[Moshe]

FESTIVAL ECSTATIQUE
3 Days of Poetry, Music and Bare Trees
NOV 16-18 2007
Charles Potts
Richard Krech
Charles Plymell
Mike Watt
Thurston Moore
Valerie Webber
Sara Jaffe
Angela Jaeger
John Oliver Simon
Bill Nace
Emma Young
Yomul Yuk
Slander Puff (Burkett/Capistran/Ireton/Klein/Shaw)
Dredd Foole
Gown
Matt Krefting
Maric Denusiak
Hair Wars (Kate Biggar/Paul Flaherty)
Mirror/Dash
Byron Coley
George Wallace
Bree
Traum Ecke
Rick Beaty
Corrine de Winter
Grant Hart
wesley eisold
JR Saturday November 17, noon ‘til midnight. The Red Barn, Hampshire College Amherst MA
Friday evening & Sunday afternoon at the Yod Space in Florence.
Limited Space/Call for details 413-587-9400 or email glasseye at yod dot com

[Moshe]

That is why I post the info

[PAULYBEE2656]

poetry..... in the words of homer the great

"ive seen plays more interesting than this, honest to god...PLAYS"


no seriously this looks cool! i couldnt resist !!!!!!

[Moshe]

Here is the schedule. You better read to the end:


FESTIVAL ECSTATIQUE(11/16-18)
curated by Byron Coley

11/16 FRIDAY/YOD SPACE (221 Pine Street #441, Florence MA 01062 ph: 413-587-9400) 6:00 – 12:00 with Vegetarian Two Bean Chili, Brown Rice, Green Salad, Chilled Beverages

8:00 (m) John Oliver Simons reads 1 (10)

8:15 (m) Richard Krech reads 1 (15)

8:35 (m) Charles Potts reads 1 (15)

9:20 Thurston Moore/Byron Coley/Valerie Webber read (10)

9:35 Traum Ecke (ducktails) plays (20)

9:55 (m) Mike Watt reads (20)

11/17 SATURDAY AFTERNOON/RED BARN (Red Barn at Hampshire College on Rt. 116 in S. Amherst.Red Barn is next to admissions office, about 1000 feet north of main entrance to college) 1:00 – 5:00 with beverages/food

1:00 Byron Coley reads (10)

1:15 (m) Gown (Andrew McGregor) plays (20)

1:40 (m) Bree reads (10)

1:55 (m) Rick Beaty reads (15)

2:15 (m) Corrine De Winter reads (10)

2:30 (m) Yomul Yuk play (20)

2:55 (m) Sara Jaffe reads (15)

3:15 (m) Valerie Webber reads (15)

3:35 (m) Charles Plymell reads (20)

4:00 m/m/m/m/m Slander Puff plays Conrad Capistran/Anna Klein/John
Shaw/Joshua Burkett/Dan Ireton (30)

5:00 break

SATURDAY EVENING 7:00 – 12:00 RED BARN with beverages

7:00 (m) Bill Nace/Sara Jaffe play (15)

7: 20 (m) John Oliver Simons reads 2 (20)

7:50 (m) Richard Krech reads 2 (25)

8:20 (m) Charles Potts reads 2 (25)

8:50 Mirror/Dash (Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon) plays (15)

9:10 (m) George Wallace reads (15)

9:30 (m) Marci Denesiuk reads (15)

9:50 (m) Matt Krefting reads (15)

10:10 (m) Angela Jaeger reads (15)

10:30 (m)/(m) Hair Wars (Paul Flaherty/Kate Biggar) play (20)


11/18 SUNDAY 12:00 – 6:00 YOD SPACE with East African Sweet Pea Soup, bread/bagels, coffee, tea

1:15 Dredd Foole plays unless his Peterborough gig is too early (20)

1:40 Emma Young reads (10)

2:00 Joshua Burkett plays (20)

2:25 Wesley Eisold reads (10)

2:40 Grant Hart plays (20)

3:05 Byron reads (10)

3:20 J Mascis plays (20)

3:45 Thurston Moore plays unless he's in NYC recording

[toxic johnny]

I'm bumping this because nobody seems to be interested... what a poor show!...

I wonder what he could be recording... new SY material?... new solo???

[Moshe]

festival ecstatique - day one

 

11.16
Yod Space, Florence

Festival Ecstatique was a three day literary and music festival curated by Byron Coley for Easthampton record label Ecstatic Peace.

I attended a fraction of the festival's first evening.

When I got there, Berkeley poet Richard Krech was seated and reading from old work. In a bridge between old and new work, Krech mentioned that he had stopped writing (starting in the 70s?), but resumed in 2001 when the Taliban demolished the Buddha statues of Afghanistan's Bamian Valley.

Charles Potts' reading featured a fantastic piece on American history, "Geezers in Space: AKA the case for American Exceptionalism," included in the beautiful chapbook created for the event by Bottle of Smoke Press' Bill Roberts. Here's the first stanza:

All Americans are exceptional, let them tell you.
It was an exceptionally wide path God cleared for them
Through the exceptionally beautiful American Wilderness
Over an exceptionally large number of dead Indians
Creating the exceptional doctrine of Manifest Destiny
Which manifests itself in their exceptional reluctance
To acknowledge the exceptional scale
Of the genocide that is the bedrock of their exceptionality.

Coley, Valerie Webber, and Thurston Moore then read a series of collectively written 'trash tanka' chronicling (and trashing) the discography of Joni Mitchell with many a poop joke.

A much anticipated reading by Mike Watt followed. Watt had flown in from CA especially for the reading, and was flying out the next morning for a show in SF. He utilized jet lag for all its poetical worth and, reading at a hush and an exceptionally slow pace, painted various interior/exterior vistas with much color and pedrospeak.

More on the Festival at Baryonic Matter and its related Flickr site

[Moshe]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2045/...c43fb4.jpg?v=0

[baryonicmatter]

thanks for posting a link to my photos. text to follow. maybe.

anybody catch flaherty on saturday night? boy, were they good.