13/09
Stoned Chicks:
dragradio vs Salon Combat
contributors
Edwin David / Venetia Blinds
Petri Huurinainen
Valentine Jeep
Salon Combat (Paul Glazier/Simon Ferdinando)
Mona Compleine / Simon Murphy
RESONANCE

www.dragradio.net

8 > 12PM
entry £3 / free in drag
(1st 20 receive free cassette)
Dragradio is a sound collage of excerpts from old movies, original electronic music and the odd song.

The intention is to develop this initial proposal into a regular net broadcast as well as performance (live ‘mixing’ of pre-existing elements augmented by theatrical ‘interventions’) ultimately publishing the documentation in the form of a CD-ROM catalogue.




The objective of drag radio is to find an audience outside of the confines of the white cube of the gallery and the black box of the theatre. The function of the artist will ultimately become editorial as contributions to the project are solicited from an ever widening network.

Although the means of achieving this are technological the aesthetic is determinedly lo-fi . Public access TV, blogs, zines, pirate broadcasts as well as Ludlum’s theatre of the ridiculous are all points of reference.


Using often violent juxtapositions of sound and image the live performances will strive to erode the distinction between the audience and the performers in an audio visual potlach.


5Y in association with www.dragradio.net
present


STONED CHICKS

The sound world presented by dragradio and Salon Combat in STONED CHICKS at 5 years is a fractured and fractuous one.


For Salon Combat the carnival is the modle, loungecore, illbient, Bakuninesque. A dandy ryhme.



'The band began to play......'

Hands laid on - beat and deep-pile pleasure cut and rendered from these disparate grooves found in a second-hand store in Amsterdam amongst the rudderless end-game of trash and trade. This is anything but rudimentary dialectic - this is bricolage drawn from the fragments and detritus of lives lost or simply changed. This carnival enters the seething digital favella stripped of previous context, meaning and import, now sleek and responsive to your every association, 'Carnival in Bavaria" is structuralism played backwards.

Simon Ferdinando 2001


Ladies and gentelmen in the the red corner, all the way from Amsterdam, welcome Salon Combat.





For dragradio the aspiration is the possession state. Cheap voodoo & vodka, the card trick and the three chord song their instruments.


Thoughts come faster than words.
At night we hear foxes screaming at the edge of the railway line.
Rats playing in the garbage.
A strange light pours out of us and stray dogs avoid our gaze.

We are consumed with indecision rage and hunger.
Our desire complex.
Insatiable.


Venetia Blinds 2002


Too late for the Factory, too cheap for Studio 54 ,from South London, within spitting distance, we give you dragradio





contributors

Edwin David / Venetia Blinds
Edwin David is an artist working primarily in photography and video installation. He has exhibited internationally and has work in a number of important private collections. In 2002 he co-founded Z-axis a multimedia design company. His drag alter-ego, Venetia Blinds, ran the notorious "SUCK" nightclub in London and has published a zine, "This is not a love song" . She describes her guitar playing as "a slow motion atrocity".


Petri Huurinainen
Z-axis member and sound artist, the Finnish Petri Huurinainen has exhibited numerous pieces and played guitar with Niskende and Non Ultra Descriptus. His soundtracks include Last Labyrinth and his self published CD "Born to loose" consists of a Johnny Thunders riff slowed down to 45 minutes. He is currently working on reinterpretations of songs by Hanoi Rocks.

Valentine Jeep
Valentine Jeep is a professional musician and songwriter who has sung and played guitar with a number of bands including The Sun Brothers. He worked with Jeanette Paris on ‘Jeanette Paris Goes South’ (music theatre) and is currently collaborating with dance producer Pete Arnold.



Salon Combat (Paul Glazier/Simon Ferdinando)
Based in Amsterdam the artists Simon Ferdinado and Paul Glazier have collaborated on a number of projects. In their SalonCombat incarnation excerpts of Adam Clayton Powell’s speeches were mixed with Bavarian Schlaagers against a backdrop of ultra kitch album covers.


Mona Compleine / Simon Murphy
Simon Murphy is a curator of film at the London Transport museum. He has DJ’d at Kitsch Bitch and SUCK and is currently is running The Pop Museum at Smersh. He edited the zine Girly and played guitar for the Six Inch Killaz. Simon is currently working on solo pieces for electric guitar .

+ RESONANCE

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