A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek

Sat, Sep 17
Noon to 8p
FREE

SF IndieFest Presents A MIGHTY RUCKUS AT ISLAIS CREEK
Saturday, September 17. Noon to 8p, All Ages, Free

SF IndieFest has produced 15 film festivals over the last 7 years,
including the annual SF Independent Film Festival, the SF Documentary
Festival and Another Hole in the Head: 8 Nights of Horror, Fantasy
and Sci Fi. The local grass-roots arts organization is now
broadening its horizons to produce an all day, all ages, free arts
festival in the industrial-fabulous district of Bayshore.

The event will take place along Islais Creek, located near where
Third Street and Cesar Chavez meet. Eight bands from as far away as
the UK will play on the outdoor stage while indoors there will be a
DJ Lounge, an art exhibit and a screening room.

The bands include Plastination, (alt glam), The Copper Tones (surf),
Riot A Go Go (dance punk), Radio Noise (ska), New Model Army (UK -
aggressive acoustic), Smash-Up Derby (live mash up), Babyland (LA -
electronic junk punk) and F-Space (industrial pyro punk).

DJs in the DJ Lounge include Adrian and Mysterious D (Bootie), John
(New Wave City). Fact 50 (Red Square), Mitch (Meat), Kit (Sin) and
Moonshine (Church of Elvis).

Artists exhibiting in the Gallery include Tanya Regan, Joseph Hren,
Ally Beth, Sadie and others.

The Screening Room will feature shorts programs curated by SF
IndieFest, Other Cinema, Microcinema International and the Found
Footage Festival. (The Brooklyn-based traveling Found Footage
Festival plays at the Roxie Cinema later that evening 9/17 and at the
Parkway Theatre on 9/18. )

The festival is sponsored by The Bay Area Motor Club, The Bay
Guardian, Live 105, Retina Sound, SF Station, SFist.com, Adolph
Gassers and The Film Arts Foundation

The Islais Creek Festival will take place at and around the Bay Area
Motor Club, the city's only self service auto garage, located at 1598
Custer Ave at Rankin, close to Muni's 15 and 19 routes.

Location: www.bayareamotorclub.com/Location.html

For stills or a promo disc with music from the bands playing the
festival contact Jeff Ross at

Web links at the end of this email.

Band Bios/Info:

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PLASTINATION

Plastination's twisted, but catchy, rock music was recently
described by Die Puny Humans as "stumbling and swaggering, sweet
and sly, clever and clumsy. Lots and lots of perfectly deformed
little pop songs."

"Openers Plastination took the stage first. Vocalist T.bias has a
distinctive voice. Although Plastination cites Bowie as a
reference, T.bias's vocals are lower than Bowie's with similar
pronunciation. As a result, T.bias sounds strikingly like Tim
Curry in the Rocky Horror Picture Show crossed with a 50's crooner
over a strange sort of doo-wop punk. Not rockabilly, however,
despite the obvious Social Distortion influence in the nature of
Plastination's composition style. Plastination's straightforward
non-hardcore/aggro punk stylings are appropriate to kicking back
and having fun or as the latter darker half of the set showed,
crying in your beer.

Plastination's set was divided into a light-dark diptych, the
first half being funky glam and bright colored light-strewn; the
latter half inversely involving darker lights, a stripping down to
darker clothing by the band members, and the entrance of go-go
dancers. Go-go dancers seem to be the latest band commodity this
month. In any case, after the critical pivot point of the set,
when T.bias transformed himself by shaving off his sideburns on
stage, the tone of the music shifted to darker, more brooding Nick
Drake/Iggy Pop/Clash-style ballads in opposition to earlier
numbers such as "Electric Eyes," whose choral melody is close to a
slowed-down version of the chorus of the Dead Kennedys' "Kill the
Poor", and the vocals are more like those of the Rezillos, the
music more like the Damned.

While not a "metal" band or a "hardcore" band, Plastination are
unique and personable performers whose sound records onto an album
surprisingly well." -Powerslave.com

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THE COPPER TONES

The Copper Tones have been keeping the spirit of instrumental surf
rock alive in the San Francisco area since their debut in 2001.
Through-out the years, The C-Tones have performed with such local
acts as The Teenage Harlets, The Lava Rats, Thee Merry Widows &
The Rock 'n' Roll Adventure Kids as well as with underground
notables including The Woggles, Las Ultrasonicas and The Epoxies.
Out of town appearances range from Santa Cruz to Seattle.

