Freak St. Fair: The Aftermath = 1 birth + 1 death

Well, maybe not a birth exactly but a birthday was celebrated. (Thanks for celebrating it with us Rissa). I'm a Sad Scientist since once again I failed at my ultimate experiment, to hit the brown note. One day it will happen! We are hoping to turn this into an annual event. Thanks to everyone who came out for the inaugural one. And a special thanks to gym mat nap, The Noise Revival, and the Violent Squids. Everyone put on a fabulous show. I would like to give an apology to gym mat nap and The Noise Revival for the sorry sound equipment. We had no idea that J&Js speakers had been stolen again and you did great with a crappy little amp. After the Noise Revival's set we found out The Squids had speakers that could be used for the rest of the evening. Thanks for saving the night guys. And to whoever stole the J&Js speakers. You are scum. This is a cool LOCAL DIY venue that is trying to keep a scene alive in a community that is narrowly escaping being swallowed by the suburban hell that is Lewisville. We need more places like J&Js and you are helping kill it when you pull shit like this. I'm sure you won't read this are even care but when the only place left to play in this town is Starfucks and rock bands have to drive to Dallas and Ft. Worth you'll be sitting around trying to figure out what happened. Just know you contributed to it that tragedy. Now go back to eating you corporate gentrified meal from some fast food corporate garbage place, sipping your "coffee" beverage from Starfucks, and listening to Clear Channel. You will be the death of true culture and I leave that on your conscience.

Kim

Online Laboratory Reconstructive Surgery Complete

After two weeks of hard work we have completed the website's reconstrutive surgery. We hope you like the new look and find it easirer to navigate and communicate. There will be a few more follow up precedures in the coming weeks but by late May early June the last treatment should be completed (at least until a nose caves in or the botox wares off). If you experience any difficulties or feel like you may be experiencing the early stages of spontaneous combustion (from rapture, frustation, or down right disgust) please report them to you can post them on the brand new guestbook page or just email them to me Eye Gore the over-worked and underpaid (fish heads, fish heads, rolly polly fish heads) hunckbacked caretaker oc the online Laboratory. Please don't tell the Scientists what I said about being underpaid or they will conduct sonic experiments unfit for test subjects on me again. They're Mad Mad I tell you. No! No, not the electrodes...

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Freak St. Fair: A Night of Psychedelic Mayhem 4.21.06

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FREAK ST. FAIR: A NIGHT OF PSYCHEDELIC MAYHEM
April 5, 2006 (Denton, TX) -- -- Dentons Fry St. fair has long gathered attention for not only a full day of music but a day of bacchanalian decadence as well. The infamous fair has become a tradition in the North Texas area, a day for locals and former residents to party side by side and reminisce of old time and make new memories. But another lesser known tradition to mainstream Fair-goes also exists, anti-fairs and alternate fairs. On this weekend house parties with other great bands are only a drunken stumble away. And in this tradition is Freak St. Fair.

Freak St. Fair will be held J&Js in Denton on Friday April 21, 2006 (the night before Fry St. Fair). Organizers emphasize that in no way are they trying to compete with Fry St. Fair. Brannon Barr (organizer & guitarist/vocalist for The Mad Scientists) expounds, We are very much in the spirit of the Fry St. Fair. Our aim is to help people get in the mood and psyched up for the day to come. A lot of former residents return to Denton once a year for this event. They can meet up with friends and come out to Freak St. Fair eat great pizza, have a few beers, and hear eclectic music that is not typically featured elsewhere, and pay no cover. Freak St. Fair begins and ends early running from 8pm to Midnight.
The bands featured are a psychedelic lot that are more eclectic and bizarre than those typically featured at Fry St. Fair. The line up includes three Denton bands that have strong reputations for pushing boundaries and dont neatly fit into any one genre. The Violent Squid(Denton's ultimate noise band with a sense of humor), The Mad Scientists (the psychedelic mutants that escape from their lab leave observers enraptured, confused, or enraged), gymmatnap (one man creating multiple soundscapes). Also, coming in for one night only is Austins The Noise Revival(groove rock that makes the needle jump). Brannon states, We are fans of many of the bands playing at Fry St. Fair we just wanted an opportunity to expose the more chaotic and esoteric bands. A night of psychedelic mayhem is just what Freak St. Fair goers will get as a wamup for the day of debauchery to follow whether they attend Fry St. Fair or not.

April Featured Song: Slow Collision

This song is often our closer though sometimes it falls else where in the set. It has been known to clear a room and fill it up (often in the same venue on the same night). We think of it as instrumental psychedelic noise eplorations into the the outer realms of beauty and maddness. But its best for us to just shut up and let you experience this song yourself at www.myspace.com/themadscientists (incense, candles, and any other mood setting accessories/accroutements are recommended). If you like this and the Burning Circus Tent you really should attend Freak St. Fair April 21, J&Js in Denton 8pm (stay tuned a new blog regarding this will be up tomorrow).
One more thing I would like to add. We had to compress the hell out of this to get the mp3 small enough to upload on myspace. So what you are hearing his has lost soooooo much. This is just to give you a little taste of this sonic concoction to experience it fully you must go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/madscientists
or better yet support Awesome local music stores:
Dallas:
Bill's Records & Tapes
Denton:
Cd Warehouse
Recycled Books
Houston:
Sound Exchange
Austin:
Waterloo