Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
(Sat 5th / 3.30 pm through 'til closing time / £7/5)
911truthbristol present the winner of the London Independent Film Festival 2008
- The Elephant In The Room.
The Elephant in the Room examines the impact of 9/11 on British and American
culture. From the 9/11 truth campaigns, through to the Muslim psyche in modern
Britain. The film culminates in New York on the 6th anniversary, to see a nation
torn apart over what exactly happened on the day.
Annie Machon, an ex MI5 Counter Intelligence Officer, will provide a cutting
analysis of the war on terror to set the film in context. Information which is
kept off the mainstream media will be revealed in this exclusive presentation.
Award winning Director Dean Puckett will answer questions after the film.
Tickets are available via Adrian 07971 836689 or Scott 07909 912272.
Info regarding other speakers and activities plus full schedule -
http://www.911truthbristol.com
(Sun 6th / 2pm / for 5-11 year olds / £3)
We are sorry to inform you that this event is cancelled.
Come and make splash of Colours in the Cube Garden!
Mo is a local, Easton-based artist who's work is well known for it's vibrant
colours and use of symbols. Following his exhibition in the Cube bar- he is
joining force with Nanoplex in this one-off workshop.
Mo builds layers and layers of paint onto his canvas and will be showing how to
paint with symbols and to practise creating globally recognisable signs and
symbols on a giant canvas in the Cube garden..
A Sunday afternoon workshop in our lovely summer garden.
Bring clothes that you are not worried about getting paint on.
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support by Tim Hill & Cliff Stapleton
(Tue 8 July / 8pm / £5)
“A Dadaesque event of profound silliness and sublime wonder: breathtaking,
mischievous and magical, taking eccentricity to the heights of Zen bliss” (Coda
magazine)
Soundklatsch is proud to present The Recedents, an unclassifiable trio
integrating Lol Coxhill playing soprano saxophone, cheap electronics, and
singing; Mike Cooper on horizontal guitars and live electro manipulations, and
Roger Turner on drumset and percussion. They will venture into cinematic terrain
with a unique multi-projector 16mm mash up looping up everything from bacteria
to helicopter whiteouts.
Saxophonist Tim Hill and hurdy-gurdy maestro and Coil collaborator Cliff
Stapleton journey the incandescent spaceways of Sun Ra and Albert Ayler and the
dark and twisted paths of English folk, getting lost and found with mechanical
twittering and fire-tounged freedom.
(Weds 9th / 11am / £2)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up
to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
With our film programme you'll be able to see the latest blockbusters, foreign
language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby
changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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support from Drinks
(Wed 9th / 8pm / £8 adv)
This is what is needed... a Kenyan and American cooperative effort where African
benga music and some fine tuned American rock (Thrill Jockey style) meet in sun
kissed union. Both traditions crank up electric guitars and singing melodic
songs over propulsive rhythms...Extra Golden make the connection. The band songs
veer from stand up delightful rockers to honeyed melancholic swayers.
This band have an extraordinary history with trips to Nairobi, visa problems,
the death of the orginal lead singer, meeting by lakes to record, the
assistance from Senator Obama. This, we guess, is what it takes to make cross
cultural fusion as effortless as they make it. Their album title Ok-Oyot is
derived from a Luo phrase that means, "it's not easy." The band of course are
agile, gifted and make a inventive and interlocked sound with a thrilling sense
of camaraderie. Easy like a Wednesday evening.
Support from Drinks. Featuring members of Soeza and You & The Atom Bomb as well
as Ali Chant, Bristol’s safest pair of studio hands, Drinks are a bona fide
local supergroup. Musically they clang and coo a la The Sea & Cake, and pull off
that subtle clean guitar swell like latter-era Sonic Youth on a jolly to Chicago
- albeit via Lagos and Dusseldorf.
http://www.extragolden.com/
http://www.myspace.com/extragolden
A Qu Junktions Summer Special
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A regular FREE open rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The
Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome.
If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument
for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway.
