Our little rock fest was listed favorably on Triangle Rock this week  
(March 16 towards the bottom of the page):

http://trianglerock.com/

The "basketball-related rioting" mentioned in the blurb refers to the  
fact that the first weekend of Camp 5 is the ACC basketball  
tournament. UNC is first seed as regular season champs. There are  
usually bonfires and thousands of people on Franklin Street after  
each UNC win, especially if UNC either beats Duke or wins the tourney  
itself. The police chief here recently admitted in the local  
newspaper that they've pretty much given up on trying to stop the  
bonfires in the street. The next weekend at the end of the BBQ Sprint  
is the first round of the NCAA tourney. Huge demonstrations in the  
street are pretty much guaranteed each night of that as it will be  
the end of spring break and there will be many more students back in  
town. If you want to sit out the mayhem, get to Bailey's, the  
gigantic sports bar and billiards hall (yes, with pub food) beside  
the Hampton Inn early. The place will be packed at game time.

Also, the very limited edition signed and numbered silk screen prints  
for the BBQ Sprint Rock Festival by Ron Liberti (featured in The Art  
of Modern Rock) have arrived. They will be available for $20 apiece  
at the classroom as a special TriZPUG fundraiser. Ron's posters of  
this size and quality usually go for $100 each in gallery shows, even  
in much larger production runs. Ron rather humorously chose a famous  
image of WWII soldiers at boot camp to appropriate for the poster.  
Ron is the irrepressible frontman for legendary Chapel Hill indie  
rock bands Pipe, Ghost of Rock, and more recently, Victory Factory.  
To many people, Pipe was Chapel Hill's finest hour. You want one of  
these prints. Suitable for framing.

Other shows of note during Camp 5/BBQ Sprint:

Pietasters at the world famous Cat's Cradle on Saturday the 10th. The  
Pietasters are a ska band of long standing. I met their trombonist,  
Jeremy Roberts, at PyCon. I'm not sure what Jeremy does with Python  
but he's a very nice fellow. Jeremy invites you all to come out to  
the Cradle and introduce yourselves. Advance tickets are available at  
etix.com for $12.

Clang Quartet at Nightlite on Sunday the 11th. Nightlite is the local  
noise emporium. Clang Quartet is the one man "Christian noise  
percussion" project of Scotty Irving from Geezer Lake and Eugene  
Chadbourne. And I'm not kidding. Scotty is the subject of a  
documentary film called "Armor of God" screened at over eighty film  
festivals and which details how Scotty's faith led him to create the  
amazing racket he produces. Very entertaining to watch even if you  
might need earplugs.

Can Joann at Resevoir on Monday the 11th.

The Capitol Years at Local 506 on Monday the 12th.

Twilighter at Fuse on Thursday the 15th.

Mitch Easter and Don Dixon at the Cradle on Saturday the 17th. I  
can't stand Don Dixon. Mitch Easter made some of my favorite records  
ever as Let's Active. Together they produced the first three R.E.M.  
albums.

Local darlings Cities are playing tonight (Thur the 8th) at a new  
club called Blend. Their CD is well worth owning and can be obtained  
at the very fine CD Alley on Franklin Street. We tried to get them  
for the BBQ Sprint Rock Festival but the bill filled up with high  
quality acts before we got that far.

Unfortunately, Friday night when most of you are getting in, the  
local music scene will be all about neighboring Durham, where a big  
show at Broad Street and a new club opening called Bull City  
Headquarters are happening. Take the opportunity to get some sleep  
after jumping bonfires.

If you are into things more twangy or on the Americana side, The Cave  
on Franklin Street is for you seven nights a week.

You can check out all the music playing locally for the next week at  
Mr. Grady's fine service http://groovo.org/

You can usually win tickets in pairs to any show in the Triangle very  
easily by listening to WXYC 89.3 or WXDU 88.7 in the early evening  
and having a phone handy.

--
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.seacoos.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall cell: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599