TURN THE SCREWS festival of love and noise December 15-17 at Il Corral
2nd annual festival for the sonic arts sublime and depraved
"More stars than there are in heaven in this hellish inferno of the last free music on Earth: noise. " David Cotner, LA Weekly Pick of the Week (Dec 15, 2005)
Featuring 40 acts over 3 days, with more touring artists than you can fit in a motor city van, be prepared for a transcendental ritual of sonic catharsis. We are out of our minds for running these many acts, but you would be more insane to miss it.
First time performances at Il Corral by an epic array of fire godemons - Bastard Noise (long-time LA/Claremont analog antagonists), Twig Harper (Baltimore, member Nautical Almanac, runs Heresee Records), Aaron Dilloway (Michigan, formerly of Wolf Eyes, runs Hanson records), Michael Gendreau (San Francisco's scientist of physical sound), Tarantism (from Oakland, performance art noise and video), Dimmer (SF's Thomas Dimuzio and LA's Joseph Hammer), Emaciator (grrrrrrrrrrrrr, side project of Pedestrian Deposit), Pulse Emitter (Portland's oscillator-slayer), Psicologicos Tramas (Oakland's Loachfillet + jHammer + aOrtega), Guitar Quorum (jKudler + dKendall+sCheslow), The Widow (member of Moth Drakula), and Liam Mooney's OK Audience (wherein the public is encouraged to bring objects that they wish the participants to make music live on the spot with). Return performances by SIXES (Oakland's own slut-hunter, member Crash Worship), Rubber O Cement (SF's pancake-landscape monsters), AMK (Glassell Park's own secret agent, runs Banned Productions), Honed Bastion (from Portland, side project of Dead/bird), Skull Sküll (dual noise guitar-medics), Jeremy Drake (Silverwoodlake's drone improvisor), Health (LA's noise boy band), KILT (tri-national noise hybrid, with 10 projects and 3 labels between them), Deep Jew (noise-thrash-core band, post-MHCL), Haircut Mountain Transit (Pasadena's own costumed sonic liberators), Seed Pod Pals (Mitchell Brown and some very quiet groovy company), Riververb (San Diego's viking plunderer), Unicorn Hard-on and God Willing (Providence-via-Val-Verde), Dirty Modelz (dRothbaum + aOrtega), Argumentix (Portland's noise rap crooner), Obstacle Corpse (member Sissy Spacek, guitar-mouth ne'er-do-well), Dog Shit Taco w/ Dog of Tears Orchestra (gong-show-noise-opera), Zsa Zsa Gabor (San Diego's pop-cult-dragon-geisha), Bacteria Cult (grone-doom), Treasure Mammal (shredd'd ho-down), Unnecessary Surgery (members from Captain Ahab, Beach Ballz), Vegan Murderers (one of the many house bands, symphonic sardony), Moment Trigger (Valencia's own mod-box-benders), Narcoleptic Feedback! (Buena Park's OxGx Trash Skull), and Hop Frog Krew (Long Beach's noise gypsys). Special presentation of noise-dance collaborations by Wanda Gala && Bob Bellerue and Brooke Smiley && Adam Overton.
In addition to the live performance chaos, each evening will begin with noise/sound videos from around the world. To help you get through the last day (and help us attain pure states of satispassion agony-glory), there is a pancakes noise brunch at noon on Sunday.
all performances will occur at
Il Corral
664 N. Heliotrope Dr (@melrose)
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Tickets:: $10 per night, or $20 for the entire weekend. Tickets available at the door, no advance sales. CHEEEAAAAPPPP!!!
ALL PERFORMANCES WILL BEGIN AT THE SCHEDULED TIMES. NO LET'S-SEE-WHO-SHOWS-UP-AND-WAIT-A-FEW-MORE-MINUTES. we have a we-earned reputation for starting late but that will not be tolerated for this special event, which will rip us a new sleep-hole.
Press contacts use bob@halfnormal.com for more info.
Full lineup
The list below is comprehensive, but not in running order. The final schedule
will be on the website the week of the fest, and will be posted at the show.
PLEASE do not call for lineup info, just friggin show up, pay attention,
and bring yr ears!!!!
Friday, December 15th
8pm videos video schedule here
10pm music
Bastard Noise
Twig Harper
Psicologicos Trama
AMK
Rubber O Cement
Riververb
KILT
Health
Dirty Modelz (ortega/rothbaum)
The Widow
Moment Trigger
Narcoleptic Feedback!
Saturday, December 16th
8pm videos video schedule here
10pm music
Aaron Dilloway
Michael Gendreau
Tarantism
Pulse Emitter
SIXES
Dimmer
Honed Bastion
Emaciator
Skull Sküll
Deep Jew
Unicorn Hard-on
Seed Pod Pals
Obstacle Corpse
Sunday, December 17th
12pm vegan pancakes 1pm music
Bacteria Cult
Unnecessary Surgery
Vegan Murderers
Argumentix
God Willing
6pm video video schedule here
8pm music
Guitar Quorum (Kendall/Kudler/Cheslow)
Wanda Gala && Bob Bellerue
Brooke Smiley && Adam Overton
Dog Shit Taco w/ Dog of Tears Orchestra
Treasure Mammal
Haircut Mountain Transit
Liam Mooney's "OK Audience" ****see below
Jeremy Drake
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hop Frog Krew
****OK Audience involves using only material objects that are brought to the show by the audience members. so bring something for us to play with!!!! anything goes, but be reasonable - please don't make us ban fake blood again
tell your friends && keep up with info at ilcorral.net