Location: Event - Queer (LGBTIQ)
October 11, 2004
Fun Night of Spoken Word for a good cause!
Jesse Townley for Berkeley City Council and daniland productions presents...
A Spoken Word Benefit for Jesse's Campaign Featuring:
Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles records)
Daphne Gottlieb (Award Winning Poet)
Meliza Baņales (Award Winning Poet)
many other speakers!
Friday, October 15th, 9:30 PM
$10, 21 and over
Starry Plough- 3101 Shattuck (@ Prince), Berkeley
Jesse Townley is a community-minded musician, KALX DJ, activist and volunteer running for Berkeley City Council (District 5).
Endorsed by progressive politicians, parties, & people, (Dona Spring: Berkeley City Councilmember, Matt Gonzalez: President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Paul Hogarth: Vice Chair, Berkeley Rent Board, John Selawsky: President, Berkeley School Board, Bands Against Bush, Bay Area, Do-It-Yourself Politics, Green Party of Alameda County are a few), Jesse needs your support in order to win! He does not have the deep pockets that other candidates do.
This great night of spoken word is a benefit for his campaign.
Jello Biafra: is former fronman for The Dead Kennedys, a former candidate for President of the United States, current head-man for Alternative Tentacles Records, and spoken word artist.
Daphne Gottlieb:This San Francisco-based Performance Poet stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author of Final Girl , Why Things Burn, and Pelt. Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition - Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001. Recent press has praised her work as "fierce," "unapologetic," "scorching" and "deliriously gutsy." She has been widely published in journals and anthologies including nerve.com, Exquisite Corpse and the forthcoming Short Fuse: A Contemporary Anthology of Global Performance Poetry. She is the poetry editor of the online queer literary magazine Lodestar Quarterly , as well as Other Magazine and is a co-organizer of the all-girl spoken word festival debuting in September 2002, ForWord Girls.
Meliza Baņales: has been called, "The girl with the sense of humor of a jackknife." She originally hails from Los Angeles and is the youngest of four kids from working-poor parents. The first Latina to ever win a Bay Area slam championship, she has been a fixture in the poetry slam community for the past six years. She has performed in just about everywhere--parks, bars, street corners, universities, restaurants, cross-country, internationally-- and with just about everyone from school children to Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Ana Castillo. Her work can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Revolutionary Voices, Lodestar Quarterly, and Laundry Pen, and through her own publications, published on both Chula and Monkey Press. Her work has often been called "edgy", "political", and "muy caliente". Always looking to fight the good fight, Meliza's work uses humor and personal stories to display larger truths and oppressions. Her first collection of poems, Say It With Your Whole Mouth, will be out in June, 2003 on Monkey Press. Her core belief, "The people are what make change. Look to each other, always, and you will have the power to change the world." --Dolores Huerta.
Jesse Townley's campaign written up in the East Bay Express!
May 21, 2004
great indie & queer show!
The East Bay takes a back seat most time to San Francisco when it comes to queer events & culture. That all changes on Friday, June 4th! Three indie bands, all queer as heck, take over the Starry Plough!
Bitesize, The Ex-Boyfriends, RoboSapien
Friday June 4th, 9:30 PM
Starry Plough (3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince)
$7, 21 and over
Bitesize:: "In addition to 100% gleeful abandon, Bitesize engages the listener with a unique perspective and agitated twist on subject matter like sex toys, gender bending and role switching back to Shakespeare's time." -AOL Digital City
"A quirky (band) that brings to mind PIXIES, PEE, and even ATOM & HIS PACKAGE. Great vocal play between (alternating) vocals. Twenty infectious ditties that overflow with enthusiasm and spirit on a pop level." -Maximum Rock N Roll
"When you're singing about transsexual understudies, flaming ice cream trucks, and kissing old guys, you can pretty much expect to be saddled with the modifier "quirky." It is certain that Bitesize knows this. They've certainly heard it before. But underneath all the eccentricities of their second full-length CD, Sophomore Slump, Bitesize demonstrates why their eclectic brand of noise pop transcends its own wackiness. Simply put: hooks are hooks, and Sophomore Slump is loaded with them." -West Coast Performer
"With clever lyrics and hooked-barbed songcraft, the trio's fare is packed with a juicy filling of squealy clanking distortion, perky co-ed vocals, and manical melodies as catchy as any jump-rope rhyme. Imagine the Pixies forced into servitude by They Might Be Giants and you'll begin to get the idea." -East Bay Express
RoboSapien: is a band that includes self-proclaimed spazzes who are former members of the Infinite X's and Boy Wonder. Just back from their international tour with multi-media artist and spoken word spitfire Sini Anderson, RoboSapien will inspire you to shake your booty!
The Ex-Boyfriends: this frenetic, upbeat pop band is made up of members of Charmless & ex members of Crown of 45's! guitar driven sing-alongs that are sure to please!