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Radio Free Urbana Fundraiser! Cowboy Monkey, Thur. Oct. 6 @ 8pm |
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by Lynsee Melchi
Email: lemelchi (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified!) |
05 Oct 2005
Modified: 10:35:55 PM |
Come support Radio Free Urbana, Thursday, October 6 at our latest rockin' fundraiser at the Cowboy Monkey. Doors will open at 9pm. Tickets are $6.
Featured bands are:
The Tractor Kings
Shipwreck
The Infinity Room
Plus local DJs, including The NoiseBoy
And a raffle with lots of chillin' prizes! |
Radio Free Urbana will be organizing a fundraiser benefit show at the Cowboy Monkey on Thursday Oct 6. Doors will open at 9pm. Tickets are $6. Come join us after the General Membership Meeting!!!!
Featured bands are:
The Tractor Kings
Shipwreck
The Infinity Room
Local DJs, including The NoiseBoy
The show will include a raffle with prizes ranging from restaurant certificates to CDs from local artists. All proceeds will go toward our "barn raising" in November.
More on the bands:
Tractor Kings: The brain-child of Jake Fleischli, a
quiet man who has soaked his soul in Bob Dylan
bootlegs, this rockin' Americana four-piece is back at
it again with a new lineup featuring Josh Lucas on
drums, Jonny Chemical on electric guitar, Aaron
McCallister on bass and Fleischli on acoustic
12-string guitar and harmonica. The quartet has plenty
of new material to supplement their first two albums
on local indie Mud Records. For more info contact Jake
at jrf27 (at) msn.com or see them on the web at
www.myspace.com/thetractorkings.
Shipwreck: Out of the ashes of C-U's legendary
country-punks The Buzzards comes atmospheric indie
rock rock group Shipwreck, featuring dueling frontmen
Harman Jordan (formerly of The Buzzards) and John Owen
on guitars, Vladamir Brilliant on bass, and
Christopher Waage on drums. The group's debut record,
Origin, is a collection of ten layered rock songs with
a sonic drawl that reminds many of Luna bulked up on
steroids. Origin was released in August and is
available for purchase or (free) download from their
web site, www.shipwreckband.com. Contact them at
info (at) shipwreckband.com.
The Infinity Room: An up-and-coming indie rock band
from Millikin University in nearby Decatur, The
Infinity Room are one-part early-'90s shoegazer and
two-parts classic Radiohead. Or, short, they're a
melodic juggernaut that doesn't sound much like
anything the Midwest has produced as of late (and
that's a good thing!). This will be just their fifth
show in C-U in the past year. See them on the web at
www.myspace.com/theinfinityroom or
www.theinfinityroom.com.
For additional info on WRFU or this show, please
e-mail Doug Hoepker at doughoepker (at) yahoo.com.
Thanks. |
See also:
http://www.wrfu.net
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Benefit concert a success! |
by via RFU email
(No verified email address) |
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07 Oct 2005
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Tonight's benefit concert for WRFU at the Cowboy
Monkey raised $508 for the station. Much thanks to
those who were helpful, including: Donovan and Lynsee
for helping with the raffle (both in terms of
acquiring items to raffle and orchestrating the
raffle), which raised $100 of that total on its own;
the bands for playing the event and putting on great
shows; Ward Gollings and the Cowboy Monkey for
agreeing to host the event; the businesses who
graciously agreed to donate to the raffle; RFU folks
and IMC folks for attending (some of which won raffle
prizes!); local music fans in general for coming out
to support some great bands and a worthwhile cause.
It was a good time, and a reminder to all who attended
that if we work together, the benefit can be felt by
all! The barnraising is 36 days away -- it's not too
late to learn what you can do to help get WRFU on the
air.
-Doug |
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Re: Radio Free Urbana Fundraiser! Cowboy Monkey, Thur. Oct. 6 @ 8pm |
by ML
(No verified email address) |
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07 Oct 2005
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Thanks to Doug for the update!
And thanks again to everyone whose patience and efforts are really starting to pay off in terms of public interest, contributions, and recruiting of new participants in the Radio Free Urbana project!
It is remarkable how much interest and support the WRFU project is generating. Given the commerical wasteland that typifies much of the radio dial, the community's hunger for more airtime devoted to what people actually want to hear, in all its diversity, shows how important the efforts of the few existing such broadcasters, like WEFT and WILL, really are. Those few local stations whose programming is not strictly determined by the interests of advertisers actually serve the public far better, on average, than the multiple cloned format stations whose programming is primarily driven by what they want to sell you and not what you really want to hear. WRFU will offer another 168 hours every week of primarily locally originated programming that will be determined by what the public wants to hear.
Much remains to be accomplished in a very short time to get the first floor of the IMC building ready and the station on the air. If you've been wondering what you can do to help this process along, stay tuned for more info on helping get WRFU on the air, email the RFU list at rfu (at) lists.chambana.net or just come to one of our meetings. After more than five years of work, it now looks like we are only a little over a month away from going live on-air.
It is not just constructing the station, but also things like helping staff the RFU booth at the Farmers Market on Saturday mornings and organize how we do a number of things needed to actually broadcast. Please join in helping put together the WRFU radio barnraising in conjunction with the Prometheus Radio Project at meetings that are held _every_ Wednesday at 7pm until the barnraising and at the next RFU meeting at 8pm on Tuesday, Oct. 18. No matter what your interests or skill level, there is work that needs your participation in order to accomplish a successful barnraising to put WRFU on the air at 104.5 FM. |
