Friday, August 17
Savalas, 285 Bedford at S 1st, Williamsburg
10pm – 4am
Name Names AKA Ian Svenonius of Weird War World and New York Night Train’s soul proprietor Mssr. Jonathan Toubin

We shine up the disco ball and spin it around for your all night dancing pleasure. More than merely one of my favorite DJs and cultural figures, Mssr. Svenonius, of Make Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, Cupid Car Club, and David Candy fame, is also most recently the author of the excellent new collection The Psychic Soviet and Other Essays and the host of Vice TV’s Soft Focus talk show. One of the only proper sound systems and dance floors in Williamsburg, Savalas is ideal spot for the collision of our atypical get down mix and your boogie shoes.

Saturday, August 18
Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent btwn S 1st and S 2nd, Williamsburg
10pm – 4am
Animal Train #3: The Imploding Organic Uncertain: An Uptight Happening in the Silver Factory
With DJs Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye and Eric Z, Puddin’ Tang as the Velvet Underground, Mikilandia Productions, The Marmaladies, Mighty Robot AV

The big one, our third Animal Train Happening, my collaboration with Vashti of Live With Animals art gallery, as last time, will be a homespun multimedia theme-oriented dance spectacle in an environment created entirely by local artists. This time we’re doing a burlesque/homage centered around both Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable and Silver Factory. We’ll be adorned in superstar garb, coating the venue in tinfoil and white sheets, inflating up mylar balloons, taking Factory style screen tests of you while the Mighty Robot AV Squad projects them on the wall, and boogying all night long under an ecstatic wall to wall swirl of lights and ambient projections. And, while we’re on the subject of superstars, one of the more prolific, accomplished, and important and figures in art, music, and contemporary life in general, the legendary founder of the industrial and acid house musical genres, directly and indirectly responsible for a sizable chunk of the good, the bad, and the vital of 21st subculture in general, Throbbing Gristle/Psychick TV/COUM Transmissions’ Genesis P-Orridge and her other half Lady Jaye, will spin their first ever NYC DJ gig. Eric Z of Secret Project Robot will also be on hand to juggle some platters with me. Puddin’ Tang will return as the Velvet Underground for the first time since Halloween. The Marmaladies will go go whip dance. Mikilandia Productions will do their “Pop Music” performance piece (a composition performed on the body and balloons). It’s also an important party because we celebrate the reopening of our beloved Glasslands. The fine line between homage and parody doesn’t concern us when we create our own Factory out of waterfront junk and fill it with our own kind of celebrities – you. The party starts at ten prompt. Once again, get there sharp to early as the last two sold out and this one’s bigger than before and we’re limiting the attendance this time. Industrial fans will be added to the mix as well.