Tomorrow at Comet: ENON and S PRCSS

[Nicki P.]

Saturday! Tomorrow! June 27!

A two-pronged assault on decency.

Start the evening off at:
Comet Ping Pong
5307 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington DC

Doors 9pm
S PRCSS 10pm
ENON 11pm
Tickets $10

Then head down for the late nite debauchery at:
Civilian Art Project
406 7th Street NW, 2nd floor
Doors 11pm
Tickets $10

Enon
Enon is a band from Brooklyn and Philadelphia. John Schmersal (guitar,
bass, synths, vocals), Toko Yasuda (bass, synths, vocals) and Matt
Schulz (drums) have all been in a bunch of bands, and are still in a
bunch of bands. But all that doesn't really matter, right? What does
matter is that these three, together, are Enon, always, and they're
always amazing.

Some bands are content to develop a “trademark sound.” Enon
continuously
expands on every aspect of their music, managing to bring something
new
to the table with each release while still weaving a common thread
through all of them.

http://www.myspace.com/enonmusic

SPRCSS
Apparently no words can describe them:

http://www.sprcss.com/

Then head on downtown to Civilian so we can see which one of us is
actually cooler, and truly deserves the right to stand motionless,
with arms crossed, at the show.

The evening starts at 11pm. The line up includes:

DJ Nitekrawler from Moneytown
DJ Jonathan Toubin
Edie Sedgwick
EXACTLY
Kid Congo Powers
and
Hula-Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne and
Anna Copa Cabanna


More info:
New York Night Train Happening is the latest spectacular multimedia
party of Mr. Jonathan Toubin, the DJ/Conceptualist behind such
legendary NYC parties such as Glasslands’ Animal Train Happening and
Santos Party House’s
DECLASSIFIED! Yet another step towards the revival and revision of the
New York nightlife underground’s proudest and most ambitious
tradition, THE HAPPENING is inspired by everything from Andy Warhol’s
Exploding Plastic
Inevitable, which fused lights, projection, live music, performance,
and dance under the
same umbrella, to similar examples spanning from the disco to early
new wave era in
spaces like Club 57, their New Wave Vaudeville Show, and the Mudd
Club.

Past happenings haven’t only seen collaborations with galleries/
artists such as Secret Project Robot, Live With Animals, and
Mikilandia Productions, and been filmed by the likes of the father of
avant-garde cinema, the Factory’s Jonas Mikas, but
have also included appearances by many generations of subcultural
icons such as
Genesis P-Orridge, Andrew W.K., Quintron and Ms. Pussycat, King Khan
and the BBQ, Ian Svenonius, Calvin Johnson, James Chance, Gibby
Haynes, The Slits, Jon Spencer, and many more. Initially conceived as
a reaction to, on one hand, the assembly-line ho-hum of rock show
presentation, and, on the other, the aesthetic bankruptcy and soul-
less nature of the contemporary dance party, Toubin’s happenings have
developed into a mighty rock and roll wrecking ball demolishing the
boundaries between art, performance, and nightlife - revealing the
pearly disco ball at its core – the best rock dance parties the 21st
Century has yet to offer.

This first edition of New York Night Train Happening features live
music by Awesome
Color and Kid Congo Powers (Cramps, Gun Club, Bad Seeds, etc),
performance by and go go artist Anna Copa Cabanna and Hula Hoop Harlot
Melissa Anne, and live non-digital film projection by Spencer Bewley
(Place to Bury Strangers,
Warlocks, Death In Vegas, etc) and DJ sets by Mr. Jonathan Toubin.
Expect a participatory spectacle in which all of the performers to
play all sorts of roles on and off stage in all sorts of unpredictable
configurations (Kid Congo fronting Awesome Color,
Melissa, Anna, and Kid collaborating, etc. (!)).

If you think this sounds like a bras d’ honneur in the face of the
mediocre, unimaginative, and economically exclusionary day-to-day
mechanics of 21st Century art, music, and nightlife in general, you
are correct. Now that New York Night Train has sparked a revolution in
Empire City shows, dance club nights, and art events, it is now
changing
the way people go out around the world – restoring and renovating
proud traditional underground aesthetics ... town by town. All aboard!