We are so excited to be hosting a show in Portland for:
THE CANNANES
KNIFE PLEATS
WORLD RECORD
chickfactor show pdx: the cannanes, knife pleats, world record
CF22 and hangover lounge second london event
We are teaming up with our pals at The Hangover Lounge to have a lovely laid-back Sunday afternoon event with some quiet music upstairs and some gentle DJ action downstairs.
july 13 at the lexington!
upstairs: the catenary wires & the just joans
downstairs: DJ bob stanley & chickfactor DJs & hangover lounge DJs
the catenary wires are amelia and rob from various bands you know! cannot wait to see what they’ll play!
the just joans are a Scottish pop group we’re excited to have play!
daytime, usual hangover lounge hours.
DJ Bob Stanley is bound to make your day 100% better.
Team chickfactor & Team Hangover Lounge will also get on the tables and make your head not spin.
(Yes, this happens to be the same day as the World Cup Final, but worry not, footie fans. This thing will be well over by the time it begins!)
Photograph by Alison Wonderland
the clientele vs. birdie
everyone who comes to our cf22 / hangover lounge show in london july 11 will get this fab new record.
cf22: first london show with the clientele, birdie, would-be-goods
chickfactor + the hangover lounge present
three of our toppest bands of all time
the clientele
birdie
would-be-goods
friday, july 11 at the lexington in london
tickets available here!
(admission includes a split single from the clientele & birdie)
second show (july 13 at the lexington daytime) to be announced soon.
chickfactor 22: festival of pop!
chickfactor is super-excited to announce two shows featuring 8 of its favorite bands at the bell house in brooklyn!
Thursday, March 20:
Withered Hand
Jim Ruiz Set
Lilys
Amor de Días
Friday, March 21:
The Clientele
Versus
Barbara Manning
The Saturday People
Doors 7pm, showtime 8pm. $20 advance; $25 at the door; advance two-day pass $40.
Tickets on sale at noon EST Monday, Feb 3!
Also will be available at Other Music.
Thursday, March 20
WITHERED HAND From Edinburgh and led by Dan Willson, the ace band has a brand-new second album, New Gods, coming out March 25 on Slumberland Records. It was produced by Tony Doogan (Mountain Goats, Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, The Pastels) and features a stellar array of guests including members of Belle & Sebastian, Frightened Rabbit, Black Tambourine and The Vaselines. New Gods also features CF cofounder Pam Berry and a song called “Black Tambourine”! New single.
JIM RUIZ SET Hailing from Minneapolis, the legendary Jim Ruiz & Co. often play at CF parties. They released Mount Curve Avenue, their third LP, in 2012 and on vinyl in 2013 on Shelflife Records. Their jazzy Max Eider-influenced pop has always made us swoon. Tonight’s lineup is Jim Ruiz, Emily Ruiz on drums, Allison Labonne on bass, and Kim Serene on marimba and accordian. (Interview in CF9)
LILYS / KURT HEASLEY Super-talented East Coast (mostly DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania) songwriter Kurt Heasley has been putting out records as Lilys since 1991 that feature a noisy brand of pop we love. He has been working on some new material and will play some of that tonight.
AMOR DE DÍAS The London-based duo featuring Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas) and Alasdair Maclean (see The Clientele) hasn’t toured in the US since 2011. They released a brilliant second album called The House at Sea on Merge Records in January 2013. The combination of Spanish guitar, English melancholy, the spirit of Gal Costa and a touch of cinematic magic makes them one of the most intriguing songwriting pairs working today. They’re currently making their third album. Recent track!
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Friday, March 21
THE CLIENTELE Originally from Hampshire and now London, the Clientele is one of our fave pop acts of all time. This lineup featuring Alasdair Maclean, James Hornsey on bass and Mark Keen on drums hasn’t played together since 2005. The group hasn’t played in the US since 2010. These three got back in the studio for the first time since 2010 to record a new 7″ single for the Merge Records Thousands of Prizes thing, which is their first new material in 4 years. (interviewed in CF13)
VERSUS Many associate this band with ’90s indie rock but they put out a pretty bad-ass LP on Merge Records in 2010 titled On the Ones and Threes. Another “chickfactor house band,” Versus has switched off members over the years but this year will be the handsome Baluyut brothers Richard and Ed and foxy Fontaine Toups (CF Cover Girl issue 6).
