Terrastock 6 -- April 2006 Providence, RI -- news, rumors, gossip, etc.

We are pleased to announce that Terrastock 6 will be taking place in Providence, Rhode Island USA on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 2006.

Nine years after the very first Terrastock, the festival returns to Providence, Rhode Island for 2006. And this time it promises to be bigger and better than ever, with an unrivalled international line-up of hand picked experimental rock and folk bands from across the Terraverse.

Terrastock 6 is being staged in two centrally located neighbouring buildings in Providence. The main stage will be at Pell Chafee Performance Center, a beautiful old bank building constructed in 1929. It is an amazing open space with a three story tall high-vaulted ceiling. Click here for details of Pell Chafee

AS220 hosts the second stage (only 15 meters down the "sidewalk"). AS220 is a wonderful community arts centre that has been promoting art, music and culture from Rhode Island, national and international artists, for over 20 years. Click here for details of AS220

Location Map

Tickets are $110 for the whole weekend (inclusive of booking fees and admin charges)

Booking form to follow (as at 26th October) - but, if you want to be the first person to buy a ticket, use PayPal to send $110 to

checks/money orders payable to: TERRASTOCK 6 and mailed to this address:
AS220
115 Empire St
Providence, RI
02903 USA

A list of confirmed bands who will be appearing at T6 appears below.

Avarus (Finland)
Bardo Pond
Black Forest / Black Sea
Charalambides
College Girls Gone Wild
Damon and Naomi
Fursaxa
Ghost (Japan)
Glenn Jones & Cul de Sac
Kemialliset Ystävät (Finland)
Kinski
Sharron Kraus
Landing
Larkin Grimm
The Magic Carpathians Project (Poland)
Major Stars
Marissa Nadler
MV/EE
Paik
Jack Rose
Salamander
St Joan (UK)
Thought Forms (UK)
Spacious Mind (Sweden)
Spires that in the Sunset Rise
Tanakh (Italy)
Urdog
Windy & Carl

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS (yet to be announced....)

See ya there...

NED RAGGETT I WILL BUY U BEER!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Anyone know anything about the two UK acts? Am embarrassed to say that I've never even heard of either of them.

Saint Joan: http://www.saintjoan.co.uk/

Thought Forms: http://www.thought-forms.co.uk/

AS220's a great little venue.

Also, if any attendees want to ponder splitting hotel costs or the like, let me know.

Beautiful Cranston currently, but oddly enough I've lived in Providence, Warwick, and East Greenwich as well.

I've actually got a copy of the Providence Phoenix dated 2/21/2003 with the ad for Great White at The Station (Tonight! Tickets still available!).

Make sure you include the shopping plaza where Fort Thunder once stood if you're taking people on a tour of tragic sites.

http://www.as220.org/images/promo/NEW.jpg

If you want to get hooked into the local scene, the boards at lotsofnoise.com are active + friendly.

http://www.as220.org/images/promo/NEW.jpg

If you want to get hooked into the local scene, the boards at lotsofnoise.com are active + friendly.

Warning to all: Providence's city plan was the fruit of an historic collaboration between Franz Kafka and M.C. Escher. It is an award-winning labyrinth of one-way streets without parking and exitless highways. If you're driving, don't time your arrival for 5 minutes before showtime, or you may find yourself in an epic race-against-time of Borgesian proportions.

If you are driving out of Boston to Providence, add an extra hour of travel time more than you think it will take. Snake Plissken had an easier time making it out of NYC. I once allowed myself 3 hours to drive from Providence to Logan Airport and still missed my flight.

The worst thing that will happen is finding yourself with an extra hour of drinking time in PVD.

LEEEE, if you go to terrastock, it will be better than school.

Charalambides was the peak for me, probably just cuz I love their records so much and I have been waiting to see them for so long. They did two songs from Market Square! "Namaste" and something else.. I wanna say "Another Way Out" but I don't think it was. I'll have to check when I get home. I'll post pictures to thread once I get them hosted. (Right now that one of jw & ned is just on myspace, eek.)

