Animal Train #2: French Kissing in the USA - A Bastille Day Dance Party July 14, 2007

Featuring Kid Congo Powers, Ian Svenonius (Name Names), Jaiko (Mon Mon Mon Amour), Maya (White Glove), Ayca (Marquise Dance Hall), Jonathan (New York Night Train), The Marmaladies, and art direction by Live With Animals

Animal Train Dance Party #2 boards Saturday, July 14 at the Glasslands Gallery. For those of you who weren’t at our last hoodang (Futureshock), our parties, a new collaboration between New York Night Train and Live With Animals Gallery, are theme-oriented events that feature live music, DJs, performance, and dance in an entirely informal formalist environment designed, constructed, and lit entirely by local artists.

Because the Glasslands’ lovely and talented Brooke Baxter generously offered us July 14 for our sequel, the Bastille Day theme was a no-brainer. While a general celebration of the infinite gifts French culture has offered us (Pernod, Situationalism, Gitanes, the fine art of pantomime, l’Elegant Criminel, Le Pétomane, Jacques Tati, etc.), this pup’s visually gonna center around the French Revolution itself (guillotines, Masonic imagery, etc.) and sonically on the broad swath of French dance music from le Yé-Yé to contemporary electronic punk.

Not only will French Kissing in the USA include two live solo musical sets by the legendary Kid Congo Powers (ex-Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Gun Club, etc.) and a piece by subversive performance artist/director/occultist Micki Pellerano, but NYNT’s favorite DJ, Ian Svenonius (ex-Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, The Psychic Soviet, Vice TV’s Soft Focus, etc.) brings the Yé-Yé, Jaiko Suzuki (Electroputas, Vanity Set, Boredoms 77 Drum, Mon Mon Mon Amour at La Caverna, etc.) brings the French pop, Maya (DJ White Glove, member of Backworld) brings the new wave and electronic, Acya (of the fab Marquise Dance Hall gallery and store) brings le pop francais, and Jonathan (New York Night Train) fills in the French prog, disco, rock, rap, and electronic gaps. New York’s most unique and stylish dance duo (what else would ya expect from Beacon’s Closet?), The Marmaladies provide l’action go go.

This bras d' honneur in the face of the mediocre, unimaginative, and economically exclusionary day-to-day mechanics of 21st Century New York art, music, and nightlife in general consciously attempts, as last time, to offer democratic door and drink prices along with the fun. It begins at 10pm on the nose when Mr. Svenonius begins his first set - Kid Congo’s first performance is at 11pm. Get there early (no advance tickets, first come first serve, the last event became completely sold out). We roll ‘til 4am. Dressing up is encouraged but completely unnecessary.

Encule le mode. Viva la dance. Viva le revolution...
Bons baisers,
New York Night Train and Live With Animals






Official Website: http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2007/07/09/animal-train-2-bastille-day/