BARBARA MANNING Barbara Manning used to be the poster girl for San Francisco, and has participated in some of the best pop music ever (with 28th Day, World of Pooh, SF Seals) and especially as a solo artist. She’s currently living in Long Beach and is a high-school chemistry teacher! We are very happy to have her on the lineup. CF Cover Girl issue 4.
THE SATURDAY PEOPLE This fab DC pop group hasn’t played in a while! Featuring the original lineup, which was Terry Banks (Dot Dash, Tree Fort Angst, glo-worm); Dan Searing (glo-worm); Greg Pavlovcak (Ropers); and Ara Hacopian. Interviewed in CF15.
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chickfactor fanzine was started in 1992 by pam berry and gail o’hara in d.c./nyc.
joe pernice added to CF21!
we couldn’t be more excited to announce some good news: one of chickfactor’s top songwriters ever, joe pernice (pernice brothers, scud mountain boys, new mendicants), will be added to thursday night’s bill at chickfactor 21 with dump, lois and the jim ruiz set.
we are also thrilled to announce several of our guests: rose melberg’s band imaginary pants + tae won yu (kicking giant) will both be playing sets at cf21. each night starts right at 8pm so get there early!
photograph by l. stein.
nothing’s too good for the common people: a paul kelly retrospective!
nothing’s too good for the common people:
a paul kelly retrospective
saturday 15 june 2013, 11am–6pm
cantor film center, 35 east 8th street (between greene street and university place)
free and open to the public (but you must RSVP)
presented by the colloquium for unpopular culture & chickfactor 21
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11:00am: introduction by sukhdev sandhu
11:15: this is tomorrow (2007), 54 min (NYC premiere)
12:15pm: what have you done today, mervyn day? (2005), 45 min (NYC premiere)
1:30: finisterre (2003), 60 min
2:45: take three girls: the dolly mixture story (2012), 40 min (NYC premiere)
3:45-4:15: discussion between paul kelly and bilge ebiri/ Q&A
4:30-6:00: lawrence of belgravia (2011), 86 min (NYC premiere)
over the last decade, paul kelly – already well known as a musician (as a member of the much-revered east village and birdie) and graphic designer – has forged a reputation as one of the most distinctive british documentarians of his generation. refining an unusually lyrical brand of psychogeography informed by pop-modernist aesthetics, he moves between the city symphony, film essay and companionate portraiture to fashion beautifully composed and deeply atmospheric evocations of overlooked places and individuals. whether working in collaboration with the band saint etienne on a lushly ambient trilogy about london, or in his witty and empathetic films about the much-beloved dolly mixture and lawrence of felt, kelly’s films are immediately recognizable and immediately lovable.
nothing’s too good for the common people is the first retrospective of this key filmmaker’s work to have been held anywhere. organized by the new york-based colloquium for unpopular culture (kiss me again: the life and legacy of arthur russell; leaving the factory: wang bing’s tie xi qu; a cathode ray séance: the haunted worlds of nigel kneale) in collaboration with chickfactor magazine, it will feature the US premieres of many films, introductions by a constellation of artists and musicians, and paul kelly himself in discussion with the director and writer bilge ebiri.
to mark nothing’s too good for the common people, there will be available for sale copies of a very limited-edition book designed by rob carmichael (john cale, LCD soundsystem, animal collective’s ‘crack box’) and featuring contributions by a wide range of writers, musicians and architectural historians including jon dale, travis elborough, alistair fitchett, dan fox, joe kerr, stephin merritt, jude rogers and peter terzian.
the chickfactor & gaylord fields pop quiz!
the first night of our chickfactor london 20th-anniversary party featured a screening of paul kelly’s ace documentary take three girls: the dolly mixture story followed by a pop quiz created by the zine’s cofounders gail and pam and gaylord fields (wfmu dj who also MCed the saturday show at bush hall and DJed upstairs at sunday’s show), who also presented the questions. the questions and answers for the quiz are listed below! the event took place at the horseshoe pub in clerkenwell on friday, november 16.
part one: lyrics to identify
- “I crawl like a viper through these suburban streets / make love to these women languid and bittersweet’’
answer: steely dan, “deacon blues”
- “when we groove on into town / charles atlas he starts to frown”
answer: josef k, “sorry for laughing”
- “nibbling on bacon, chewing on cheese / sammy says to susie ‘honey, would you please be my missus?’ ”
answer: america, “muskrat love”
- “it is your blood I crave / I am the bitch goddess from beyond the grave”
answer: future bible heroes, “I’m a vampire”
- “your eyebrows may be the best thing in town/I’d like to shoot ’em up and make ’em frown”
answer: dolly mixture, “how come you’re such a hit with the boys, jane?”
