bringing together distinct artistic media, people, and generations within real grass roots underground culture, remaining nyc's most unpretentiously exciting party
Music
Quintron and Ms. Pussycat, Golden Triangle, James Chance, S-S-S-Spectres, Psychic TV, PTV3, Throbbing Gristle, Thee Majesty, Puddin' Tang, Kid Congo Powers, The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, Electroputas, Backworld, Stu Spasm, Diako Diakoff, Ghost Exits, Stay High, Viva l'American Death Ray Music, Sorceress, Robot Death Squad
Movies
projected onto all of the walls
Heroes
Pussycat Caverns, Spellcaster Lodge, Club 57, New Wave Vaudeville, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, and all things that raw, subcultural, organic, wild, and multi-media
Animal Train Happening's Details
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Cancer
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Saturtay, May 30, 2009, Animal Train Happening presents, our final party ever: The Circus: DJ sets by Mr. Jonathan Toubin and special guest Jon Spencer, live music by Preacher and the Knife, live music/performance by Raul de Nieves’ Try Cry, performance by Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne, escape and contortion acts by Jared the Conjurer, go go dancing by The Marmaladies, visuals by Mighty Robot AV Squad, décor by Live With Animals, Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent btw S. 1st and S. 2nd, Williamsburg, Brooklyn), 10pm – 4am, $7:
Now its time to say goodbye. Animal Train, a collaboration between New York Night Train and Live With Animals have put on nine wild and revolutionary subcultural multimedia theme dance parties featuring DJs, performance, projections, and dance in an entirely informally formalist environment designed, constructed, and lit entirely by local artists. We've taken you deep below the ocean floor, back to prehistoric times, into Warhol’s factory, to the French Revolution, and a number of other fantastic places and times with guests linking many generations of underground culture: legends like Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV), Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Ian Svenonius (Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, etc), Kid Congo Powers (Cramps, Bad Seeds, Gun Club), and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), and emerging musical talent like Golden Triangle, Ghost Exits, Pterodactyl, S-S-S-Spectres, and Puddin’ Tang. Jonathan and Vashti, still very much friends, have decided to discontinue the party not because of any ill-will, etc. but rather because this an undertaking of this magnitude requires more time and effort than either of us possess at this point. When we started, Jonathan's DJ career and Vashti's lifestyle as a touring and recording musician (Golden Triangle), were not yet even glimmers in either of our eyes, and now, two years down the road, our schedules have become far too busy to pull this off with any kind of frequency. The good news however is that we decided not to go out with a whimper - but, in the grandiose Animal Train fashion, of course, with a bang!
While we regret to inform you of our parting, we are, however, thrilled to announce our tenth and final and best party, The Circus. This theme, selected by Vashti to reflect the fact that this event has been a literal and figurative circus since we began, is not very ambiguous. Expect a big top with lots of cotton candy, balloons, and much more than three rings of action. The dance party will be presided over by Mr. Jonathan Toubin and his extra-special guest DJ Jon Spencer (yes! thee legendary - he of Heavy Trash, Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Pussy Galore, etc. fame. How often does this sharp-dressed legend DJ?). We will feature live music by NYC’s most darkly dynamic and intensely rhythmic new band Preacher and the Knife and up-and-coming visual/performance artist Raul De Nieves’ new theatrical musical act Try Cry Try and performances by Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne and both an escape and contortion act by the Jared the Conjurer of Vicious Vaudeville and Evil Burlesque, plus, as always go go dancing by the gorgeous Marmaladies (the three lovely ladies of Golden Triangle!), live projections and other visuals by Mighty Robot AV Squad and décor by Live With Animals Gallery. The party stretches from 10pm – 4am (get there early for the bands and stay late for the dance party! The cover is only $7. And, as always, expect surprises... Step right up and prepare to get in the tent!
ANIMAL TRAIN HAPPENING!!!
A partnership between New York Night Train zine/label and Live With Animals art gallery at Glasslands, Animal Train is DJs, performance, projections, and dance in an entirely informally formalist environment designed, constructed, and lit entirely by local artists. Our event is a deliberate 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. And fun is still priority #1...
