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Death By Stork (with She Mob's Sue H., original drummer Lisa McElroy, and also Andrew Sano and Tony Remington) is playing this really fun event, the Festival of the Fans. 12 bands playing short sets, all you can eat BBQ, and fun community building. No really, this is a friendly bunch of folks from different worlds and scenes, good inter-mixing. In fact,
Death By Stork was founded at the last Festival of the Fans by people that previously had been total strangers! Who knows who YOU might meet at the next Festival of the Fans? For you San Francisco-types, we welcome you to the world of the East Bay, where sometimes you can meet friendly new people who look you in the eye.
All the bands are really good. Death By Stork has some crazy-ass songs to lay on ya, including "Avian Bird Flu (What Are We Gonna Do?)" and "Brain Matter" - a deathmetal rap song that involves audience participation in yelling "You don't know shit!" Now who doesn't want to be part of something like that?
THE FESTIVAL OF THE FANS
Sunday Afternoon BBQ & Live Music
12 great local bands & a tasty afternoon BBQ
www.FestivalOfTheFans.com
Sunday, December 11th, 2:00pm
@ the Stork Club,
2330 Telegraph ave, Oakland, CA
The Festival of the Fans is a musical celebration of electric fans, and the people who love to sing through them. Folks are encouraged to bring fans, yes fans of all types, from hand held Asian paper style fans, to small battery powered fans, to larger household plug in types. Why fans? Well, why not? A limited amount of paper fans will be provided. And yes, attempts will be made by performers to sing into the fans.
$6 at the door. $1 - $2 extra donation for BBQ food fund, which includes a lot of BBQ, basically all you can eat until we run out.
The Stork Club will provide $2.50 Pabst beer, $3.50 well drinks all day.
THIS AFTERNOON BBQ / LIVE MUSIC EVENT WILL HAPPEN RAIN OR SHINE DUE TO THE NEW COVERED / ENCLOSED OUT DOOR PATIO AT THE STORK CLUB.
Doors open @ 1:30pm.
BBQ available from 2:00pm - 6:30pm.
BBQ menu: Hamburgers, vegiburgers, tater tots, salad, marinated chicken wings, or, bring your own!
Bands start promptly at 3:20pm. (and that's not bar time)
1:30pm Doors open
2:30pm BBQ Food available
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3:20pm Bob Hammer
(MC Hammer meets Bob Dylan)
3:45pm Famous Last Words
(Dylan meets Lucinda Williams meets Jefferson Airplane)
4:25pm Pickin Trix
(sharp as a whip country girl duo)
5:05pm Tara Linda
(Spaghetti western circus torch)
5:45pm Bunny Numpkins & the Kill Blow Up Reaction
(Lou Reed-ian rock with a mouthy, genius puppet show)
6:25pm the Trenchermen
(rock/pop influences from everything but the kitchen sink)
7:05pm Lindi Wiggins & Kim Digiacomo
(influences from Dolly Parton to Radiohead to Lauryn Hill)
7:45pm David & Joanna
(Twang meets Leonard Cohen meets the Velvet Underground)
8:25pm Val Esway
(of "Ramona the Pest" & "Loretta Lynch" ... a little bit torch, a little bit twang)
9:05pm Death by Stork
(loud/dark girl boy aural assualt, featuring members of "She Mob")
9:45pm Pillows
(girl duo agressive folk meets Sleater-Kinney...missing half a drum set, if found please return)
10:25pm the Blue Canadians
(danceable bubble gum garage rock from Canadian expatriots)
11:00pm - 12:30am Dance DJ |
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As always, please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might have an interest in attending. Thanks.