17 /
May
OPEN SERIES SUPPORT FOR QUEERISTAN
Queeristan is about providing a space: not only an autonomous space that dodges logics of profit and commercialisation, but also a platform to both explore and counter the normative workings of gender, sexuality and identity. An open space for queers to set out to explore issues of solidarity in times of change, talk about privilege, power, and sex, reclaiming the crisis of bodies and minds.
Queeristan is a safe environment for queers and a factory of resistance. Queeristan wants to be a festival where dissent unpredictably materialises and becomes shareable in a performance, in a workshop, in a work of art, in partying all night long… in fact: there is no fixed formula for queeristan!
Join us in transforming Amsterdam into Queeristan this May 18-20! Workshops, performances, art, encounters, and togetherness will be held at Op De Valreep (Polderweg 620) all weekend. Nighttime fun goes down at OCCII (Amstelveenseweg 134), and starts Thursday May 17 with the festival pre-party (featuring queer darlings Lovers), followed by a night of performance and experiment on Friday the 18, and, of course, a monstrous queer party on Saturday May 19.
Queeristan 2012 // May 18-20 // Op De Valreep & Occii // Amsterdam
Lovers are from Portland (USA) and feature songwriter Carolyn Berk, performance artist Kerby Ferris, and drummer Emily Kingan (formerly of hardcore band The Haggard). They play stripped-down electronica with melancholic 3-part harmonies and steady dance beats.
New YX describe themselves as “four kids from Amsterdam who make energetic tunes with a fucked up vibe.” We love what they do listen here and decide for yourself.
Pashly (USA) currently lives in Berlin and is known for her extravagant wardrobe and surreal video projections. She plays slinky electronic-disco beats and has been a steady fixture in the experimental/ underground music/ performance scenes of Olympia WA and Portland OR for years. For this event she will also be performing songs from her newest project Finesse.
LOVERS
New YX
PASHLY
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€5 Doors open 20:30 -
18 /
May
QUEERISTAN 2012
Performances!
In no particular order: ZORRAS, TRANSLÓGICAL HARIRA, COLIN SELF, ANA UNSCHARF, CLARA BURDET, DRAGQUEERS, NADIA, FEELINGS AND SHIT, FRAU BON LADY, BUTCH ACTION, RETRO BUTANE, & other local performers!
Queeristan is about providing a space: not only an autonomous space that dodges logics of profit and commercialisation, but also a platform to both explore and counter the normative workings of gender, sexuality and identity. An open space for queers to set out to explore issues of solidarity in times of change, talk about privilege, power, and sex, reclaiming the crisis of bodies and minds.
Queeristan is a safe environment for queers and a factory of resistance. Queeristan wants to be a festival where dissent unpredictably materialises and becomes shareable in a performance, in a workshop, in a work of art, in partying all night long… in fact: there is no fixed formula for queeristan!
Join us in transforming Amsterdam into Queeristan this May 18-20! Workshops, performances, art, encounters, and togetherness will be held at Op De Valreep (Polderweg 620) all weekend. Nighttime fun goes down at OCCII (Amstelveenseweg 134), and starts Thursday May 17 with the festival pre-party (featuring queer darlings Lovers), followed by a night of performance and experiment on Friday the 18, and, of course, a monstrous queer party on Saturday May 19.
Queeristan 2012 // May 18-20 // Op De Valreep & Occii // Amsterdam
QUEERISTAN PERFORMANCES
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€DONATION Doors open 22:00 - 3:00
19 /
May
QUEERISTAN 2012
Party!
-w/
PAULO BELZEBITCHY, FRAU DIAMANDA, WITCHTITS, & BLIND VIDEO + MORE!!!
Queeristan is about providing a space: not only an autonomous space that dodges logics of profit and commercialisation, but also a platform to both explore and counter the normative workings of gender, sexuality and identity. An open space for queers to set out to explore issues of solidarity in times of change, talk about privilege, power, and sex, reclaiming the crisis of bodies and minds.
Queeristan is a safe environment for queers and a factory of resistance. Queeristan wants to be a festival where dissent unpredictably materialises and becomes shareable in a performance, in a workshop, in a work of art, in partying all night long… in fact: there is no fixed formula for queeristan!
Join us in transforming Amsterdam into Queeristan this May 18-20! Workshops, performances, art, encounters, and togetherness will be held at Op De Valreep (Polderweg 620) all weekend. Nighttime fun goes down at OCCII (Amstelveenseweg 134), and starts Thursday May 17 with the festival pre-party (featuring queer darlings Lovers), followed by a night of performance and experiment on Friday the 18, and, of course, a monstrous queer party on Saturday May 19.
