The Placebo

This Friday it’s another Art Hang!

You can always work on your own project or pastime, yeah? But here’re some support-the-scene ideas people have come up with:

• decorate The Placebo office - could use paint, or use your imagination
• make bean bag chairs - this is the only kind of furniture we have room to store. Requires canvas/vinyl, filling (like those non-biodegradable packing peanuts people use), and probably a sewing machine
• soundproof the walls - for which we need, duh, soundproofing (got any?)
• button making - for The Placebo or other bands/orgs that have paid us for materials - we have the stuff for this.
• paint Placebo signs - paint and plywood:
• general “this is the Placebo” sandwich board signs
• smoking/non-smoking area signs
• “these here are the rulez” signs

We are utterly open to other ideas. Show up and give us some!

When: Friday Sept 29, 4-8pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St in Eureka
Cost: FREE

Sorry, Ezee Tiger had to cancel and I guess that means the whole show is off :(

This show brought to you by Panache, Synapis, and The Placebo

• Easy Tiger dirty rock noise trance
• Sic Alps (san francisco)
• local band TBA

When: Thursday, Sept 28, 8pm
Where: Synapsis (right next door to The Placebo) - 47A West 3rd, Eureka

Hah! I lied. September Fools! You’ll never know when the Yard Sale is from this website. Seriously folks, we’ve been looking for a site and a couple of places have fallen though. I don’t want to post any more scheduling disinformation here, though, so you and I will just have to look for the signs up around A-Town. The Placebo does still need Yard Sale donations. (They’re all tax-deductible, if you swing that way.)

Nope, we still don’t know where, but we do know when:

Saturday September 30th to Sunday October 1st, 9am to 9am.

That’s right, 24 Hours of Cheap Second-Hand Goodness brought to you in the form of a benefit for The Placebo. Poetry on demand, strange haircuts, random acoustic music and who knows what the H else. Somewhere in Arcata.

We seek donations of the non-disgusting kind; email gimme_info[at]theplacebo.net to arrange drop-off or, possibly, pick-up.

• The Billy Nayer Show (nyc) glam rock aesthetic delivered with straightforward garage attitude
• The Buffy Swayze trailer park glam rock for the sexually ambiguous.
• Film by Mike Sargent with live soundtrack by Pubic Zirconium

When: Monday, September 25 at 8:30pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B West 3rd Eureka
Cost: $5 with membership, (membership is $2 per year and is required)

• USA is a Monster (brooklyn) rush meets melvins meets corndawg
• Toussaint St. Negritude (philadelphia local now) jazz poetry
• 801 Warning fine local hardcore
• Grandma Dolf a marmoset trying to interpret love songs from a bee to a platypus

When: Friday, Sept 22 at 8pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B W. 3rd St. (map)
Cost: $4 with membership, $6 without

Come hang out before the USA is a Monster show. Bring music to listen to, eat snacks, hang out and do your artistic thing. A co-production of E2 and The Placebo.

When: Friday, September 22, 4-8pm
Where: E2 / The Placebo, natch.
Cost: Always free, but donations welcome. Bring your own supplies, tunes, etc.

Ho-Ag couldn’t make it last time , but now they’re back on tour!

• Ho-Ag (boston) frightwig cacophony of thrash skronk, treble squall, and art-punk murder ballad
• Johnny Redwood and the Rockin’ Rangers country blues rock
• and more: the rest of the bill is that bad-ass TBA — stay tuned

When : Thursday, Sept 21 at 8pm
Where : The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St., Eureka
Cost : $5 with membership, $7 w/o

• Hyle (palo alto) leaves, children screaming, blenders
• Mr. Hayashi (sacramento) sounds like a wooden kimono with a cat in it
• The Tao Jonesers a cross between Zappa and Cat Stevens
  

When: Monday, Sept 18 (doors at 7, show at 7:30pm)
Where:The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St., Eureka (map)
Cost:$4 w. membership / $6 without

It’s been a whole month since the last one, so we have a lot to cover:

The Sorts of Things We Might Talk About

• Check-In (everybody gets a chance to say what’s up with them)
• Announcements (often not separated out from the above)
• Past Shows (stuff that happened since our last meeting)
• Bummerfest (lot more to talk about here than just our average show, lemme tell ya)
• Upcoming Shows (this is where anyone who’s putting together or who hopes to book a Placebo show lets us know the details)
• 24 Hour Yard Sale (when/where is that going to be, now?)
• Street Fair!
• Web Stuff (I could use some help here. Anybody?)
• Other Stuff
  • General Ideas for cool stuff to do
  • Practical stuff to make the Placebo/E2 space more better
  • Whatever it is YOU want to talk about

When: Sunday, Sept 17 5:30pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B West 3rd St, Eureka. Need a Ride? Carpool leaves from Sacred Grounds in Arcata at 5pm

Cost: Free and open to the public!

It’s that time of year again. Get cheap good stuff, hang out, have a poem written for you and help out The Placebo while you’re doing it.

When: POSTPONED Saturday Sept 16 to Sunday Sept 17 9am to 9am

We’re moving this back a few weeks cuz what were we thinking scheduling the yard sale 2 weeks after Bummerfest? Oy.