Tour Wrap Up and Nexus
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Got back from the Gemini Wolf New England tour yesterday early. We were all exhausted from driving all night from Vermont. The tour was super fun, it was great hanging out, being silly, playing music and meeting tons of interesting people for a few days.
The beginning of the tour started in Willimsburg, NY. It was a Wednesday night and there were five or so bands playing at Trashbar. We were last, so there wasn't much of a crowd there at 12:30 AM on a Wednesday. It was a great way to warm up for a few days of shows though, we worked out all the kinks of the newer songs. We also got to meet this crazy dude, Mojo who booked the show. He told us all sorts of tales from New York from the past 30 years with hanging out with Throbbing Gristle and tons of other people I never heard of.
After the gig we drove all night to Boston. We got there early and met up with our friends Rich and Jayashree. Three of us stayed with them and the other wolves went to Dr. Lynn's place. We hung around Sommerville, which was nice and did our gig at P.A.'s Lounge. There was a small and attentive crowd and the show went really well. We stayed in Boston for another night and hung out with Rich and Jayashree pretty late. Early in the morning we headed up the Atlantic coast up to Rockland Maine.
We stopped in Portland, ME, which was an awesome little town. We totally loved Maine all around. The gig was in the this outdoor court yard in the middle of Rockport which is an amazing little artsy town. All there people came out and celebrated the end of the summer season with us. Afterwards, our contact Kate hosted us as their beautiful lakeside cabin. We partied with them and woke up to enjoy some lovely Maine nature.
After Maine, we drove all day to Bennington, Vermont. That was another cool town, we mostly stayed on Bennington campus. It was great to hang out with all these creative kids at Bennington, they were super nice and super psyched to have us play there. We did our show, we played pretty much every song we had to the enthusiastic crowd, we even broke out our Radiohead cover "Idioteque" which I thought they wouldn't recognize, but they loved it! We all partied like college kids and enjoyed the beautiful campus the next day which is situated on 470 acres of Vermont mountainous greenery.
Later that day we did the short drive over to Brattleboro. Yet another interesting small town in New England. Lots of punk rocks kids, food coop, good coffee, art galleries all at the base of the Vermont mountains. We did our show to a small crowd for a sunday night at the art space Tinderbox. After we said our goodbyes, we packed the fan and headed back to Philly.
Katie posted some pics here, we'll prob. have some more pics and sounds coming up soon: http://picasaweb.google.com/katie.goodrum/WolfTour07
Now to get to some business for the week. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) I'll be performing with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd at Nexus Gallery at 8 PM as part of the Paraphrase Series.
Performing artists inhabit work of visual artist to comment on voyeurism
(Philadelphia) PARAPHRASE/NEXUS, a new series in which artists of various disciplines and media create performances inspired by exhibitions at Nexus Gallery, returns this month with a third installment.
On Wednesday, September 26 at 8p.m., members of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd will inhabit Jody Sweitzer's installation entitled Crowd: stumbling through displaced intimacy. In Crowd, the human figure is represented by giant inflatables that create an environment in which to investigate voyeurism and the human reaction to the invasion of personal space. Electronic musicians Bilwa and Mikronesia are joined by dancer/choreographers Rebecca Patek and Emily Sweeney in a performance that attempts to shift the relationship of the stagnant viewer to an active, self-reflecting participant. For more information about Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd visit: www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org. All PARAPHRASE/NEXUS performances are free and are held at Nexus Gallery in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St., Suite #102.
Got back from the Gemini Wolf New England tour yesterday early. We were all exhausted from driving all night from Vermont. The tour was super fun, it was great hanging out, being silly, playing music and meeting tons of interesting people for a few days.The beginning of the tour started in Willimsburg, NY. It was a Wednesday night and there were five or so bands playing at Trashbar. We were last, so there wasn't much of a crowd there at 12:30 AM on a Wednesday. It was a great way to warm up for a few days of shows though, we worked out all the kinks of the newer songs. We also got to meet this crazy dude, Mojo who booked the show. He told us all sorts of tales from New York from the past 30 years with hanging out with Throbbing Gristle and tons of other people I never heard of.
After the gig we drove all night to Boston. We got there early and met up with our friends Rich and Jayashree. Three of us stayed with them and the other wolves went to Dr. Lynn's place. We hung around Sommerville, which was nice and did our gig at P.A.'s Lounge. There was a small and attentive crowd and the show went really well. We stayed in Boston for another night and hung out with Rich and Jayashree pretty late. Early in the morning we headed up the Atlantic coast up to Rockland Maine.
We stopped in Portland, ME, which was an awesome little town. We totally loved Maine all around. The gig was in the this outdoor court yard in the middle of Rockport which is an amazing little artsy town. All there people came out and celebrated the end of the summer season with us. Afterwards, our contact Kate hosted us as their beautiful lakeside cabin. We partied with them and woke up to enjoy some lovely Maine nature.
After Maine, we drove all day to Bennington, Vermont. That was another cool town, we mostly stayed on Bennington campus. It was great to hang out with all these creative kids at Bennington, they were super nice and super psyched to have us play there. We did our show, we played pretty much every song we had to the enthusiastic crowd, we even broke out our Radiohead cover "Idioteque" which I thought they wouldn't recognize, but they loved it! We all partied like college kids and enjoyed the beautiful campus the next day which is situated on 470 acres of Vermont mountainous greenery.
Later that day we did the short drive over to Brattleboro. Yet another interesting small town in New England. Lots of punk rocks kids, food coop, good coffee, art galleries all at the base of the Vermont mountains. We did our show to a small crowd for a sunday night at the art space Tinderbox. After we said our goodbyes, we packed the fan and headed back to Philly.
Katie posted some pics here, we'll prob. have some more pics and sounds coming up soon: http://picasaweb.google.com/katie.goodrum/WolfTour07
Now to get to some business for the week. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) I'll be performing with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd at Nexus Gallery at 8 PM as part of the Paraphrase Series.
PARAPHRASE/NEXUS
Performing artists inhabit work of visual artist to comment on voyeurism
(Philadelphia) PARAPHRASE/NEXUS, a new series in which artists of various disciplines and media create performances inspired by exhibitions at Nexus Gallery, returns this month with a third installment.
On Wednesday, September 26 at 8p.m., members of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd will inhabit Jody Sweitzer's installation entitled Crowd: stumbling through displaced intimacy. In Crowd, the human figure is represented by giant inflatables that create an environment in which to investigate voyeurism and the human reaction to the invasion of personal space. Electronic musicians Bilwa and Mikronesia are joined by dancer/choreographers Rebecca Patek and Emily Sweeney in a performance that attempts to shift the relationship of the stagnant viewer to an active, self-reflecting participant. For more information about Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd visit: www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org. All PARAPHRASE/NEXUS performances are free and are held at Nexus Gallery in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St., Suite #102.