If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your
instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you
have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come
along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a
willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
http://www.orchestra.cubecinema.com
(Thu 10th / 8 pm / £2)
Before CBGB’s doors finally closed for good on October 15th 2006 a number of
farewell shows graced the legendary club for a very last time. Dinosaurs mankind
had believed to be extinct found their way back home from Jurassic Punk, onto a
stage they hadn’t set foot on in ages. Some of these performances were
sensational, others outrageously pathetic and insulting. No matter what category
one might file them under, they all had one thing in common. A sold out madhouse
atmosphere with a distinct vibe of nostalgia and last supper feasting. Talk
about a good time… "THE SILENCE AFTER" presents the highs and lows of these
unforgettable moments.
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(Fri 11th / 8pm / £6/4 advance, £7/5 on the door)
Starbugs and Dusters is a night put together by City Mazes, a company set up by
Terry Clemmett, in an aim to use creativity to engage people into healthy
lifestyles and being positive role models.
Terry Clemmett, the guy who spent 13 years in jail, decided to change things
around; put the gun down, pick up the guitar. Now he's out there in a new light,
gathering together musical people who have positive life experiences to express
via music, dance, poetry and art. It’s an attempt to put something back into the
community; to help the young people out there lost in crime, lost in drugs, lost
in a society of mazes and dead ends.
Tonight The Cube sees seven acts: First up, Carnival extravagance comes to town
with a short dance from the Carmen Miranda Trio. Next, from the old box of
curiosities, is ‘Jacques, a Robin and the Gramophones’, followed by instantly
memorable melodrama from Suzy & Lizzy Condrad and Mike Manley. Forth act
Caroline Pringle, creates a world where the harsh reality of madness is
sweetened by the hopefulness of love and then Jokate Benson is here to haunt you
with her delicate sound of sombre beauty. Sixth on the stage is Terry Clemmett
himself. He offers passionate deliveries of voices from the ancestors; a warrior
with a cause, in the urban sidewalks. Last but not least is Leeza Jessie -
soulful, light 'n dark: A Celtic wake up call.
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Swimming in The Docks
Quality of water is quality of life.
Living in a city can be wonderful if the river is clean and deeply depressing if
dirty.
People that pollute rivers and lakes are criminals, but that's another story.
It is common mythology that immersion in The City of Bristol Docks will prove fatal.
Analysis of regular Bristol City Council test results suggest that swimming in the
docks is safe half of the year and blue flag equivalent at least once a year.
http://duo.irational.org/avon_canoe_pilot/bristol_blue_flag/
Bathurst Basin and Cumberland Basin are the cleanest areas of the docks, but
watch out for grumpy people in boats.
Meet outside arnolfini.
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MUGISON
With Defibrillators and Decorum dj's
Saturday July 12th/ 8pm/ £5 adv, £6 door
Icelandic wunderkind Mugison was last seen at the Cube at a giddying sell out
show in 2005. Since then he’s traded his laptop in for a bass player and a
drummer of flesh and blood, cranked the amp and gone on a mission.
Arriving on these shores in tow of a new LP that took these past three years to
complete (and has already become Iceland’s best selling album of all time),
Mugison is back and he’s unstoppable. Here is a man who often veers between
deeply moving bizzaro balladry and heavy duty rock ‘n roll in the same song.
Here is a man who spent the good part of 3 years howling in his garage until the
songs felt right, felt real and beyond all, felt good. Here is a man who
promises to give it all he’s got, to turn his inside out and let us hear what it
will sound like. So come and join the Mugiboogie.
Plus, in their debut show:
Defibrillators take either total or no influence from Heldon, Sun Ra, Henry Cow
& Charles Hayward. A free-form melodic dialogue probably closer to the dream
collaboration of Fripp & Corsano, featuring a former member of Hunting Lodge and
a current member of Geisha.
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A term used in the UK for an outdoor pursuit involving diving off a high fixed
point such as sea harbour walls, bridges, rocks and cliff faces into water. It
is highly risky if the water depth or the existence of submerged rocks or
objects is unknown and can result in serious injury or death.
Meet at Berryhead (Brixham, Devon).
Ideal for both the inexperienced and inebriated.
Radio contact with emergency services, first aid and guidance
will be available.
