Monday, April 27th!! Come support Neil’s benefit for the Mission Creek Music Festival 2009!!
Show at 9 PM, $7
The Knockout, 3223 Mission St.
SMiLE! presents a Benefit for the 13th Annual
MISSION CREEK MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
http://www.mcmf.org
9pm – RADIUS
http://www.myspace.com/radiussanfrancisco
10pm – PUCE MOMENT
http://www.myspace.com/pucemomentsf
11pm – THE AEROSOLS
http://www.myspace.com/theaerosols >
Midnight – BRIAN GLAZE & THE NIGHTSHIFT
http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom
DJ Neil Martinson
The Knockout is at 3223 Mission near 29th.
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Do me a favor already, go to this please. Brian Glaze is rad.
9/26/08
The Knockout (3223 Mission @Valencia)
Brian Glaze & The Nightshift – http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom
White Music – http://www.myspace.com/httpmyspacecomwhitemusic
Les Sylphides
This dude — he knows how to have a good time and he knows how to include you, on stage and off. On stage he will deliver his pop/rock gems; he will give it his all until he falls off of the stage onto you (I’ve seen it).You should go over to his myspace page right now and check out the music. The song “Leader of the Band” works some kind of Elton John groove that you will not be able to shake, I swear it. I’ve been trying to shake it for a month now and I’ve still got it.
Seen at a party he will impart wisdom on the subject of world music and how awesome it was for Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel and how there would be no Animal Collective without its influence on them while his friends laugh hysterically and you try to work it out. He will stand in the front at a show and scream and beg for one more song until there are beer soaked girls wrestling on the floor because they are so desperate to hear this song he is screaming for.
You will have fun. I’m not familliar with the other bands, but here’s what the Smile email had to say:
At 10pm, you can begin to absorb the subtle and seductive messages of Les Sylphides.
By 11pm, you should be sufficiently primed to succumb to the one-touch hypnosis of White Music.
On Saturday afternoon, I guarantee you should go to Dolores Park and have a beer and check out the Arts Expo instead of blog/catch up on blogs/fret over your investments/watch Tabitha’s Salon Takeover/freebase or do whatever it is you do on a Saturday afternoon.
http://artsandmedia.net/expo/
4pm The Aerosols http://www.myspace.com/theaerosols
3pm Uni & Her Ukelele’s Ding! String Trio http://www.myspace.com/uniherukelele
2:30 Foxtails Brigade http://www.myspace.com/lauraweinbach
I went and saw the Aerosols a while back and then didn’t write about it because I couldn’t think of anything to say other than I really liked it. I still can’t but thats stupid, I should just write this: I really liked their brand of psychedelic pop music. You should go see them tomorrow, maybe they’ll do that cover of Lucifer Sam again that got all the kids at SMiLE that night dancing.
On the for real, what is going on? I saw BRIDEZ and Brian Glaze a few nights ago at SMiLE. I do not know what it is, but I really think that guy’s album cover should look like a guns and roses album cover or some other pop metal kinda thing. I thought it sounded like Bruce Springsteen though or some other kind of ‘melodic rock’ thing. I know, lame kinda but, still, I liked this! I noticed a lot of Birdman Records people in the audience, you know because of the connection(s) with The Cuts. At one point I said to my friend “I think everbody in the audience is on Birdman” and she leaned forward and asked some guy if he had a record on Birdman and he did! Also, Brian Glaze fell on me at this show. I don’t know how he managed it, but he went tumbling off of that four inch stage and right into me. WORLD FAMOUS CURSE?
BRIDEZ were great as always and they didn’t spill anybodies drinks but their own!
I was so busy being down south I almost fo’got ta mentuhn that tonight is Monday Night SMiLE! You know we love SMiLE, Neil, and The Knockout. You also know we love Bridez; so tonight is going to be a good one:
This Monday June 2, you should leave the house with your eyes shut and wander aimlessly like a somnambulist. Without fail, your feet will carry you to the Knockout where you can safely open your eyes and take in the spectacle of smiling faces and dancing bodies. What will be the cause of the merriment?
At around 9:30pm, Frond will take the stage. They are composed of Amy and Andrew who used to be in Tapestry together (also known as Shag Tapestry) with the addition of Jesse from Bramble & Briar. This is bound to be delightful!
http://www.myspace.com/tapestrymusic
An hour or so after this, the heavy and fun rock of Bridez will spin through your head. They filled a bill for me last month in a pinch, and I was so dazzled by them I invited them back right away. Liza’s best band to date, and a really hot one! (A hot date?)
http://www.myspace.com/fakebloodjacket
Sometime before midnight, I will introduce the headlining act, namely Brian Glaze and the Night Shift. I’ll save my flowery rhetoric for that moment, and simply say that this is one of the most enjoyable, solid acts around.
http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom
So don’t miss this show. It’d just be dumb. The drinks are cheap, the bartenders are friendly, and I’ll be playing all manner of groovy tunes before, between, and after the bands.
