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LE FIGHTBACK
//YOU UPGRADEmag//
june 5.
2001
LOST AND LAST, MEDICINE DRUM with special guest EAGLE SPIRIT and LUMIN ALSO...DJ Zack Darling, Fontain's M.U.S.E., Oddvillian Side Show, Art of Spirit, Calliope Stilt Troupe, Majinga the Magician Organic Food and Chai, Solstice Ritual, Mask Dancers, Giant Puppets, Aerialists, Video Imagery, Healing Temple, Natural Foods Cafe and much more... Bring a spirit of interaction, connection, playfulness, and expression. Colorful dress and spontaneous performance are welcome Grace Pavilion, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa (just next to the Health & Harmony Festival off Hwy.12) 7pm to 1am $20. All Ages. Alcohol free (707) 547-9355 www.harmonyfestival.com and www.mysticbeatlounge.com info@mysticbeatlounge.com TICKETS: Copperfield's Books, Whole Food Markets, Oliver's Market, Santa Rosa Community Market, Incredible Records, Harmonics, Open Heart Bookstore, Organic Groceries, Real Goods, Marin Outdoors, Food 4 Humans, Book Passage (Corte Madera), Mendocino Book Co (Ukiah), A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books (SF). Also through Ticketweb at 866-468-3399 and on-line at www.harmonyfestival.com. YOU 2414 Los Angeles SAT JUNE 8 Envision the Eco-Village. Spoken word presentation by Twist over live ambient jam w/visuals. Voce chakra chanting w/Phil Harrington. Live performance by Uterine Chrome: Psychotronic breakbeat improv w/Eliza (bluegirl) & Eklektro. Mark Trance live. Learning Party DJs: Damaru, Mighty I, Twist, Taffee. Visuals by InnerLight Medicine Show and Magical Mystery Lab. http://www.learningparty.com/core.html YOU 2415 THE WINTER FORECAST It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets, so, when he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the weather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he replied to his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared. But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?" "It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold indeed," the meteorologist at the weather service responded. So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more wood in order to be prepared. A week later he repeated his call to the National Weather service. "Is it going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter." The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of wood they could find. Two weeks later he called the National Weather Service once more. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely," the man replied. "It's going to be one of the coldest winters ever. "How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked. The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting wood like crazy." YOU 2416 London SUN JUNE 10 This month HB goes EASTERN EUROPEAN GYPSY STYLE with all guests being underground bands from overseas. HB proudly presents ""MUKKA"" resplendent with their ROMANIAN DIVA! This is dance music Balkan style. "PECA" a Hungarian trio Mixes new wave with sufi! Throw in to the mix a couple of ""Raqs sharqi"" belly dancers, Leila on trapeze, legendary DJ Nelson Dilation and mesmerizing lights and visuals to complete the magic. Food, a chill out area and Hubble Bubble pipes help you recharge after what is a guaranteed time of pure pleasure, Go get some if you dare. Union Chapel Studio, Compton Ave, N1. (High & Isl tube) 7-12pm. £6. A free CD for first 20 arrivals. 0795 116 7654 more/latest info at http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evINET583 YOU 2417 BILL GATES V GENERAL MOTORS Bill Gates recently compared the computer industry with the auto industry, stating: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response, General Motors has now issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: l. 2. 3. and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. YOU 2418 THURS EVE JUNE 21 PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY AND PASS IT ON! FIRST DAY OF SUMMER ROLLING BLACKOUT 7-10PM WORLDWIDE, ALL TIME ZONES PLEASE participate in a global voluntary ROLLING BLACKOUT on this, the first day of summer. If everyone does it from 7-10pm in his or her time zone, it will roll it around the planet. PLEASE turn out your lights, unplug whatever you can unplug, light a candle to the Sun Goddess, kiss and tell or not, take a stroll in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything that's not electronic - have fun in the dark. PLEASE forward this email as widely as possible, including your government representatives and