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Bi Kidude,
The Diva of Zanzibari Music
£4/3
Bi Kidude, tiny, energetic, chain smoking,Kidude, means "A Very Little Thing" in
Swahili, is a true living legend on her home island of Zanzibar, and has
recently become a powerful presence on the European world music circuit - after
embarking on her first international tour while in her nineties. An entrancing
singer beloved of sultans and sailors alike, her story challenges perceptions of
age in society and of the role of women in Islam. As Old As My Tongue was filmed
over the last three years in Zanzibar, and on a worldwide tour with Bi Kidude
during the last year. More than a biographical documentary of an inspiring
figure, the film also offers deep insights into the history, politics and
personalities of the spice island of Zanzibar, a society built on an exotic and
combustible mixture of Arabic and East African elements.
a documentary film
by ScreenStation Productions
with Busara Promotions
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Gypsy Caravan- When the Road Bends
Jasmine Dellal/ 2007/ USA/ 110mins/ PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 18th/Sun 20th July 7pm/ £3/£4
This is a dazzling documentary celebrating the musical world of the Romany
gypsies. We follow five famous Romani groups as they tour the USA. The film
showcases the work of top international Gypsy performers and interweaves a
cultural background of the Romani history through visiting their family homes
and witnessing their lives. Filmed, sometimes by documentary icon Albert
Maysles, in Spain, Macedonia, Romania and India, with footage from the Gypsy
Caravan Tour of Europe and America.
This is The Buena Vista Social Club for Gypsy music. It captures the spirit of
an amazing musical culture and the heart of the musicians and singers who
express it.
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Latcho Drom
Tony Gatlif/France/1994/103mins/PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 19th/Sun 20th July 9pm/ £3 / £4
Latcho Drom means "safe journey". This is a journey in music, dance, landscape
and culture celebrating and joining in the lives of groups of nomadic Romany
gypsies from India through to Spain. The beautiful and evocative journey takes
place over a year. Gatlif captures the elemental essentials of this life
through images of song and dance, young and old celebrating, the cultural
values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.
Some scenes are acted, but there is no dialogue or narration, only partial
translation of some songs.
The film illustrates the many conditions in which the Romany people live from
earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, poor tree-dwellers in the frozen
plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides
of north Africa and western Europe. It is a mesmerising and beautiful piece of
visual poetry.
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up
to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
With our film programme you'll be able to see the latest blockbusters, foreign
language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby
changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.(Tickets: £2/
babies free.)
Image by: hogge
A regular FREE open rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The
Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome.
If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument
for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway.
If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your
instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you
have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come
along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a
willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
http://www.orchestra.cubecinema.com
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Cat People 1942/ USA/ 73 mins/ Jacques Tourneur/ £4/3
In this beautiful classic the power of love can be a terrifying and dangerous
affair...Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) meets and marries the Serbian Irena Dubrovna
Reed (Simone Simon).Irena is afraid of an ancient curse against the women of her
town that a woman touched by a man will transform into a panther. Believing
this, and the couple does not consummate their marriage. Irena is sent for
treatment with the psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway) while Oliver looks
for "consolation" with his colleague Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). When Irena
sees that she is losing Oliver to Alice, she becomes jealous and hateful leading
to a tragic and violent turn of events...
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Gypsy Caravan- When the Road Bends
Jasmine Dellal/ 2007/ USA/ 110mins/ PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 18th/Sun 20th July 7pm/ £3/£4
This is a dazzling documentary celebrating the musical world of the Romany
gypsies. We follow five famous Romani groups as they tour the USA. The film
showcases the work of top international Gypsy performers and interweaves a
cultural background of the Romani history through visiting their family homes
and witnessing their lives. Filmed, sometimes by documentary icon Albert
Maysles, in Spain, Macedonia, Romania and India, with footage from the Gypsy
Caravan Tour of Europe and America.
This is The Buena Vista Social Club for Gypsy music. It captures the spirit of
an amazing musical culture and the heart of the musicians and singers who
express it.
Image by: internet scavenged
Latcho Drom
Tony Gatlif/France/1994/103mins/PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 19th/Sun 20th July 9pm/ £3 / £4
Latcho Drom means "safe journey". This is a journey in music, dance, landscape
and culture celebrating and joining in the lives of groups of nomadic Romany
gypsies from India through to Spain. The beautiful and evocative journey takes
place over a year. Gatlif captures the elemental essentials of this life
through images of song and dance, young and old celebrating, the cultural
values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.
Some scenes are acted, but there is no dialogue or narration, only partial
translation of some songs.
