Decibelle Schedule 2009 Oct 15th-18th

10PM-4AM :::: Decibelle 09' Kickoff Party

Featuring Emilie Simon (LIVE)

Chicago Debut! and DJ's Heather Doble, ZEBO

Also celebrating Edie, Scott and Zach's B-Day Bash and Stardust's one year Anniversary @ Berlin 954 W. Belmont Ave. $10@door

Emilie was awarded France’s “Victoires De La Musique” Awards (The French Grammys®) for her debut, and is touted as one of the most promising female artists in Europe--many calling her the “Bjork of France.”  Noted for her award winning score for March of the Penguin film, Emilie uses inventive techniques such as rubbing pieces of ice together to produce beats and sounds, and blends it with her electronic machinery and inviting lyrics.

Emilie Simon  http://www.myspace.com/emiliesimonmusic

My Gold Mask (LIVE) http://www.myspace.com/mygoldmask

ZEBO  http://www.myspace.com/djzebo

Heather Doble   http://www.myspace.com/heather_doble

Carlos Torres (Boys Room) >>>> Photos By Everyoneisfamous.com

Click image above to watch Emilie Simon's Space Oddity video.

FRIDAY October 16th

7PM & 10PM:::: Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Deep Blue Field (opening) @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4544 N Lincoln Ave. Chicago 773.728.6000

http://www.myspace.com/officialmeshellndegeocello

Decibelle is thrilled to partner with Old Town School of Folk Music to present the ten-time Grammy Nominated Me’shell Ndegeocello, a genre-destroying, soulful, musical chameleon often credited for having sparked the neo-soul movement. Incorporating funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, rock and jazz, the iconic Ndegeocello guarantees an incendiary live show.

Click image above to watch Me'Shell Ndegeocello video.

10PM:::: JD Samson (Letigre/MEN) DJ Set

@ Berlin 954 W. Belmont Ave. $7@door http://www.myspace.com/djjdsamson

Don’t miss JD Samson spin the Decibelle After-Party. The multi-talented Samson is a member of many ground-breaking bands, including disco-house punk band MEN; the feminist electropunk band Le Tigre; and Peaches' touring band. Samson is working with Le Tigre bandmate Johanna Fateman on a remix project titled MEN. Samson is an artful cross-medium collaborator, appearing on many albums –and even film--including John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus as "Jid", a patron of the Shortbus club.

SATURDAY October 17th

7PM-10:30PM :::: Decibelle Music Lounge

$6-$10 Sliding scale@door

@ Heartland Cafe 7000 N. Glenwood 773.465.8005  A portion of proceeds to benefit Michfest Fan Fund.

The Decibelle Music Lounge offers up a stellar line up of Indie performers bringing their best acoustic, electronic, spoken word and performance that you won’t see anywhere else. Enjoy Nive Nielsen repping Greenland’s Inuk Eskimos and making her Chicago debut with her dazzling Yukelele, Anomie Belle's breath taking ambiant electronic sounds, Chelsea Z's powerful five-piece orchestra sound, Jayme Dawiki's piano driven pop/rock as seen on MTV’s “The Real World Hollywood and Brooklyn", The Good Asian Drivers fierce words that tackle race and gender with candor, eloquence, and humor, Shayna Zaid's powerful smokey voice and playful jazzy swagger and Sarah Ndagire's Ugandan beats that will surely have you on the dance floor!

Featuring:

JUST ADDED *** All the way from Uganda, Africa...Sarah Ndagire  http://www.myspace.com/sarahndagire

Anomie Belle  http://www.myspace.com/anomiebelle

Chelsea Z.  http://www.myspace.com/chelseaztunes

Nive Nielsen  http://www.myspace.com/nivenielsen

Jayme Dawicki  http://www.myspace.com/jaymedawicki

Good Asian Drivers  http://www.myspace.com/goodasiandriverstour

Shayna Zaid and The Catch  www.myspace.com/shaynazaid

Anomie Belle

Nive Nielsen

Click image above to watch Nive Nielsen video.

