The Village Voice?s annual Siren Music Festival is scheduled for Saturday, July 19th. They?re beginning to announce the bands:
Modest Mouse
Hot Hot Heat
Sahara Hotnights
!!!
The Kills
Radio 4
Ted Leo/ Pharmacists
Northern State
The Pattern
The web site says that many more great bands will be announced soon. I?m sure that?s true. It?s an all day event, free to the public, and open to all ages. How lovely.
Dick Zigun ? often referred to as the ?Mayor? of Coney Island ? and owner of the famous Coney Island Circus Sideshow and Coney Island Museum, was my theater professor. He gave me lots of As, and often acknowledged that I understood the work we were studying even better than he did. It made me happy. Another past professor of mine, Marie Roberts, is the resident artist of Coney Island, painting wonderful banners for the sideshow. She also paints the banners that decorate the Siren Music Fest.
I?ve done some volunteer work for the Sideshow, painting monsters on the walls, cleaning up basements, things like that. My band? We only love Coney Island all year round. We put on benefit concerts for the Sideshow when there are no other festivals going on, that very few people come to see.
We are radical. We?re so radical and awesome it hurts.
Am I bitter? A bit, yes. I hate life.