- “don’t throw your hand / if you feel you’re alone / no no no you are not alone”
answer: r.e.m., “everybody hurts”
- “oh but being with you is like killing bob dylan / if I had to do it I would die”
answer: pipas, “cruel and unusual”
- “beetles and eggs and blues and pour a little everything else / you steam a lense stable eyes and glass”
answer: cocteau twins, “cherry coloured funk”
- “it’s the singer not the song / ‘something’s gone wrong’ said the spider to the fly”
answer: belle and sebastian, “chickfactor”
part two: trivia questions
- what was the first single on caff records?
answer: east village “freeze out” / cath coughlan “Im’ long me measaim”
- what record store did slumberland records boss / black tambourine member mike schulman work at in the u.s.?
answer: vinyl ink, mod lang
- what band recorded the largest number of peel sessions?
answer: the fall (24)
- what dance troupe replaced pan’s people on top of the pops?
answer: ruby flipper
- what motown offshoot released only one single by sammy davis jr?
answer: ecology
- who were the three founding members of biff bang pow?
answer: joe foster, alan mcgee, dick green
- what is the name of nick drake’s home in tanworth?
answer: far leys
- what was the flexi only label matt haynes ran that preceded sarah records?
answer: sha-la-la
- what fanzine did katrina tender trap publish in the 1990s?
answer: charity shopper
- what was the original name of the clientele?
answer: the butterfly collectors
- what band played the bowlie weekender and is also playing chickfactor 20: for the love of pop! london this weekend?
answer: the pastels
part three: audio clips (the kids only got to hear a few seconds of each)
- “sugarcube” — yo la tengo
- “alone again (naturally)” — gilbert o’sullivan
- “try” — delta 5
- “she cracked” — the modern lovers
- “ce petit coeur” — françoise hardy
- “the most beautiful girl in the world” — prince
- “candy” — the magnetic fields
- “it’ll never happen again” — tim hardin
- “call me maybe” — carly rae jepsen
- “linus” — birdie
- “working girls (sunlight shines)” — the pernice brothers
- “long hot summer” — the style council
- “bigmouth strikes again” — the smiths
the pipas & amor de días team won the quiz, which may be a bit unfair since there were two questions involving pipas and the clientele, but the momtch/travis table took home most of the prizes (chickfactor london posters designed by tae won yu and badges designed by lupe pipas) and non-vegan treats.
quiz photo courtesy of mark pipas!
London poster by Tae Won Yu!
cf 2012: for the love of pop! ticket links for los angeles, san francisco and london
chickfactor shows happening this autumn!
easy ticket links here.
september 20 at bootleg theater in los angeles! 8:30pm
starring stevie jackson (from belle & sebastian) + LILYS + the legendary jim ruiz group + kim baxter (from all girl summer fun band)
september 22 at rickshaw stop in san francisco! 7:30pm
starring THE SOFTIES + stevie jackson (from belle & sebastian) + LILYS + allen clapp + kim baxter (from all girl summer fun band)
november 16 in london: films & pop quiz (TBC/TBA)
november 17 at bush hall in london! early start 7pm
starring the pastels + the aislers set + amor de días + would-be-goods + mc gaylord fields + chickfactor djs
november 18 chickfactor + hangover lounge all dayer at the lexington in london! 2pm to 11pm
starring pipas + tender trap + bridget st john + the real tuesday weld + the legendary jim ruiz group + harvey williams and josh gennet + the starfolk + gaylord fields fake beatles + chickfactor & hangover lounge DJs
(please note there are no other official ticket sellers apart from wegottickets.com for the london shows)