The film illustrates the many conditions in which the Romany people live from
earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, poor tree-dwellers in the frozen
plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides
of north Africa and western Europe. It is a mesmerising and beautiful piece of
visual poetry.
Image by: internet scavenged
WAR AGAINST SLEEP presents 'PLEASURE COMPLEX' Games Party
(Sat 12th / 12 til 12 / £5)
'Pleasure Complex' is the much anticipated fourth War Against Sleep LP.
Released 19 July 2008 on Silent Age Records, it will be available as a limited
edition CD and as a download from Bleep.com.
To celebrate the album launch there will be a Party of Games from 12 noon 'till
12 midnight with Musicians, Disc Jockeys and Films. Each guest attending shall
bring with them a game to play.
Acts include The War Against Sleep Band, DJ Furio (Slickbeats World DJ
Champion), Gravenhurst (Solo), Il Goblini, Alexander Thomas (Theremin),
Middleman, Pricktaster, Bimbo Spam, Rasha Shaheen, My Two Toms + more T.B.C.
http://waragainstsleep.co.uk
"Sexy psychedelia" NME
"Gloriously ridiculous stuff" The Wire
"Classic songwriting" Record Collector
"He performs complete wonders" The Big Issue
"War Against Sleep are the audio version of the programmes that used to scare me
witless as a child" Rough Trade
http://gravenhurstmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/djfurio
http://www.rasha.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/middlemanuk
http://www.myspace.com/bimbospam
http://www.myspace.com/ilgoblini
http://www.myspace.com/alexanderthomasmusic
http://www.mytwotoms.co.uk/
Gypsy Caravan- When the Road Bends
Jasmine Dellal/ 2007/ USA/ 110mins/ PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 18th/Sun 20th July 7pm/ £3/£4
This is a dazzling documentary celebrating the musical world of the Romany
gypsies. We follow five famous Romani groups as they tour the USA. The film
showcases the work of top international Gypsy performers and interweaves a
cultural background of the Romani history through visiting their family homes
and witnessing their lives. Filmed, sometimes by documentary icon Albert
Maysles, in Spain, Macedonia, Romania and India, with footage from the Gypsy
Caravan Tour of Europe and America.
This is The Buena Vista Social Club for Gypsy music. It captures the spirit of
an amazing musical culture and the heart of the musicians and singers who
express it.
Latcho Drom
Tony Gatlif/France/1994/103mins/PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 19th/Sun 20th July 9pm/ £3 / £4
Latcho Drom means "safe journey". This is a journey in music, dance, landscape
and culture celebrating and joining in the lives of groups of nomadic Romany
gypsies from India through to Spain. The beautiful and evocative journey takes
place over a year. Gatlif captures the elemental essentials of this life
through images of song and dance, young and old celebrating, the cultural
values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.
Some scenes are acted, but there is no dialogue or narration, only partial
translation of some songs.
The film illustrates the many conditions in which the Romany people live from
earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, poor tree-dwellers in the frozen
plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides
of north Africa and western Europe. It is a mesmerising and beautiful piece of
visual poetry.
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La Antena
Esteban Sapir/Argentina/2007/90 mins/Spanish (English subtitles)/ 35mm
21st-23rd July/8 pm/£3/£4
A remarkable fantasy from Argentina and fashioned as a silent film. Is set in a
city whose inhabitants cannot speak and the story tells of a group of
free-thinking rebels who fight back against the evil Mr TV who controls via his
hypnotic television broadcasts. Mr TV has further plans for the city without a
voice and only a young girl, her father and the blind boy stand in his way.
La Antena brilliantly blends live action and animation to create a beautiful
expressionist vision which pays respectful homage to the early days of cinema
whilst also having great fun with its conventions.
Lovers of Tim Burton and cinema's early experimenters such as Georges Méliès
and Fritz Lang won't want to miss this ingenious flight of fancy.
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up
to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
With our film programme you'll be able to see the latest blockbusters, foreign
language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby
changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.(Tickets: £2/
babies free.)
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Word Wars 2004/USA/Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo/80 mins (unrated)
"Word Wars" is the acclaimed documentary about competative scrabble players in
the darling US of A. We follow four of the game's highest-ranked players Edley,
Sherman, Graham and Hill in their obsessive preparations and training for the
2002 National Scrabble Championship in San Diego, where the top prize was
$25,000 and an appearance on the Today Show. It might be about words but the
competition is as fierce and agressive as any sport and makes compulsive watching.
