Fuggedaboutit.
You all have Google these days, so I’ll let you commit your first participatory act as part of 5 Seconds of Decision/Summer Love-In 2 on your own. MC5 and The Grande Ballroom. Crass and Dial House. Pink Floyd and Tomorrow. Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol. The Situationist International. Agitprop. Dadaism. Pop Art. Avant-Garde. Counter Culture. Happenings. Psychedelia. Pulp. Beat. Punk. Film. Art. Vice.
5 Seconds of Decision is a finite, ongoing music, art and multimedia presence in Saint John, anchored around a series of monthly live electric avant- rock & roll spectacles at Peppers Pub on the Market Square Boardwalk. The first of such shows takes place Saturday, June 18, and doubles as a release party for Wooden Wives and Fredericton’s Lee Harvey Oswalds' split record ‘Together We Make Sense Of Life’, on Hamburger Tapes, with guests Tune In Tokyo.
5 Seconds of Decision will be a distillation of 2008’s original 13 week Summer Love-In opus at Melvin’s Pub. Music will include a cross section of Maritime lo-fi and psychedelic oddities, noted below, and set to a backdrop of film and visual projections. Audio will be recorded and made available for download throughout the duration of the series. Stringing all this together will be anything from street art, print-making, comics and posters, to performances, recordings and installations, to anything else made possible by contributions from the sum of our parts.
Your headquarters will be right here at 5secondsofdecision.blogspot.com. You can also join the 5 Seconds of Decision group on Facebook, and ‘Like’ hosts Wooden Wives for updates. Invaluable contributions from CultureHub.Ca, Third Space Gallery, Corey Bonnevie and Local 107.3fm will manifest and make possible the above foolishness.
Participation in the goings-on surrounding 5 Seconds of Decision involves a bunch of bands, artists, dudes, dames and such, but most importantly, it signals that you folks in the audience control the true means of production. This is no tie-dyed cliché or schmoove fest, but rather seeks to provoke, subvert, create, and trust us, we will all be shakin’ our hips in the aisles when the call comes.
Brothers and sisters, it takes 5 Seconds of Decision and we wanna know, are you ready to testify?
5 Seconds of Decision/Summer Love-In 2 at Peppers Pub
June 18: Wooden Wives, The Lee Harvey Oswalds (Fredericton), Tune In Tokyo
‘Together We Make Sense Of Life’ Hamburgers Tapes Release Party!
July 23: Adam Mowery, Construction and Destruction (Truro), Troy Charles
August 19: Wooden Wives, Cop Shades (Moncton), The Wayouts
Fall dates are TBA, but man, the bands we have been talking to are some dope, shitty weirdoes...
