.aspx
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