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How to Destroy the Universe
Extreme Art, Music, Bands and Performance Festival Series

Advance Tickets available here



"We intend to Destroy all dogmatic verbal systems..."


--William S. Burroughs RE/Search interview

 

 

 

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QUESTIONS? Email "destroy2info 'at' Mobilization.com for a prompt response

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Artist: How to Destroy the Universe Festival - Part 3 TICKETS
A 3 day festival targeting the BEST in Extreme art, music, performance and culture.
Title:

TUE Sept 14 - THUR Sept 16
NYC and Brooklyn

Release Date: SEPT 2004
Price:

$5-$10 Sliding Scale per night.

We also are offering an online option of getting the new F-SPACE Preliminary Impact CD for $7.98 (wholesale) when you purchase any online ticket to the festival.


$7 TUE SEPT 14 Lit Lounge

$14.98 TUE SEPT 14 Lit Lounge plus F-SPACE Preliminary Impact Report CD
$7 WED SEPT 15 Brooklyn


$14.98 WED SEPT 15 Brooklyn
plus F-SPACE Preliminary Impact Report CD


$7 THUR SEPT 16 NYC

$14.98 WED SEPT 15 Brooklyn
plus F-SPACE Preliminary Impact Report CD

$20 3 day Festival Pass
plus F-SPACE Preliminary Impact Report CD

Format: Will Call Ticket. Please provide us with the name for each ticket as a Comment when you purchase your ticket in the comments section. Print out your Pay Pal confirmation as your receipt.

(Proceeds support F-SPACE on their attempted coup of Europe)

Limited Space: This event is expected to sell out quickly

*Note: no one turned away due to lack of funds. Please email us in advance if you require a sponsored admission, or if you'd like to volunteer for the event.
Email: "imbroke [at] mobilization.com"

A three day festival targeting the best in Extreme art, music, performance and culture.

TUE Sept 14(7 pm - 12 am)
Lit Lounge, NYC
Advanced Ticket: $7

WED Sept 15(7 pm - 12 am)
(TBA) Brooklyn
Advanced Ticket: $7

THUR Sept 16(7 pm - 2 am)
Continental Club, NYC
Advanced Ticket: $7

Festival Pass plus F-SPACE CD: $20


TUE Sept 14(7 pm - 12 am)

Live Stimulation
Bands, Performances, Burning Art

    • F-SPACE - Frenetic Pyro Post Punk
    • Wharton Tiers Ensamble
    • Jason Trachtenburg
    • More TBA

Virtual Stimulation
Video Projections and Presentations:

    • The Bone Tree- Bridges Slide Show (illicite urban infrastructure documentation obtained at death defying heights)
    • Ron Athey- Grown-up Videos and Naughty Bits
    • CIAbnormalArts.com & ShayeSaintJohn.com - Ultra Creepy "Triggers" and Oddities
    • More TBA

Mixed Stimulation
Tiki and Post-Punk Throbbing DJs

    • Lit Lounge

     

    Free Ear Plugs.

LIMITED SPACE. $5-$15 sliding scale

WED Sept 15(7 pm - 12 am)

Live Stimulation
Bands, Performances, Burning Art

    • F-SPACE - Frenetic Pyro Post Punk
    • Jason Trachtenburg
    • More TBA

Virtual Stimulation
Video Projections and Presentations:

    • The Bone Tree- Bridges Slide Show (illicite urban infrastructure documentation obtained at death defying heights)
    • Ron Athey- Grown-up Videos and Naughty Bits
    • CIAbnormalArts.com & ShayeSaintJohn.com - Ultra Creepy "Triggers" and Oddities
    • More TBA

Mixed Stimulation
Tiki and Post-Punk Throbbing DJs

THUR Sept 16(7 pm - 2 am)
Continental Club, NYC

Live Stimulation
Bands, Performances, Burning Art

    • F-SPACE - Frenetic Pyro Post Punk
    • Torch Job
    • The Fakes
    • Marching Band
    • Jason Trachtenburg
    • More TBA

Virtual Stimulation
Video Projections and Presentations:

    • The Bone Tree- Bridges Slide Show (illicite urban infrastructure documentation obtained at death defying heights)
    • Ron Athey- Grown-up Videos and Naughty Bits
    • CIAbnormalArts.com & ShayeSaintJohn.com - Ultra Creepy "Triggers" and Oddities
    • More TBA

Mixed Stimulation
Tiki and Post-Punk Throbbing DJs

    • (TBA)

 

 

