May 9, 2008
TEA Party Comes to Austin this Weekend
In Austin, we’ve got so much weird that it needs in-depth classification. For example, you’ve got the guy-inexplicably-dressed-as-a-panda type of weird, and the guy-inexplicably-vomiting-blue-stuff-all-over-the-bus weird. We’ve got happy weird and sick/sad weird, epic weirdness and little sprigs of weird popping up all over the place. And musically, we have everything from the honestly odd Daniel Johnston to the bad-strange of Blue October – from the massive drum circle-cum-circle jerk held during Eeyore’s birthday to the more underground but even more visceral strangeness held each week by The Church of the Friendly Ghost at The Salvage Vanguard Theater.
And this weekend, the Church is outdoing themselves again by holding nothing short of a frickin’ three day festival, which in turn benefits the Terrastock 7 fest held in Louisville, Kentucky in mid-June.
The Terrastock festival, to give you a better idea, is a neo-psychedelic fair that will take place on June 19th-22nd of this year. Bands playing include Oneida, Wooden Shjips, Marissa Nadler, and many more. The Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine, which has been published since 1989 and covers an assortment of interesting niche music, curates the festival.
Entitled the TEA party, the Terrastock benefit here in Austin will showcase around thirty bands, DJs, visual artists, and everything else the avant-garde weirdo could desire. The TEA Party will be nearly as ambitious as the festival itself, and features some well-known and lesser-known weirdos from Attic Ted to Ralph White, Plutonium Farmers to Loren Dent.
And there’s more: Ararat restaurant will cater the entire TEA party, while the event also promises tea leaf and tarot readings, and “perhaps even secret early-morning bonfire romps at undisclosed locations.” Tasty.
Schedule:
Friday May 9
7pm Thomas Fang
8pm Abigail und Hansel
9pm X=X
10pm Spagirus
11pm Aunt's Analog
12am Attic Ted
Films by David Demaris
Saturday May 10
2pm Bright Duplex
3pm Plutonium Farmers
4pm Noisettes
5pm Loren Dent
6pm Spelunker (Steve Marsh)
7pm Rick Reed
8pm Visitor Q
9pm Rotten Piece (from Houston)
10pm Book of Shadows
11pm Shawn McMillen
12am Dromez
Paul Baker visuals
Sounds by DJ Blip
Sunday May 11
3pm The Ghost and Swift Moths
4pm Thee Spaceinvader Orchestra
5pm David Demaris
6pm Brekekekexkoaxkoax
7pm Venison Whirled
8pm 7 Inch Stitch
9pm Ralph White
10pm Jacob Green
11pm Douglas Ferguson
12am Language of Light
Paul Baker visuals
DJ by Douglas Ferguson
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