The movie won "Best Documentary" at the Sedona (Arizona) Film Festival in March
2004, and the "Audience Award" at the Full Frame Documentary Festival (Durham,
North Carolina) in April 2004.
Here at the Cube we are partial to some scrabbulous word wars of our own so
after the movie pit your wits and words with other scrabble-heads as we unroll
our own scrabble boards and crack open the dictionary.
Bring down a scrabble set and lets go.
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Word Wars 2004/USA/Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo/80 mins (unrated)
"Word Wars" is the acclaimed documentary about competative scrabble players in
the darling US of A. We follow four of the game's highest-ranked players Edley,
Sherman, Graham and Hill in their obsessive preparations and training for the
2002 National Scrabble Championship in San Diego, where the top prize was
$25,000 and an appearance on the Today Show. It might be about words but the
competition is as fierce and agressive as any sport and makes compulsive watching.
The movie won "Best Documentary" at the Sedona (Arizona) Film Festival in March
2004, and the "Audience Award" at the Full Frame Documentary Festival (Durham,
North Carolina) in April 2004.
Here at the Cube we are partial to some scrabbulous word wars of our own so
after the movie pit your wits and words with other scrabble-heads as we unroll
our own scrabble boards and crack open the dictionary.
Bring down a scrabble set and lets go.
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come to the cube
ready to swing, fall and splash
bring your favourite twine and scream
http://irational.org/heath/rope_swings/
do not concern yourself with either fear or reason
the cube is not repsonsible for the breakaway
nation of kosova
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La Graine et le Mulet (THe Secret of the Grain) 2007/Abdel Kechiche / 151
minutes/ 15/ France
£4/3
Mr. Slimani is a tired sixty year old working in a shipyard and daydreaming of
escaping from it all and setting up a couscous restaurant on the Portside. He is
a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the
tensions which are easily sparked off and which financial difficulties make even
more intense. Everything seems to make him feel useless and like a failure. The
story follows the dreams of this everyman which lead to family discussions that
bring the family together to realise the restaurant in spite of the odds against
them and lack of financial backing.
This is a movie with a gentle charm and warmth.
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up
to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
With our film programme you'll be able to see the latest blockbusters, foreign
language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby
changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.(Tickets: £2/
babies free.)
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Garbage Warrior
Oliver Hodge/ USA/2007/ 86 mins
Fri 1st-Sat 2nd August/ 8pm/ £3 /£4
Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of
maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his mission to create radically
sustainable housing out of recycled materials. Reynolds is not so much an
architect as a one-man eco-movement who over the last thirty years has been
dodging in and out of trouble with the local authorities in pursuit of his
vision. He and his renegade building team build beautiful homes in the New
Mexico desert complete with their own heat, water and potential to grow food.
The homes are built out of discarded beer cans, reclaimed wood, old tyres and
clay. Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, the docmentary
provides a snapshot of contemporary geo-politics. This is an extraordinary
tale of triumph over bureaucracy, and an intimate portrait of an extraordinary
individual and his belief that in an age of ecological instability and
impending natural disaster, his buildings can - and will - change the way we
live.
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(Mon 4th / £7/6 adv / 8pm)
Calvin Johnson’s work in underground culture started back in the days of punk as
a teenage fan volunteering at the local community radio station, KAOS-FM in
Olympia Washington. He moved on to establish the legendary K records in 1982 and
has been at the heart of truly independent music and art in the USA ever since.
Through K, and in-house Dub Narcotic Studios, he has worked with a host of
influential artists including Beck, Make Up, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, The
Blow, Kimya Dawson, Heavenly, The Microphones, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The
Blow, and The Gossip amongst others.
His distinctive voice and idiosyncratic stage presence (including signature
dance moves such as ‘the tummy hop’) have gained him friends and fans around the
world for his bands Beat Happening, The Go Team, Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic
Sound System and most recently Calvin Johnson and the Sons of the Soil.
The decade of the double zeroes has seen Calvin Johnson set out into the world,
acoustic guitar in hand, as a solo artist. Deadpan, playful, romantic and
confrontational in turn; his live performances in the UK are few and far between.