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RIOT A GO GO

"Those kids in Riot a Go Go can pump out the jams. The
punk-rock world's answer to It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold
Us Back, it's been years since any record has sounded so angry and
so happy. Riot a Go Go calls itself dance-punk, which would be
straight-up ballsy if it wasn't so true. Drummer Matt plays like
Dave Grohl-I mean, old-school Nirvana Dave Grohl-trapped in a
disco karaoke bar. And singer/guitarist Nova Lee screams so hard,
you wonder how they tape her lungs back together after each song.
"Cool Girl" is loud and funky old-school dance beats with a killer
surf-punk guitar and bass trade-off. If there's any justice in the
world, the call-and-response verses of "High Society" will have
mobs of SF scene kids screaming the lyrics back in Nova's face at
the Cow Palace every Saturday night for the rest of eternity." - Zero
Mag

"At a time when the punk-rock scene is either too heavy, too
melodic, or both, enter Riot-a-Go-Go. A PIECE OF IT combines the
spirit of '77 with dance beats of the '80s and lyrics aimed at the
here and now. Riot-a-Go-Go goes through so many styles that you
won't know what to do...besides dance." - SKRATCH MAGAZINE


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RADIO NOISE

Best Local Band with a Mission to Fire Up San Francisco's Music
Scene - SF WEEKLY
On the sunny afternoon of Saturday, June 15, a bunch of grizzled
veterans took center stage as the headline band at the North Beach
Festival in Washington Park and put on a spectacular performance
in the crowd-pleasing tradition of Chet Helms Productions at the
old Avalon Ballroom. The group of eight was Radio Noise, and they
were in top form: the grizzled veterans, as they like to call
themselves, were all solid local musicians who had been playing
together for nine years. They had splendid stage presence and
played with joy and verve. Their songs were original and highly
creative, most of them written by Erik Noyes, the band's founder
and lead singer, who pranced about the stage as if he owned it.
The result was a burst of original pop musicianship, raw and
untamed, a unique blend of Jamaican and Two-Tone ska, with lots of
reggae, funk, and just plain old San Francisco rock. The audience
loved it, bouncing to the beat and obviously ready to listen long
into the evening. Radio Noise was good, damn good. The band was
started in 1993 by Noyes, a singer-songwriter-keyboardist and
natural born master of ceremonies who works during the day as the
owner of China Books, a landmark family-owned bookstore in San
Francisco. He met Dave Wiens, an arranger and bass player, when
the two were on tour with the seminal English ska band Bad
Manners. Wiens had previously played trombone for the Fresno-based
ska band with the zippy name Let's Go Bowling. Radio Noise is of,
by, and for San Francisco and have announced they are taking on
the job of revving up the sagging local music scene. They continue
with gusto to write, record, and perform pop songs in the spirit
of the Specials and Elvis Costello. They've just produced their
third full-length disc, What It Takes, full of local vignettes
("Supermarket Man" comes from Noyes's experience hanging out late
at night at the Safeway on Market Street).

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NEW MODEL ARMY

Review from SXSW 2005:

Incendiary. En-thralling. Perfect in every imaginable way. Its
exactly 25 years on, and the Bradford lads led by frontman Justin
Sullivan are, amazingly, better then ever. None of their UK punk
contemporaries from the Class of '80 have weathered the years as
well as this lockstep Army, and surely no one in the packed
Elysium audience could've imagined such a sternum-rattling,
soul-stirring return to both Austin (they last dropped by 16 years
ago) and martial musical form. Thundering opener "Over the Wire"
revealed not a band at all, but an explosive force of nature that
wedded Michael Dean's booming metronomic drums to Nelson
Blomberg's roaring bass riffs and Sullivan's acoustic breaks and
impassioned delivery. The fiddle-fit leader, eyes beaming the
rightoeus fire of the true zealot/artist, stalked the stage like a
panther, guitar, voice, and body broadcasting the truth of life
like a white-light beacon of hope in an increasingly blackened
world. You could've died straight off, and it would've been a
"Wonderful Way To Go" but then you'd have missed classics "Green
and Grey," "51st State," and midset piece "Here Comes The War,"
which, with its mounting sense of the invevitability of human
folly ("You screamed give us liberty of give us deat - now you've
got both (so) put out the lights on teh age of reason!") left nary
a dry eye in the house. Closer "I Love the World" found Sullivan
and life itself "locked together here in this bittersweet
embrace," with a final, anthemic "Oh, God, I love the world!"
testifying to the redemptive power of spitting love in the face of
despair, a half-dozen amps, and a punk rock heart as big as the
world. - Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle 3/18/05