 
     

 

 

 

ALL AGES! Free Ear Plugs provided by HearNet.com

San Francisco Bay Guardian - 8 Days a Week:

EXTREME TIMES WARRANT extreme measures. At least that seems to be the philosophy behind 'How to Destroy the Universe: Part 2,' product of the evil-genius ruminations of Mobilization.com's seminal, deliciously idiosyncratic Ethan Port and Scot Jenerik. If you're looking for a medium for the collective release of fury and psychosis, and want to have a kick-ass good time while you're at it, then head to the Shipyard in Berkeley for this two-day festival of extreme art and music – slated, appropriately enough, to coincide with Hiroshima Day. Imagine an industrial version of Burning Man sans the yuppies and dippy rave music. This time around, subject yourself to F-Space's homicidal trance-inducing wall of pyro-post punk noise, heightened by a Butoh-influenced collaborative performance by Collapsing Silence's Indra Lowenstein (Fri/6 only). Suffer the wrath of Black Ice, the Sixteens, and Binky – broads who'd just as soon spit on you as look at you (no cutesy bullshit here, thanks be). Take a moment to ponder the absurdist performance art of Berlin's Indra and Deedee Lux. Feast your eyes and ears on Kiki's three-story fountain of weeping fire Egeria, Shipyard manager Jim Mason's two-ton, sonic ice sculpture, and explosive fire art by Charlie Gadeken. Surrender to the Aesthetic Meat Front's corporate deprogramming ritual. And regale in the visual stimulations of extreme video and the aural pleasures of independent DJs. Proceeds go to keeping extreme art and music alive; but if you're really broke, just e-mail imbroke@mobilization.com and see what you can work out. Fri/6-Sat/7, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., Shipyard, 1010 Murray, Berk. www.mobilization.com. $10-$20 sliding scale. (Camille T. Taiara)

Note: We are encouraging friends of the Shipyard and Mobilization to please purchase advanced tickets. This helps us cover the cost of obtaining the permits for the festival and the travel and fuel expenses for the artists to get them to the festival, and to ignite their art pieces. Also, the Shipyard has relatively limited space so the event may sell out. .

How to Destroy the UniverseII- Part 2

Extreme Music/Performance/Art Festival

Friday Aug 6, and Saturday Aug 7, 2004 - Berkeley (San Francisco)
All AGES. 7 pm - 2 am
At the Shipyard, 1010 Murray Street, in Berkeley, California.
Benefit for the artists and the Shipyard.
Co-presented by KFJC 89.7 fm, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Laughing Squid, RE/Search Publications
Free ear plugs provided by HearNet.com

Advance Tickets available here
*Note: no one turned away due to lack of funds. Please email us in advance if you require a sponsored admission, or if you'd like to volunteer for the event. Email: "imbroke [at] mobilization.com"

 

Directions

The SHIPYARD 1010 Murray St Berkeley http://www.theshipyard.org
Ashby exit off the 880 Merge onto ASHBY AVE/CA-13. 0.4 miles.
Turn RIGHT onto 7TH ST. <0.1 mi. Turn LEFT onto MURRAY ST. 0.1 mi

SHOW INFORMATION

Part 2 highlights several bands with non-cutesy over-the-top rockin' women, and other transgressive
performers and video artists that break fundamental rules of humanity and the universe.

*Note: no one turned away due to lack of funds. Please email us in advance if you require a sponsored admission, or if you'd like to volunteer for the event. Email: "imbroke [at] mobilization.com"

A weekend festival targeting the best in Extreme art, music, performance and culture.

MOBILIZATION is honored to bring the festival to this location: friendly, casual, intelligent, open minded and Flame Resistant!

FRIDAY August Sixth (Hiroshima Day)

Live Stimulation
Bands, Performances, Burning Art
ALL AGES! Free Ear Plugs provided by HearNet.com

LIMITED SPACE. $10-$20 sliding scale.
Advance Tickets available here

No one turned away due to lack of funds. Email "Imbroke 'at' mobilization.com" if you require sponsored admission and/or you would like to volunteer.

