Popcorn Youth and Skipster are proud to present Diane Cluck, Ben Miller, Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, and Autumn in Halifax live at WildFire Bistro. This is our first concert at the new WildFire space (formerly Lost Dog Lounge) and we are incredibly excited to bring these talented and diverse artists!

Friday, October 23
8pm doors / 9pm start

BEN MILLER >>>> http://www.myspace.com/..benmillerdegeneration
DIANE CLUCK >>>> http://www.myspace.com/..dianecluck
KEN'S LAST EVER RADIO EXTRAVAGANZA >>>> www.lastever.org
AUTUMN IN HALIFAX >>>> http://www.autumninhalifax...com/

WildFire Bistro
112 S. Cayuga St., downtown Ithaca
18+ / $8 with Student I.D. / $10 without

Diane Cluck cooks, gardens, draws and loves, bikes and studies wild plants. All these activities inform her original songs, which she's been performing since 2000. Known for dynamic vocals and close-fitting harmonies , her live shows focus on singing as a healing, physical experience, offering space in which others may wander, ponder or simply be.

Diane's hauntingly clear voice weaves melodies full of love and pain through her intentionally sparse arrangements of piano, acoustic guitar and harmonium. A classical training and obsession with Erik Satie has instilled a tasteful minimalism. Cluck has been featured on Devendra Banhart's watershed compilation 'Golden Apples of The Sun' (including Iron & Wine, Joanna Newsom, Vetiver etc), though she keeps a quiet presence in her home in NYC. Songwriting this powerful and music this good can't be a secret forever.

“This record ['Oh Vanille'] is by my favorite singer-songwriter in all of New York City. I'm so happy to be alive at the same time she is because i get to see her perform. It's her and guitar or her and piano or her and harmonium. Her lyrics are so good, when i play this for people they stop doing everything and are quiet for hours after." —DEVENDRA BANHART

"A bona fide treasure... Diane demonstrates how little she needs to put the world on hold: just a voice, a guitar and some of the most spell-binding of words you'll hear anywhere." — MOJO MAGAZINE

American rock and avant garde guitarist Ben Miller has been a member of proto-punk and post-punk Michigan bands Destroy All Monsters, Sproton Layer, Nonfiction, and M3, a collaboration with his older brother, Roger Miller (of iconic Boston art-punk band Mission of Burma). As a guitarist / saxophonist, Miller has explored psychedelic songwriting, freeform-based improvisation and notated scores in quasi-tonality. His solo project Ben Miller/degeneration inhabits multiphonic guitar with treatment. Cultivating his technique since 1982, Miller creates a sonic stereo soundscape that defies standard guitar playing.

"This warped, questing music is sometimes like a game of blind man's bluff in a rotting warehouse: you feel that Miller has set things up so that he too doesn't quite know what's going on... Miller's guitar is heavily detuned and intonations are random...Miller doesn't use guitar technique as such, he stays firmly in touch with the instrument's sound, so if spokes are being forced through strings, that's what you hear. The result is down and dirty with very little electronic trumpery."
— WIRE MAGAZINE

Autumn in Halifax is the quiet guitar and voice of new york native David Merulla. Interspersed with delicate instrumentals that also include keyboards and singing saw he tells cinematic stories of birds, avalanches, water, hearts and silence with a haunting mixture of tradition and sometimes experimental aesthetic.

"His guitar lines drift back and forth, moving in and out of frame, disappearing only long enough to instill a sense of unease and anxiety, returning to both please and taunt... Like both architecture and nature, Autumn in Halifax’s songs deal with the role of space the space between people, the space between the past and the present, and the space between reality and illusions... Transitory and haunting, Autumn in Halifax’s songs sound like all those past moments that determine your present situation." — POPMATTERS

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza has been creating his ever-changing live improvised sound collage experiment for the past 15 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment, performed from stages, radio stations, cement bunkers, construction sites, experimental dance spaces, tree houses, and elsewhere.