The Placebo

Hey everybody,

We’re taking a couple of weeks off so that E2 can use the space, but we’re coming back at you on Friday, November 10th 6th. We’ll start off with a show at The Synapsis featuring Warhammer 48k, The Signals, and someone we can’t tell you about yet.

Then on November 10th it’s an Art Hang and the monthly meeting of The Placebo’s Knitting Club. Immediately following, we’re gonna have an All Local Bands show. That puppy is still being organized, so if yer in a band that’s interested in playing, contact Samantha at moohat3 at aol.com.

November 17th, the Flashy Robots are bringing in their futuristic drag punk improv glam rap variety show. Whew. It’ll be good, just-this-side-of-clean fun with a couple of bands to set the tone.

The next day, Saturday November 18th coughmybirthdaycough we have a most excellent show featuring The Pasties, The Trucks, The Professional SuperHeroes, and The Signals. Oh yeah. That night is for to dance.

Do we even need to say that all of this is All-Ages and as cheap to get in as we can make it?

And hey, why don’t you check out The Placebo Forums during the downtime? Get involved, say what you like, what you don’t. Get serious or happy. Talk amongst yerselves, eh?

It’s Your Scene Too, Take Care of It!

Back in February, HSU’s Ethnic Studies Collective and Black Student Union brought AfroPunk to Arcata. A bunch of Placebo folks saw it there and we were intensely impressed. So. We’re bringing the film to Eureka so more people can see it, talk about it, and have thinky thoughts about the scene. Also? This time, there will be hardcore.

Afro-Punk, a 66-minute documentary, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical “black history month” documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power. We follow the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community.

The style of the documentary inter-cuts interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the nation with scenes from our four protagonists’ lives. They come from different regions, generations, genders, and sexual preferences but their stories are amazingly similar.

Afro-Punk features performances by Bad Brains, Tamar Kali, Cipher, and Ten Grand. It also contains exclusive interviews by members of Fishbone, 247- spyz, Dead Kennedys, Candiria, Orange 9mm and TV on the Radio to name a few.

PLUS 8/01 Warning

When: Friday, October 20th
Where: The Placebo
Cost: $3-5, sliding scale

It’s Your Scene, Take Care Of It!

• Finest Dearest (san francisco) fuzzed out, bittersweet, and highly melodic
• Mega Total Violence
• the blackrainbow (crescent city)
• alps of new south wales (new zealand) indie / electro / experimental

When: Tuesday October 17 at 8pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B W 3rd Eureka (1/2 block from the new Co-op) (map)
Cost: $5 with membership, $7 without

We’re The Placebo Board

And you could be, too! Come to this week’s meeting at The Placebo, 47B W 3rd St (1/2 a block from the new Co-op), 5:30pm Sunday October 15th. It’s right after the close of the second day of the Third Street Festival, so come early to see music and performances for free.

This a group venture made possible by our neighbors at Synapsis and Rumblepeg.

When: Saturday Oct 14 noon - 7pm and Sunday Oct 15 noon - 6pm
Where: West Third Street in Eureka (right by the new Co-op)

Here’s the detailed schedule:

Saturday October 14th:

• noon-1:30pm: The Edge of the World parade
• 1:30 pm: Loco Firmeza samba troupe
• 1:45 pm: Ya Habibi Dance Company
• 2:15 pm: GRIP- Multicultural Dance Troupe
• 2:30 pm: Deep Groove Society +open circus sessions-if you have poi, tricks, acrobatic abilities-bring your skills to share
• 4:30 pm: The Lonely Forest (Washington)
• 5:00 pm: Andrea Zvaleko
• 5:30 pm: The Taojonesers
• 6:00 pm: Zaccariah Stone and the Cadillac Men (then we go inside)
• 6:45 pm: Film Festival! -a mini festival of independent film/video shorts
• CASSIE BLUE by Cassie Flower
• Youth Life After Drugs by Ashli
• The Bullying Project by Ashli
• Why Grafitti? by Jacob Swagert and Sara Smith
• Flash Animation by Alan Norton
• Tattoos! By Desi
• The Family Room by Aubrey Ibabel
• shorts by John Bensch, Gretchen Schuster, and Isabelle Kirouac
• 8:30 pm: Valet (Portland)
• 9:00 pm: Silentist (Portland)

Sunday October 15th:

• noon: Tap Lesson w/ Tiggerbouncer
• 12:45 pm: opening greeting
• 1:30 pm: Meth Out of Humboldt Theater Troupe
• 2:00 pm: Toussaint St. Negritude
• 3:00 pm: Womama
• 4:00 pm: A Reason to Listen Therese Keslin & Vanessa Pike
• 4:15 pm: GRIP-Multicultural Dance Project
• 4:30 pm: The Pipe of the Doctor of Witchcraft
• 5:00 pm: C&K Garbage Co. (members of Eureka Garbage Co.)
• 5:30 pm: Swims (Sacramento)

Also featuring live art by Casey Cripe and Forest Stearns, tabling by Democracy Unlimited, CREG, Bar None, The Studio, Synapsis, children’s area, face painting and Wild Things from Vagabond CHildren’s Theater, and a dunking booth!

A project of Rumblepeg, a program of the Ink People Center for the Arts in collaboration with The Studio, Synpasis, The Placebo, Empire Squared, Vagabond Children’s Theater, The Marz Program, The Raven Project, St. VIncent de Paul and supported by The Northcoast Co-op, Eureka Main Street, Northcoast Horticulture, Gofish and Chips Cafe, KSlug, Nilsen Feed Co., and the local breweries.

We hope for this to be an annual event!

Get involved in your world- take it to the street! See you there!

• Electric Melanoma (sandy, oregon) a scottish monk speaking backwards while underwater trying to tapdance
  Editor’s note: I sometimes feel these band self-descriptions are a tad inaccurate; you might maybe wanna have a listen for yourself.
• Madhammer Epic Hard Rock From the depths of Hell
• Give Dad the Gristle
• 8/01 Warning

When: Friday the 13th!!!! of October, 8pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B W 3rd St, Eureka (map) (1/2 a block from the new Co-op)
Cost: $5

We’re going to have the knitting club thingy — what do I have to do to get name suggestions, must there be prizes? — every 2nd Friday of the month. The general Art Hang thingies (at which, I hasten to add, knitting is welcome) proceed apace every Friday from 4-8pm.
(Except for the days directly before Arts Alive when the space just might be too full of E2 folks Hanging Art for there to be group harmony. I know that’s a tad confusing, so I’ll keep on posting notices here every week.)

To sum: This week? KNITTING (and whatever else people want to get up to. um… within limits which may be decided on the spot)

When: Friday, October 13 from 4pm till the Electric Melanoma show starts
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St, between A and Commercial (map)
Cost: Free! (but bring your own supplies) Donations, she is always welcome.

• Lebanon (israel) instrumental post hardcore
• Mega Total Violence post hardcore with a bit of everything else mixed in
• Johnny Redwood and the Rockin’ Rangers country blues rock

When: Sunday, October 8 at 8pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B W 3rd Eureka
Cost: $4 with membership, $6 without

Help make the scene happen.

When: Sunday, October 1 at 5:30pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B W 3rd St
Cost: Free and open to everybody