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IF YOU GO A closer look Boomslang When: Through Sept. 23 at the festival Where: various locations around BOOMSLANG Lexington lineup Tickets: Full-festival pass: $70, $40 for UK students with ID. Admission to specific performances varies from Here is a roundup of several featured acts free to $25. DELEGATION performing for this year’s Boomslang. Ticket prices listed are for those who do not have Learn more: (859) 257-4636. Organizer of annual music and art festival knew she needed to farm four-day passes, which include admission to Boomslangfest.com. all shows. SCHEDULE out parts of the job; now, UK students have stepped up to the plate The Jesus and Mary Chain: Fronted by All events are free to full-festival siblings Jim and William Reid, The Jesus passholders. and Mary Chain was inspired by the punk movement of the 1970s but formed at the FRIDAY By Walter Tunis movement in getting the UK community that we ever have.” height of reign of synth-pop in the early ’80s. At Central Library Farish Theater, Contributing Music Writer students involved,” Brewer Some acts, like The Jesus Evolving from industrial-tinged compositions 140 E. Main St.: 7 p.m., Filmslang 2 Saraya Brewer says she had two said. “WRFL’s student directors and Mary Chain, were difficult to more streamlined pop works, the Reids local music video showcase; free. objectives when the third annual now have Boomslang duties to confirm. But others were split at the end of the ’90s but re-formed the At Cosmic Charlie’s, 388 Woodland Boomslang festival rolled around last incorporated into their official familiar with Boomslang and band in 2007. Boomslang marks the second Ave: 9 p.m., Five Knives, Deerhoof, year. responsibilities as employees approached WRFL about appearance by The Jesus and Mary Chain Apache Relay, Buke and Gase; $15. The first was to delegate. Having of the University of Kentucky. performing. A case in point at a University of Kentucky-affiliated event. It headlined a show in the Student Center At Land of Tomorrow Gallery, 527 E. overseen the weekend-long celebration Part of their job at WRFL has Brewer was the veteran West Coast of indie and underground music since been to actually take on certain experimental band Negativland, ballroom in spring 1990 after the release of Third St.: Midnight, Oneohtrix Point its album Automatic. (8:30 p.m. Sept. 23 with Never, X A M B U C A. $5. its inception in 2009, she wanted to aspects of Boomslang. I think whose music has varied from Gary War and Dinosaur Feathers. Buster’s SATURDAY farm out more of the organizational it’s a really valuable experience pop-esque compositions to Billiards & Backroom. $25.) responsibilities for Boomslang No. 4. for any student to be involved improvisational sound and At Third Street Stuff, 257 N. Negativland: Formed in the San Limestone: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Bizarre The second was to plan her in an event like this, to get noise sculptures performed Francisco Bay Area near the close of the Bazaar wedding. But getting that in order professional experience at in art galleries. Formed in ’70s, Negativland is a collective that has pretty much meant making doubly sure running a festival of this 1979, Negativland seldom explored numerous avenues of pop and At Awesome Inc., 348 E. Main St.: Boomslang was in capable hands, as caliber.” tours anymore. But co-founder sound expression. Among its more fabled 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Queerslang II adventures was an album titled U2 that workshops her nuptials follow this year’s festival For Margot Wielgus, a Mark Hosler wanted to make by two weeks. graduate student of philosophy Wielgus Boomslang one of the group’s locked Negativland into an extended and At Central Library Farish Theater: “It’s just the way that the planning at UK who serves as general few concert stops this fall. well- documented legal feud over copyright 2 p.m., Filmslang 2 Rock That Uke worked out,” Brewer said. “I kind of manager of WRFL, work on this year’s “Mark did a presentation the first infringement with a certain Irish band. screening; $3. 