Currently, our cast includes:
- Jonathan from New York Night Train - house DJ, conceptualist, event organizer, musical co-ordinator, and promoter
- Vashti from Live With Animals - visual and performance art co-ordinator, chief artist and designer, ladder climber, and Marmalady
- The Marmaladies - sexy, stylish, and soulful go go gals of Golden Triangle fame - The Mighty Robot AV Squad - wall-to-wall projections both ambient and representational
- Mikilandia Productions - daring, subversive, playful performance art
- Cam'ron Michel - resident artist, printer, technical co-ordinator, handyman, daredevil, and logistical advisor
- Ivan Sunshine - lighting
- Different musical guests and guest DJs every month who don't spin the typical contemporary dance music genres
Our parties thus far:
November 22, 2008: Candyland - decor: glowing gumdrops, giant lollypops, huge candycanes, and edible candy of all shapes and sizes
- costume: candy stripes and wonka
- guest DJ: Josh Styles (Smashed! Blocked!), William (Radio Heartbeat), Claudia (Babyshakes)
- musical guest: Shellshag
- performance: Hula-Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne
June 21, 2008: Get Down Galore on the Ocean Floor - decor: deep sea fauna and flora, fish, and mythical underwater creatures
- costume: mermaids, neptune, etc
- guest DJ: Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers)
- musical guest: MC Trachiotomy and Snake and Jet's Amazing Bullit Band (Copenhagen)
#7: March 1, 2008 - The Party - decor: socialist realist, flags, Eisenstein & Tziga Vertov
- costume: proletarian Party people from around the world & Castro
- guest DJs: Ian Svenonius (Weird War, Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, etc) & Kid Congo Powers (Cramps, Gun Club, Bad Seeds, etc)
- musical guest: Services
- performance: Micki Pellerano
#6: December 1, 2007 - Quintron's Happy Garden - decor: giant paper flowers, astroturf, bees, etc.
- costume: flowers, insects, and all things of the garden
- guest DJs: Quintron
- musical guest: Golden Triangle
- performance: "Trixie and the Treetrunks" film by Ms. Pussycat, live composition for three Drum Buddies by Quintron
#4: September 28, 2007 - Zodiac - decor: planets, astrological animals, and holy mountains
- costume: astrological animals and celestial attire
- guest DJ: Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance
- musical guest: the Ghost Exits
- performance: Micki Pellerano
#2: July 14, 2007 - Bastille Day - decor: we partied like 1789 a guillotine, a puppet theater, an Eiffel Tower more than a century ahead of its time, etc.
- costume: both noble and peasant fashion
- music: yeh yeh, French pop, French rock, French new wave, French electro, etc.
- guest DJs: Ian Svenonius of Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, etc., Jaiko Suzuki of Mon Mon Mon Amour, Maya the White Glove of Backworld, and Acja from Marquise Dancehall
- musical guest: the one and only Kid Congo Powers of Cramps, Bad Seeds, Gun Club, etc.
- performance: Micki Pellerano
June 29, 2007 - #1: Futureshock - decor: tinfoil and mylar robots, strobe lights, and other futuristic structures
- costume: space suits and assorted homemade futuristic concoctions
- music: 1970s intergalactic funk and space disco plus early 1980s robotic electro
- guest DJs: Chris from Ghost Exits, Sean from Stay High, Nick from Viva l'American Death Ray Music, Dr. Wizzard from Sorceress
- musical guests: Stu Spasm and Diako Diakoff
Who I'd like to meet: gypsies, tramps, and thieves - especially in costume
Pogo in Togo hosts a party at the Cakeshop tonight! Love Like Deloreans joins the bill with some amazing bands including The Magick Report, Willy Weird, Omega Jarden, and a very special guest who's name starts with an A and ends with a K. hmmmm...
So come and get wet with LLD, because Tuesday night is the night to party hard!
====== LIVE VISUEL HARDCORE/TECHNO/ELEKTRO/METAL ====== Salut à tous, je vous annonce que mon site officiel ouvre enfin ses porte === http://VisuaLCorps. fr/ === Vous avez les résumés de toutes les soirées. Ainsi que des photos ,videos, fly, vidéos démos visuelles. ======
====== [vERSION EN&US] I enjoy to present you my new official website ^^. === http://VisuaLCorps. fr/ === It present a summarise of all the events I played. And So much more videos and photographs, visual demos. The English Site Version comes soon ^^ please be patient ==== NEW VIDEO ^^ .. Juillet 2008 ELEKTRO BLASTER 2 - PART 2 envoyé par Vj_Reality..
