No Fun Fest DVD update
 

Just got this info in an e-mail from Carlos Giffoni:

A quick Reminder:
May 7 at The Hook in Brooklyn Tarantulla Hill benefit with:

Lightning Bolt
Nautical Almanac
Double Leopards
Kites
+ No fun Djs
starts at 7pm

no more advance tickets are on sale but there will be plenty at the
door for those showing up early.

Also, good news the No Fun Dvd (2004-2005 fests) to be released on
Load Records is finally finished and will soon be on the way to the
pressing plant. release date and teaser web-videos will be availible
shortly.

C.

thanks for keepeng us uptadet!

Neato...really would like to see this no fun dvd

http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/nofun.html

No Fun 2004/2005 DVD
LOAD 087 DVD


Brooklyn in the year 2004 saw a meeting of the most unlikely minds. All the party wreckers of civilization that have been rattling in the closet for the 80's and 90's recording and performing that thing that is called "noise" and quietly drew close circle for a true oddity - a summit of some of the HI NRG soundmakers using every instrument within reach.

You hold in your hands a document of this strange thing. An open window in culture has allowed you to see this trade convention. The trade this convention is busking, you ask? the business of making human minds wrap themselves around furrowed brow sweat soaked oscillator operation, lap top foppery, cutlery amplification, guitar strangulation, and every other way to physically move air to the ear you can imagine. This is a DVD document of crazed live actions of sound pirates doing a log clog of frequency jam well outside the regular FM beamed crap that pollutes this stuffed melon hellhole: Battleship Earth. What are you waiting for, suit up.



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Click here for an Ipod trailer of Prurient at the 2005 No Fun festival.
MP4 (67.9 Mb)

Oh, thanks for the notice Moshe. Does this mean it's out now?

A little mini-review thing because I forgot to post a review after going to the show mentioned above the DVD announcement...

I went to that Tarantula Hill Benefit Show and it was really really weird. First of all, it was pretty packed, not No Fun Fest Packed, but I would say there were at least 200 people there. That must have been great for Nautical Almanac and the Tarantula Hill crew considering it was a benefit and hopefully they got most if not all the proceeds.

Not so good for Nautical Almanac was that the majority of those people were younger kids probably (16 year olds through College Students) only there to see Lightning Bolt and Nautical Almanac actually got heckled at their own benefit show!!!

Like, seriously what the fuck? They actually played a great set... but the crowd was not into it all. It was funny like all these kids would crowd to the front before Kites and Double Leopards played and after like 5 minutes would just leave. Same thing during Nautical's set. Imbetween sets I heard a couple people saying stuff like "I like kept on waiting for the song to start..." Which made me and my girlfriend look at each other and crack up. It was half-good for us cause we got to stand front-row and center, but it kind of dampened the vibe, and when the Lightning Bolt fans actually got vocal when Nautical Almanac played it was just a fucking shame. Some guys to my left were giggling like something was funny (I guess nautical almanac look kind of funny when playing, but they use a lot of contact mics which require movement and it meshes with their noise-hippy image.)

This one kid was shouting stuff like "Stop acting!!!" and "Play you're instruments!!!" He looked like a music a student. Strange, I guess Lightning Bolt attracts closed-minded people who like them because of their technical abilities, or something? I thought people who liked Lightning Bolt would be pretty open-minded, but I guess because they have a Tech thing they attract that kind of element.

The majority of the crowd obviously didn't know that they were at a benifit for Nautical Almanac... that their money was going to them... and that the show was supposed to be a show of support for the rebuilding of Tarantula Hill. During this heckling Nautical Almanac looked visibly peeved to awkward/uncomfortable to a bit pissed off. They were really on though, played great stuff with limited equipment (Including a couple songs w/ drums, Twig on two string bass, and Carly on Violin), but I think they didn't play as long as they could have because the crowd was giving them shit. Carly announced they'd play their last song and people cheered... such bullshit. The only other person I saw toward the front of the stage having a blast other than me and my girlfriend was Kites who was grooving along.

Really odd.

Then Lightning Bolt played and were fucking intense awesome as usual. I just now have a bad image of their fans. Hell, at least Nautical Almanac got money from a shit load of people if not the love.

Oh, and does anyone know how different that NO FUN FEST 2004 gonna be than the limited release one I bought at the 2005 Fest? The limited one was pretty cool... and thanks to Chris Habib for putting it together but I hope the "official" release is a bit more comprehensive.

Huh. That really fucking sucks to hear about the Tarantula Hill benefit. But at least they got a good turnout and some cash to rebuild hopefully.

what the fuck, nautical almanac are amazing. idiots.

Nautical Almanac is heavy shit. I hope that they can restore the building.

Giffoni Nyoukis Duo at No Fun Fest 2004

http://www.bolt.com/stevelitt/video/...visation_PAGE1

can't wait to see the Aaron Dilloway, Smegma, and John Weise performances again oh and of course Thurston fucking shit up slaming the guitar into the roof and all

Kim G and the Sweet Ride at No Fun Fest 2004

http://www.bolt.com/stevelitt/video/...n%20fest_PAGE1

I hope it is ok to share this...

that video is great!

interesting read moshe, thanks

The latest from Carlos Giffoni:

No Fun Productions recommends 2 killer gigs happening in bushwick
brooklyn this and next week.


this wednesday june 7 at 8 pm
at goodbye blue monday in brooklyn
(http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/ for directions)

Prurient/FFH (hospital productions, totally ugly stuff)
Oscillating Innards (hospital productions, the new hope from the weast)
Pedestrian Deposit (hospital productions, total destruction)
M.V. Carbon (from Metalux)

5$ suggested donation.


then monday june 12, 8:00pm, $5, goodbye blue monday,
(http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/ for directions)

shiflet / bernstein duo(gmby records / heavy tapes)

carlos giffoni (no fun productions)

bryan eubanks (god electronics)

http://heavytapes.com/images/0612.jpg
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on Other related news, the No fun 2004/2005 dvd on Load Records has a
catalogue numbers and is on its way to the pressing plant. and is
expected to be out and about in mid september. go to :

http://loadrecords.com/bands/nofun.html
for a preview of whats to come!

