Negativland @ Empty Bottle, Chicago, 8/25/13

August 28, 2013 at 12:32 am | Posted in Photos | 1 Comment

I drove to Chicago to see Negativland. I took a lot of pictures of the show, but I took a lot of random pictures walking around town.

Permanent Records (easily my favorite record store in Chicago so far)

Pizza slipmat

Chick Pea

Movie poster wall @ Chick Pea

Falafel and hummus @ Chick Pea

I found a show poster on the ground that fell off something, so I took it

Kstarke Records (closed at 5PM so I couldn’t go in)

I parked on the street that was closed off for the fair

OK now I finally entered the Empty Bottle after wandering around the Ukrainian Village in Chicago for a while

unmanned merch table

The show started at 7:30, Good Willsmith was up first. Pretty decent guitar/synth noise-drone set.

Good Willsmith

Illusion Of Safety was up second, his set was pretty fantastic. Lots of glitchy computer-based stuff, and some very minimal guitar drone (unfortunately it wasn’t easy to hear over the crowd talking)

Illusion Of Safety

Negativland consisted of Mark Hosler, Peter Conheim, Wobbly, and Steev Hise on video projections. Their set consisted of analog synth improv plus lots of chopped-up samples, most of which were familiar to Negativland fans (“Truth In Advertising”, “Car Bomb”, “The Gun And The Bible”, “Yellow Black And Rectangular”) plus some new material which they’ve been playing on Over The Edge recently. I took a few pictures of the group playing, then focused on the video projections.

Negativland

Mark Hosler

Steev Hise

Wobbly and Peter Conheim

The Booper

A psychedelic Booper

CAR BOMB!!!!!!!!

Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union? Eleven. It’s not even funny.

Copyright Infringement Is Your Best Entertainment Value

tape gremlin at merch table

Bug Stop

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