SATURDAY August 7th

    Live Stimulation
    Bands, Performances, Burning and Melting Art
    • Aesthetic Meat Front - "Blood Sun Rising - A Public Deprogramming Ritual"
      Ritual against disintegration of mind. (Los Angleles/Long Beach)
    • F-SPACE - Frenetic Pyro Post Punk - with Full Flame Effects and Butoh Dancing
    • Egeria- Kiki's weeping waterfall of fire (burningideas.com)
    • BINKY- carnival death-metal by females (members of Typhoon)
    • THE TURKS - stabbing with bloodcurdling iridescent lurking poetics
    • CAT FIVE- Cut ups from "The Atomic Bomb Movie" and other visual mayhem
    • Jim Mason- The Body of Bolts - A chaotic sound generator of human decay (John Cage inspired super human sized temporal sonic ice sculpture)
    • Charlie Gadekan - Fire art BurningArt.com
    • The F*CK Machine and The EYE ARCHWAY - Ryon Gesink's Mad Max style rolling fire and cutup noise spewing beast and the return of the glorious steel EYE arch
    • John Law- Reading an apocalyptic story to his: Bridges Slide Show (illicit urban infrastructure documentation obtained at death defying heights)


      Virtual Stimulation
      Video Projections and Presentations:
    • OTTER BRUN PRODUCTIONS - stark post-nuclear projected visuals (with John Law)
    • THE KIPPER KIDS- 33 years of exaggerated extreme scatological Cartoon-like slapstick
    • Ron Athey- Extreme grown-up topics and Naughty Bits
    • CIAbnormalArts.com & ShayeSaintJohn.com - Ultra Creepy "Triggers" and Oddities
    • Kaosmic Kitty(featuring the BONE TREE)- Mark McGothigan and Kaosmic Kitty: extreme performances and transcendent industrial soundtrack. Includes video of Dana Alabany's roving bone sculpture.

      Mixed Stimulation
      Tiki and Post-Punk Throbbing DJs
    • TikiNews.com- Otto Von Stroheim
    • Post-Punk.com - Rick A Mortis
    • KFJC 89.7 fm

LIMITED SPACE. $10-$20 sliding scale.
Advance Tickets available here

 

No one turned away due to lack of funds. Email "Imbroke 'at' mobilization.com" if you require sponsored admission and/or you would like to volunteer.

 

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION by co-sponsored by:
Lise Swenson - MissionMovie.org

FUTURE (Tentative, not confirmed. This is our current Wish List)

  • How to Destroy the Universe - Part 4, Thee Second Couming.
    November 2004 in LA, SF and Phoenix
    Presented by MOBILIZATION.COM and SUBCUTANEOUS.ORG

     

DESTROY PART 2 DESCRIPTION:

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DETAILS ON THE FESTIVAL - PART 2:
How to Destroy the Universe is an ambitious curatted extreme music/art/performance festival series dedicated to presenting fiercely individual and independent artists to the community. The festival is roughly grounded in the "post punk" tradition, but is open to any new and innovative ideas. The festivals are inherently grass-roots and community based, focused on promoting and supporting alternative arts culture both locally and globally.

Destroy-Part 2 takes place on Hiroshima day, book-ending the hugely successful first festival last DEC 7, 2004 (Pearl Harbor Day) at Studioz in San Francisco. Inspired by the historic date, the performers and artists have been picked with perhaps a darker or more somber slant, while all still being quite explosive and transgressive in their own individual way. The festival is organized by members of the bay area pyro post-punk group "F-SPACE" (members of SAVAGE REPUBLIC and CHROME, and noise artist SCOT JENERIK), who combine homemade incendiary percussion instruments with hypnotic alternately tuned guitars and runaway locomotive drums. F-SPACE takes their name from the art space Los Angeles artist Chris Burden and colleges used to present their essential and extreme physical artwork that was otherwise banned at any other gallery, and it is this tradition that inspires the How to Destroy the Universe Festival.

The Shipyard's outdoor location for this festival is compatible with large scale fire art and sculptures. Bay area artist Kiki will bring her 3 story water fountain "Egeria" to the space (featured at the recent Burning Man Fire Arts Festival), configuring it to weep tears of fire during the F-SPACE performance. Indra Lowenstein from "Collapsing Silence" will also accompany F-SPACE at this performance with a special Butoh style dance dedicated to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Jim Mason (manager of the shipyard and known at Burningman for his fire canons that spew 100+ foot columns of burning diesel fuel) has volunteered to create a massive John Cage inspired super-human sized ice sculpture porous enough to allow flames to pass through. The result will be a cacophonous and chaotic sound generation machine driven by the slow devolution of human body to water and industrial bones.

Ryon Gesink's is pulling out all the stops with his rolling F*CK MACHINE and giant EYE ARCHWAY, backed by Mark McGothigan and Kaosmi Kitty's "BONE TREE Soundtrack", including sweeping epic industrial audio that accompanied Dana Alabany's roving bone sculpture at Burningman 2001.