C.

No Fun Presents:

Monotract xprmntl lvrs cd release party (Ecstatic Peace Records)

No Fun Event 13
No Fun Party August 5th at The Hook, Brooklyn, 8 pm

Magik Markers
Monotract
Mouthus
Panapticon Eyelids

+No Fun Party DJ Action

8$ in advance, 10$ day of the show www.thehookmusic.com or ticket web
for advance tickets

check http://www.nofunfest.com for killer poster by maya miller

The official release date for the double DVD is October 30!

There is also going to be a sneak preview showing of a good chunk of
it an anthology film archives in new york October 19.
More info will be available soon on
http://www.nofunfest.com/

and if you are in Japan you can catch Carlos Giffoni live with Jim O'Rourke in a few weeks:
http://carlosgiffoni.com/carlosshows.htm

I'm pretty excited about this.

awesome! thanks for this.

October 6: No Fun Event #14 'Inhuman Animal'
Wolf Eyes
John Wiese
Prurient / Thurston Moore
Religious Knives
at the hook in brooklyn 8 pm 10$ in advance
Tickets at www.thehookmusic.com via ticket web, or purcahse at Other
Music.

October 19: Fun From None, No Fun Fest 2004/2005 DVDs sneak Preview
at Anthology Film Archives 8 pm.
presented by load records,no fun productions, and visitor design,
Over 1 hour of selected performances from the no fun dvd's will be
shown at the big screen. possible after party TBA

we will very likely have the double dvd for sale there for the first
time, though official release date is october 30.

Also :
September 30, No Fun Tokyo event #1 at Uplink factory in Tokyo Japan
Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke collaboration

Thanks again guys!

Thursday October 19: Fun From None, No Fun Fest 2004/2005 DVDs sneak
Preview
at Anthology Film Archives 8 pm.
presented by load records,no fun productions, and visitor design,
Over 1 hour of selected performances from the no fun dvd's will be
shown at the big screen. possible after party TBA

Sneak Preview Screening!
Chris Habib
Fun From None: Live From the No Fun Fest 2004 and 2005
2006, 168 minutes (!), video.

The list of party wreckersincluded in this historic document includes:
Wolf Eyes, MagikMarkers, To Live And Shave In LA, Double Leopards, Lee
Ranaldo/Roger Miller/William Hooker, Giffoni's Death Unit, NAG,
Macronympha, Prurient, Borbetomagus and too many moreto mention in
this mere blurb

dvd is officially availible from load records october 31st but we'll
have a limited amount of advance copis to sell at this event

cool

ordering my copy now or tomorrow or on the 30th oct!

It is available now!

http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/nofun.html

here's the lineup for the screening at anthology tonight. it's the edit that'll be submitted to any festivals or museums for screenings as well. some of the sets in the screening version are slightly abbreviated and it's only a 74 minute sampling of the 2 discs.

dead machines
Giffoni/Nyoukis
macronympha
wolf eyes
double leopards
prurient
nautical almanac
kim g and the sweet ride
nihilist assault group
giffoni death unit

Welcome back Chris!
Can we have the full list of the bands on your film?

yes.

to live and shave in LA
alan licht's 1970
kim g and the sweetride
giffoni/nyoukis
wolf eyes
hair police
nautical almanac
double leopards
ranaldo/hooker/miller

prurient
magik markers
giffoni death unit
jazzkamer
heathen shame
dead machines
mouthus
nihilist assault group
16 bitch pileup
monotract
macronympha
borbetomagus

three hours or so of noise. i also laced the dvds with ipod videos of all of the clips as well as relatively high bitrate mp3s of all of the performances (ripped straight from the masters).

sorry i haven't been around. i've had eye problems since the begining of august.

glad to see you back mr habib,hope your eyes are ok now.raise your rep points count ;) !

Thanks for the list. I was waiting for this DVD for so long.
For people living outside of the USA, or even outside of NYC, this is a rare opportunity to watch all those great acts that we usually only get to hear or read about.

and an undocumented note of interest is that i did all of the music that plays over the titles, credits and interstitials on the dvds.

way to toot your own horn, habib.

Well,i'd rather that my love..........

well i'll be doggone! this is a treat!

looks like we'll be screening the same cut we showed at anthology around europe soonish. unless you have a massive PA hooked up to your DVD player, yr gonna want to see this in a theatre or at a club. it sounded incredible in a proper cinema thru their dolby processor, and played from a large format digital master tape (as opposed to a compressed dvd).

the prurient set was just brutal.

the dvd turned out great too. it was nice to finally hold one in my hands.

There's a cinema at ATP isn't there. Gonna show it there?

wow!!!
is it going to be whole of that second list on dvd???
ranaldo/hooker/miller, want and must see it man!

yeah. it's a double dvd. ranaldo/hooker/miller is heavy!

this dvd is now available from load records, go get it...