Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Artomatic June 6 at 9pm 2nd floor stage

YES! ROCK AND ROLL CAN SAVE US! YES! we have come to testify: YES, WE BELIEVE IN ROCK AND ROLL! we've come to TAKE ROCK BACK from the IVY LEAGUE SLUMMERS and the BROOKLYN VEGAN TRUST FUND KIDS! we're TAKING IT BACK from FOX TELEVISION, AT&T, WALMART, LIVE NATION, GOLDMAN SACHS, and CHINA! we're TAKING IT BACK so we can GIVE IT TO YOU! because WE KNOW YOU ROCK! and SO DO WE! COME TO ARTOMATIC ON SATURDAY JUNE 6TH ON THE SECOND FLOOR AT 9PM obetrol
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Billy Name and The Mole People

It wouldn't have been The Factory without Billy Name. Billy Name was the pragmatist. He did the silk screens. He put the foil up on the walls. He painted the bathroom silver (he lived in the bathroom for over a year).
The cover of the Velvet's second album (White Light / White Heat) is a photo that Billy took of a tattoo on a biker's arm. The cover looks black, but it's actually a really low exposure photo (this was Lou's idea)

Next Saturday night we're gonna Give the Kids What They Want. And they want the Green Fuzz. They like it Chopped and Dropped. You know, You Have This Strange Effect On Me... And I Like It. And that's because the Kingdom of Heaven is Within You. I mean, I'm not from Brooklyn, I'm not from Queens. Know what I mean?
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
STICK ENEMIES IN FRONT OF DAYTIME T.V.
HEREWITH annual May missive message from I, Mark E. Smith
on this day of celebration/reformation:
ANOTHER year has passed - rapidly for some, too slowly for I,
one-legged yet again.
And yet, things re: The Fall improve, our new label, although young, are coping just about with 'The Fall".
Yea, in a Castleford studio built on gravel the group cracked down some odd things.
The main concern to avoid the much-ripped off already 'Imperial'.
Our next record will be something that scum like that choke on.
We will not be playing 'I.O.W.' 'FEST' either but will play the Mojo sick-trio.
STICK ENEMIES IN FRONT OF DAYTIME T.V.
AVOID GERMAN-BERT'S MOCK ART EXHIBITION IN L.S.W.
I love you all but i cannot embrace you all/
-As of last year,
your dearest pal-
MARK E. SMITH
for 'The Fall'
2009
MAY THEIR INSIDIOUS RAPPINGS DISINTEGRATE INTO THE FOREGROUND
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Dream
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
San Francisco
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
Wish You Were Here
It's raining today, just like it was a year ago when you died. Last night I parked on the same street I parked on a year ago, that night when I got the phone call from Brendan and stood on the steps of a rowhouse in the rain. I passed that house last night and it gave me the chills.
I've learned a lot since that night. I've learned that when you say goodbye to someone, it might be the last time you ever see them. I've learned that much of life is sound and fury, signifying nothing. And that death don't have no mercy in this land.
I have plenty to be grateful for but I wish you were here.
Wendell Jones
July 21, 1937-April 3, 2008





