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[Dead-Air]

Friday, May 20th at 9 PM
at the Matrix Coffeehouse in beautiful downtown Chehalis, WA
434 NW Prindle St. 360.740.0492
an eclectic All Ages show for $5 featuring:

Foodweb (from Olympia, WA)
Anubian Lights (from Pasadena, CA)
and the Dead Air Fresheners (from PDX/Olympia/Seattle)

The Dead Air Fresheners climbed fully masked out of
the murky waters of Olympia's Eld Inlet in 1997 or so,
and have been converting new members to their unknown
cause ever since. Past line-ups have included
musicians from bands such as Karp, Noggin, and ...And
You Shall Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and while the
group assembling for the Chehalis encounter may as
well, little can be told for sure. Recent sitings
have been of a meaner, more aggressive Dead Air
Freshener ensemble with a wall of noise sure to either
clear a room or beat those in it into submission.
http://www.deadairfresheners.com

In addition to the opening slot at the Matrix on
Friday the 20th, The Dead Air Fresheners will be
appearing the next evening, Saturday the 21st, on
Olympia's Community Radio KAOS 89.3 FM at 8 P.M. on
Agent Duckhugger's Super Secret Logdge Show. Listen
from anywhere in the world via streaming audio:
http://www.kaosradio.org

Meanwhile back in Chehalis:

Pasadena's Anubian Lights play a suprisingly funky
brand of experimental electronic music with sexy
female vocals. The L.A. Weekly said of them: "Anubian
Lights dish out an exotic trip… with groovie pop
toe-tappers and sample-laden tuneage that will deliver
you unto faraway lands and galaxies, teenbeat
terrains, Neu horizons and dynamic desert shores via
their non-sulky milky ways…"
http://www.anubianlights.com

Foodweb describe themselves as: "a band of sorts, ever
changing in many ways but always remaining the same.
...an improv band started by a man named bill collins
in the summer of 1997; it originated as a colabrative
studio album by the same name and has grown to be a
gathering of musicians in studio and out with its 4th
studio album in the mix and its 7th live performance
session recording coming up. There is no style to the
music except what spues from our minds."

musicians.
bill collins - vox. spoken. sound effects. xylophone.
acoustic guitar.
mr. maakus - guitar. keys. bass. piano. vox.
percussion.
paul mauer - electric&acoustic guitar. piano.
percussion. trumpet. vox. sitar.
pat mehan - drums. percussion. vox.
mark benson - fretless bass. keys. percussion. vox.
moon st.clair - synth machine.
aram wheeler - vox. electric guitar. trumpet.
jarred - electric guitar.

[xidrep]

Hmmm...I don't suppose you feel like writing a piece on the Dead Air Fresheners, do you, Mr Dead-Air? :roll: And submitting it to Prototype X with suitable accompanying photographs?

We'd like that.

[Dead-Air]

Well, give me some time to think of something related that might work - a show diary or something. Writing a review of one's own band may be too shameless for even me...

[Anonymous]

Try as I may, I just can't find no town called Chehalis in all of WA! Are you sending us on a wild goose chase? What if we'd spend thousands to fly down to Perth or Fremantle and then there's no f*** Chehalis in WA, mate?
L'E

[Dead-Air]

Chehalis is just about 20 miles south of the capitol, Olympia, where I lived for ten years. It's a cow-town to be sure, but some hippies have a groovy cafe there in the Matrix: http://www.matrixcoffeehouse.com/ Centralia where the outlet malls are located immediately to the north is considered the "twin city" of Chehalis.

Olympia is actually rather small in the cosmic scheme of things itself. It does have an airport, but not one that handles major airlines, so you'd have to hit Seatac and then maybe rent a car for the hour or so straight south down I-5 from there. Hope that's been helpful, I'll glady put you on the guest list for your efforts! :lol:

[xidrep]

The US gets some great names for towns. What do we have?
Foulridge
Slough
Staines

Blimey.

[A_Non_Ymous]

It's difficult to top "Dorking" in the UK, or "Fucking" in Austria, "Pussy" in France, or "Clit" in Romania. :lol:

LSN

[L'Etranger]

Then "WA" is not "Western Australia" ...!?

[xidrep]

'Mygrandmamawasramagedbyag'orilla' (Kazakhstan) is a favourite.

[PsychicWarVeteran]

Then "WA" is not "Western Australia" ...!?

Naw, L'E. Dead-Air lives here in my home state of Washington (WA), USA. Not to be confused with our nation's capitol on the other end of the country. :?

The US gets some great names for towns.

Native American names, is what a lot of them are. Washington is chock full of 'em. Puyallup is a nice one.

Friday, May 20th at 9 PM
at the Matrix Coffeehouse in beautiful downtown Chehalis, WA

I'll try to make it. See if I can get anyone to head south with me next Friday.

[Dead-Air]

Cool PWV! Be great to meet you IRL. Actually I'm bi-statual. I live in Portland, but work for the state of WA in Vancouver across the river. I was born in Seattle though and have lived as far north as Bellingham. I can't seem to escape I-5.

[PsychicWarVeteran]

Actually... I live in Portland...

Ah, my bad. I just sorta assumed. :roll:

[xidrep]

On the subject of the article, Dead-Air, I'd actually be more interested in a view of The Dead Air Fresheners from the inside anyway: the genesis, philosophy ( :roll: ) and 'force' of the concept and the personalities involved. Rather than a review or similar. Don't know if that grabs you... :)

[Dead-Air]

It does grab me, but the problem is I already wrote such a thing:

http://satanosphere.com/?op=displays.../1/22147/76007

and as you can see it was sort of published online too.

Now that is a dated version of the story which focuses a whole lot more on Chuck Swaim than I would now, so if you could handle an updated rewrite, we're onto something. It was only a "diary entry" to begin with, so I suppose the next step would be to develop it into an article for print...

[xidrep]

Sounds good to me :D