environmental allies. Let them know we want global education, participation and funding in conservation, efficiency and alternative fuel efforts - and an end to over-exploitation and misuse of the earth's resources. Remember that, in the same breath that the Cheney-Bush team tells us that "conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive to implement those technologies," they're also telling us how easy it is to develop and deploy weapons for blowing incoming ICBMs out of the sky. YOU 2419 RAVE CRACKDOWN// LE FIGHTBACK CONTINUES! With the French government about to pass a law which would allow les gendarmes to close down unlicensed parties and confiscate sound equipment (well well, where have we heard this before?) much of the FIGHTBACK action these last few weeks has been in France. Paris SAT JUNE 16 A l’occasion de son Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire du 23 mai, Technopol a adopté une résolution commune avec les représentants de la scène «FREE PARTIES» invités: une grande manifestation festive unitaire associant sound systèmes et l’ensemble des acteurs et amateurs de la scène électronique aura lieu samedi 16 juin sur le thème de «LAISSEZ-NOUS DANSER!». Les artistes de la scène électronique, les organisateurs, les labels et médias impliqués par la nouvelle génération électronique et leur public demanderont une nouvelle fois le retrait immédiat de l’amendement, l’arrêt de la répression et le retour au dialogue. Chacun manifestera au son de sa propre musique pour demander le retrait de l’amendement du député Mariani et contre les mesures sécuritaires du gouvernement. Pour le droit à la fête! TECHNOPOL DÉNONCE : - la répression violente du sit-in pacifique de Toulouse (charge de CRS, confiscation et bris de matériel photos et vidéo…). - le fossé d’incompréhension entre jeunes et représentants des pouvoirs publics. - l’amalgame répressif envers l’ensemble de la scène électronique. Depuis la date de l’amendement Mariani et de la médiatisation qui s’en est suivie, de nouveaux refus d’autorisation et des interdits touchent toutes sortes d’événements électroniques. Les faits s’accumulent et touchent des lieux aussi variés que des bars, des clubs, des salles de spectacles et des festivals. La saison d’été 2001 est menacée. De plus, comment pourrait-on demander aux organisateurs de « free parties » de faire une déclaration préalable aux « rassemblements festifs à caractère musical » quand on réprime déjà ceux qui respecte le cadre législatif? TECHNOPOL DEMANDE le retrait de l’amendement et la mise en place d’un nouveau dialogue Les FREE PARTIES sont des événements spontanés existant en France depuis près de dix ans. Face à l’expression d’un besoin communautaire de milliers de jeunes voulant se réunir entre eux dans un cadre non commercial, pacifique et propice à l’éclosion d’une nouvelle génération d’artistes. Technopol plaide pour une réponse politique intelligente et responsable. Cette culture émergente et alternative doit associer tous les acteurs concernés : les organisateurs de fête amateurs et associatifs, les ministères de la Culture, de la Jeunesse et des Sports et de l’Intérieur, les élus locaux, les associations de prévention, etc. Des travaux étaient en cours afin de trouver des réponses adaptées et concertées aux problèmes soulevés par ces rassemblements. Le dialogue entre les parties doit exister. Rendez-vous à Paris place de la République à 14h pour une manifestation festive et final place de la Bastille. Des infos pratiques concernant la manifestation seront communiquées ultérieurement. Contact: Technopol Association de défense, de reconnaissance et de promotion des musiques et arts électroniques Tel 01 42 47 84 75 / 01 42 47 84 76 fax 01 42 47 03 03 technopol@free.fr YOU 2420 SUN JUNE 3 SHAMANARCHIC SUNDAY ZIPPY PICNIC REPORT Around 4pm on Sunday the 3rd June a diverse band of countercultural evolutionaries descended once again on our secluded grove on Hampstead Heath to celebrate the annual institution of the Zippy Picnic (which seems to have been kept going by Fraser Clark since around 4000BC). Originally a celebration of the anniversary of the Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, last year this event underwent a millennial mutation into a spontaneous people’s potlatch, with its now legendary Goddess Invocation and Ginsberg Rite, initiated by the Dionysian Underground. This year the vibe was even more spontaneous and unstructured as many of the celebrants intoxicated themselves on absinthe, wine, music and smoke etc and let the event emerge from its teleological