This week WIERD is very proud to welcome Backworld to their long-overdue debut at the weekly party for a live performance at midnight! Anyone unfamiliar with the amazing Joe Budenholzer and Co(who many of you probably are aware were the first ever American artists invited to record on the legendary UK World Serpent label in the mid 90s) most certainly soon will for with Cult of Youth and the other recent mysterious accoustic guitar spottings oozing out of the WIERD NYC cracks it does indeed feel as though the Neofolk are slowly rearing their musically overeducated heads and resurfacing after being ‘gone’ for way too long! Apart form the obvious comparisons to the ‘Noddy folks’ of Douglas P and David T, Joe’s trax have always connoted another entire much earlier tradition to me which in turn obviously influenced the naughty Serpentinian Brits including Cult heroes such as Comus, Angus MacLise, John Fahey, and the truly WIERD psychedelic pleasure of the Incredible String Band and Pentangle…regardless of your musical ‘Raison…’ Check out their recent single - a great cover of Psychic TV’s ‘The Orchids’ on the Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/backworld
This week will be a very unique show for us all…see you all Wednesday evening in the cold foggy cloud of our Homely Sweet Home…
I wanted to also let everyone in the WIERD community know before the heat-seeking noise freeks gobble up all the spots that there are only a handful of tickets left for the Friday show featuring Xeno & Oaklander Show at No Fun Fest, Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 15th(Sat show is sold out now FYI), here is the ticketmaster link - get yr tix asap before they’re all gone to come on out and see Liz and Sean freeze 600+ people to lovely VR death!...and no unfortunately there is no guest list left sorry kids I wish:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004245AFF86833?artistid=1293678&majorcatid=10005&minorcatid=0
Both Naomi and Glenn have generously as always updated the WIERD Records Flickr page with many of our VRecent live shows:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/
Pieter and Frankie Teardrop(Postpunk dot com, Revel Hotel, ‘Exotic Birds’ Party at Coco66/BKNY) spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday March 4th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live performance by Backworld at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
www. WierdRecords. com
Coming Soon to WIERD!:
Sat March 7th: Led er Est, Blank Dogs, Naked on the Vague, Pink Noise, Silk Flowers, and Gary War With DJ Caleb Braaten at The Shank, 98 Bayard St, BKNY
Wed March 11th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Led er Est(Live concert video shoot) w guest DJ Veronica Vasicka of Minimalwave Records
Wed March 18th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Xeno & Oaklander(Live concert video shoot) with guest DJ Scott Mou(Other Music NYC)
Wed March 25th: WIERD Presents the Return of Religious to Damn
Wed April 1st: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Yellow Tears
Wed April 8th: WIERD Presents the US Debut of Automelodi(Montreal/featuring Xavier from Arnaud Lazlaud!)
Sat April 11th: WIERD Presents: Xeno and Oaklander, Automelodi, and Further Reductions, and Epee du Bois Live at The Annex, 152 Orchard St, NYC
Wed April 15th: WIERD Presents the US Debut of Frank(just Frank) - France
Sat April 18th: WIERD Presents Blacklist, Frank(just Frank), and Led er Est Live at The Annex, NYC
Wed April 22nd: WIERD welcomes the Return of Revel Hotel!
Wed April 29th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Solvent(Toronto)
Thurs April 30th: Martial Canterel, Led er Est, and Steve Moore(Zombi) Live at Santos’ Party House NYC
Wed May 6th: WIERD Presents the Return of N Antolik…VR
Wed May 13th: Martial Canterel, Envenomist, Hive Mind, and R Jencks - No Fun Fest Pre-Party at WIERD!
Fri May 15th: Xeno and Oaklander Live at the No Fun Fest 2009 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, BKNY!(5/15-5/17, tickets on Sale Now!)
Plus many more soon TBC