Agenda March 2008
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AANVANG 20:30 uur

DIAMETRICS
From time to time, a shock's necessary for something new to happen. As is the case with DIAMETRICS, the new Noisenewwaverock Trio from bremen, Germany - formerly known as ILSE LAU. In june 2007, former ilse lau guitarist ansgar decided for a completely new start in hamburg. This necessarily put a stop to the ten-year history of ilse lau, not at last because of ansgar's very original style. Fokke and henning didn't waste any time waiting for something to happen and began looking for a new drummer. Henning had been fed up with drumming for a long time anyway, so this was the chance to move over to the newly vacant six-string-and-singing position. Some auditions, second guitarists and drummers later, a comparatively young bloke called joern forced his way into the band - with quick and inventive hands and thoughts. After some months of intensive jamming and blabbering, songwriting and fag abuse, Diametrics are damn ready for your ears and eyes. They will get at you with their aesthetically dirty, consonantally discordant, metrically (In)Constant music. To be filed somewhere between contempo-rary british stuff, amphetamine reptile, early too pure, sst and the neue bremer schule. 
www.myspace.com/diametricshb

NICE NEW OUTFIT
Dead As Disco - Resistance and Love The Hamburg-based instrumental art school threepiece NICE NEW OUTFIT are back with their second album called ?Strip down stand up", which means disarmament, deconstruction, stripping down and getting up with new clothes - a nice new outfit. The album starts like an 1981 SST record - you want to jump and sing along - and this time you acutally can do that! Nice New Outfit discovered their voices as a new instrument. And that works out absolutely fine with these delicately fragile songs. Nice New Outfit don't avoid the big gesture - they unwrap it to present a new state of beauty. This is jazz, this is Sonic Youth, this is resistivity, this is the quiescence of the late Talk Talk and, to put it into their own words: ?instrumental jet set, noise and some stars." Nice New Outfit present a record full of inspiration, a diverting and entertaining, always jittering utopy of love that you just can't resist.
www.myspace.com/nice_new_outfit

AANVANG 20:30 uur

FAKE
Magazines in Holland: eerst hadden we Vinyl, gevolgd door Opscene en tenslotte was er Fake. Door vele bladenvreters betiteld als de NL evenknie van Duitse bladen als De:Bug of Groove. Fake poepte 13 nummers uit vol artikelen over Pole, Mouse on Mars, Melt Banana of The Ex, ook labels als Monika, Transformed Dreams of Zabel kwamen aan bod en verder besteedde Fake aandacht aan culturele zaken als choreographie, film of literatuur. Geen betweterig gezever, of ons kent osn gedram, nee--Fake bracht verfrissende doch ook kritische popjournalistiek.
Maar het tij keerde en Fake ging ten onder aan de alles verslindende euro. Maar er werd allengs uit een ander vaatje getapt ... Fake goes cd. In samenwerking met zijn Zeeuwse kompaan Amy Love stelde Fake een verzamel ceedee samen met een keur aan artiesten als: Suicidal Birds, Bagio, Ilse Lau, Two Dogs, Big City Orchestre, Coolhaven etc. Deze ceedee werd gestoken in een mini Fake vol relevante wetenswaardigheden en dit geheel wordt vanavond gepresenteerd.
Ook te vinden op deze schijf is Malorix, alias Jelmer Cnossen, die dubstep avant la lettre maakt. Ook breakcore en etno-dub zijn hem niet vreemd, voor liefhebbers van oa Burial of Magaa Boo verder worden er relevante plaatje sgedraaid door het Fake team.

http://www.malorix.nl

AANVANG 20:30 uur

THE LOO
The LOO's mission is to bring back true Rock 'N'Roll to the people! With a mix of Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll to their songs and lifestyle you can expect a great live-show and a fuckin' worse-than-ever hangover the next day! If you're not into that shit please stay at home or go and watch some bacardi-breezer drinkin' boyband muppets elsewhere...

www.myspace.com/theloorocks
www.theloo.nl

MARVEL
from Linköping, Sweden, play old school Rock'n'Roll, like KISS, THE STOOGES and THE HIVES, even better than THE SEWERGROOVES. On top there's the striking voice of Vocalos. One easily could think of Paul Stanley behind the mic in person. Our heroes spend their days playing videogames and helping old ladies across the street awaiting world domination and a lifelong quest of fighting evil and the henchmen that follows in the shadows. And once in a while they drop what they do to enter the recording studio, sometimes naked, to get the work done.

www.marvel.nu
www.myspace.com/marveltheband

AANVANG 20:30 uur

Jizz Kids
The Jizz Kids, punkrock from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Proud to serve Rally Records. Split 7" with The Guts out in early 2008. New 7" EP out in that same period also. Rocky 6 rules. BAND: Kevin Aper - vocals, guitar; Ox Accelerator - bass, vocals; Kelvin Centerfold - guitar, vocals; Erik A.C. - drums
www.myspace.com/thejizzkids

Hawaiians
Earcatching bubblegum-poppunk'n'roll from Germany
This means three guys from Planet Hawaii play rock'n'roll like scary creatures from Pluto in the manner of their radioactive girlfriends - alright? The standing drummer sings of monsters from the sea, hula on mars, or just of the fact that his girlfriend is a sumoringer. Brought to fame by supporting The Queers, The Travoltas, as well as the Groovie Ghoulies and raved about by the OX magazine even before their debut 'Teenagers Love' came out in 2003. After a periode of playing shows and a little following break they are back with 'Hula on Mars' [2007].
www.myspace.com/thehawaiians

Sugus
www.myspace.com/suguspunkrockers

Contrapolis is two days of workshops, walks, an exhibition and a public debate taking place the 26 and 27 of March, 2008, in the Poortgebouw, Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), and around the city of Rotterdam. The core question of the event would be "how is art, and cultural production more broadly, at once driving capitalist valorisation in the city and able to project forms of social relations that do not produce value for capital?"

The program of workshops, discussions, walks, presentations, installations and screenings articulate approaches and experiences around the contentious nexus of culture and urban regeneration in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, Glasgow and Barcelona. Workshops will be held at the Poortgebouw on the 26th and 27th and the public debate at the NAi on the 27th in the evening. An exhibition will also be situated at the NAi for the 2 days and over the month of April. Guided walks in Delfshaven, Crooswijk, Heijplaat and Rotterdam Zuid are planned. All events are open to the public.

WED. 26 MARCH
Workshop 1 – Creative Dispossession
Workshop 2 – Informality and Ideology

THURS. 27 MARCH
Workshop 3 – Once Again, the Real Estate Show

MORE INFO: http://www.enoughroomforspace.org/projects/view/15

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