From Stephanies Blog:
“Yes, an art show coming up on Saturday, December 10 at the new theatre in Ponte Felicino Perugia.
The translation above is BAREFOOT Stephanie barefoot on stage.
I will be showing various artworks, paintings, my shoe-sculptures, new small paintings (mostly portraits) as well as photography. Also I have prepared small items that can be bought at modest prices for one-of-a kind friends, what is better than a one-of-a-kind object.”
Place
Ponte Felcino, Perugia, Onnivora, via Val di Rocco 50 , Onnivora, via Val di Rocco 50 Ponte Felcino Perugia, Italia
Further Info
personale di Stephanie Seymour ad Onnivora dal 10 al 16 dicembre 2011 dalle 17.00 alle 20.00
inaugurazione sabato 10 dicembre ore 17.00
Dal 10 – 16 dicembre a Onnivora, via Val di Rocco 50 Ponte Felcino Perugia, Stephanie Seymour, artista, disegnatrice, fotografa, presenta una mostra, un “potporri” delle sue tante diverse creazioni, dalle sue sculture, alle fotografie, ai dipinti, illustrazioni, acquarelli, vignette.
Anche il palcoscenico di Onnivora ospiterà i diversi lavori della Seymour, perciò l’ironico titolo “a piedi nudi sul palco”.
In esposizione una selezione delle “Delishoes”, esposte in Italia, NY e Chicago. Le “Cactus Ladies”, dipinti delle ironiche donne imperfette saranno presente, come altri lavori colorati, provocative, piccoli e grandi.
Il caratteristico che esprime meglio l’artista è il forte senso dell’ironia, una qualità che aiuta a vivere. Ci saranno lavori anche piccoli che sono “pezzi unici” da regalare a degli “amici unici”.
Venite ad ammirare i tanti lavori della Seymour, ma anche per conoscerla personalmente ogni pomeriggio da sabato 10 a venerdì 16 dicembre dalle ore 17.00 alle ore 20.00.
Dal mese di gennaio Stephanie presenterà ad Onnivora dei laboratori creativi aperti a tutti, pubblicati sul sito dell’Onnivora: Onnivora La mostra è anche l’occasione per poter parlare insieme all’artista di questi incontri creativi.
Das Kino Abaton in Hamburg hat in diesem Jahr den Preis für “Best Programming” von Europas Cinemas gewonnen. Also das Abaton hat die beste Programmauswahl aller Europa Cinema Mitglieder. Gratulation dafür.
Mein Tipp für ein tolles Weihnachtsgeschenk in einem der besten Kinos Europas ist die Abaton Cinecard. Damit kann man immer für 5,90 Euro ins Kino gehen und die Karte ist immer wieder aufladbar. Man bekommt die Tickets übers Internet und auch über die normale Abendkasse. Es ist total unkompliziert. Kostest beim ersten Mal 5×5,90 Euro + 1 Euro Schutzgebühr. Ich habe die Cinecard auch und bin total glücklich drüber. Eine echt tolle Investition.
The 4th day, the Sunday was a real force day. I was fighting against a beginning cold. I was struggling with aching joints and the sun was brillantly shining so my skin got roasted and I am allergical against sun. So, it was my force day.
I met my friends in town and traditionally we went for lunch at Auerbachs Keller – a very traditional restaurant best known from J.W. Goethes Faust where some scenes took place in this location. We were eating there brillant perfect Old German dishes. It is hell of expensive but it was it all worthy. Any single cent. I was having some fish for 17 Euros. And I did enjoy it.
After that we went to see the Völkerschlachtdenkmal … the Monument to the Battle of the Nations cuz my friends haven’t been there before. The building is huge and amazing. In front of there is a lot of green and one Café where we had some coffee and icecream and time to play with the little “Gothic girl” The friends have had their
1 1/2 years old girl with. So, you always had to entertain the little Lady.
After that the whole crazy bunch of people … we were seven including the little Lady … we went to the Old Exhibition Centre Hall 15 and we decided to not leave the venue until the bitter end. The Dad of the little Lady had to leave because on Sunday it was “Daddyday” where he had to take care of the girl and was punished in not seeing any bands.
So, now here is my very subjective view to the bands at this day in that hall. It was a very synthie pop, electronic body music infiltrated music day. Sometimes, I need such stuff as well … but 50% of the bands I had to listen at the venue was awefully live. Some bands only work on an album and not live.
X-DIVIDE
These guys were live so boring that I didn’t even take one single look into the hall. I was standing outside the venue next to the beergarden.
OBSCENITY TRIAL
They were extremely entertaining. I was standing in the first row and I did enjoy the small set. You could see, the band had fun and you was believing them anything they did on stage. It was a first highlight.
