The recording has started, and going well straight out the gate, but things are going to take a while. There is a lot of new material to work through, consequently Go Van Gogh will not be playing many shows until this next release is ready to promote.
And, with so much new material, a number of older numbers will no longer be added to set lists, so our show at Madrone Art Bar Wednesday February 11th (10pm-12am) may very well be your last chance to hear some of your current favorites.
Just saying!!!!
The deet’s
Who Go Van Gogh
Where Madrone Art Bar, 500 Divisadero St, SF
When Wednesday February 11th from 10pm to 12am
What 2 sets of dance music you can listen to
Why Cause its fun
Our latest LP “Now We Know” is available for free streaming or purchasable as a download through our web page, or at http://govangogh.bandcamp.com/
Just a little rehearsal clip of a nicely stretched out and relaxed Go Van Gogh. The tune “soulstice stripper” comes out of our fond memories from backing up Margo Slinger’s Burlesque troop, way back in the Odeon Bar days. Though we only wrote it early this year.
The usual crew is in the house (or studio in this case) of Connie, Rick, Brad, Jesse, Jesse, Jason, and Joe. Hope you love it.
Somethings cooking in the Mission down at the Revolution Cafe. Local bands from the neighborhood have been coming together, bringing a variety of blends of Cumbia, Surf, Ska, Jazz,Classical, Rock, and other rich recipes of international and American sounds.
In order to spread the word, and increase the enjoyment, we are taking a handful of these bands out onto the road, to show our pals around the bay what heating up in our neighborhood.
Unlike the the carpetbagger hierarchical world that San Francisco is becoming, the Mission Internationalist Underground does not believe in headliners or openers. So no matter when a band is on the bill, its equal billing all around. So come early, and stay late, as you wont want to miss a note.
starting off the night we have Pickpocket Ensemble (http://pickpocketensemble.com/). Here is what they have to say about themselves. “From the street corner to the concert hall, the Pickpocket Ensemble create a contemporary chamber cafe music that moves both body and soul. To listen to the Pickpocket Ensemble create is to embark on a journey. Speak to audience members after a performance: one will have been to Bogota, one to Prague, one to Paris. Yet for all its wide-ranging inspirations, the music of the Pickpocket Ensemble create remains intensely personal and immediately engaging, an invitation to listen in on an intimate and ongoing conversation.”
Sandwiched mid show, Go Van Gogh(http://govangogh.net/) will provide plenty of meat and mustard to satisfy the dancing and listening public. Playing hot, fast, and loose with an ocean liners worth of musical flavors, Go Van Gogh takes classic Americana, mixes it with Ethiopian melodies, Afro Cuban rhythms, Bakersfield twang, Balkan brass, and whatever falls to hand
Of course we need a dance band as the night’s dessert, to send you all off hot and happy. Pangea Futbal Club (http://www.reverbnation.com/pangeafc) fits the bill perfectly, bringing music and people from around the world to dance to one festive heartbeat. Pangea FC was born from a group of guys from Argentina, Italy, Turkey, Madagascar, Iran, Cuba, and the Bay Area who share a passion for soccer and music. With a latin euro middle eastern hybrid sound, infectious beats, and super lively performance style, PFC will kick out your jams, leaving you at nights end, happy and dancing your way all the way back home.
Our latest LP “Now We Know” is available for free streaming or purchasable as a download through our web page, or at http://govangogh.bandcamp.com/
Just a little rehearsal clip of a nicely stretched out and relaxed Go Van Gogh. The tune “soulstice stripper” comes out of our fond memories from backing up Margo Slinger’s Burlesque troop, way back in the Odeon Bar days. Though we only wrote it early this year.
The usual crew is in the house (or studio in this case) of Connie, Rick, Brad, Jesse, Jesse, Jason, and Joe. Hope you love it.
As we creep day by day, closer and closer to the big C. Chanukah tonight for some of us, followed soon by the Winter Solstice on Sunday, culminating on December 25th in “Consumer Day” , there is one date we really need to keep in our sites, as it is the pinnacle of American emotionalism concerning this holiday season. Of course I am alluding to that joyous day in 1946, on the 20th of December when “Its a Wonderful Life” was released.