This event also highlights many bands and artists with women in non-traditional roles, such as bands like "BLACK ICE", "THE SIXTEENS" and "BINKY" with women taking dominant and aggressive roles that are traditionally identified as more masculine. Videos by legendary Los Angeles performance artist RON ATHEY deal with transgressions of societal assumptions of gender, orientation, power,control, and "grown-up" topics such as sexual and social deviation with depth and grace.

Performance artists "The Indra and DeeDee Lux" use dada-ist sarcasm and extreme elaborate costumes to emphasize and critique female roles and sexual assumptions. The Aesthetic Meat Front close out the festival with a bang via their public "Deprogramming ritual" aimed at transforming themselves and the audience to an alternate state of reality beyond our commercially controlled corporate universe.

Other extreme visual artists featured at this Destroy 2 event also focus on other transgressive themes. Archive footage from the astounding and confounding KIPPER KIDS, whose Cartoon-like scatological physical slapstick predate JackAss by 30 years, but also contain actual "Content" rather than a shallow made for TV "Template". JOHN LAW demonstrates physical urban transgression with documentation of how his secret clan illicitly scale large public buildings and bridges around the world and holding and carry out random DaDa-ist events, often to the confusion of enforcement officials. The CIAbnormalArts and SHAYE SAINT JOHN take an urban approach to psychological transgression using a "Trigger" style to produce rapid video clips whose central character is a disfigured paraplegic dressed and controlled as a life sized marionette and her disfigured doll Kiki.

Oakland spinners CAT 5 will be projecting a mix of Atomic Bomb oriented video.

DJs from TIKINEWS.com, POST-PUNK.com and KFJC 89.7fm keep the juice flowing spinning an wide range of extreme music around the Video projections and BBQ area.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, DIRECTIONS AND TICKETS go to:
http://www.mobilization.com/destroy.html

  • Aesthetic Meat Front (http://www.a-m-f.org)
    "Blood Sun Rising - A Public Deprogramming Ritual"
    Ritual against disintegration of mind. (Los Angleles/Long Beach)
    Performers:
    • Members:
      • Louis Fleischauer - Ritual Design, Body-Sonics, Voices
      • JayJ - Drums
      • Bonny - Hooked Angel
      • Serina Lilith - Glass, Audience assault
      • Tiffany Trenda - Fire, Audience assault
      • Slave Dave - Additional Body Mods, Audience assault

    The focus of this ritual is to traumatize the participants (performers and audience alike) into a state of rapture and use this energy as a catalyst for de-programming from a consumer friendly reality, spiked with fears and anxieties. By invoking the primal instinct we are releasing our inner powers, thus reaching a state of true Self-awareness. These moments are the keys to realize that there is more to life than what we have been programmed to believe.

  • F-SPACE
    F-SPACE (Scot Jenerik, Aleph Kali, Ethan Port)An extreme experimental pyro-industrial art-punk rock-band project by
    Mobilization.com founders Scot Jenerik (23five.org) and Ethan Port
    (Savage Republic), with Aleph Kali (Chrome) drumming with the ferocity
    of a runaway locomotive. The result conjures an apocalyptic, feral,
    destructive trance state implying a catastrophic act of nature, a march
    through the desert on the path to war, or an offender's mental state
    during a crime of passion. Scot Jenerik adds insult to injury by pummeling
    on "Volatile", a self made instrument of steel, springs and piano strings that belts
    out 15 foot fireballs like an angry dragon setting the record straight.


  • F-Space
    Preliminary Impact Report
    BY ANTHONY REYNAGA
    East Bay Express

    From ages sixteen to eighteen, I had a recurring dream about Armageddon, standing unafraid as buildings toppled down around me and finally right on top of me. Preliminary Impact Report, the first disc from this East Bay experimental art-rock collective, recalls those images. Comprising ex-Savage Republic guitarist Ethan Port, local experimental artist Scot Jenerik, and former Chrome Reunion drummer Aleph Kali, F-Space immediately challenges your ears with a bass-heavy stereo gurgle -- rooted in the eviscerating atmospherics of experimental icon Keiji Haino -- accompanied by chugging drums and mild ambient flourishes. One of the more intriguing textures layered atop comes from a hollow percussive instrument that seemingly spits fire when struck.
    Within this aural molten mass there are quieter, mellower sections, carrying the album in waves from one mostly instrumental piece to the next. But what really stands out is Port's Middle Eastern-tinged guitar sensibilities, a crucial element of Savage Republic's seminal ProtoIndustrialPunk sound. Some view PIR as the statement Savage Republic never made: a vivid portrayal of destruction, beauty, and simplicity. As stale as instrumental music's gotten lately, F-Space offers something to look forward to. Even if it's Armageddon.

    eastbayexpress.com | originally published: August 4, 2004


    This special Hiroshima performance will include Butoh Dancing by Indra Lowenstein of COLLAPSING SILENCE.