WAVES UNDER WATER
This band was aweful. The sound was terrible. I still don’t know who gave them the allowance to play there. (: … Probably with a better sound – I could have give them some love but I didn’t like the live singing voice of the singer and yeah, the sound. Terrible. Terrible. And it was boring. After three songs, I didn’t know that there were three songs. All was kind of the same.
BLIND PASSENGER
I was a really big fan of the former Blind Passengers … they were more “harder” and not so soft synthie like the Reunion stuff that was brought to stage on that day.
here just to see what I mean with former stuff… still the best song of them ever Absurdistan from 1995
or that other “Teenager times fave dance song of mine”
Anyway, I was unfortunately disappointed and unhappy to see Blind Passenger on that day and I wished to turn back the time … just a bit.
THE TWINS
This was a crazy set. The band is 31 years old and I never never never ever heard of them before. After the concert I was googling for them and I have seen at which locations they had to play in the later days and ooooh my gosh … I am very very sure that I wouldn’t know about them without this Treffen cuz I usually ignore concerts of bands in locations like small village restaurant places for 200 people… you know. The Twins played at such locations at their 30 years anniversary. Anyway, this was for my taste too much pop, too much schmaltz, too much Schlager … and I still don’t know what the two girls did on stage (aaaah, they probably have been the twins name giving protagonists and they supposed to sing but the soundmix was aweful – so you couldn’t listen to them).
After the concert I had a lot of question marks standing in my face. I am not becoming their fan. This is hardcore 80s stuff I don’t like.
ASSEMBLAGE 23
Well, he was introduced as an US Phenomenom … bliblablubb … He is only a phenomenom cuz he is probably the only one who is doing successfully this kind of music with an USAmerican passport. I took the time to take some breath outside the venue and have some dinner. I was bored and it was for me just diffusing confusing noise. Sorry, to say. No example here for you.
Absolutely the LOW Point of the night.
PERFORMANCE
I wanted to see them. Absolutely and it was great that I was suffering some hours long just to see them. They were great and I am now a little Fan. I did enjoy their life performance. The sound was superb and yeah … go and check them out. They will be on tour in September in Germany … and I will see them. Yeah
And then we just had to wait for the last Highlight.
CAMOUFLAGE
finished the day at the Hall. This was the long awaited Highlight of Sunday for me and anyone of my friends and the rest of the audience that overcrowded the location. There was an entry stop in front of the venue and I was very happy to be inside.
I was really impressed by that “old” men. I loved their performance and I was slightly happy that I could see them. I haven’t seen them before.
I felt completely happy after this long music day together with my friends. I was massivly drunk after one glass of red wine. And I felt the cold in my bones and I was thinking bout to get to the legendary When we were young Party but I felt not fit enough and no friends wanted to come with. I missed it completely. I wasn’t any single night at this Party (I usually get to dance there… always … since years regularly. This year I just completely missed the Old School / Batcave / Dark Wave / Back to the Roots Goth Party. I am a bit sad bout but well, there will come another year!
So, I went home to have a good sleep and some Ginger tea before the last day of the 20th WGT started.
DAY 5 – Monday.
It is usually the day, when you are on the way back to “normality”. This year it was still filled with Highlights you were not allowed to miss. So, I had Misfits on my schedule. I already missed so many other Must Haves so I couldn’t miss this as well, I said to myself. But you know, plans vs. reality …
(my last day outfit)
I met with my friend Sukie and her husband (the guys with whom I spent the whole day before) in town and we went for lunch at the most aweful Italian restaurant the world have seen. We thought – aaaw, how cool, they have a special Gothic card … but it didn’t taste. The service was a mess. (It is the “Andria” at the Nikolaistr 20 – aweful. Don’t go for it. Even Pizza Hut is better)
After that “shock”. Sukies husband met with the others at the Parkbühne for some bands and Sukie and me went shopping to the Agra Hall. I shot some Eyeshadows by Grimas and then we both wanted to see finally the superb Live Band Coppelius.
COPPELIUS
I love those boys from Berlin. They seem to jump out of a lost century and they combine chamber music with Hard Core to built their own Chambercore. They are fantastic artists, actors and musicians. Just watch …
Just brillant! I love them. The poor thing was, the concert was of course tooooooooo short.
Sukie and me liked the show a lot and then we met the rest of the bunch for the last supper at the Irish Pub Killi Willy where we grabbed our last dinner together. Jenny and me later tried to get into the Werk II to see MISFITS. Of course we left too late the Killi Willy, so we were standing in a very very long row in front of the venue. Just 10 meters before the entering door, there was the entry stop and we had to get home. Unfortunately. But we definitely had a great WGT at all.
