Update: HUGOPALOOZA Not, Repeat NOT, A Hoax
Yesterday, when we posted the press release for promoter 3Kingdom’s “Artists For Heat” concert at The Trocadero, many of you thought it was a hoax. Was it that the lineup — Public Enemy, The Roots and Sandra Bernhard, among others — seemed to good to be true? Or was it the whole thing about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez joining forces with Comcast and PECO that made you think it was a dirty lie? Well, no matter, because we made some phone calls, and it’s all true. And we have some new details to report: One is that according to promoter Mikal Kamil, the concert — the third annual “Artists For Heat,” as it turns out — will be made available after the fact on Comcast On Demand. Another is that Kamil is currently working on confiming Jazzy Jeff, Q-Tip and a host of local acts for the show as well. Tickets go on sale Monday for $37.50. And as for Big Hugo’s involvement? Kamil is quick to point out: “This is not a political statement, this is about people getting heat. Nobody stepped up to the plate, but Citgo did. This is not about Chavez, it’s about people who are suffering.”
Previously: Press Release Of The Week: Hugo Chavez To Team Up With Public Enemy, The Roots, Everlast, Dead Prez And… Sandra Bernhard?
January 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
The event will be moved to my hometown of Rochester, NY and be the opening event at the newly reopened A/V Space.
C. The Impaler will MC.
Shortly before the show begins it will be shut down as Rochester goes back into a state of emergency and reinstitutes their “house party” ban.
Thus his identity will remain a mystery.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Do I have to pay a cover if I MC? No way we could hold this in the cheeseshop/tacqueria attic formerly known as A/V. We’d have to move it to Montage, in which case I’m pretty sure the Veins, the Quitters, or Uncle Plum would have to be signed as an opener.
Seriously, it’s a good cause, as is anything dealing with Citizens Energy Corp (the people who’d be doing the real oil brokering between Citgo and PECO once Artist for Heat raise the money). But if this event “is not a political statement” or “about Chavez” (nor should it be), why lead the release and pepper it throughout with a prose blowjob to Hugo Chavez? Why do all the good causes have such shitty writers? ¿Por qué no me callo? If I keep going Patricio’s going to figure out I am Hugo Chavez, testing the Philadelphia T-shirt market through this website while I shuffle my cabinet.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The singer of Uncle Plum, Elvio Fernandes, is a family friend of mine.
We’re from the same Portuguese island.
No insults from me about that factoid.
Surprising.
Oh and we both have family in…
…Venezuela.
January 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Wow, Uncle Plum, you are connected. That, a Portuguese Island origin, and Venezuelan connections, looks like I, Hugo Chavez, pitched my T-shirt line to the wrong gringo.
You want to help me fill the pop icon vacuum Che’s leaving with my visage as a flurry of film’s with one week engagements at the Ritz (to be seen at the Little six month to a year later) nail my populist precursor’s coffin, you look me up at the Venezuelan intelligence agency’s station in what used to be the Italian market.