Boat People

A group of artists and musicians dedicated to expanding the minds, senses and hearts of all they meet.
DIY booking of Select Arist for shows in Art Spaces, Warehouses, Pastures and Discerning Dive Bars...
Just to be clear, we are always interested in hearing new stuff and are quite open to all possibilities, that being said, if you are interested in booking a show... Please send any inquiries to
[email protected]
We try to respond to most myspace messages, but can't always keep up...No Hard Feelings!!!

We throw parties and put on shows with Great Bands, Great Art and lots of surprises!!!

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AUGUST 18th
Boat People present...
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

"Best Friends Forever sound like they grew up listening to nothing but new wave and the K Records catalogue. This makes for an interesting and more developed sound than most of Plan-It-X’s folk-punk roster. Playful organ parts that move from excited romps to Scooby-Doo horror schtick punch in and out over a fantastic rhythm section. The basslines are detailed and propulsive works that show an impressive range of groove and funk, while the drumming is excited and creative. Guitar reminiscent of Beat Happening also pops up on most of the tracks, while vocally Best Friends Forever feature cheeky harmonized female voices that fit the Plan-It-X mold better than anything else here. "- punknews.org
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BOB CARLTON

"Bob Carlton’s solo music reflects a love of surrealist imagery, Freudian psychoanalysis, dada, cruel theater, and the folk tradition. "
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The Marvelous!
208 S. 40th St. West Philly
$5
ALL AGES!!!
8pm
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Sept. 11th
Boat People present...
O'DEATH

"To see O'Death live is something of a spiritual experience, though not in a traditional Pentecostal sense. Drummer David Rogers-Berry batters the crap out of an old marching band snare, broken cymbals and dented oil cans with splintered drumsticks and chains; he and bassist Jesse Newman are rarely seen with a shirt on. Fiddler Bob Pycior and banjo player Gabe Darling are fearless and ominously sweaty, both capable of screaming with precise intonation. Guitarist/vocalist Greg Jamie's gnarly snarl sounds like the devil. It's revival music at its meanest, drunkest and most fun."- Billboard
"Compared erroneously to Tom Waits (except for a few percussive and guttural moments) in a few music blogs, o’death is really more Will Oldham meets the Holy Modal Rounders with a splash of the drunken sprawl of the Pogues and the youthful energy of early Violent Femmes."-  FREEwilliamsburg

O'Death - Allie Mae Reynolds
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CROW TONGUE

"...TiMOTHY Revelator, or now as leader of the duo Crow Tongue, this artist is currently blasting forth huge statements whose importance may not be recognised until years hence. Yes, ladies’n’gentlemen, TiMOTHy Revelator has something very specific to say, and – or so it appears to this writer – he will build any vehicle in his power to say it ... ALL. ‘I am a chancer’, I declared on DARK ORGASM’s ‘White Bitch Comes Good’. TiMOTHy’s chance is Now and he lives it in the Moment. I’ve heard much of his music, but have never before felt compelled to broadcast an All Points Bulletin. But this particular Crow Tongue album is, I believe, the place to start. Over an incessant & honking Appalachian post-Henry Flynt duo-drone somewhat akin to Tyrannosaurus Rex during their notorious Doom Donovan phase, ie: at M. Bolan’s most spectacularly portentous and archly Semitic, singer TiMOTHy Revelator intones seemingly endless declarations of world destruction and blasts invocations out into the Universe. Bass banjo drones, hand drums and a spectacular Old Testament-style vocal delivery are all transmitted our way via the most intensely claustrophobic almost entombed production. Much of TiMOTHy’s other music is far more attractive in the traditional sense (ie: more palatable) but this particular Crow Tongue release is – to my mind – the most useful place to start by far; useful enough for me to feel the need to declare possible comradeship with him...Besides, a Visionary Artist’s Truth takes at least 30 years to take form in others’ heads. I’ll tell y’all this, though, the wave currently being surfed by the Revelator could be as useful to us as any I’ve yet encountered – even that of mein hairy Stephen O’Malley – in the eight-year Album of the Month sojourn I’ve made thus far into the Godless lands of the virtual 21st Century. Whether or not this shit sticks, only Old Father Time will tell us. Until then, look to the Whore Rising, salute the Odin and the rest of the Heroes, kick the Gods’ lard arses into touch, and hail TiMOTHy Revelator as being one highly useful Son of the Bitch."- Julian Cope
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AD Lib
51 N. Market St. Lancaster, Pa
7:30 doors Show starts @ 8pm Sharp!
All Ages!!!
$8
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Sept. 12th
Boat People and Badmaster present...
THE JULIE MITTENS

Netherlands///Holy Mountain Records
" Here are three mystics erecting stoned-architectures with the intention of altering consciousness through euphoric jammers. Guitarist, Aart-Jan Schakenbos leads the ensemble ripping feedback and shrieking high-gain dissonant cosmic blues building upon the rumbling, droning low-end from bassist, Michel van Dam and the free-rhythms of drummer, Leo Fabriek. A kind of spiritual anarchy surfaces through the distorted bedlam illuminating a full spectrum of frequencies which gives their most feverish moments the effect of coma-inducing psychical bliss landing somewhere between head banging and catatonia. These guys take it to edge and then push further out until there is literally no physical place left to go. Intense and just brilliant."-foxy digitalis
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AIR WAVES

"Most new acts with a footing in the folk tradition tend to embrace the serene and the fragile, but one gets the feeling that Brooklyn's quirky Air Waves broke away from the pack long ago. Singer/guitar player Nicole Schneit tears through her stilted, acoustic punk like a bull in the china shop—more than a languid fairy on a lily pad—and that suits me just fine." - JOSH BLANCHARD Portland Mercury
"songs this good don't really need any thinking or talking about."- Popsheet
Favorite New Band Air Waves: "Nicole Schneit is an amazing songwriter. The music she writes is like a favorite blanket wrapped around you. Drummer Dave Ferraro complements her songs well. "Shine On" is my current favorite song by them." DAN DEACON Pitchfork

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PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA

"Prince of Rama Ayodhya's music pretty much is like 'musical theatre' which is like a ritual dance on a podium, related with the Indian epic forms of musical theatre on stage, with dance. Only this band’s expressions are much more a western type of magic- provoking. Well done!! " -psychedelicfolk.com
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READING RAINBOW

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The Marvelous!
208 S. 40th St. West Philly
$5
All Ages!!!
8pm
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LOVE,
Matthew
Greg
and all the Boat People!