Festival Fukushima! - Flags Across Borders

Event information

The second night of Festival Fukushima! - Flags Across Borders, a benefit concert to support the work of Otomo Yoshihide and friends in the tsunami- and nuclear fallout-afflicted Japanese prefecture of Fukushima. Programmed by Resonance FM's Ed Baxter, tonight sees a specially reformed Shimmy Rivers and And Canal - the most thoroughly "out there" rock band of the last decade, creators of "utterly timeless" music in the opinion of WFMU's Dave Mandl.
At a venue known for living legends, the appearance of maverick genius Xentos 'Fray' Bentos is still as rare as hen's teeth. The subject of Luke Fowler's award-winning avant-garde movie "The Way Out" (named after the LP he cut aged 19), Xentos has been accurately described by Steven "Nurse With Wound" Stapleton as a musician who "totally sums up the very best experimentation to emerge from the New Wave".
C Siders is the duo of Kathy Hulme (The Honkies) and The Earl of Killorglin (Orchestre Murphy), drawing on the oeuvre of Rob Storey, surely the greatest unsung English songwriter of the century, in a duo marked by mordant wit and elegant lyricism.
Sam Loynes leads a complex double life as both sound-artist and death metal axeman (in Voices): tonight he performs solo, in the area bounded by Nico, Alex Harvey, Scott Walker and Tony Clifton.
The Alcohol label, on which most of the performers appear (alongside Otomo, Toshimaru Nakamura etc), will be running a stall to add to the fund-raising drive. Special guests are also promised on this gala night. Dig deep: ALL takings will go to Project Fukushima.
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