Following the footsteps of the original fest creators and organizers, Floyd Diebel and Jay Truesdale, now a committee of people keep this thing going and going and going...
Current active members include...
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Bill "Jetrock Fuckblast" Burg (Uberkunst and Smite!)
Lob (Instagon)
John Laviolette (Kristal Marimba Lounge)
Jim Willig (Audioemetic)
The Northern California Noise Festival originally grew out of the summer-long Sacramento Experimental Music Series, originally held in 1994.
The festival was officially kicked off in 1995 and was held at the Guild Theater in Sacramento, on November 3rd, and 4th. Performers came from all over the western United States and Canada. Waffles were served free of charge to fest goers for the early Saturday show, thus a waffle brunch tradition was started and continues every year.
With the original designers of NF (Floyd and Jay) moving on to other projects, the fest lay dormant for the years 1998 & 1999. In 2000, Bill Burg reanimated the rotting corpse to great success. Soon after, a small committee of locals involved in noise joined Bill to help keep The Norcal NF occurring every Fall.
In 2005, Lob of Thee Instagon Foundation joined the NF Crew team as booking and stage manager, and official MC..giving even more diversity to the NF event.
2008 will mark the 13 year anniversary of NOISEFEST happening in the Sacramento area, and will be the 12th time this event has occurred. After searching the web and beyond ..we have yet to find ANY other Noise/Experimental festival happening anywhere else in the World that has continued for as long as NorCal NoiseFest has..
CHECK OUT OUR NEW MERCH PAGE http://www.norcalnoisefest.com/merch.html
We thank you for your patronage.
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This site is dedicated to the Norcal NOISE Fest...If you wish to add us as friends, please understand that this is truley a festival of NOISE. For examples of what we mean by "noise", please listen to the mp3s availible on this page and/or check out artists that have played in previous years. If your are not interested in this genre and just want to add us to promote yourself, please look elsewhere
Local Sacramento News story about NF1995 TRALPHAZ (sf,ca) at NF2005
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Hey, we want to help out with all the shit you're doing. We think you're awesome. We think your uncompromising stand against authority, against tyranny is inspiring. We want to help.
Invite us to wade through teargas with you, or break through police lines, to create a distraction while you rob a bank to redistribute the wealth in the name of the Cause. Invite us to help tear down the walls of oppression -- understand that it is totally okay if you mean this literally.
Trash Orchestra is a marching percussion band -- a bone-shaking recycled orchestra. We make percussion on tuned cans, hubcaps and barrels, drums, pieces of sheet metal, and homemade oddities.
More advance notice is better and maybe some help getting and staying there. But we are game to consider anything.
We'd love to do what we can to support your efforts.
Photos, audio, rants, etc at www.trashorchestra.org
have you had your daily dose of the common men? shaking your hips has been known to cure standing still. we know... we tested that theory ourselves. - kevin ian common <3
NF07 this past weekend was amazing.. Jolthrower appreciates the work that was done and the space to be loud in.. thanks to the NF crew even though most of them drink pussy soda's like Dr.Pepper.
thanks so much for having Shrew Florist at Noisefest this year! we had tons and tons of fun, met and hung out with really nice people, got to see soem extremely super-awesome sets and we even got some comp CDs! aw yeah!!!! hope all is going good today at Day 3!!! sorry we couldn't stay the whole fest - work schedules have been crazy.....
hope to talk soon, -cory (1/millionth of Shrew Florist)
