Technicolour Music and Reading Series at Naco

Sometimes the weirdest shit shows up in my Facebook event feed. I must have some odd friends.

Apparently, there’s a artsy-fartsy series of “delightfully strange musical acts and readings from local emerging artists” that is going to happen on the third Tuesday of every month from August to December, and this Tuesday will be the first of said shindigs taking place at Naco Gallery Café in Little Portugal.

First on the docket of the evening’s shenanigans is Max Galactic & The Cloud of Evil, a band described as what ”[...] you get when you cram Monty Python, 1950s sci-fi ray-gun comics, Prohibition-era swing jazz and dark, wounded Chicago blues into the heads of a band of young Torontonians, then blast the lot of them into space to freak out with the aliens” and, after checking them out (despite the pretentious description), I must say that I’m pretty impressed.

So the rest of the lineup should be good, right? Right?

Next up is Jimmy McInnes, whose “last performance was a reading of a double-sonnet constructed entirely from speeches by Chilean dictators. He angered many South American nationalists. He will be reading from his recently-completed manuscript ISOSCELES. RIGHT., a sort of educational Bildungsroman written while subscribing to the structural constraints of an isosceles triangle.” Um… okay.

Then we have D. Alex Meeks, who apparently “grew up with the elephants. Through his time with the gentle pachyderms, he developed an acute appreciation for the myriad sonic aspects of the world, the pursuit of the qualities of which drives his subsequent musical explorations. He will be performing a mysterious solo set.” Yeah.

Finally, there’s Zoë Alexis-Abrams, who promises “[i]mprovised sound poetry lifted from both video and graphic scores, featuring the timely appearance of Tents and Apparitions. Think of The Four Horsemen, except there will only be one member—a short, female fictioneer hailing from Toronto—presenting a body of work from the depths of the A.V. Room and the Great Lakes.”

Well, at least Max Galactic & The Cloud of Evil sounds like they’ll be a hoot.

Anyway, if any of this sounds like your bag, head on over to Naco Gallery Café (1665 Dundas Street West, Toronto) at 8:30 p.m. on August 24, 2010. For more information, check out the Facebook event page.