7 p.m., Filmslang 2 have the feeling that everything could Boomslang began soon after last year’s year of Boomslang where he talked Negativland has taken on all kinds of music, Pilgrim Song screening; $3. implode at any minute. But so far, the festival ended. about his work,” Brewer said. “It was art and activism since then. Among its newer recordings is It’s All in Your Head FM, an At Bar Lexington, 367 E. Main St.: 2 stress has been really minimal.” “The booking committee began really well-attended. We were surprised assemblage of sounds and speech samples p.m., Cloud Nothings, Girl in a Coma, Brewer added that the operational work at the end of last year,” she at how much of his cult following Futurebirds, Sleeping Bag; $15 compiled from its West Coast radio show, word for the execution of this year’s said. “It started simply as a matter packed out Natasha’s (Bistro & Bar) Over the Edge. (6 p.m. Sept. 23 with EnVaGe. At ArtsPlace, 161 N. Mill St.: 7 p.m., smooth Boomslang has been . The event of asking the general staff who they for it. So he approached us out of the Downtown Arts Center. $10.) Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, — which was to kick off Thursday would want to see at Boomslang, and blue this year to see if we might be The Younger Lovers: A self-described Sao Paulo Underground; $10 night and will conclude with a Sunday then contacting agents and bands to interested in a full-blown Negativland “philandering” garage pop band from At Buster’s Billiards & Backroom, evening headline concert at Buster’s by find who was available. That went on show. California that performs as part of the 899 Manchester St.: 8:30 p.m., the Scottish alt-rock brigade The Jesus through the summer. We confirmed all “This is a band that really works Saturday night, dance party-driven Queerslang Doomslang with St. Vitus, Merkaba, and Mary Chain — will utilize nearly a of the acts around the middle of the under the radar. They don’t go through segment of Boomslang. (10:30 p.m Sept. Weedeater, White Hills, Author and dozen Lexington venues. summer. So that was quite a process.” an agent. But Mark approached us Punisher, Soft Opening; $25. That community reach has become It was a process, Brewer said, that because he loved playing here before.” See BOOMSLANG, 24 At Cosmic Charlie’s: 10:30 p.m., standard operating procedure for wasn’t nearly as smooth at the start of Wielgus said, “The festival is able Queerslang with LE1F, The Younger Boomslang. But the role of student the summer as it is now. to bring some really excellent musical Lovers, Skeleton Head, $15. staffers and volunteers at the “I’m really, really proud of the whole artists to Lexington. And this is a very SUNDAY University of Kentucky’s independent festival and really excited about how special thing because, sometimes, these At Downtown Arts Center, 141 student-run radio station, WRFL-88.1 this year is turning out,” she said. “I musical acts are only on tour around E. Main St.: 6 p.m., Negativland, FM, Boomslang’s primary sponsor, has will admit, though, there was a time the area. But this is a really good EnVaGe; $10 increased steadily. This year, staffers about four months ago where we didn’t way to concentrate all of that musical At Carnegie Center for Literacy and have been involved in every facet of have these headliners locked in and energy right here. Learning, 251 W. Second St.: 7 p.m., the festival’s organization — from weren’t sure how things were going “Personally, I’m really excited about Accents: A Literary Celebration with booking concerts to formatting events to turn out or if we were going to be the diversity of all the different music Rebecca Gayle Howell, Tori Murden to securing performance spaces. Their able to secure the acts that we were we’re having. Hopefully, there will be McClure, Nancy Jensen; free. visibility and duties will increase hoping to get. But once it all unfolded, something for everyone there.” At Buster’s: 8:30 p.m., The Jesus as the festival hits full speed this all of us got really, really excited. COURTESY OF SUBPOP RECORDS and Mary Chain, Gary War, Dinosaur weekend. We’ve probably received the best and Read Walter Tunis’ blog, The Musical Box, at NEGATIVLAND.COM The Jesus and Mary Chain will help bring Feathers; $25. “There has been a really big most enthusiastic response from the LexGo.com. After giving a presentation at the first Boomslang in 2009, Mark Hosler of Negativland told festival organizers he wanted his band to be on the bill this year. the festival to a close on Sunday.