02 /
May
HC/GARAGE PUNK!
NO PROBLEM
STRANGE ATTRACTOR
JONESTOWN ALOHA
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€7 Doors open 20:30 -
05 /
May
BASSCULTURE: BAMBAM BABYLON BAJASCH
PINTMURDERA & ENDVERBRAUCHER
BASS CULTURE CREW AMSTERDAM
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€5 Doors open 23:00 - 4:00
11 /
May
SOTU Festival
The SOTU is a new three-day festival that will take place from the 11th. of May until the 13th. of May 2012. The festival will concentrate on alternative & independent music culture and a varied music program will be on offer consisting of noise, indie pop, psychedelia, avant-garde, global bass, improv jazz and underground dance. The emphasis on new, unknown, local and international acts, bands and dj's is characteristic for the whole festival. Also to bring musicians together in a new context. SOTU has a strong DIY input from various organizations who are realizing this festival together in their own creative way.
BAZOOKA
GAY ANNIVERSARY
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Doors open 20:00 -
12 /
May
SOTU Festival
DAY II
SOTU is an initiative by Stichting SOTU, a network organization, committed to promote experimental, avant-garde & semi-popular art. With different local organizations who are renown for booking new, (local and international) acts. An adventurous and diverse program has been created by curators from these organizations. They have choosen artists, bands and dj's who represent themselves in (sometimes extraordinary) form and sound, what comes together in the adventurous mixed music program.
GUM TAKES TOOTH
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Doors open 20:00 -
13 /
May
SOTU Festival i.c.w. SUBBACULTCHA! & REBEL UP! SOUNDCLASH
LINE UP:
HAYVANLAR ALEMI
Hailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara and releasing on Sublime Frequencies, Hayvanlar Alemi are a killer hyper-colourful improvising psych-rock unit, consisting of old school friends Ozum Itez (electric guitar), Isik Sarihan (percussion) and Hazar Mutgan (bass), who successfully got themselves into everything psychedelic, exotic and adventurous.
TAPE JOCKEY'S SEBCAT (BE) & CINNAMOON (ES)
SEBCAT of the global Rebel Up! Soundclash collective (and bimonthly nights in OCCII) will open up his mysterious Maj Tahal cassette grotto to unveil many musical gems from allover the Indian subcontinent. Expect a fine selection of folkloric and disco pop from different Indian states, cinema songs from beyond Bollywood, sufi synthpop from Pakistan and digital folklore from the Nepali mountains. Dance, swirl, nod or listen anyway you like! DJ CINNAMOON (ES) Since 2005, the DJ Cinnamoon project has been compiling the best popular music from the Middle East. For this special lo-fi meeting we will enjoy a short audio-retrospective with original cassettes of Googoosh, Erkin Koray, Omar Souleyman, Haifa Wahbe and many other Turkish, Kurdish, Persian & Arabic extraordinary artists still unreleased for the Western audiences.
U.S. GIRLS
Though U.S. Girls’ Meghan Remy has declared her love for pop music and her desire to make some, in the past her ability to do so has been held back somewhat by both shoddy recording equipment and a disconnect between her definition of pop and that of the outside world. On her third full-length, U.S. Girls on KRAAK, she’s dealt with these two factors nicely, polishing away the excessive distortion and ramping up her love of ’60s girl group and ’90s r&b melodies just enough to make the experimentalism that’s at the core of her songs easier to appreciate. She signed to FatCat in late 2011, so another step towards polished pop may be in the works.
MIKE KOLDIN
Free floating ambient by the duo of Keimpe Koldijk and Michiel Klein. Improvised during a turning point in their lives they created four contemplative synthesizer pieces to immerse yourself in. Both sides start euphoric with seemingly static but slowly evolving tone clusters and settle down in melancholic territory with minor key chord progressions and scarse melodies.
HAYVANLAR ALEMI
U.S. GIRLS
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€8 Doors open 20:00 -
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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