Also: Pam (from Sugar & Gold) will be guest dj!
The Knockout is at 3223 Mission near 29th street.
xox,
Neil
Except for the fact that I’m super tired because I couldn’t get to sleep last night, I think tonight is finally the night I’m not going to bail early because I’m exhausted and stick around for Brian Glaze. I mean it! Promises!
PLEASE TO COEM! Hard place will have their new record (Get Your Hopes Up) for sale on CD and LP. There might be tshirts too. Everything for sale will have been pre-loved by the band in one way or another.
Bridez features Liza from So So Many White White Tigers and has a CDR out soon and people keep telling me that Easy Street can get any party started. EPIC WIN!!!
Hard Place
Easy Street
Bridez
4/18/2008
9PM
Smile @ The Knockout
3223 Mission St. (where misson and valencia meet)
$5
Monday Night Smile is the best. Totally the best! I love going out on Mondays, its like Presidents Day. And this Monday was extra cool because The Interchangeable Hearts, Citadelle, and Lumerians played and The Vortex Room did the visuals. I got some neat photos this time maybe you should go look at them!
First was Interchangeable Hearts and I heard somebody bagging on the band before they started. I was totally surprised because almost everybody I’ve talked to recently says you shouldn’t bag on local bands because they have it hard enough. Anyway, based on what I heard I thought I wouldn’t like this band. And, their brand of pop (like, an indie rock Carly Simon) isn’t my favorite, but I liked this girl’s voice and her keyboard playing. I shall be keeping an eye out. And word on the street is they have a record release show in April at the The Hotel Utah.
Next was Citadelle. Everybody was there to see them. They were on tour, or actually it seems like they’ve just moved here. They are obviously plugged into some scene I don’t know the first thing about as I had never heard of them. They played a sort of heavy seventies psych that was (… sigh, is still) super popular and people cared like it was 2001 and this were Comets on Fire (if it were 2001 I think I’d be saying they were better than Comets on Fire). That means I thought they were really good for what they did, I’m just not feeling the heavy seventies in my light thirties.
Last was Lumerians. I thought the performance was pretty good. They play a psych drone fuzzfest kinda thing, but with some sonic youth (or some other song based group) worship thrown in. I could have done without the hissy fit they were throwing over the persistent feedback issues they were having. Obviously that is frustrating, but did it really detract from the music they were playing? Not as much as they might have thought. Which is maybe a problem — whats going on under all that fuzz? I’ll have to check out the music on the myspace.
Based from what I saw though, I might describe them as “What if Wooden Shjips were as awesome as everybody says they are?”. And thats not so bad.
way more here, super cool!
Elton Tom was all “don’t post these, we only ever post about stuff Myles and I are in”. At first I was going to go along with that because, well, its true. And, the photos are maybe a bit more Lucifer Rising than Puce Moment. But, I’m going to post them anyway because I don’t really have anything else to talk about and there’s three other people in the band and he’s not actually in the photos because a) Drummers are hard to photograph, b) drummers are always in the back and c) the show was at the knockout and the light is terrible there. So whatever. The band was pretty good — guitar and keyboard songs that maybe sound like they’re from New Zealand. But maybe they don’t — in addition to bad lighting the sound at the knockout isn’t the greatest (but we love the knockout anyway). It was a good first impression.
Also, this band fpodbpod played and they were pretty good despite their name and the fact they’re into being the deli’s band of the month. I just listened to their myspace and its weird, they were so much more electric live. I think maybe they’re better live. Go see them and don’t click on that link. Greg Ashley also played but he should stick to the full band thing because his cute, pudgy little face can only take that acoustic guitar so far. Seriously.
Guess. What. Elton Tom’s new band, Puce Moment, is finally going to debut after, like, five years holed up in some basement practicing. Well, maybe not five, but it sure seems like it sometimes. I was beginning to think they were really just catching every performance at Theater Rhinoceros or something.
Anyway, the band also features Gary Fembot (of Vis-รก-Vis, feelings on a grid, and sta prest) and an ex member of The Aislers Set but I don’t hold that against him.
Oh, and if you’re wondering what a puce moment is, its a Kenneth Anger film about , literally, a puce moment. Seriously. But if you’re on the leading edge of cool then you know its all about its impossible (and uncredited) soundtrack. You can check this post over at WFMU for more info if you’ve got a day job and can’t be on the leading edge of cool.
Oh yeah, greg ashley is playing too.
Monday, Feb 4
Smile @ The Knockout
10 PM, $5
greg ashley
puce moment
