My current place of employment is run by the folks at Jesus People USA who live in community on Wilson Avenue in Chicago. These same people brought the festival I loved & spent 9 summers attending - Cornerstone Festival. Across the street from the community house is a coffee shop called Everybody's Coffee & venue space called Wilson Abbey.
On Saturday, January 17th, 2015 there was a show at Wilson Abbey put on by some folks from the electronic music scene, primarily industrial, noise, & drone styles for a guy who is part of JPUSA as well as an artist in their scene. As an artist he is known as Millipede & as a man he is known as Don Hill. I have had a few brief encounters with him…enough to know he is a kind & loving man who unfortunately developed a fatal cancer. It seems this night was a success in many ways & financial support was raised for Don beyond expectation. It was RAD to see this.
Though Don did not perform, many friends of his did so I put together this playlist of the artist including a clip from a couple of the guys who helped organize the event.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9ZwEF2QQpPxZy8rSNiDH3oj0WOiU0pJ
Artists in the playlist include Candle Nine, Aphorism, Polyfuse, Noise Theorem, PBK, mindfluxfuneral, & Chicago Drone Ensemble.
Filmed using a Sony HD Bloggie. Edited using Final Cut Pro on a Mac Mini. Filmed & edited by Joel A. Swanson
http://youtube.com/TigerRAWk
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
12.20.14 - Noise For Toys
There's a whole lot of footage I need to add to this page from the last half year.
Sorry…life is hectic when you propose marriage to a girl 3 states away & it leads to uprooting your life to transplant. The setup I use has basically been unplugged for the last 2 months…but now it's up and semi running here in Chicago.
The night after I officially moved here, some friends were in town to play one of their annual toy drive shows. It happened to be at a location I hope to call my home church while living this chapter of my life.
The toy drive is put on each year by the guys in F.B.S. as a way to give back. Guitarist/vocalist Josh Detty was blessed by folks at Toys For Tots & other outreaches as a child & it stuck with him through the years so he wanted to use the platform this band gives to help others.
We bought a couple toys to give along with the cover & headed over to Risen Savior for a nice of punk rawk!
Also on the bill were locals Brick Assassin, 6'10, & Flatfoot 56.
Here are the clips:
http://youtu.be/GZVZOuvA2Ws
http://youtu.be/U4qOMU3hOvE
http://youtu.be/PuBsGeiJ23M
http://youtu.be/QvcHNeunNuI
It was a fun show…right after, Elphie & I drove to Pennsylvania to begin the holiday family visits then return to Chicago for New Year's by way of Cincinnati.
Sorry…life is hectic when you propose marriage to a girl 3 states away & it leads to uprooting your life to transplant. The setup I use has basically been unplugged for the last 2 months…but now it's up and semi running here in Chicago.
The night after I officially moved here, some friends were in town to play one of their annual toy drive shows. It happened to be at a location I hope to call my home church while living this chapter of my life.
The toy drive is put on each year by the guys in F.B.S. as a way to give back. Guitarist/vocalist Josh Detty was blessed by folks at Toys For Tots & other outreaches as a child & it stuck with him through the years so he wanted to use the platform this band gives to help others.
We bought a couple toys to give along with the cover & headed over to Risen Savior for a nice of punk rawk!
Also on the bill were locals Brick Assassin, 6'10, & Flatfoot 56.
Here are the clips:
http://youtu.be/GZVZOuvA2Ws
http://youtu.be/U4qOMU3hOvE
http://youtu.be/PuBsGeiJ23M
http://youtu.be/QvcHNeunNuI
It was a fun show…right after, Elphie & I drove to Pennsylvania to begin the holiday family visits then return to Chicago for New Year's by way of Cincinnati.
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