chaos. The dU had intended to perform an opening rite but this was proved to be unnecessary as spontaneity was evolving naturally from a small core of early arrivals. Instead a previously magically charged CD of Orphic music was played in accompaniment to the acoustic emergence from the Zippy drummers and musicians. The resultant musical dialectic shifting the mood further into the psychedelic as soap bubbles began to drift across the hill. The event also became an unofficial birthday celebration as birthday boy James from across the hill joined us. Whereas last year was a celebration of the media star Ginsberg, this year was a higher celebration of the star inside even the most ‘ordinary’ person. Memory begins to fail me at this point, but fragmentary memories remain of later highlights including a Sheela Na Gig event in the woods, with a living fountain rite, fertilising the foliage; a freeform invocation of Kate Bush by John Constable and friends; free ‘brain machine’ sessions; and a surprise visit from a group of Aztec shamans. All of the above combined to make the 2001 Zippy Picnic a (partially) memorable magickal and liberatory event. Steve A/Dionysian Underground 'If you can remember the 2001 Zippy Picnic you weren't there!' YOU 2421 VIRUS ALERT HOAX there's a new virus hoax going around that tries to trick you into deleting a file that you need. as usual this hoax is spreading like mad. For goddess's sake, be aware of this kind of "spam virus" the best way is to always check on any virus warning before you forward it to loadsa people. You can do this by clicking this link to those nice symantec people http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.htmlhttp://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html click on the search link and type in the name of the virus you are worried about. 99% of the time the words hoax will be returned. As in the current case:- AVERT HOAX Notice!! McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of a new email HOAX. Although, the SULFNBK.EXE file may become infected by a number of valid viruses (most commonly W32/Magistr@MM) the details of this HOAX message are not based on actual events. We are advising users who receive the email to delete the message and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates. In the event that the SULFNBK.EXE file was deleted erroneously, the following method may be used to restore the file from backup: Windows 98 Instructions 1) Click START - RUN, type SFC and hit ENTER 2) In the "Specify the system file you would like to restore" field, type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SULFNBK.EXE and hit ENTER 3) In the RESTORE FROM field, type in the path to your WINDOWS CAB files (ie. C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS) (ie. D:\WIN98 where D is the drive letter assigned to your CD-ROM) 4) Click OK and continue with the restore function Windows ME Instructions 1) Click START - RUN, type MSCONFIG and hit ENTER 2) Click the Extract Files button 3) In the "Specify the system file you would like to restore" field, type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SULFNBK.EXE and hit ENTER 4) In the RESTORE FROM field, type in the path to your WINDOWS CAB files (ie. C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\INSTALL) 5) Click OK and continue with the restore function <sent in by spyder> YOU 2422 "Everywhere people are actually talking to each other!" Time Out SAT JUNE 16 Presented by Parallel YOUniversity (purveyors of legendary clubs like Megatripolis and the Warp Experience) 1. Ultra (resident) Lee Techtonic (Warp Experience) Marco Arnaldi (Megatripolis) 2. 3am after party - DJ Dalaman (Mandala Posse) 3. "Like Shakespeare on acid" Time Out 3am Ambient After Party with The Liberated Astronaut (aka Steve Radford of Mr.Night & Day/Knights of the Occasional Table)... "Shaman and rave culture theoretician, DEN promoter Fraser Clark is a passionate believer in collective global consciousness-raising, party-style." S-X mag 4. + Enlightenment Intensive with Guru Dave + Inter Ference: Oratorio Musicali + Talking Circle "Everywhere people are actually talking to each other, swapping ideas, views, phone numbers. " Time Out
DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT 11pm- 6am Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, SE5 £10/6concs INFO: 0207-813-9685 www.parallel-youniversity.com ADVANCE TICKETS from ACCESS ALL AREAS, Camden ================================================== "From Camberwell to nirvana in seven hours, the Enlightenment starts here." Time Out |