The WIERD would sincerely like to thank everyone who came out and helped to make the 4 WIERD French Invasion performances the past 2 weeks such a fantastic time! - Kris Cerrone and Aime from Antwerp, Marc Samhain from Cologne, Michael and Andrew from The Annex, Naomi, Stephen, and Miss Liz and Mr. Canterel for your help with video, photos, and sound recording of the shows. Needless to say we have a whole new band of Allies to the Quebequois and Continental European North, and should soon have a few great new live performance videos and photos up soon…Also for everyone who wasn’t able to get a tape following the Frank(just Frank) show last wednesday, Kirti and Chris wanted me you let you all know they are working on an 11 track debut CDr Compilation containing all of all the trax on the 3 currently available cassettes which we’ll have available on the website in a few weeks. Naomi’s photos from the two ‘WIERD Presents’ shows are up now on the Flickr page:
Automelodi Live at the Annex April 11th: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/72157616963463738/
Frank(just Frank) Live at WIERD April 15th: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/72157617022337849/show/
Xeno & Oaklander Live at The Annex April 11th: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/72157617110981758/show/
Further Reductions Live at The Annex April 18th: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/72157616875071885/show/
WIERD Records complete photo sets on Flickr by Naomi Ramirez: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/
Automelodi ‘Buanderie Jazz’ Live at WIERD Video April 8th by Jimmy Patterson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgBHc6FTJY
Anyway onward and inward the WIERD World continues. I’m very excited to announce that this coming Sunday April 26th Xeno & Oaklander will be making their Ivy League debut playing their first outdoor festival show as a part of the WBAR-B-Q at Barnard College, Columbia University! This will be a whole day of great live music in honor of the University’s excellent radio station WBAR and will talke place on the Lehman Lawn at 117th St. and Broadway…Admission is free, doors at 11am, and Xeno & Oaklander will be on stage at approximately 6pm…Plenty of great live acts including the likes of Gang Gang Dance, Soft Circle etc. are also on the bill - More info is available here via Brooklyn Vegan, get there early for a decent seat! as the lawn fills up pretty fast:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/04/2009_wbarbq_ann.html
A few more updates on live events - WIERD Presents at The Annex will be back on Thursday June 4th for a tornado of Gypsy Wave pleasure as we welcome back our lovely VRiend Tamaryn form San Francisco along with Religious to Damn! This will be a late show with doors at 11pm, performances begin at 11:30, more info to come on this one…Also I’m sorry to say next week’s Solvent show has been postponed until September, don’t worry I promise we’ll get Jason back asap, needless to say our lovely uber-fierce Mounties at the Canadian border don’t make it easy on the minimal synth masters touring the states these days…Instead next week WIERD will be host to our fave killer bitch ANAREXIA’s Birthday celebration featuring Guest DJ Pre-Op Trans! Also yours Very Rarely will be bringing back your fave second annual ‘Free Drinks if You Can Prove You’re GAY’ contest…Yeah…get the creative juices goin boys and girls as this crumbly old Cruton has really seen it all and isn’t easily persuaded! Rumors have it her VRajesty A-Rex will also be curating the evenings live entertainment and bring a surprise live act or two of her own so stay tuned.:
http://www.myspace.com/anarexia
This week WIERD proudly welcomes the weekly party debut of Revel Hotel for a live performance at midnight! Johnny Q. and Frankie T. have been shrouded away in minimal synthetic torchsinger obscurity carefully recording their debut LP in their Greenpoint studio for months now, so prepare for a big surprise as the boys unveil a whole new set of trax…Wish I could tell you more what to expect but needless to say fans of early ‘Life on Mars’ era Bowie, ‘Stories of Johnny’ era Mark Almond, Scott Walker and mid period Siouxsie or Nina Simone won’t be dissapointed…Rumors have it Frankie’s theremin solos are reaching Eddy Van Halen covering Throbbing Gristle frozen cold analogue electronic noodlemaster complexity!...VR:
http://www.myspace.com/revelhotel
See everyone in the Cold WIERD Wednesday World!...
Pieter and Glenn Spin the WIERD
Wednesday April 22nd, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Revel Hotel at midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Christie St. at Delancy
Info: (212)226-5708
http://www.wierdrecords.com/
Coming Soon to the WIERD World:
Sun April 26th: Xeno & Oaklander Live at the WBAR-B-Q, Columbia University, Lehman Lawn 117th st at Broadway, 6pm FREE!
Wed April 29th: WIERD Presents the Second Coming of ANAREXIA! with guest DJ Pre-Op Trans!
Thurs April 30th: Martial Canterel, Led er Est, and Steve Moore(Zombi) Live at Santos’ Party House, NYC
Wed May 6th: WIERD Presents a Live performance by N. Antolik with guest DJ Veronica from Minimalwave Records…VR
Wed May 13th: Martial Canterel, Envenomist, Hive Mind, and R Jencks - No Fun Fest Pre-Party at WIERD(first performance begins VRomptly at 11pm sharp!
Fri May 15th: Xeno and Oaklander Live at the No Fun Fest 2009 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, BKNY!(sold out)
Sat May 16th: Blacklist and The Violet Hour Live at Glasslands, BKNY
Wed May 20th: WIERD Presents the Return of Cult of Youth with guest DJ Jeralyn!
Wed May 27th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by The Psychics with guest DJ Jeffo!
Wed June 3rd: WIERD Presents Micki Pellerano’s new Ritualistic Musical Opus “The Eleusinian Mysteries”!!!
Wed June 10th: WIERD Presents the Return of Death Domain(Baltimore)
Wed June 17th: WIERD Presents the Live Debut of SEXUAL ASSAULT RIFLE - the new minimal synth project from Jonathan Canady of Angel of Decay/Deathpile + Ms Susie Q!)/Philadelphia
Wed June 24th: WIERD Presents the Return of Sleep Museum
Wed July 1st: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Zola Jesus(Sacred Bones Records/Madison, WI) + Wet Hair
Wed July 8th: WIERD VResents the return of Further Reductions!
Coming in September: WIERD Welcomes the US Debut of WIERD Compilation II Artist Vendome(Andreas Sippel of Second Decay) and Les Sirènes Débrouillardes from Witten, Germany!!! : http://www.myspace.com/lessirnesdbrouillardes