This Frank Capra paean to the primacy of love and community over evil and avarice, so artfully told in the splendors of soft to stark black and white, fills this Bobo’s heart with warmth and wonder. So to celebrate this amazing accomplishment of human vivacity, Go Van Gogh will be quoting their favorite lines from the film throughout their 3 sets this coming December 20th at their home away from home, the fabulous Revolution Café.
So the details as they are
Who Go Van Gogh
When This Saturday December 20th from 9pm to past Midnight
Where Revolution 3248 22nd St, SF
What 3 sets of music and frolic
Why Because it really is a wonderful life
For the socially cyberly augmented, please join our facebook event linked below
Somethings cooking in the Mission down at the Revolution Cafe. Local bands from the neighborhood have been coming together, bringing a variety of blends of Cumbia, Surf, Ska, Jazz,Classical, Rock, and other rich recipes of international and American sounds.
In order to spread the word, and increase the enjoyment, we are taking a handful of these bands out onto the road, to show our pals around the bay what heating up in our neighborhood.
Unlike the the carpetbagger hierarchical world that San Francisco is becoming, the Mission Internationalist Underground does not believe in headliners or openers. So no matter when a band is on the bill, its equal billing all around. So come early, and stay late, as you wont want to miss a note.
starting off the night we have Pickpocket Ensemble (http://pickpocketensemble.com/). Here is what they have to say about themselves. “From the street corner to the concert hall, the Pickpocket Ensemble create a contemporary chamber cafe music that moves both body and soul. To listen to the Pickpocket Ensemble create is to embark on a journey. Speak to audience members after a performance: one will have been to Bogota, one to Prague, one to Paris. Yet for all its wide-ranging inspirations, the music of the Pickpocket Ensemble create remains intensely personal and immediately engaging, an invitation to listen in on an intimate and ongoing conversation.”
Sandwiched mid show, Go Van Gogh (http://govangogh.net/) will provide plenty of meat and mustard to satisfy the dancing and listening public. Playing hot, fast, and loose with an ocean liners worth of musical flavors, Go Van Gogh takes classic Americana, mixes it with Ethiopian melodies, Afro Cuban rhythms, Bakersfield twang, Balkan brass, and whatever falls to hand
Of course we need a dance band as the night’s dessert, to send you all off hot and happy. Los Nadies (http://losnadies.com/) fits the bill perfectly, bringing a keen mix of politics, poetry, street party and musicianship every time they step on to a stage. Their unique blend of rock, nueva trova, South American folklore and Afro-Latin rhythms follows and expands on the tradition of celebration and protest put forth by musicians like Silvio Rodríguez, Manu Chao, and Santana.
Contrary to the hype, somethings cooking in the Mission beside tech bro life. Music is breaking through the cracks in the sidewalk, and blooming into strange and beautiful expressions of a culture that even “that much money” cant kill.
Local bands from the neighborhood have been coming together, bringing a variety of blends of Cumbia, Surf, Ska, Jazz, Klezmerl, Rock, and other rich recipes of international and American sounds. In order to spread the word, and increase the enjoyment, we at the Mission Internationalist Underground are taking a handful of these bands out onto the road, to show our pals around the bay what heating up in our neighborhood.
Go Van Gogh is the prototype for this new musical movement. The unofficial house band of the Missions legendary Odeon Bar, they cut their teeth there on a 2 year weekly residency. Only to resurface 3 years ago at the irrepressibly innovative Revolution Café, where thy bounce the house every 3rd Saturday of the month. The band is the perfect ambassadors of the scene, with a sound described as the soundtrack for a middle eastern western with a Latin twist. Their Cumbia Ska Balkan hybrid is full of instrumental pyrotechnics, entertaining lyrics, delivered as beautiful vocals, along with wild antics, such as sax goddess Connie Walkershaw playing two horns at once.
