BIG HEAVY WORLD NEWZRAG #35, January 25, 2003
The news from http://www.bigheavyworld.com, Burlington Vermont U.S.A.
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LIVE MUSIC SERIES AT MR. MIKES
BHW VIDEO: STRAIGHT EDGE DOCUMENTARY 2003
MADNESS IN THE JUNGLE ROOM... BHW SITE GETS KICK IN THE *&!
BYE STEPH!
BHW THANKS...!
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LIVE MUSIC SERIES AT MR. MIKES BEGINS... NOW!
Mr. Mikes and Big Heavy World are joining up to bring FREE, ALL-AGES shows to Mr. Mikes Pizza (Corner of Main and South Winooski Ave. in Burlington) on Tuesdays and Saturdays in January & February... Tuesdays from 10pm-midnight come see soloists: 1/21 LINDA BASSICK (fun poppy blues); 1/28 DAVE GRAVELIN (folk); 2/4 DAN PARKS (rock'n'roll); 2/11 DAVE NERBAK (serious blues); 2/18 JEREMY HARPLE (groove rock); and 2/25 T-BONE (classic rock). Saturdays show up from 11pm-1am for the full-band experience of: 1/25 SUBSIDE (funk rock, http://www.geocities.com/subsiderocks); 2/1 HARD LUCK KID (rock'n'roll); 2/8 CONRAD B (surf-punk skatemen, http://artists.mp3.com/artists/265/conrad_b.html); 2/15 COLIN CLARY & FRIENDS (all-star indiepop revue); and 2/22 THE INTERIOR ("The Who-meets-Radiohead" (loud rock'n'roll). BIG THANKS to Pat and Ryan at Mr. Mike's for bringing more local all-ages live music to downtown and Mike Pelkey for pulling the Tuesdays together with such an amazing bunch of artists! If all goes well we *may* get the invitation to continue the series past February - if it's a gig you might be into as a local artist, feel welcome to stay in touch about it with Jim at redshift@bigheavyworld.net.
BHW VIDEO: STRAIGHT EDGE DOCUMENTARY 2003
Thanks to funding from OVX (Our Voices XPosed) the video crew is launching into production of a full-length documentary of straight-edge life in Vermont. Ananda Moore, Max Gregor, Liz Hart, Liz Grunberg, Kate Wheeler, and Al Nemethy will be pulling it together and taking the final film on the road for an Autumn tour through the state. If you've got info or know someone they'd *have* to meet to feel like they're doing a good job of it (including *yourself*) please email us at redshift@bigheavyworld.net, Attn: Ananda. OVX is a youth-run organization with groups of teens across the state working to bring attention to how big tobacco companies target youth. Some of the info is twisted and sick - if you're a teen and interested in the subject of big corporations using you and your peers to make money regardless of whether they kill you in the process or not, go to the OVX site at http://www.ovx.org.
MADNESS IN THE JUNGLE ROOM... BHW SITE GETS KICK IN THE *&!
For the next few months expect to regularly see FLAME coming from the third-floor windows of the Big Heavy World office/studio/crib as the crew throws some gas onto the web site and does the dance around it... All the incredible custom site programming that's happened in the last two years with support from Scully Interactive (http://www.scullyinteractive.com) and Irving Rabin (MAILBOX, http://www.superpickle.com/mailbox) is being brought to full-capacity by old and new volunteers, bringing things up-to-date and launching or gettting ready to launch parts that haven't been brought to light until now. Between now and April: Jim Hadeka (ASSEMBLE THE REMAINS, http://www.assembletheremains.com) is running the MP3 Showcase page - if you've got MP3's to give away, send them our way. Spencer Crispe & Mikey X (MY REVENGE, http://www.xmulletx.com/myrevenge & FIGHT BACK, http://www.fightbackcrew.tk) are pit-bossing the DIY Shows Page - Vermont bands and venues should shoot an email this way and you'll get the password to add your own shows to the page. It highlights all-ages shows, too... just so ya know; Jesse Chamberlain (13TH CHAIR, http://www.13thchair.com) is moving down the line with the Vermont Band Guide - the venerable institution is getting the spit smacked out of it by Jesse and Rose Kilpatrick, nuking dead bands and squeezing fresh blood into it (email us for info or to get into the guide); Sarah Saltus and Corinne Cogger have taken the ropes of the Paparazzi section over and are shoveling a pile of photos onto it - some from the unpublished archive, some still steaming; Scott Nelle is joining us from Champlain College to stir the alchemical PHP pot; Al Nemethy is about to begin the grand adventure of shooting 3D photos of local live music venues for the venue directory that's got hooks in it from Derek Beam, Damien Thibault and John Dubuc who are getting the low-down on booking contacts, capacities, and maps so the musicians with interest will have a one-stop web site for scoring local gigs... and the near-future arrival of the mystical Video page is imminent with Kate Wheeler converting last year's MiniDV band interviews into streaming format with help from Jesse Krembs; the database of "What-Music-Got-Reviewed-In-Seven Days Newspaper" will be published in Jesse Youngdale and Joe Atherton's Vermont Music Library area along with a searchable library catalog (we're gathering the equipment to research Free Press music reviews now too...)... Will Glass, new to the crew, will be adding descriptions to the CD pages of Dave Donegan's vermontmusicshop.com and we'll be figuring out the legalities of putting our 3,000+ song online radio station back on the air (we're determined to figure out how much artist performance royalties will cost and find the sponsorship money to pay them... the math is crayzee...). The email here is redshift@bigheavyworld.net - don't be shy! :) BIG HEAVY WORLD IS RUN BY VOLUNTEERS. If you want to pitch in and bust a sweat with the rest of us Terminator wannabees, get in touch with Jim at redshift@bigheavyworld.net. We do time in the office on Tuesday and Thursday nights, 6-8pm.
