upyourears | 08 September, 2009 11:29
photos anybody?...
We are trying to collect photos of the event? Have some? please send them to upyourears@riseup.net or any other means you can think of. thanks a lot again.» General:: Comment (0) :: Permalink
upyourears | 07 September, 2009 10:48
Oops! it's over!...
The Festival is now over! Thanks a lot to everybody that joined us!
thanks to all the musicians, compares, vokue helpers, tech people, volunteers and friends!
And for those who were guessing, the song you heard xxxxxx times because we did not have any other mixcd around....
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upyourears | 04 September, 2009 11:35
Up your ears RADIOSTREAM...
CLICK HERE AND LISTEN TO THE RADIOSTREAM
If you have feedback or wishes or critics for us (radioteam) please give it to us now!
Write us a mail!
And make publicity for us!
We make an Radiostream during the up your ears festival. We send recorded parts of the musicfestival and content programs about queer feminism.
Streamingtime:
Fr
6 pm - 10 pm
interviews with bands, djane bianca kruk, music, spoken word
Sa
12 am - 4 pm
records from the friday concert, interviews with fabrikantinnen, electric dress, a. j. shanti interview, kumbia queers,
travestis argentina
So
3 pm - 7 pm
records from the saturday concert, festival atmo
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upyourears | 02 September, 2009 15:53
FINAL PROGRAM...
4th-6th September 2009
Queer music festival happening 4th-6th September 2009 at Schwarzer Kanal.
For more information:
http://www.myspace.com/upyourears
http://upyourears.noblogs.org
http://www.schwarzerkanal.squat.net
Check our brand new prom trailer: http://upyourears.noblogs.org/post/2009/09/02/oh-look-a-video
UP
YOUR E@RS is taking a feminist approach to set up a three day
celebration of queer music and resistance culture in some of its many
forms!
Its a DIY event: Entrance to the concerts is by donation but the
idea is that every attendant will take part in the festival by helping
out in some way with eg. cleaning up, setting up, contributing with a
workshop, performances..Please mail us with your ideas and suggestions!
Plan on coming a day or two early, or staying a day after. Bring a tent
and you can camp on the Schwarzer Kanal.
MUSIC:
Friday 4th from 6.30 pm:
Gertrude, Vagina
Jones, Sleazy Inc. operated, Squeezebox, CJ and the Dolls
Follow by DJ Tony Pony
Saturday afternoon from 2pm:
Openstage and Presseject
Saturday evening from 7:
Angel Eyedealism, Largact.ill, Suicidal Birds, Golden Disko ship,
Sookie,
follow by a party with DJ Tina Pornflakes and DJ Kritzkom
Sunday 6th from 2pm:
AJ Shanti, Lyndsey Cockwell, Maybecyborgs, and Kuutti Gagarin
WORKSHOPS:
-Radio workshop with Tina Tusch, Saturday 5th, 2-5pm
Want
to make your own free queer radio a reality? Come to learn about making
digital radio programs: basic recording audio, making interviews, and
editing audio to make a final program that will be broadcast online as
a podcast that your friends everywhere can listen to!
This workshop is 3 hours long and is a hands on workshop where you will
actually make a podcast for Up Your Ears that will be played online as
a part of the festivals radio programming! All experience levels
welcome, and please note that space may be somewhat limited (depending
on equipment), so show up early and for the full 3 hrs.
If you can, bring any extra recording equipment and laptops so more people can participate- thanks!
Sign up for the workshops at upyourears@riseup.net
-Singing workshop with Lyndsey Cockwell, Saturday 5th, 3-5pm
Love singing? want to learn? want to improve? want to have fun singing in harmony with other queers?
Come
and learn some basic singing techniques including posture, breathing
and ways to find your own voice, or improve the one you've already
discovered.
Then find out how much fun it can be singing songs in 3-part harmonies.
We will be working on a song - or songs! - to sing at the sunday
performance for those interested. You Don't have to be part of the
performance to attend the workshop, but it will take your singing to
another level!
All are welcome - complete beginners, complete professionals and complete show-offs. No experience necessary.
Sign up for the workshops at upyourears@riseup.net
OPENSTAGE:
On the saturday afternoon we will have an openstage! To give the
opportunity to all the bands that have shown interest in playing and
that was impossible for us to schedule we open this 3 hours long block!
Wanna play??????? Just a few rules: only by preinscription at upyourears@riseup.net and bands get to play 3 songs! How does that sound? We will provide basic equipment, get in touch so we can talk technic!
EVICTION MEETING:
The schwarzer kanal has received an eviction date for
31.12.2009. This has come from the owners of the land Hoch Tief, who
say that they need all of the land we occupy to start a huge building
project and for the access roads to the site. Hoch Tief claim that they
dont want to start the building project so soon, but unless they start
the developement in 2010 they will have to pay a large fine to the
building regulators (BIMA).