So if you love to dance, and need a bit more “stick to your soul” in your dance music feast. If you party like you mean it, and want to experience a night that you wont soon forget (for all the right reasons), come on down Wednesday November 19th, ) from 10 pm to midnight.
As of this writing, Bobo is still missing, and we are starting to be concerned. He’s not a cat, whom we could have implanted a GPS chip into. So if anyone should hear of his comings or goings, please let us, his concerned band, know.
Onward to the business of the day, or in this case the business of this Saturday, September 20th, when Go Van Gogh will be performing from 9 to just past midnight at our favorite haunt Revolution Cafe 3248 22nd St in SF.
Now I know we play here every month. Perhaps you think this event will continue on into eternity. But life is full of twists and turns. Bobo’s disappear, condos cost million of smackeroos, and Go Van Gogh might move on, under its own steam, or by more nefarious means.
So don’t assume, and don’t take one of the better entertainment resources in the city for granted. Just saying.
PLUS…..have you heard the band with our new trap drummer Jason Conn who absolutely kicks ass. I thought not. Don’t miss him, Grab the gusto.
PLUS PLUS….. It’s our Trombonist Rick Brown’s birthday. There will be cake, if you are in the know, and come to this show.
While Go Van Gogh may have no Nero like figure, nor do we have any fiddlers left in our mix. But to commemorate that which was Rome, we salute the city that almost burned to the ground on July 19th, a mere 1950 years ago, Go Van Gogh will be playing with fire and chanting BURN BABY BURN for our 3rd Saturday residency show at Revolution (3248 22nd St in SF). Never short on pyrotechnics, expect this Go Van Gogh show to kindle a raging flame of love for our crazy balkan cumbia country western surfin ska mix.
No way are we celebrating the untimely demise of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie, who were assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, on this date exactly 100 years ago. That shit wont even fly for my twisted sense of marketing aplomb. Beatles break ups are one thing, but starting world wars is quite another.
It was also a bad date for mass murder with chemical weapons, being the anniversary of Saddam’s gassing the Iranian town of Sardasht in 1987, and the Aum Shinrikyo cults sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
We could get some traction out of the Stonewall Riots, but 1969 has been cropping up all too frequently around my circle, so I would hate to be considered trendy, or as jumping on the band wagon.
So the hell with it. Every nights a party with Go Van Gogh, so lets celebrate Go Van Gogh’s return to the Old Western Saloon in Point Reyes Station for a night of mid summer fun and frolic. Put on your dancing shoes, and welcome the changes that are afoot.
The Old Western Saloon
11201 state route 1. Point Reyes Station
Yes my dear readers, Go Van Gogh, San Francisco’s own hot band playing cool music, is helping out (picking up the slack for) our colleagues down in the south land. We will be doing what some great Los Angelino or amazing Orange County band band should be doing.
Celebrating the 85th anniversary of the talking mouse.
I can only be speaking of the great Mickey Mouse. Mickey appeared in The Karnival Kid, his first talkie, released May 31st 1929 . Not only did Mickey finally rise above mere whistling and guffaws, but The Karnival Kid lays all the ground work for what might be considered the first hip hop short. Check out Mickey rapping, scratching, and beat boxing in his first scene. This twisted tale from Walt’s ID, filled with psychedelic lunacy, builds to a grand finally of post modernist mayhem, where Mickey and his Cat buddies deconstruct Sweet Adeline. A rendition that would be at home in any Terry Riley or Steve Reich piece.
This short (linked above) is not to be missed, nor should you miss the surprises in store at our 1 time only 5th Saturday Revolution show (back to every 3rd Saturday in June).
So Saturday May 31st, come on down to Revolution at 3248 22nd St in San Francisco. We will be rocking the house from 9 till past midnight. It’s free to come in, but you have to pay to leave.
JUST ADDED TO THIS SHOW, TWO MINI SETS BY BRIAN WOODBURY (solo) http://brianwoodbury.com . His mini’s go alongside our Mickey. It all works somehow someplace sometime.
Govangogh's Blog 