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

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.

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!

The Bummer Olympics have come to a close. Thanks to the volunteers and bands who made it happen and everybody who came out to support local music and The Placebo.

We’re totally in awe of Nancy Courtemanche’s contributions in memory of her son Robb Rierdan. She fed the bands, designed and funded the banners and let us display Robb’s amazing art. In case you didn’t hear, Nancy has also set up a fund to help deserving local bands go on tour. If you need (really need, cuz your request will be checked out) funds or equipment to get your band on the road, call her at 407-6968.

People who were at Bummerfest 2006: If you have any photos or wrote a review or something, we wanna see it! We can either put it up on our website or link to it, your choice. Comment here or send email to gimme_info[at]theplacebo.net (Let us know what name we should use to credit your stuff.)

Got something else to say? Talk about it on The Placebo Forums. There’s a Bummerfest thread for you to talk about what you liked, what you thought needed work, who rocked, who had the best dance moves, all that. You know we’re going to do this again next year, right? Get involved! It’s your scene, take care of it.

Wow, is it the 3rd Sunday of the month, already? Then it must be time for The Placebo Board meeting. Golly. Gee. WOW. This time the post-meeting entertainment is a whole goshdarn show, so arrive a little early and help keep the scene running.

When: Sunday, August 20 5:30 pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St, Eureka
Cost: like, totally free

It’s only a few weeks till the Bummerfest and it’s time to make the decorations. Meet Friday afternoon/evening at the Placebo and help out. Let us know if you need a ride (gimme_info[at]theplacebo.net) and we’ll try to get you set up. Oh, and if you just want to hang out and do your own low-key thing, that’s cool, too.

When: Friday, August 18 5-9pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 47B West 3rd, Eureka (map)
Cost: Free, baby. It’d be cool if you brought some art supplies/paper/etc. to contribute, though.

Board not bored! Yes, that’s right, it’s another exciting gathering of kids who wanna keep the Placebo rocking! OH BOY!!!

When: Sunday, August 6 at 5:30 pm
Where: The Placebo - 47B West 3rd St in Eureka
Free entertainment afterwards! Jasmine reads from Night of the Living Shark

You can make the scene happen by being part of the core decision making at the Placebo. Decide when Bummerfest will happen, how many shows needed per month to pay rent, whether to buy a new piece of equipment or not - it’s the stuff that’s not obvious at shows, but necessary to keep Placebo going.

The next generation of DIY scenesters starts here! This is your scene too, take care of it!

When: Saturday, July 22 at 2pm
Where: The Placebo — 47B West 3rd St, Eureka (map)
Cost: Free / Donation

When: Sunday, July 16, 5:30 pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 (map)
Cost: A couple hours of your life. We have fun, honest.

Abe, The Placebo’s sound expert, is moving to Portland this fall. Don’t miss this chance to learn what he knows about getting shows to sound like they should!

When: Saturday July 15 at 2 pm
Where: E2
Cost: Donation or Free