My Articles This Week (March 2, 2006)
Angry Young and Poor no more? (Flashlight)
Interior Media Evolution started because there wasn't enough to do in Fairbanks. Three years and many concerts, art shows and theatrical performances later, IME is ending because all of its members have too much to do.
IME, the non-profit that organized the annual Angry, Young and Poor Fest in Fairbanks, celebrated their own destruction Saturday, February 25 at the Annex Art Space. After a formal-ish reception, the party moved behind the Golden Eagle saloon in nearby Ester. “We had a nice bonfire,” said IME President Hannah Hill. “We burned all the minutes and the agendas.”
The members of IME still plan on organizing events, including a possible Angry, Young and Poor Fest this summer. With their non-profit dissolved, Hill said, they have the freedom to approach it from a new, underground direction.
- Brandon Seifert
Photonz rise again (Strobe Light)
The Photonz are again shining on Alaska.
Fairbanks was the first to see the Girdwood jam phenomenon rise again on Friday, February 24, as the Photonz took the stage at The Blue Loon, and showed the first-timers in the crowd why they're so beloved.
The Photonz - still informally known as The Photon Band, despite the Lower 48 group with legal rights to the name - are Romero Begay, Pete Townsend and Steve Norwood all on guitar and vocals (Townsend also plays mandolin), backed by Tony Restivo on bass and Benjamin Robinson and Toby Quinn on percussion. The band was an Alaska favorite at festivals and First Taps, from 1997 to 2002, when life got in the way of music and music got in the way of life. Since then they've briefly reunited several times, but never for anything more than a concert here and there. Their Loon show is the first of several scheduled shows this spring. “We've going to gig as much as we can whenever everyone's around,” Restivo said. “Otherwise, we're just living.”
The band had trouble hearing each other on stage at the Loon, and Restivo promised the band can “rock out harder” than they managed.
But to the untrained ear the band sounded great, and the Loon's crowd ate it up.
The Photonz' tagline is “electric bluegrass and cosmic funk” (“Whatever that is,” Restivo says), but they fit comfortably into the Alaska jam band tradition. The Photonz' brand of jam rock isn't 20 minutes of tinkering with a chord progression you'd need to be stoned to appreciate. They're fun and catchy, and the dance floor at the Loon saw the usual dreadlocked suspects surrounded by a varied crowd who were just as moved.
The dancing is the point of The Photonz. “I want people to jump out of their clothes” dancing, Restivo said. What's different about an audience in Fairbanks? “They wear more clothes.”
- Brandon Seifert
Interior Media Evolution started because there wasn't enough to do in Fairbanks. Three years and many concerts, art shows and theatrical performances later, IME is ending because all of its members have too much to do.
IME, the non-profit that organized the annual Angry, Young and Poor Fest in Fairbanks, celebrated their own destruction Saturday, February 25 at the Annex Art Space. After a formal-ish reception, the party moved behind the Golden Eagle saloon in nearby Ester. “We had a nice bonfire,” said IME President Hannah Hill. “We burned all the minutes and the agendas.”
The members of IME still plan on organizing events, including a possible Angry, Young and Poor Fest this summer. With their non-profit dissolved, Hill said, they have the freedom to approach it from a new, underground direction.
- Brandon Seifert
Photonz rise again (Strobe Light)
The Photonz are again shining on Alaska.Fairbanks was the first to see the Girdwood jam phenomenon rise again on Friday, February 24, as the Photonz took the stage at The Blue Loon, and showed the first-timers in the crowd why they're so beloved.
The Photonz - still informally known as The Photon Band, despite the Lower 48 group with legal rights to the name - are Romero Begay, Pete Townsend and Steve Norwood all on guitar and vocals (Townsend also plays mandolin), backed by Tony Restivo on bass and Benjamin Robinson and Toby Quinn on percussion. The band was an Alaska favorite at festivals and First Taps, from 1997 to 2002, when life got in the way of music and music got in the way of life. Since then they've briefly reunited several times, but never for anything more than a concert here and there. Their Loon show is the first of several scheduled shows this spring. “We've going to gig as much as we can whenever everyone's around,” Restivo said. “Otherwise, we're just living.”
The band had trouble hearing each other on stage at the Loon, and Restivo promised the band can “rock out harder” than they managed.
But to the untrained ear the band sounded great, and the Loon's crowd ate it up.
The Photonz' tagline is “electric bluegrass and cosmic funk” (“Whatever that is,” Restivo says), but they fit comfortably into the Alaska jam band tradition. The Photonz' brand of jam rock isn't 20 minutes of tinkering with a chord progression you'd need to be stoned to appreciate. They're fun and catchy, and the dance floor at the Loon saw the usual dreadlocked suspects surrounded by a varied crowd who were just as moved.
The dancing is the point of The Photonz. “I want people to jump out of their clothes” dancing, Restivo said. What's different about an audience in Fairbanks? “They wear more clothes.”
- Brandon Seifert
Yeah!! Glad to hear you're all back together, remember there's a place for the band to rest if ever on tour again... or just wanting to come to the lower 48!!
Miss all of you
aunt carrie
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