Over the last few years, our location
in the Media spree development zone in central Berlin has put us in the
firing line of an invasion of big companies, and the gentrification of
Kreutzberg-Mitte. However this is the first time we have recieved a
concrete eviction date.
Schwarzer Kanal is mobilising to resist, and maintain our unique status
as a queer political and cultural wagenplatz.
To discuss the situation and strategies, during Up your Ears a meeting will be held on Saturday from 6!
RADIO PROJECT:
During the festival there is the plan to create a radio podcast so that people who have no access to the festival itself can also listen to a selection of the concerts through the internet. The radio podcast would also provide a platform for queer political radio programmes, and help to provide a voice for a diverse international queer political community. The completed radio braodcast would then be uploaded on the internet as a permenant rescource. Queers from all over the place could also send in song suggestions or suggestions for content.
So if you have an idea for a song suggestion, please send it to us per email: upyourears@riseup.net
and if you have a burning queer political issue that you want aired, make a recording about it and send it to us:
upyourears wagenplatz schwarzer kanal, michaelkirchstr 20, 10179 Berlin, German
HELPING HANDS:
VOKÜ:
Friday and Saturday from 7pm, Sunday Brunch from 2pm
Get in touch through upyourears@riseup.net
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upyourears | 02 September, 2009 11:02
Oh look! A video!...
Our BFF Elliat Graney-Saucke made this wonderful video for us! yeahhh! 2 days to go everybody!!!!
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upyourears | 28 August, 2009 16:17
Program update!...
We are thrilled to announce two additions to the line-up!
Tranny pop diva CJ and the Dolls from Portland will join us on Friday and will be back on Sunday for hosting the afternoon of folky music.
Girl-driven tech aussie electro duo Presseject will make you dance on Saturday afternoon after the openstage!
We will keep you posted about more additions!
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upyourears | 28 August, 2009 16:11
Preview: Lyndsey Cockwell...
Lyndsey Cockwell is a songwriter and musician from the UK. Central to
all her projects is her unique and mesmerising voice, the rich melodies
and harmonies that she composes and the stories woven by her lyrics.
She’s
deconstructed sounds with Charles Hayward (ex This Heat), had a song
produced by by Alex Patterson of The Orb, worked with Sheila
Chipperfield (Ex-Elastica) on a track and even wooed Scream Club’s
Cindy Wonderful into rapping on a folk song.
She has recently
stripped her performance down to the bare minimum of voice and acoustic
guitar and is working hard on her concept album about new places, old
places and traveling between them.
Check also the singing workshop that Lyndsey will be hosting at Up Your Ears!!!
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upyourears | 20 August, 2009 16:01
PREPROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHECK THIS OUTTT!!!!...
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upyourears | 10 August, 2009 14:11
UP YOUR EARS!!!!!! IN LESS THAN A MONTH!!!...
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upyourears | 07 August, 2009 14:40
Preview: The Suicidal Birds...
(from http://www.last.fm/music/The+Suicidal+Birds)
The Suicidal Birds are two girls ( Jessie: vocals, guitar / Chay: bass guitar, vocals) from the northern province Friesland, the Netherlands. Armed with out-dated amps, ( self made) pedals, drum machine, bass guitar, guitar and the elastic strong and moving voice of singer Jessie they bring up a up raging storm, drenched in the raw passion the blues: Intense, urgent, confronting, personal, sometimes treacherously playful, exciting and inescapable. With a voice full of character, uncompromisingly distorted guitar- and vocal sounds and at times overwhelming sound-orgy, they manage to give feelings of doubt, craziness, tragedy, sex & drugs, hope and despair, believe and disbelieve a musical format deeply rooted in the blues combined with the energy of punk emphasising the rough and readiness, weirdness and wilderness that is so essential in rock and roll.
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upyourears | 07 August, 2009 14:33
Preview: A.J. Shanti...
(from http://ajshanti.wordpress.com/)
A.J. Shanti recently kicked her musical career into high gear, having just completed her first European tour, and is continuing to plan her tour of the United States, set to begin this spring. She’s promoting her debut album “Baby Beau Blue”, a lyrically and instrumentally packed album containing themes of queer struggle and liberation, heartache, love, fun, and sex. Her live performances are raw and emotionally charged. She has been performing as a solo artist, but will begin to include the talents of a Croatian musician, Dora Benc, creating a rich and harmonious depth to her performances.
A.J. grew up on Long Island, New York and spend a good part of her adult life in San Francisco where she finished college and embarked upon several professional endeavors (queer youth counselor, truck driver, etc.) until last year, when she decided to dive head first into her music. She has been enjoying all of the excitement, exhaustion, and liberation that proceeds the pursuit of one’s dreams.
http://ajshanti.wordpress.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ajshanti
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upyourears | 06 August, 2009 15:32
Eviction...