Click image above to watch Sarah Ndagire video.

9PM :::Sister Spit: The Next Generation

Presented by Decibelle, Women and Children First and Sappho's Salon @ Women and Children First 5233 N. Clark 773.769.9299 $10@door

Decibelle and Women and Children Bookstore welcome the return of the queerest indie literary road show in the land, Sister Spit! Check out their latest stories, plus, tour tales from 90s Sister Spit survivors, performance by local Baby Remember contributors, and special guest hosting from Sex Worker Art Show Tour's Annie Oakley!

Sister Spit: The Next Generationwww.myspace.com/sisterspitnextgen

Hosted by MICHELLE TEA, co-founder of Sister Spit and the muscle behind Sister Spit: The Next Generation. Author of a bunch of books, including the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, and the coming-of-age-on-drugs novel Rose of No Man's Land.

And Starring:

BETH LISICK — author of the books Monkey Girl, Everybody Into the Pool, and Helping Me Help Myself. Nude performance artiste. Filmmaker. Comedienne. banana-for-hire. Beth will make you laugh so hard you get cramps as you hear about her self-help explorations with the likes of Sylvia Browne and Richard Simmons!

ARIEL SCHRAG, comics artist who documented her queer youth in a series of graphic novels — one of which, Potential, is being made into a movie by Killer Films. Writer for the television show The L Word. Editor of graphic anthologies. Become filled with wonder as Ariel enacts her hilarious and poignant comics with the aid of modern technology and her fellow tourmates!

SARA SEINBERG, poetic powerhouse. Creator of the multi-city K'Vetch Queer Open Mic. Veteran of the first Sister Spit tour ever. Artisitc Director of the past three Homo-A-Go-Go festivals. Photographer extraordinaire. Feel your breathe catch in your throat as Sara charms you with her words and enchants with her visual slideshow!

KIRYA TRABER, slam poet superhero. Teacher of poetry to the youth. Organizer of performances exploring queerness, race and more. You will get all revved up with inspiration as Kirya leaps off the page and into your brain with pieces vivisecting language, identity, beauty, the body, and whatever else she feels like!

BEN MCCOY, performance artist, novelist-in-progress, force of nature. Whose writings have been made into the short films My Hustler Boyfriend and The Face of God. Who created the one-person show Are You There God? It's Me, Ben McCoy! As seen on The Sex Workers Art Show Tour. Ben will electrify you with transformative vignettes of gender, heartache and street glamour.

RHIANNON ARGO, skater, future librarian, present novelist. Author of the queer tour-de-force The Creamsicle, which takes you into the lives of pill-popping, pole-dancing, heart-breaking, gender-fucking young queers as they try not to get evicted from their San Franciscan flophouses. Rhiannon will make you giggle and gasp with tales of squalor and splendor!

 

Sister Spit After-Party with The Chances Dances DJ's ::: 10pm-2am

Tickets $6/$5 with Sister Spit ticket stub

Ole Ole, 5413 N. Clark, Andersonville

 

SUNDAY October 18th

9PM-2AM :::: Decibelle Closing Party Jet Set with

Psalm One Live

@ Skybar 2242 N. Lincoln Ave. $6@door  www.myspace.com/psalmone

"Psalm One has been pretty quiet since 2006's The Death of Frequent Flyer (Rhymesayers). That makes her an oddity at a time when other MCs seem to release new material every week. But the former chemist is a pretty unforgettable personality, straddling the line between backpacker & street rapper and earning her audience without stooping to Lil' Kim-style sexploitation, so maybe she doesn't have to worry about shelf life quite as much as the average MC. It's good to have her back, & the time away doesn't seem to have dulled her skills."-Chicago Reader 9/17

Also featuring opening acts Anomie Belle (Live)  http://www.myspace.com/anomiebelle

and DJ All The Way Kay!
                       

Click image above to watch Psalm One video.