The Placebo

Planning meet-ups for Bummerfest 2006 are happening every Wednesday at 6 pm up till the event itself (in August.) The location won’t always be the same, though, so check back at the site (or subscribe to the Calendar [RSS] [VCS]) to find out the details. As always, everybody is welcome!

Everybody is welcome! The Placebo is anyone who has ever been to a Placebo show- really! The core group of people who hang out and plan shows are not any different than you except that we like to put on all ages shows. You wanna book a band, have a film night, have a skillshare? Come to a meeting.

All ages DIY since 1999

When: Sunday May 21, 5:30pm
Where: Ink People, 411 12th St. Eureka (map)

This is the first of many fun and exciting Wednesday afternoon meetings that are all about Bummerfest! Not only is planning a 2 day music festival a lot of fun because you get to chose the bands, the line-up, the flyer design, and all those other fun details — but — it looks really great on your résumé — trust me! If you like music you should come — it’s that simple!

Julie

When: Wednesday, May 17 at 6pm
Where: Sacred Grounds, 7th & F Arcata (map)

Hi Everybody, it’s the bi-weekly Placebo Board meeting! It’s Arcata’s turn this week. Everybody is welcome, so give us an email* for directions. (It’s at someone’s house, so we don’t want to broadcast the address on the web.)

When: Sunday, May 7th 5:30 pm
Where: The kinda blue house in Arcata

BTW, Malina asked a great question:

“So..for you guys’ meetings…what exactly do you do?”

Well, the stuff that’s the same at every meeting is we do a check-in where everybody who wants gets to say what’s new with them. Then we do a quick recap of all the shows we had since the last meeting. Next we do upcoming shows and other events: we work out who’s gonna do flyering, managing, etc.

After those 3 things? It changes every meeting. We’re pretty relaxed and we have fun but there’s usually some business to deal with, too. Like at this meeting we’ll probably be planning our big move into Empire Squared’s digs :D We’re so excited about having a permanent space again and the E2 + The Placebo is gonna be one rockin’ scene!

*gimme_info at theplacebo dot net

Check out the gallery of punk prom 2006 photos. We used some new software for this, so if you have any problems, let us know.

For the 3rd year in a row, The Placebo is providing an excuse to mock high school while listening to great bands. And you get to do it all in costume! Yup, it’s the 2006 Punk Prom.

What will this year’s theme be? Who’s gonna play? What’s to eat? It’s all up to you and your co-conspirators. (Here’s some photos of 2005’s Prom of the Dead for inspiration.)

What: The 1st Planning Meeting for this Spring’s Punk Prom
Who: You! and anyone else who’s interested
Where: Sacred Grounds, 7th and F, Arcata (map)
When: 4 pm, Friday March 17th, 2006

This week we got a couple of mentions in the Arcata Eye. The cover article, featuring a photo of the lovely and hard-working Abe and Julie, talks about our recent presentation to the Arcata Parks and Rec Committee. Recreation Division Manager Karen Diemer says,

“[The Placebo] have certainly done more outreach in the [D St.] neighborhood than any other group… They’re the only youth-directed group providing drug-and-alcohol-free activities for teens, and their goals are still strongly supported by City Council.”

On the scene page, hip mama Jennifer Savage Jen lets us know it’s the rocking Mr. Terrence McNally who makes us blush

“All hail the mighty Placebo ? unquestionably the hardest working non-profit around.”

You can find links to these articles and many more on our Press page

On another subject, if you’re wondering where our myspace page went, ask them not us. It was deleted without warning, allegedly because some body claimed we put stuff up there that wasn’t ours. Not True. Any images, music, or articles on our sites are there by permission of the creators. What’s especially strange is that we didn’t have any files on our myspace page that didn’t belong specifically to The Placebo. We’re trying to get the myspace account back, but don’t hold your breath: they say they’ve already deleted everything that was there.

To our myspace friends: we miss you, come say “hi” here! Leave us a comment.

At the Ink People, 411 12th St. Eureka

I think everyone should give Dao a big thank you for helping minimize the website downtime, and for setting us up with a website that will be super useable in years to come!

Thank You Dao!

Also, thanks to Empire Squared for allowing us to do shows in there space, and to Julie Ryan for her work on helping us acquire a new space.

-Abe