Calvin Johnson

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ALL-AGES | BYOB


Based in Olympia, Washington, USA, Calvin’s work in underground culture started as a teenage fan volunteering at the local community radio station, KAOS-FM. He moved on to writing for fanzines, organizing music and film events, playing music in various ill-fated bands. Calvin established K, a locally oriented media outlet, in 1982.


In 1993 Calvin founded Dub Narcotic, a recording studio, in which he has documented the work of the Somehow Is and Never Was, such as Mirah, the Blow, Versus, Built to Spill, Fitz of Depression, Make-Up and Little Wings. It has also been the incubator of many Calvin experiments in collaboration and self-expression, such as Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System.

The decade of the double zeroes has seen Calvin Johnson set out into the world, acoustic guitar in hand, as a solo artist of musical platitudes.


BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD (dodpop / LOAF)
http://silkytooth.blogspot.com/

“Ben Butler & Mouse Pad is Joe Gay vs You / Germlin‘s new project. Anyone exposed to the furious shake & pop of pixelated DIY dance fury from either act should expect excellence. Excellence as in a cloud of pink TV static spreading over psychedelic gradient skies outside the window of your commuter train, analogical lighting bolts blasting in a rainbow coloured Sabbath which burns into the circuitry of your brain like the soundtrack of an old coin-op beat-em-up designed by a crazed cabal of progressive wizards and bearded Sci-Fi savants. Yep, that kind of excellence, like Golden Axe’s red dragons invading the hallucinatory dreamscapes of a Philip K. Dick pulp which was never published because it was too weird, and too close to the bone.” – Juan, 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk

Having spent the past several years in fashionable Berlin, Joe is returning to Scotland this summer – this’ll be his first Edinburgh gig, in any guise, for ages. To my knowledge, nothing in Edinburgh right now sounds much of anything like this, so coming to this show should be like bathing your listening in fresh clean fizzy water.


EAGLEOWL (Kilter)
http://www.eagleowlattack.co.uk/

…can, as we know, harm a man but kill a dog.