    1-page press sheet


    with Indra Lowenstein of Collapsing Silence:





  • Egeria

ARTIST STATEMENTS:

Naphtha is thought to be "Greek Fire" -- this was a weapon the Greeks would
squirt onto the Roman ships, and couldnt' be put out with water [as we all
know!] It had the same effect on their socienty that the Atomic Bomb had
on ours -- they felt it was the Ultimate Weapon, and that society would
collapse.

I have a personal interest in this show, BTW. I watch a lot of anime,
particularly drama, and I've seen a number of true stories about children
who lived through the war -- very poignant stories, not in-your-face
antiwar stories. Just true life stories written by adults who were
children at the time. *This* is the face of war to me. Particularly
"Barefoot Gen", who's father opposed the war and was persecuted for
it. Even in such sweet films as My Neighbor Totoro, the giant tree growing
so fast, spread like an image of a mushroom cloud. The Bomb is a living
memory to the Japanese. They have not forgotten.

War puts the citizens into an irrational frenzy of justification for
horrific acts that otherwise would be inexcusable...even now, we pat
ourselves on the back all to quickly over the use of the Atomic Bomb in
WWII -- we are not able to question it. I'm starting to take a hard look
at our "justifications" for our actions in that war. What prevents us from
an honest assessment of our own actions? Esp. since those actions were so
very devastating and far reaching?

To me, war is an infection that ravages us with horrible symptoms. It is a
religious fever that refuses reason. War is for profit, and I have yet to
find an example where it is not -- profit in money, land, converted souls,
whatever, but it is for profit. Worse, it is for profit at *others'*
expense. Those who gain always walk away untried.

I am not against violence. And I'm not even against war -- because
sometimes you are attacked with force, and there is no other option. But I
*am* against war, except in the most extreme of circumstances, and I've
been against this war from the very beginning, and I'm a bit disgusted by
those who are suddenly against war now that we're losing. It's easy to be
against a losing war, but harder to be against a winning war. It's as if
losing suddenly takes the blinders off to the destruction and horror and
atrocities...as if losing stops the frenzy and regains sanity. Abu Graibe
seems to have shocked some people, but Abu Graibe was *exactly* the reason
I opposed the war from the beginning -- I knew the sickness that would
infect our soldiers and our citizens. The sickness of war.

I am fascinated by war, like watching a train wreck. My favorite movie is
Lawrence of Arabia. One of my favorite books is Making of the Atomic Bomb
[an *excellent* book that had me gripped through all 800 pages!] I have
not personally been in a war, but I have a very clear idea of what war is
about -- both the good and bad, both the suffering and the thrill, both the
hunger and the repulsion, both the leaders and the victims, both the guilty
and the innocent, both the truth and the lies. I oppose war with open
eyes, and even a taste for patriotism/revenge/blood myself. Is there
further madness in store from our own beloved country? America dropped the
Bomb once before...

I hope this show opens your eyes and reminds you of Hiroshima.


THE MCs at the End of the Universe:

  • The Indra and DeeDee Luxe (Double Process)
    http://www.theindra.com, http://www.deeDeeLuxe.com, http://doubleprocess.com
    Ubsurd Dada-ist Performance Art straight from the bunkers of Berlin. Featuring Helga and Zelda of Double Process.

    Performers:

  • The Indra: Chanteuse. Clown. Chanteuse.
  • DeeDee Luxe - Double Process: The communist manifesto with tits. Sort of.

Singing Cabaret songs originally sung by Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, and Edith Piaff with nutty stage action and drastic mood swings, The Indra, does bizarre erotic song and dance numbers with a comedic twist. For more information please go to: http://www.theindra.com

Double Process: The Indra and DeeDee Luxe partner in the newly formed dynamic duo, “Double Process”. Acting as incredibly misguided but sincere German performance artists, Helga and Zelda, the act can best be described as Lucille Ball and Phyllis Diller meet Marlene Dietrich in a suitcase full of monkeys and laughing gas and the sobering effects of politics. Irreverent, irritating, sexy and occasionally socially relevant the two actor, dancer, performance artists pose as performance artist mental patients from Germany on tour in the US... Indefinitely...

