The Series is indeed a series, of music performances, natch, that takes place every Monday night at Weirdo. Things get started at 8pm, end about 10 or 10:30pm, & $5 donations are requested. Details will be posted here as they come dribbling in, and snippets from past shows will be available for download too. If you're interested in performing here, scroll to the bottom of this page for some sage advice. You can also find out about the history of the Series by going here.
Upcoming:
September is presented by Chris Strunk! Supreme Strunkification!
9/6/10 Noell Dorsey/Chris Strunk
9/13/10 Maine Coons
9/20/10 Kevin Micka/Mark Pearson
9/27/10 Anita Fix
10/4/10 Undeveloped Piles
10/11/10 Gordon Marshall poetry reading & birthday party
10/18/10 Bisexual Lion of God
10/25/10 Young & Old
11/1/10 films by J.P. DiSciscio
11/8/10 Patrick Emm
11/15/10 Michael Huse
11/22/10 Eric Dahlman
11/29/10 Onanism
12/6/10 Garrison Fewell/Eric Hofbauer Duo
Did you know that Vic Rawlings is Santa?
January will be brought to you by the one & only Sam, head honcho of Ydlmier tapes.
Past:
8/30/10 Noise Nomads set
8/23/10 Morgan Evans Weiler/Jules Vasylenko AND Core of the Coalman set, set
8/16/10 Spice Raq AND Black Beauty set, set
8/9/10 Luke Moldof/Vic Rawlings set
8/2/10 Water set
7/26/10 Findings set
7/23/10 bonus: Bill Orcutt was kind enough to stop by on his way through town. set
7/5/10 Goa Death Mother set
6/28/10 Ernst Karel set
6/21/10 Angela's birthday party w/ Duck That set
6/14/10 Great Hopes set
6/7/10 Luther Gray set
5/31/10 Brandon Terzakis set
5/17/10 Cereal set
5/10/10 Reuben Son set
5/1/10 Still yet another bonus: Johnny Cohen stopped by the shop on a Saturday afternoon for a few songs set
4/26/10 William Nowik set part 1, set part 2
4/21/10 Yet another Bonus: Mark Trecka & Elephant Micah both sets
4/19/10 Kevin Frenette Trio set
4/17/10 Bonus #1: Howard Martin on trumpet & a pal on melodica, part of Record Store Day 2010 festivities, recorded by Reuben Son excerpt
4/17/10 Bonus #2: Some conversational ambience from Record Store Day 2010, with Howard Martin's tape installation in the background, recorded by Reuben Son excerpt
4/17/10 Bonus #3: Keith Fullerton Whitman (who was joined here & there by a few folks, including Geoff Mullen) outside on the sidewalk in the rain, recorded by Josh Harris excerpt 1, excerpt 2
4/17/10 Bonus #4: Milo Jones played a perfect end to a wonderful day set
4/12/10 Poltergeist Friction set
4/5/10 Asha Sheshadri set
3/29/10 Mike Bullock/Forbes Graham, both on trumpet set 1
3/22/10 Mike & Linda Bullock's movies set
3/15/10 Mike Bullock & Josh Jefferson bass & alto set
3/8/10 Mike Bullock solo bass set
3/1/10 Mike Bullock/Jamie Fennelly synth & harmonium set
2/22/10 Blissed Out set
2/15/10 Sublime Frequencies video party
2/8/10 Sequoyah Leaf set
2/1/10 Linda Aubry Bullock's films set
1/25/10 But Whatever We Move On (aka Crystal Understanding) set
1/18/10 Steve Norton/Matt Samolis/Noell Dorsey perform Steve Lacy's 'Tips' set
1/11/10 Twan Beautiful set
1/4/10 Magic People set
12/28/10 Luke Moldof/Ben Stepner set
12/21/10 Jules Vasylenko/Howard Martin set 1, set 2
12/14/10 Kilter (Steve Norton/Curt Newton) + Jack Callahan set 1, set 2
12/7/10 Ophibre/Eric Miller set
11/30/09 Retribution Body set 1, set 2
11/23/09 Xela & Ning Nong excerpt
11/16/09 Needy Visions excerpt
11/9/09 High Aura'd/Area C excerpt
11/2/09 Abram Taber excerpt
10/26/09 Colby Nathan as Hyena excerpt
10/19/09 Mike Bullock's birthday party! excerpt
10/5/09 Maine Coons excerpt
9/28/09 Jarrod Fowler's extremely conceptual non-appearance party (sorry, no sound file)
9/21/09 Ted Lee (Western Mass. beard about town, Feeding Tube Records) excerpt
9/14/09 Max Lord (improv on synths from the 23rd century) excerpt
9/7/09 Brendan Murray (drone installation) excerpt
8/31/09 Chris Strunk vs Ricardo Donoso (Percussion Battle Vol. 2) excerpt
8/24/09 Noell Dorsey excerpt
8/17/09 Double Awake excerpt
8/10/09 Zerfallt excerpt
8/3/09 Animal Hospital excerpt
8/2/09 Bonus show: Graveyards excerpt
7/27/09 Benjamin Nelson & Brandon Terzakis excerpt
7/20/09 Black Beauty (heavy guitar shit from Vermont) the whole show, cause it was a killer
7/13/09 Goat of Arms (Nell & Ivanna on accordion & drums) excerpt
7/6/09 Daniel Harris excerpt
6/29/09 Steve Norton excerpt 1, excerpt 2
6/22/09 Streight Angular excerpt 1, excerpt 2, excerpt 3
6/15/09 Ben & Alise (Windy Smiles) excerpt
6/08/09 Peyote Feminist (Ron Gittens, Don Harney, Sam Wheeler & Buzz Gundersen aka the Absurder) excerpt 1, excerpt 2, excerpt 3
6/1/09 Vic Rawlings' Sound Fountain excerpt
5/25/09 Malcy Duff (Scotsman who improvises in Usurper & also draws Missing Twin comics) excerpt
5/18/09 Dave Gross (solo sax) excerpt
5/11/09 Josh Jefferson (solo sax) excerpt
5/4/09 Johnny Cohen video, excerpt
4/27/09 Things Astral (Lou Cohen & John Voigt; laptop, bass) set 1 excerpt
4/20/09 Bonnertronix (Steve Bonner's homemade electronics) set 1set 2set 2 part 2
4/13/09 Milo Jones excerpt
4/6/09 We Love You set 1, set 2
Oh So Many Grainy Cellphone Pix:
only the loveliest folks in town were allowed to come to my birthday party
Gilmore shot this cute video
Ning Nong took the beaut above
Saul took the above pic. Note the increased clarity!
Gory Details:
If you're thinking of performing as part of the Series, there's a couple of things you'll want to know.
First off, Weirdo is smaller than the average college dorm room. A college dorm room with several thousand records in it, matter of fact. This means that (a) drums & (b) typical mid-sized amplifiers, while amusing to try & cram in here, won't really fit. Either will basically be useless and will be loud enough to bring the police around. If you play an instrument that needs electricity & there's no acoustic version of it, consider a cigarette amp, pignose amp, or a plugin speaker set made for mp3 players. You won't be too quiet, mostly because your audience will be close enough to you that you could reach out & pat each of them on the shoulder.
Things generally get started around 8 & are over by 10 or 10:30, and it's all pretty low key. Donations are requested on your behalf, and all handed over to you at the end of the evening.
Scheduling is rather haphazard, so sometimes there might be a date available in just a week or two, while other times things are full up months in advance. However if you're patient, halfway polite & keep on it a bit, you'll find friendly & welcoming atmosphere, & a small group of people who really listen.
