Fluorescent Friends 2013®

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

COOL FEST XIII - NYC BENEFIT

All proceeds from this event will be donated to benefit Typhoon Haiyan relief; all donations are matched by the Canadian government.

NOV 29 at FITNESS $8

Bradford Kessler installation
and performance "Ever Renewed and Renewing" at 8PM
plus

DREAMCATCHER (montreal)
UNITED WATERS (Mouthus ny)
EOLA (ny)
HIGH RISE II (Tonstartssbandht montreal/nyc)
ZAC DAVIS (ny)
SADAF

NOV 30 at SILENT BARN $10

Sarah Butler installation
and livestream performance 'Hoodoos Walk' from Banff, Alberta at 4PM
plus

downstairs 1:00 TONSTARTSSBANDHT (ny)
downstairs 12:30 MARK MORGAN (Sightings ny)

downstairs 12:00 WEIRDING MODULE (Ithaca ny)
downstairs 11:30 STEVE JR. (montreal)
upstairs 11:00 SICK LLAMA (detroit)

downstairs 10:30 METALUX (ny/baltimore)

upstairs 10:00 BUFFALO MRI (montreal)
downstairs 09:30 THE 696 BLUES BAND (Wolf Eyes detroit)

upstairs 09:00 ZAIMPH (ny)
downstairs 08:30 XARAH DION (montreal)
upstairs 08:00 TARPIT (detroit)
downstairs 07:30 DAVID LAFRANCE (montreal)
upstairs 07:00 R.A.F. (ny)
downstairs 06:30 PRIVILEGE (ny)

Home cooked Guyanese food will be sold for $5 a plate
vegetarian and non-vegetarian options

Silent Barn is at 603 Bushwick
No BYOB and no drinking in the yard of The Silent Barn
Door time TBA
All ages!

COOL FEST is a cool festival of music, art and other sensory delights that encourages healthy heavy partying and intuitive artistic exploration. Cool Fest is about connecting different artistic communities and putting disparate creative people alongside each other to share their vision and discover new approaches and ideas, in a bilingual space.

COOL FEST XIII NYC will take place at Fitness NYC and Silent Barn. This will be a meeting of minds and souls from all over, but specifically a Montreal/USA fusion project. The best in new weird music from all over the area will come together to howl at the resulting Brundlefly and celebrate. Home-cooked food will be served, and each night a different NYC artist will open each space with installation and performance.

This is the second Cool Fest event to take place in NYC, the first being a show at Silent Barn in 2010 curated by Blake Hargreaves and Nat Roe featuring Twig Harper, Chaw Mank, MV Carbon and others.

For more info on Cool Fest XIII NYC contact Blake at blakehargreaves@gmail.com
Historical info about past Cool Fests: http://blakehargreaves.com/?cat=37(navigation menu on the right)

Friday, May 3, 2013

COOL FEST THIRTEEN/TREIZE still kickin'/encore donnant des coups de jambe

La Briquestre
May 3 - 4
$10 day/jour - $15 fest
BYOCANS ONLY NO BOTTLES / INTERDIT LES BOUTEILLES
SMOKE-FREE LIVE ROOM / SANGFROID
HOMEMADE VEGETARIAN FOOD FOR SALE / BON BOUFFE A VENDRE

lineup subject to change/le line-up ca peut peut-etre changer finalement

SATURDAY/SAMEDI/SATURN
12:45 RAVEN CHACON (USA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aykc0e8JGf0
12:15 WOLFCOW (Toronto) http://vimeo.com/62739731
11:30 FAT WORM OF ERROR (USA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq5ixJDl8iI
11:00 MONDAY MORNING ERECTION feat Blake Hargreaveshttp://www.myspace.com/mondaymorningerection
10:30 PIRANHA
10:00 GASHRAT www.gashrat.bandcamp.com
0̶9̶:̶4̶5̶ ̶T̶I̶R̶E̶D̶ ̶

FRIDAY/VENDREDI/VENUS
12:45 GHOST TACO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwiwsuHwgk4
12:15 ESSAIE PAS (oh my god ys sont de retour ♥♥♥ one year anniversary)http://essaiepas.bandcamp.com/album/tout-est-jeune
11:30 PINK NOISE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QUER31aQz4
10:45 CHICKEN PET
10:15 CRABE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyBgSIP2BA
09:30 THE/LE WAXATHON "dinner barf/bouffe barfe" http://thewaxathonbyblakehargreaves.bandcamp.com/

FOOD/BOUFFE by/par DEVO GHOST TACO
BOTH NIGHTS/SHAQ SOIREE
spinach salad, yam dip, probably that vegan shepherd's pie again but with better potatoes

Special event promotion lancement du nouvele art zine BEURK BANK
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/548394

"Cool Fest is the best fest, I'm obsessed" -Muhammad Ali
"Don't miss a true Canadian jamboree" -Pat Quinn
"Ca va torcher vraiment, j'arrete toujours pour Cool Fest" -Gaetan Boucher
"Y'en a qui savent se faire du fun . . ." - Marie Davidson

Saturday, January 26, 2013

ZZ POT
THE BEST OF ZZ POT I + II
FF 004 LP
Release date: December 21, 2012

Reissue of two 2003 CD-R releases from Providence, Phode Island. ZZ POT is a party-ready mashup of heavy metal, techno, punk and q-tip synth sounds created using CDs found in the street and produced by Mat Brinkman. Pressed on black vinyl in a limited edition of 100. Unique hand painted jackets by Fluorescent Friends.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Dear Friends:

We have reached the end of the year of many Cool Fests, and the launch of our Edition of 100 LP series. How Cool it has been! Here's how we're celebrating the last event in the solar calendar of 2012, the winter solstice. It has three parts:

COOL FEST XII.IV.I

Dec 7th
Casa Del Popolo

Pypy (members of Redmass, Duchess Says)
Drainolith
+guests

Pypy is a Montreal supergroup. Ca va torcher vraiment!
Drainolith is finishing off a huge year, with an LP on Spectrum Spools and several tours.
Join us for a fun evening in an establishment with a liquor license!

COOL FEST XII.IV.II

Dec 15th
La Brique

Normal Love (USA)
+guests

Food by Devo Ghost Taco

The final installment marks one year of quarterly dates at this burning furnace of Montreal talent. The night will be full of surprises! As usual, BYOCans! And no smoking.

and finally...

12/20/2012
BEST OF ZZ POT I + II LP

ZZ POT is the best music you have ever heard made using CDs found in the street. ZZ POT was the inaugural project of the Found In The Street CD series, a series of releases made on CD DJ mixers with found CDs, produced by Mat Brinkman, that were by design all longer than one hour.

Your trusted curators at FF have put together an LP of non-stop party action using the best of the first two of the seven ZZ POT releases. In an edition of 100, it is a special unique object celebrating a moment in the early 00's when it seemed music artists could work on so many cylinders simultaneously and have something come out that was clean, crisp, and fun. Is it metal, is it techno, is it contemporary art? Wrap your arms around ZZ POT and smile your way into 2013 when six decades of pretense will be shattered once and for all.