Ghost was incredible. They're such a tight band, it's pretty amazing. They did a lot of double drumming stuff, and even three drummers on the last one they played. It's great how they can go from serene & chilled out to ultra-heavy rock n roll on a dime. Also, Kurihara is an amazing guitarist goddamn. I think I noticed it even more this time than last time I saw them; just epic/gorgeous fuzz solos that never end.

Major Stars were good, but that was to be expected. Girl singer is weird. Detracts in some ways, cuz the real show is, or ought to be, watching wayne & kate shred. but she is cute, so whatever.

I was bummed I missed out on seeing some of the stage 1 stuff because the room was too small to hold everybody. I had to hear UrDog way from the back, and I could barely hear Black Forest/Black Sea standing in the doorway so I gave up. Oh well, no huge loss.

Avarus were great, especially the second jam. Finnish is an awesome sounding language. I wish I had stuck around to see Kemialliset Ystavat but I was feeling kind of crappy by late Saturday so I split after the (surprisingly? awesome) Damon & Naomi set.

And so good to meet people too! Sorry I didn't get to say bye to Ian, Jon et al but will prob see you when in NY sometime soonish. Oh, and we did get to the Ocean! Outside Sa1em - S@lisbury/Hampt0n - really really beautiful, though a bit cold and blissfully deserted. Closed our eyes and listened to the Sound of the Sea and the Wind. For a while. Yeah.

I still have Lightning Bolk Neck. ow. worth it.

Patrin? ;-) Sucks to hear about the car, yeeps! Cul de Sac show was mighty fine.

Ms. Rrrobyn and Supermegaultraok and Charlotte are all the greatness. :-)

anyone still in providence, or nearby, come on down... last minute show/party .. and FREE.

TONIGHT - TUESDAY 4/25
8pm until whenever, 39 Troy St in Olneyville.
bring drink. bring earplugs

it's ON:

A V A R U S
free freak out sound from finland

T O M U T O N T T U
jan from kemialliset ystavat solo, tapes & keys

A A R C L U N G
joe grimm (fuzz fiddle), josh tastic (fuzz drums), dave urdog (fuzz bass), jeffrey bf/bs (fuzz guitar), larkin grimm (fuzz voice). heavy providence stoner noise.

V C R D O G S
chris kites (load records) and jeremy harris, providence blisters

M U D B O Y
modified church organ delight - from providence, on last visible dog records

J O E G R I M M / L A U R E N C A R T E R
violin and throat singing drone duo, also prov.

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everyone playing tonight was at Terrastock all weekend, either performing or checking wristbands or emptying trash cans, several of them dontated their amps and drums for all of the T6 bands to use, as well. this is their party!

-jeffrey

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Hosted By: P.A.'s Lounge
When: Wednesday Apr 26, 2006
at 9:00 PM
Where: P.A.'s Lounge
345 Somerville Ave.
Somerville, MA 02143
US
Description:
Post-Terrastock Meltdown w/ Tanakh (Italy), Saint Joan (UK), and The Lothars (w/ Wisteriax)

http://static.flickr.com/50/135756652_1decf8315f.jpg

very nice that the venues were so close together, and props to the organizers for making it so the bands didn't really overlap, so someone like me could see pretty much every minute if they wanted to (certainly not the case at all festivals). certainly have to mention naragansett beer (pint cans for $2.00), as jeffrey said they were ilke the unofficial sponsor of the weekend.

there's plenty more to be said, but i'll just mention it amused me that bridget st. john ended one of her songs quoting from coldplay's yellow! then she followed that up by playing a devendra banhart song.

looking forward to seeing everyone's photos (even if some of the people constantly stepping over others to take photos got annoying).

Tanakh

Saint Joan

Kinski

Urdog

Major Stars

Bardo Pond

Cul de Sac

Thought Forms

Landing

The Magic Carpathians Project

Avarus

Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood

Fursaxa

Glenn Jones

Windy and Carl

The Spacious Mind

Kemialliset Ystävät

The Kitchen Cynics

Black Forest/Black Sea

Charalambides

Larkin Grimm

Bridget St. John

Paik

Lightning Bolt

Ghost

My favorites would be Windy and Carl, Ghost and Landing, but see for yourself!

this is fun.

Avarus
Tuesday, May 2nd, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner's show
wfmu.org