Siren, Asser-Levy Concerts: Holy F*ck, The B-52s, and more bands The Man doesn’t want you to say out loud

 Posted by Brian Hedden at 8:00 am  Coney Island, Events
Jun 212010
 

Don’t make the B-52s angry. You won’t like them when they’re angry! Photo: United States Air Force

The Village Voice has filled out the 14-band lineup for the 2010 Siren Festival with Holy Fuck and more. For the uninitiated: yes, Holy Fuck is a real band name. OK, so it isn’t the most popular or revered band in the lineup, but it is the most fun to say. (Go ahead – give it a try.) The Siren Festival takes place all day on Saturday, July 17, on two stages (W. 10th Street between the Cyclone and Luna Park, and Stillwell Avenue) near the Boardwalk. The full lineup is posted below and at the Village Voice.

In related news, The B-52s will be playing at the Thursday night concert series at Asser-Levy Seaside Park this August, but the Borough President’s office doesn’t want you to know that.

Marty Markowitz announced a Seaside Summer Concert Series lineup that includes Aretha Franklin, Belinda Carlisle, Brenda Lee, and George Thorogood & The Destroyers to a crowd at the YM-YWHA Israel festival last week. The full schedule is below, and the full details are available at news blog Sheepshead Bites.

As stated in the article, Markowitz asked Bites not to include the B-52s in the published lineup, for fear that the announcement may negatively impact sales of their July 6 appearance at the Highline Ballroom, a Manhattan music venue. But thanks to an “anonymous” commenter on Sheepshead Bites and “another” source contacted by BK Southie – “both” attendees of the YM-YWHA event – that information is now freely available.

On a personal note, I am glad to see Markowitz sees news bloggers such as Ned Berke at Sheepshead Bites as being on par with traditional media such as newspaper and TV reporters, and therefore expects bloggers to keep his secrets (especially publicly-announced secrets) from their readership, just like a traditional media reporter would.

Siren Festival Lineup (July 17)

  • Matt & Kim
  • Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
  • The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
  • Holy Fuck
  • Night Marchers
  • Surfer Blood
  • Harlem
  • Cymbals Eat Guitars
  • Earl Greyhound
  • Ponytail
  • Screaming Females
  • Wye Oak
  • Dom
  • Apache Beat

Seaside Concert Series Lineup

  • July 15 – Neil Sedaka, Brenda Lee
  • July 22 – The Beach Boys, The Happy Together Tour
  • July 29 – George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
  • August 5 – John Legend
  • August 12 – Aretha Franklin
  • August 19 – Belinda Carlisle, The B-52s
  • August 26 – Salsa By The Sea (Lineup TBD)

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  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/ Lisanne!

    Well, more than half a lifetime ago (at my age that’s a loooooong time) I ran a coffeehouse (they were big during the folk scare of the 1960s, we’re talking bout the seventies) and we would occasionally “borrow” acts that were playing elsewhere. Of course we could never advertise their performances because that would put their main gigs at risk. Id imagine that the B-52s have similar contractual concerns. So when Markowitz manages to get an act which is engaged locally for a paid concert he has to keep quiet too.

    I don’t like Marty anymore but I do understand his situation here.

  • Brian Hedden

    I understand the B-52s position very well. Free shows hurt the sales of paid shows. Actually, shows that are the day after a major travel weekend hurt paid shows more than free shows do, but that’s neither here nor there. I experienced this a few weeks ago, when I dropped $35 for Metric, one of my most favoritest bands. As soon as the show sold out, they announced a free show in Prospect Park this August. No way I’d have dropped the shekels on the paid show if I knew about the free.

    No, I have no problem with the B-52s requiring silence from the Borough President’s office. But that’s Marty’s problem, not Berke’s. Once Marty blabbed it to a crowd of people, his word to the band was broken – trying to “keep it out of the papers” after that is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.

    It also gets to an issue of the relationship of the press with the institutions they cover that’s a little bigger than a blogger and a New Wave band with a beehive hairdo. You kinda get the sense that Markowitz is used to that kind of fealty (“if I say don’t print it, you don’t print it”) from the newspaper men, and expected the same from the blogger.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/ Lisanne!

    Ned had no obligation, Marty did. And he could not expect that news media would not be covering the event or hear of this from someone who was there. But maybe he’s trying to sabotage the free series in some way, even though it’s supposedly his pride and joy. Then again, he’s really not the brightest crayon in the pack. I could see him slipping this quite accident.

    Of course, bloggers can make the choice whether to be maverick journalists or future members of the press establishment. I suspect that over time most bloggers will start leaning towards the latter. It’s the history of media.

  • http://www.sheepsheadbites.com Ned Berke | Sheepshead Bites

    I consider myself a maverick member of the press establishment of yesterday’s future today.

    Also, it was a freakin’ band and it’s called a professional courtesy. If Marty had gotten on stage and said, “I killed three hookers this weekend,” then when I went to confirm that it was 3 and not 33 if he says, “That information is embargoed,” I’d go publish it anyway. But this is a band. A freakin’ band.

   
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