Queeristan 2012 // May 18-20 // Op De Valreep & Occii // Amsterdam
QUEERISTAN PARTY
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€DONATION Doors open 22:00 - 3:00
20 /
May
absurdistisch tragikomisch theater
OVERLOOP, De Verhuizing
Een jonge vrouw, Leen, gaat verhuizen en is bezig met inpakken. Tot plots een aantal vreemde figuren langskomen die menen haar al veel langer te kennen. Ze zeggen dat ze komen om te helpen bij de verhuizing, maar is dat ook zo?
OVERLOOP is een tragikomisch en absurdistisch stuk over een overgang, een stap in het onbekende. Het onbekende lijkt in OVERLOOP wellicht duister, bedreigend en verwarrend.
Alles dat de bedoeling is blijkt juist niet de bedoeling.
Alles dat vreemd lijkt, blijkt nog vreemder.
Toch wil Leen die stap zetten, om er in de nieuwe situatie beter uit te komen.
Van het één naar het ander: de gang, het halletje, een overgang, de OVERLOOP.
De OVERLOOP gaat over de angst voor het onbekende, en de aantrekkingskracht ervan.
Verwarring is ook wel spannend.
In OVERLOOP zien we personages gespeeld door de twee acteurs en daarnaast diverse poppen. Zo zien we o.a. Tedje, een oud mannetje met een uienwinkel en DOOS, een kartonnen doos met een minderwaardigheidscomplex.
OVERLOOP is een absurdistische voorstelling over de verwarring van het bestaan.
Met sterke teksten, poppen, muziek en veel kartonnen verpakkingsmateriaal.
THEATER KWEZEL
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€7,50 Doors open 20:30 - 22:00
20 /
May
A/V DINER CLUB!
tonight's SHOW + FOOD @ Veganistisch eetcafé MKZ
(behind OCCII, 1ste Schinkelstraat 16)
with:
- Geoff Mullen (usa)
- Concern (usa)
- Matar Dolores (italy)
- Movie program selected by Helena Sanders
- Food
GEOFF MULLEN
MATAR DOLORES
CONCERN
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€5 Doors open 17:00 - 22:00
21 /
May
DIT! [DO IT TOGETHER]
REFLECTOR
THE STRIGGLES
SEX DOLLS
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€6 Doors open 20:30 -
23 /
May
HC/POLITICAL PUNK
OI POLLOI
LANDVERRAAD
KLIKOKOMMANDO
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€6 Doors open 20:30 -
24 /
May
MKM! vs. KAISERLABEL
BLACKIE
ROOIE WAAS
DIE INFANTILLERIE
LEGION OF SWINE
INTERSTELLAR NIGHTMARE
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€6 Doors open 20:30 -
26 /
May
HC/ PUNK FESTIVAL + fuck cancer, benefit for a friend!
LÄRM
SOTATILA
CITIZENS PATROL
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€7 Doors open 20:30 -
28 /
May
SUBBACULTCHA! CANCELLED!!!
Death Grips have pulled all their scheduled live shows for Europe...
The Sacramento based industrial rap trio have cancelled all their forthcoming shows in order to focus on finishing their next album, 'No Love'. Writing on their Twitter account - Twitter.com/deathgripz, the band said: "we are dropping out to complete our next album NO LOVE. see you when it's done.(there are no longer any scheduled shows)".
DEATH GRIPS
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02 /
June
SPELLBOUND
Queer Underground Dance Party
House, techno, acid, disco, dub, electro...
DJs Trashling, Kaseta (Spellbound)
VJs: AlexEtJeremy
X-Machine
Toon, DortArt, Martijn
SPELLBOUND DJ'S
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€7 Doors open 23:00 - 4:00
03 /
June
IN OK/OUT KO!
JAGWA MUSIC (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Afro-Casio-Punk out on Crammed Discs)
JAGWA MUSIC are a equally youthful and dynamic hi-speed band directly from the streets of TANZANIA's most vivid city DA ES SALAAM. they killed everyone with a breathtaking 2 hour+ performance at this year's ROSKILDE festival, making otherwise reserved scandinavians go ballistic.
Backed by a hand-held 20 $ keyboard for kids, a couple of very basic drums and a haywire stool (!), the band's charismatic singer has an absolutely show-stopping quality and a voice to rule over songs which very rarely allow themselves to fall back to less than 180 BPM (this is why your friendly PLANET ROCK team feels being reminded here to early breakcore raves - except that the TANZANIANS' music remains 100 % hand-played). we have never been very good in predicting the future, but if this sheer explosion of energy will not turn into the next sensation on the european club and festival stages we might as well eat our hats!
