The Brick Bellistic Billyburg Battle of the Bands for A Billion Bucks!

by Jason Robert Bell

For the Brick's "Sell Out" Fest, I organized and hosted a faux Rock Contest, All the Bands were local groups that were good sports, and played along most of us used new and silly stage names for the event. Two of my former performance students David D Ostilio and Jon Latiano helped with short acts for inbetween set-ups for each group.

The main goal was to have some fun and explore the "music contest" as a work of theater/performance art.

 

June 11th, 2006

Come see a knock down drag out

Contest of Champions

a Ragna-Rock for the ages!

Featuring!

The Sprinkle Genies

Lightening Kites

Bruises Bruises

Juliette Bravo Hotel

Smegma LaRue (Dave Weston)

The Hungry Brothers

Hosted by Foreskin LaRue (Jason Robert Bell)

With special guest "Retarded Dinosaur" (Jon Latiano) and "the Steak " ( David D Ostilio)

The Brick
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg
L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan

9 to 11 PM

 

sponsored by http://www.tetragrammatron.com

 

 

 

 

Sprinkle Genies - 5 piece New York band, made up of 3 guys, and 2 girls, from New Jersey , New York, and Wisconsin. Whose variety of upbringing, and musical and artistic tastes and creativity have led to this amazing band. http://www.myspace.com/sprinklegenies

Lightning Kites Only once every 2 years, 3 months and 4 days does a band like Lightning Kites come along. This particular version features members of Bachman-Turner Underpants, The That Ones, The Notable Fuckups and The Bottommost Coat. The LK repetoire mirrors its obsessions: bubblegum (the actual candy), spirit-killers, party poopers and good witchery. You might have seen LKs on television, flacking such popular consumer items as The Dessert Weasel and Chutney flavored Children's PediaZonk (with Neen). Lightning Kites, using only musical instruments, their hands and a tiny portion of their brains, put notes in front of or behind other notes. http://www.myspace.com/lightningkites

Juliette Bravo, Hotel Hotel & Lima Mike (aka J.B. Roté, Hank Hivnor, and Bridget Michael) joined forces at the Juliette Bravo Hotel, a secret agent retreat with wandering coordinates. If you are reading this, you are invited to observe them making music in the lounge ... bask in their luxurious meanderings and elevating frequencies. Password: Chocolate Mint. http://www.myspace.com/juliettebravohotel

Smegma LaRue - Dave Weston tragic lovesick character created for the project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_(band)

TheHungryBrothers - RHB on drums and yelling Mejias on Bass and yelling http://www.myspace.com/thehungrybrothers

Bruises Bruises, the stripped down sexed up brainchild of Natalie Weiss (Unicornicopia, h8) and her best friend Isabelle Kohler, is the sampler and synth-driven noisy hookfest that you've been dying to fuck, but are terrified to put the moves on. http://www.myspace.com/unicornicopia

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