OVXBIGHEAVYBUZZFEST: TEN BANDS, SIX DJ'S AT MEMORIAL 12/31
Thanks to *EVERYONE* who joined us for First Night at Memorial Auditorium this year, and to all the bands, DJ's and sponsors that made it happen: THE ZAMBONIS (http://www.thezambonis.com); THE RIVER CITY REBELS (http://www.rivercityrebels.com), THE STATIC AGE (http://www.thestaticage.com); BLIND LUCK MUSIC (http://www.blindluckmusic.com); 13TH CHAIR (http://www.13thchair.com); FIGHT BACK (http://www.fightbackcrew.tk); MY REVENGE (http://www.xmulletx.com/myrevenge); DELILA (http://www.mp3.com/delila); SUBSIDE (http://www.geocities.com/subsiderocks); FLYNNARTS JAZZ COMBOS; SIMON (http://www.simonband.com); DJ CHIA; DJ ECHO; ELLIOTT MATOS; DJ MEL BOOGIE; DJ SLIM SIMMONS; and DJ TRICKY PAT; FIRST NIGHT BURLINGTON (http://www.firstnightburlington.com); OVX (OUR VOICES XPOSED, http://www.ovx.org); 99.9 THE BUZZ (http://www.999thebuzz.com), and 242 MAIN (http://www.242main.com).
BYE STEPH!
Steph Hindley at the Buzz has packed up and moved to her 'new' home in Montreal, leaving 99.9 The Buzz and YEARS of being kind to us and the musicians we try to support. Her incredibly cute new little punk rock baby Sydney Eva Lefebvre had something to do with it and *you* should be so lucky as to get to see a picture of her... Happy Birthday #0 to Sydney and GOOD LUCK AND BEST WISHES from Big Heavy to Steph and family!!!! :)
BHW THANKS
Extra special thanks (and *smooches* from some of the crew...) to Jimmy Swift at First Night Burlington who made the OVXBIGHEAVYBUZZFEST happen for us, and to Christine Bourque and Angela DeSanctis at OVX who bring the best energy to anything they're involved in. Thanks also to Steph Hindley and Arty Lavigne at the Buzz, as well as Sparky (Homebrew Show Sundays at 9:30pm) and Electra (for being a badass on stage) - they're all friends of the scene who brought their radio superpower to a First Night we're going to remember. Thanks to Stacey Steinmetz at Magic Hat (http://www.magichat.net) for their support this year - Stacey knows what we're all about and threw down for us. Magic Hat's heart is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big! :) Thanks to all the big stores that pitched in to help us bring some hospitality backstage at Memorial during First Night, they were looking after the 'little guy'.
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ABOUT US: BHW is Vermont's tech-heavy music cheerleader, promoting local artists through emerging technologies and publishing http://www.bigheavyworld.com, the comprehensive online guide to regional music known as "Burlington's Urban Scene Web Site". Our crew of volunteers also run an expanding record label with more than a dozen compilation CD releases of Burlington's incredible regional music, and vermontmusicshop.com selling more than 300 independent Vermont-made CD titles. Contact us at 802-865-1140, redshift@bigheavyworld.net or P.O. Box 428 Burlington VT 05402. The Big Heavy World Web site is made possible by our generous annual sponsors: WBVT UPN (http://www.wbvt.com), Magic Hat Brewing Company (http://www.magichat.net), SoVerNet (http://www.sover.net), Scully Interactive (http://www.scullyinteractive.com), and Small Dog Electronics (http://www.smalldog.com).
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