 

  • BINKY
    http://www.BINKY.tv

    Members:
    • Klara Lux
    • Erin Luther
    • Tijanna Eaton
    • Windy Wild

BINKY is an organized sound pandemonium manifesting as a sort of punk/speedmetal-art/thrash act, with both coldly clinical & compassionately fascistic esthetic overtones. Everyone in this unit vocalizes (drummer does most lead), there's the first ever heavy metal trumpet played by Erin Luther, scathing punk/thrash guitar of Klara Lux.Drummer Windy Wild could eat Slayer's Dave Lombardo for breakfast (while singing) and an awesome tight-clean bass guitar comes from "screaming" Tijanna Eaton. The whole band dresses in post nuclear white vinyl uniforms. Banners & standards are displayed. Police strobes & security staff have been spotted on stage during shows. Several audience members have been observed to be crying.

 

Press Release:
http://www.sonicbids.com/BINKY


 

 

 



  • The SIXTEENS

  • Veuve Paulì, Kristo-Ball, Nicolaì Gancheff

    DARK WAVE======FLUXXING FOR NEW EXISTENCE

     
    (Review from Post-Punk.com)
    Imagine if you will, Alice falling out of Wonderland and into the world of Liquid Sky. A bleak, neon, urban wasteland. Populated by spastic, twitching creatures, gyrating on a broken disco floor, under black lights. Now imagine the soundtrack to this world. A little Tuxedomoon perhaps? Some Gary Numan, a little Fad Gadget, just a hint of Kraftwerk, and a lot of Sixteens. San Francisco's "Sixteens" create the throbbing electronic noises to accompany such a landscape. Repetetive squealing synth lines that stab you in the brain and don't let go. Tracks like "First Place", and "Bed of Nails" pound rhythms, and melodies into your skull, and you love every second of it. While pieces like "Community People" and "Working For You" roll along in a more minimal, seductively sinister style. The Sixteens can't easily be categorized either. This is music that reminds the listener of late 70s analouge synth experimentations, but with a decidedly modern feel. Casio is quite possibly the most infective piece of electronic noise released this year.
    5/5
    http://www.realgone.org/sixteens



BLACK-ICE

 

Miss Kel, Melanie X, Mister Brown, Stevenson Sedgwick, Skot B

Stevenson Sedgwick (The Phantom Limbs, Factory of Angst) and Sköt B (Anal Kitties, The Phantom Limbs) formed Black Ice in 1999. Black Ice concentrated on making music with acoustic instruments, samples, and found sounds that they then tweaked and twisted through a myriad of studio effects.Their early music was primarily instrumental and was often used in the service of art performances in and around the SF Bay Area at places such as Cell Space in San Francisco and Mungasotropolis in Oakland. 2001 saw the inclusion of the Black Ice track "Departure" on the "Charm" Motion Picture Soundtrack (5 Rue Christine). 2001 also saw the addition of Miss Kel (Sister Mary Shoelace) on vocals. The band, now a three piece, set to work on a four song demo that was released last year. The demo prompted a demand to see Black Ice live, and the trio enlisted the aid of Mister Brown (the Freaks, Sister Mary Shoelace) and Melanie X (Teeth) to assist them. Reaction to the band live was similarly enthusiastic and the band now balances its time between the stage and the studio, with Mister Brown and Melanie X aboard as permanent members. Their debut record, "Eve EP," A 6 Song 10" on Atakra Records, was released in 2003 to positive reviews. Black Ice has since appeared on several compilations and are working on a full length record to be released late 2004.

REVIEWS: For those who like it nice and dark. . . Stevenson Sedgwick and Skot B revel in the gloom, making music with piano wire, samples, broken organ, wineglasses and other screwy objects.- Kimberly Chun, SFGate.com.Truly foreboding … the seductive drone of Miss Kel's voice hovers over vibrating piano wire, trilling wineglasses, pouring water, echoing pipes, broken organs, friendless violins, and brooding bass guitars.- Silke Tudor, SF WeeklyBlack Ice create a slow and spacious deathrock sound not unlike those experimental moments at the opening of "Bela Lugoi's Dead." Evocative and patient, Black Ice are in league with the monsters under your bed. They entrance you. They misplace your car keys. They steal your socks.- Professor Jef, Starvox.netLike a childs nightmare, Black Ice conjures