I have seen some cool (old) bands and I have met a lot of friends again and yeah, I will do it next year again. I am very sure of.
Hope you had fun with the review.
P.S.: The day later I left Leipzig with one ICE that was completely filled with “black” people in at least 3 waggons. That was kind of brillant. I felt like being at home … at least until the first stop in Berlin.
So, Day 3 came along. It was Saturday. I have to add that I missed on Friday the superb Soror Dolorosa.
I wanted to see them but it is not possible to cut yourself into pieces for just one big weekend to see anything. Well, I repeat my words again and again. Anyway …
On Saturday Ro & Norman left the appartement for myself alone. They visited their family. I went at noon to the splendid Café Riquet for having brunch with the four ladies of the Fanclub Colour-Ize. There were only two of them coming but we had fun anyway. By the end of our brunch, the lost two ones just came to the Café and we went to the MB and went again across the Medieval market at the roof and tried to organize our schedules. I collaborated with my friended family that was at the Parkbühne yet to be there almost the whole day. That was their plan. I wanted to see them anyway and I didn’t have any ideas what to do before the Ballett at the evening in the Opera. So, I went to see them. (I don’t post pictures of them… sorry.)
We were watching the first band of the schedule at this venue. It was THE COLD – a German band. I have seen some years before. I have had them in memory as a very boring band that sounds like “The Cure for kindergarden”. But this time, the sound was better, the songs had a better drive and anyhow, I liked their show. It was a good start of the day. The weather was brillant for the outdoor thing and I had quite a lot fun with my friends.
After The Cold, I left my friends and it was time to get to the Opera to hunt one ticket for the Ballett down. I wanted to see the legendary Ballet by Choreographer Uwe Scholz (R.I.P.) “Die große Messe” {by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}. The Ballett is a two hours long epic work. The music was made life by the Choir and Orchestra of the Gewandhaus Leipzig. The dancers were superb. And I was amazed until the very end. Why?! I will tell you after you had the chance to see some pieces of it.
I was upset at the end of the Ballett. Cuz the Leipzig audience … there were only limited ticket seats for WGT visitors … they celebrated only the orchestra and the singers. Yeah, no question, they did a great job, but damn it, it was a ballett. There were more than 20 people on stage dancing their whole ass of for two hours without any break and they didn’t give a single shit about their solists. No honors at all. I was not pleased with that. They deserved more love from the Audience and the procedure of getting applause at all. It was disgusting and I was pissed. I was really pissed cuz they did the hardest job of anyone there on stage. So, end of rant.
After that, there was still time to find some bands I could discover or let give some attention.
So, I went back to the Moritzbastei to catch some tunes of AGENT SIDE GRINDER … that Swedish Industrial band … but the Moritzbastei was completely overcrowded and it was slightly hopeless for even finding the right hall in the venue. There are different “halls” inside. So, I gave up and went to the Parkbühne to have the chance to see Girls under Glass but I didn’t get into the venue as well. So, the last chance I had was for Cinema Strange and The Damned but this was just completely naive by myself to just think about to get into. So, I invested into the Leipzig Cab Industry and made myself a cozy early evening/night.
Agent Side Grinder
Cinema Strange
The Damned
So, it was time to drift into Day 4 that was hopefully a bit better for me and my cultural input. And well, I succeed. Definitely.
yesterday the band KILL HANNAH was the victim of a crime.
all theyr stuff was stolen in philadelphia,
they had to cancel shows and are in a very silly situation (nicely said).
the official press release sais:
Chicago nu romantics KILL HANNAH woke up on the eve of wrapping their fall tour with Jet, Papa Roach and Morningwood to a find their 15-passenger van and 14-foot trailer stolen. Taken between 4am and 11am today, Wednesday, November 11 from the front of the Holiday Inn on 900 Packer Ave, Philadelphia, PA—the same location that rock trio Mae had their van stolen from just a week earlier—the band lost over $120,000 in gear and merchandise, including one-of-a-kind vintage custom guitars and vintage custom effects. The theft comes just over a year after a devastating fire in Europe destroyed everything on the band’s bus.
Lead singer Mat Devine says, “We’re devastated and speechless. We’ve been touring so hard around the world for the past seven years and this is the most evil thing we’ve witnessed. Special Crimes say this was a coordinated heist.”
The band regretfully has to cancel their remaining tour dates, scheduled for the Electric Factory in Philadelphia tonight and the Nokia Theatre in New York City tomorrow. Their seventh annual “New Heart For Xmas” weekend of shows and events are still scheduled in Chicago on December 18 at Reggie’s Rock House and December 19 at Metro.
