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Upcoming Shows

 

Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 - 8:00 PM
The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street
San Francisco, California 94103

Double CD Edgetone Release Performance:
8pm Lords of Outland - "You can sleep when you're dead!"
9pm Eddie the Rat - "Insomnia Sound Bible"

Admission $6-10 sliding scale. All ages welcome, no one refused for lack of funds.

More info:
http://www.bayimproviser.com/venuedetail.asp?venue_id=7
http://edgetonerecords.com/

   
  Past Shows
 

Friday September 14, 2007
Edinburgh Castle Pub
950 Geary St., San Francisco, California
EDGE NIGHT 1 with TRI-CORNERED TENT SHOW and DR BOB

Sunday July 29, 2007
Yosemite Sound Festival
Stockton, California
with Bloom

Saturday July 28, 2007
Edgetone New Music Summit
21 Grand Gallery, 416 25th St., Oakland, CA

Saturday July 21, 2007
KFJC live mic
Palo Alto, California
89.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area

Saturday July 14, 2007
Eclectic Company
Orange Country, Santa Ana, California
with Marc Levinthal, Madame Grislee, and Jonas

Friday July 13, 2007
Loud Music Symposium
Los Angeles, California
More info: http://www.renegades.org/calendar/index.php?month=7&year=2007

Tuesday May 15, 2007
No Other Radio Network , KPFA 94.1FM, Berkeley, CA
Radio Performance and Interview

March 23, 2007
CD release party for Dr. Bob
21 Grand Gallery, 416 25th St., Oakland, CA
With: Doctor Bob

December 14, 2006
Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series
1007 Market Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco California
with Thea Farhadian

August 10, 2006
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street, Post & Sutter, San Fransicko, CA

Friday July 7, 2006 [flyer]
Loud Music Symposium 7
www.renegades.org/loudmusic
Torrance High School
2200 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA

Saturday, June 3, 2006
Freeform KDVS in Davis presents...
Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom III

Woodland, CA 95695
with Advantage, Art Lessing, Betsy & the Teen Takeovers, Clipd Beaks, Erase Errata, Ettrick
Megacools, Micose and the Mau Maus, Night Wounds, Oaxacan, Sholi, ..Worms

Sunday April 30, 2006
Loud Music Symposium 7
Heritage Theatre in Campbell, CA

Sunday April 2, 2006
Delta of Venus, Davis, CA
with Ettrick and Oaxacan

Saturday, November 5
Eddie The Rat merged abstraction with tunefulness, experimental headiness with emotional response on the Psychoacoustic Soundclash Radio show (KFJC 89.7 FM)

Saturday October 15, 2005
New Langton Arts

1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA

Review - SF Weekly (October 12, 2005)
Five years back, Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Peter Martin launched a high-concept aural drama called Eddie the Rat. Boasting the talents of more than a dozen local performers, including vocalist/percussionist Molly Tascone and instrument builder Dan Ake, Martin's adventuresome ensemble effort places the listener directly in the theatrical line of fire, where dames and dudes -- in a haze of cigarettes, booze, high-speed chases, and impassioned embraces -- duke it out in an epic struggle for survival on the fog-swept streets of San Francisco. "The group seeks to create music which challenges the listener's emotional response," suggests the bandleader. The idea is to provoke audiences by upending expectations with unusual arrangements of all kinds of electroacoustic material. Thus, a riot of disembodied voices haunts rather than sings, richly layered instrumental loops purposefully evade harmonic development, and a steady percussive clangor leans toward melodic and timbral experimentation rather than beats or grooves. In the end, Eddie the Rat's soundtracks are a mystery of sorts, a noirish thrill ride with lots of shadow and light. Find out what it's all about when the troupe performs on Saturday, Oct. 15, at New Langton Arts; call 626-5416 or go to www.newlangtonarts.org for more info. -- Sam Prestianni

Saturday September 24, 2005 [flyer]
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St. San Francisco, CA
with Change! and CHE'

Thursday September 15, 2005 [flyer]
Studio Z
314 11th Street, San Francisco, CA
with Sorrow Town Choir, Memoir and Ricky Garcia

Saturday July 23, 2005
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St., San Francisco, CA
with CHE' and The Gomorrans.

Saturday July 9, 2005
THE 3RD ANNUAL CANCERPALOOZA
Pt. Arena, CA

Thursday June 30, 2005
Red Eye Lounge
1337 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
with Plumb

Thursday June 16, 2005
Stork Club
2330 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA
with CHE' and Las Pesadillas

Thursday June 2, 2005
Luggage Store
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street, San Francisco, CA
with Rick Walker's Loop.pooL.

Saturday April 16, 2005
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St., San Francisco, CA
with CHE', Kooliecat and Hazy

Wednesday March 9, 2005
21 Grand, 449B 23rd St., Oakland, CA
with Dan Deacon and Height. Sound tech by Big City Orchestra

Tuesday February 15, 2005
No Other Radio Network , KPFA 94.1FM, Berkeley, CA
Radio Performance and Interview
Check out the archived audio!

January 21, 2004
Kimo's
1351 Polk St @ Pine, San Francisco, CA

January 3, 2003
Kimo's
1351 Polk St @ Pine, San Francisco, CA

November 21, 2003
3001 Cloudview Lane, Hayward, CA
with Bob O Magic, The Donts, HyimVibe and more!

September 24, 2003
Studio Z
314 11th Street, San Francisco, CA

September 5th, 2003
The Tempest
431 Natoma St., San Francisco, CA
with Perrish and others

August 30th, 2003
5lowershop
San Francisco, CA

June 29, 2003
9th Annual Experimental Music Festival
Heart and Soul Dance Studio, Olympia, WA

June 14, 2003
The Tempest
431 Natoma St., San Francisco, CA
with The Lulls

April 23, 2003
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St., San Francisco, CA

April 23, 2003
Press & Release, KZSU 90.1 FM Stanford, CA
Radio Performance and Interview

April 7 & 8, 2003
Theater of Yugen
2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
This was not a full length Eddie the Rat performance and primarily featured
performances by DIDIK NINI THOWOK with the EtR ensemble in tow while in SF

April 18th, 2003
Kimo's
1351 Polk St., San Francisco, CA
with Stout and others

April 4, 2003
The Odeon Bar
3223 Mission, San Francisco, CA
with DIDIK NINI THOWOK from Java

November 11, 2002
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St., San Francisco, CA
with members of Deerhoof, Tiny Bird Mouths, and many more

June 1, 2002
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St., San Francisco, CA

March 24, 2002
848 Space
848 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA

March 2, 2002
Cell Space
2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA
"Food For The Moon Too Soon" CD release party!

February 16, 2002
21 Grand
449B 23rd St., Oakland, CA

October 19, 2001
ATA (Artists Television Access)
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
premier of "Just Another Spin Cycle in the Black Hole of Spirituality"

September 6, 2001
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St., San Francisco, CA

August 31, 2001
Cafe Wazeima
543 Divisadero St., San Francisco, CA

July 27, 2001
Cafe Wazeima
543 Divisadero St., San Francisco, CA

June 8, 2001
Cafe Wazeima
543 Divisadero St., San Francisco, CA