REBEL UP! CREW
As always, the Rebel Up! crew will play electic ethnic sound and everything in between to make you listen & dance while our visuals will make sure there’s never a dull moment on the dancefloor.
JAGWA MUSIC
REBEL UP! DJ'S
DJ BUSHDOOF
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€8 Doors open 20:30 -
08 /
June
IN OK/OUT KO!
KING AYISOBA
ZEA
DJ TPOK
BASS CULTURE CREW AMSTERDAM
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€8 Doors open 20:30 -
14 /
June
HC/PUNK!
NEON PISS (US)
Bay Area Dark Melodic punk
NOOSE (US)
a vegan/straight edge hardcore band from Chicago
WEEKEND LOVE
Hardcore Haarlem
NEON PISS
NOOSE
WEEKEND LOVE
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€7 Doors open 20:30 -
16 /
June
Beyond the realms of doom 2
DOOMCORE - INDUSTRIAL - WITCH HOUSE - BREAKCORE - NOISE - MORE
Line Up:
Fifth Era (UK)
The Relic
▲ngst
Antraxid (DE)
Darkside (UK)
Capslock
Nano.Strike
Baron Staalhard
Releaseparty for the new "Beyond the realms of doom 2" split cdr by Fifth Era & ▲ngst.
FIFTH ERA
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€6 Doors open 22:00 -
22 /
June
MKM!
LE CERCLE DES MALLISSIMALISTES (FR, members of Chocolat Billy & Api Uiz, Les Potagers Natures)
we are four : 2 guitars (with médi from chocolat billy too), voice, 1 drummer, 1 bass clarinet, synthe, Limp with rhythm...
That's a long post punk songs like West side story but slow !
"Mallissimalism (mallissimal art) is a musical tendancy wich appeared in the early 50’s in St-Petresburg (Leningrad). The notion of mallissimal art has been created in the early 70’s by young european composers strongly influenced by the work of Tachesky, Koustov and Hugsky.(...) the trend moves towards europe in the late 60’s. We can find it in France with the Belisbaste of Cocagne’s discordant ritornellos or in the Michel Dujardin’s conceptual pieces.(...)
The Blood Feast is Tachesky’s master work and was composed for three musicians and a spirit. The part of madness in this piece lies in the intervention of a surnatural spirit in two parts well notified in the partition. The three musicians have to use their medium ability in order to make the deceased intercede at a specific moment.(...)"
LE CERCLE DES MALLISSIMALISTES
DONNÉ & DESIRÉE
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€6 Doors open 20:30 -
24 /
June
OPEN SERIES
Las Kellies, from Buenos Aires, play raw garage rock with lots of rhythm, clipped beats and post-punk playground chants. Think The Slits, The Raincoats and Gang of Four. They just released a split 7? with ESG for Record Store Day and are set to put out their third album on Fire Records.
Danish trio Nelson Can are the girls behind the catchy “Apple Pie” song. If you’re not familiar with THAT track- we suggest you scroll down to the bottom of this post and watch their self-made video asap. So good and danceable!! They will be playing the Roskilde festival this year. So come to the OCCII and catch them at this gig before they blow up!
The guys from Junior Gash (AMS) will set off the evening, so get there early.
P.S. More surprises to be announced…
LAS KELLIES
NELSON CAN
JUNIOR GASH
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€7 Doors open 20:30 -
29 /
June
HC/PUNK!
AGENT ATTITUDE
KAREL ANKER & DE JODEN
JONESTOWN ALOHA
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€6 Doors open 21:00 -
30 /
June
REBEL UP! SOUNDCLASH
w/ ALVARIUS B
Rare Acoustic Solo Performance & DJ Set by Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls/Sublime Frequencies
Alvarius B. is the solo acoustic guitar/singer-songwriter alias of Alan Bishop, a major player/seminal figure of the American underground – a founding member of Sun City Girls and the Sublime Frequencies record label. This solo project sees Alan unbalance and entertain using a twisted song cycle blend of humour, politics and heartbreak with melodies old, broken and new – a lethal cocktail for the senses.
Live Performance Start 23:30
REBEL UP! CREW
As always, the Rebel Up! crew will play electic ethnic sound and everything in between to make you listen & dance while our visuals will make sure there’s never a dull moment on the dancefloor.
ALVARIUS B.
REBEL UP! DJ'S
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€7 Doors open 22:00 - 4:00