The schwarzer kanal has received an eviction date for
31.12.2009. This has come from the owners of the land Hoch Tief, who
say that they need all of the land we occupy to start a huge building
project and for the access roads to the site. Hoch Tief claim that they
dont want to start the building project so soon, but unless they start
the developement in 2010 they will have to pay a large fine to the
building regulators (BIMA).
Over the last few years, our location
in the Media spree development zone in central Berlin has put us in the
firing line of an invasion of big companies, and the gentrification of
Kreutzberg-Mitte. However this is the first time we have recieved a
concrete eviction date.
Schwarzer Kanal is mobilising to resist, and maintain our unique status
as a queer political and cultural wagenplatz.
Schwarzer kanal is incomparable to just another concrete box.
Help us to resist this eviction! For information and updates join our email list:
send an email to schwarzerkanal@squat.net with the heading "verteiler"
A meeting will be held during UP YOU E@RS about the eviction! It's scheduled to happen during the voku on Saturday. Stay tuned for more details!
Schwarzer kanal bleibt!
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upyourears | 06 August, 2009 15:27
About the Schwarzer Kanal...
The Festival will take place at the radical queer wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal.
It is the BEST and ONE AND ONLY radical queer wagonplace on the planet but it's also an open community project, run not only by the people who live there, but by a wider community who use it for events, workshops, art, film evenings, bike fixing, concerts, Vöku, cabaret or as base for political actions… and! Schwarzer Kanal is now threatened with eviction from 1st January 2010 and UP YOUR EARS might be the last big event taking place there.
This is what it's written about the project on http://www.schwarzerkanal.squat.net
Schwarzer Kanal as a queer* political and cultural project
Wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal is an open community
project, run not only by the people who live there, but by a wider
community who use it for events, workshops, art, film evenings, bike
fixing, concerts, Vöku, cabaret or as base for political actions… and!
For that we have a big stage area, a wagen for hosting workshops, an
open air cinema, a community kitchen wagen, a bike workshop wagen, a
fire and bar area.
All events are for free of by donation. This means no one is excluded from attending because they don’t have enough money. Any profit goes to a variety of causes. Schwarzer Kanal project operates according the DIY principle: Do It Yourself! The idea is that there are no bosses, no masters and no one comes just to consume. Everyone who uses the space helps to keep it running. Whether that be by doing the washing up after a Vöku, doing a bar shift during a concert, helping to tidy up after a party, doing press work, or realizing your own ideas for an event… There are lots of possibilities! To find out how you can get involved just ask around during an event or if you have a proposal, email schwarzerkanal@squat.net to find out the time of our next meeting.
All – apart from those promoting racist, sexist,or homophobic ideas, – are welcome to come along and take part!
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The project extends beyond our physical space in Michaelkirchstr: Schwarzer Kanal is also a point of contact for many international queers passing through, part of an informal network of anti-capitalist queers. It is also part of a wider network of autonomous spaces, squats and Wagenplatzs in Berlin, Europe and beyond. Like millions of people all over the world Schwarzer Kanal is attempting to build up our own structures from the grassroots while questioning and reflecting on our inequalities. |
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upyourears | 06 August, 2009 15:13
Preview: Gertrude...
(from http://www.myspace.com/gertruderock )
Gertrude are a london based diy post rock/ punk band who have been playing a wide variety of gigs from squats to art events , traditional and non traditional venues for over 11 years. They combine mutant electric cello, melodica and clarinet with feisty lyrics and energetic prog punk inventiveness. They have a commitment to working collectively and supporting grass roots diy movements. Gertrude have toured in Europe, America and Canada. They have produced several eps and 3 albums. This year they launched their third self-produced album " Speak, Shape, Create Time" ( Urban Missfits 2009) This has received some great reviews see the blogs here, to find out what Organ and Mudkiss say, and is available from CDbaby online, worldwide and from Code 7 distribution in the UK and Europe.
http://www.myspace.com/gertruderock
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upyourears | 06 August, 2009 14:55
Radio workshop with Tina Tusch...
Saturday 5th, 2-5pm
Want to make your own free queer radio a reality? Come to learn about making digital radio programs: basic recording audio, making interviews, and editing audio to make a final program that will be broadcast online as a podcast that your friends everywhere can listen to!
This workshop is 3 hours long and is a hands on workshop where you will actually make a podcast for Up Your Ears that will be played online as a part of the festivals radio programming! All experience levels welcome, and please note that space may be somewhat limited (depending on equipment), so show up early and for the full 3 hrs.
If you can, bring any extra recording equipment and laptops so more people can participate- thanks!
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