New Model Army will play a full set headlining at The Independent
later that night on Sept 17.

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SMASH-UP DERBY

Okay, look, we know how most of these band bios start. It usually
goes something like this: Imagine a band that mixes [insert
well-known indie band here] with [insert famous pop artist here]
sprinkled with a dash of [for intrigue, insert descriptive noun
here]. And of course, it's usually complete bullshit. Unless, that
is, you're talking about SMASH-UP DERBY.

That's because SMASH-UP DERBY indeed does do all of the above -
quite literally. In fact, they're a totally kick-ass indie cover
band - except the singers think they're in a pop band. So while
the band is cranking out rockin' renditions of songs by Nirvana,
Franz Ferdinand, the Sex Pistols, or Black Sabbath, the singers
are belting out Madonna, Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, or
Pink - at the same time.

On paper, it sounds like a train wreck, but in actuality, it melds
beautifully. With the band's skillful execution, these "hybrid
songs" sound like they were always meant to be together. You'll
never hear the originals the same way again.

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BABYLAND

Since 1989, BABYLAND has refused to go away - or stop evolving.
Over the years, their electronic junk punk sound has incorporated
everything from pure noise to syrupy synth-pop, with each album
reaching beyond classification and demanding to be heard.

The foundation is punk rock. The idea is to reject and reinterpret
what has come before. Every song delivers honesty, energy and
bursts of human mistake. BABYLAND take simple, cold elecrtonics
and inject brutal emotion through desperate vocals and intense
metal percussion.

The stronghold of their existence has always been intense live
performances which confront audiences with extreme energy, harsh
sonic and visual elements, and sometimes experimental destruction.
BABYLAND utilize machinery twisted through misuse and human error
to aggressively address the audience with empathy and concern; The
electronic elements and primitive rhythmic base of the music
provides an intense clarity and opposition to the resulting
confusion and noise. Still, underneath it all lies skewed hope and
a celebration of our human experience.

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F-SPACE

Conceptual / visual artist Scot Jenerik and ex-Savage Republic
guitarist Ethan Port are the proficiently preternatural,
prodigiously provocative, and pungently primal pyro-perpetrators
who primarily manifest F-Space's seething sepulchral sound of post
Industrial-Punk. Densely subterranean tribal percussion,
resonating Middle Eastern guitar, atmospheric ambience, and
dissonant metallic clanging reminiscent of Einsturzende Neubauten
and Throbbing Gristle immerse you into a cataclysmic realm of
subtle beauty and extreme chaos. As the consummate performance
artists, F-Space is the mastermind behind the optically enchanting
and aurally subversive How To Destroy the Universe Festival (as
co-presented by KFJC)! The self-proclaimed "Led Zeppelin of Noise"
is a violent sacrificial escapade well worth the adventure.



Links:
www.sfindie.com
www.bayareamotorclub.com
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Bands:
www.Plastination.co.uk
www.coppertones.com
www.RiotAGoGo.com
www.RadioNoise.com
www.NewModelArmy.org
www.SmashUpDerby.com
Babyland: www.matressrecords.com
F-Space: www.mobilization.com
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Art:
www.artdork.org
www.tanyaregan.com/
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Film:
www.microcinema.com/
www.othercinema.com/
www.cine-magic.com/foundfootagefest.html
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DJs:
www.bootiesf.com/
www.newwavecity.com/
www.meatsf.com/

Venue:

Bay Area Motor Club
1598 Custer Ave at Rankin
SF

Near where Third meets Cesar Chavez

Additional Info:

415.820.3907
http://www.sfindie.com