JOHN LENNON HOOT ROCKNROLL REVIVAL!

You say you want a Revolution,
I'm ready Ready Teddy
I'm ready ready ready to rocknroll

On the April full moon, Sunday, 4-20, 2008, Bleu French Laundry Productions delivers a
rocknroll collective of 18 Austin bands to conjure the JOHN LENNON HOOT ROCKNROLL
REVIVAL at Ruta Maya HQ in South Austin, Texas. Twistin' & shoutin': THE VIET MINH
(THE BLACK ANGELS side project), NIC ARMSTRONG (IV THIEVES), SHAPES HAVE FANGS,
RIPE (w/ members of THE UGLY BEATS & NERVOUS EXITS), THE BELLFURIES, GOLDEN BEAR,
THE TUNNELS, A FEW NICE THINGS, 3 BALLS OF FIRE, LZ LOVE, HACIENDA, THE STORY OF,
THE BOXING LESSON, THE CHANNEL, AUGUSTINE (featuring JADE DAY), SUMNER ERICKSON
& THE TEXCENTRICS, LALALAND (featuring JOEL MULLINS of TAMMANY HALL MACHINE),
THE LOVELY SPARROWS, and more. From 6pm-2am, this cool spring night not only features the
righteous catalogue of JOHN LENNON performed live by fab Austin bands, but further includes a
Roots of LENNON Happy Hour w/ DJs PSYCHOTROPIC, featuring LENNON's rocknroll, r & b, & blues
influences that made him pick up a guitar. Valuable footage chronicling LENNON's movements
in rocknroll and our world screened between hot sets all night. This 8 hour rocknroll event will
acknowledge his raw & most sterling example set in rock history & the annals of peace advocacy
thru live rock-outs & most captive video. The discovery of shake, rattle, & roll, the screaming
girls, discovery of Yoko, making of Imagine, interviews on revolution, art, & the FBI, family
exclusion, & emergence for another music era in 1980. It will be represented in full. All bands
will tear thru several Lennon tunes. At least one song is previewed here. Here is the order of things:

6pm-7:30pm Roots of LENNON Happy Hour with DJs PSYCHOTROPIC (Seattle)

7:30pm LALALAND (with JOEL MULLINS of TAMMANY HALL MACHINE) - "Gimme Some Truth"
7:50pm SUMNER ERICKSON & THE TEXCENTRICS - "Mother"
8:10pm AUGUSTINE (featuring JADE DAY) - "Across the Universe"
8:30pm 3 BALLS OF FIRE - "A Hard Day's Night"
8:50pm LZ LOVE - "Power To The People"
9:10pm THE STORY OF - "All You Need Is Love"
9:30pm THE CHANNEL - "Old Dirt Road"
9:50pm GOLDEN BEAR - "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night"
10:10pm THE BOXING LESSON - "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
10:35pm NIC ARMSTRONG (IV THIEVES) - "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier"
10:55pm SHAPES HAVE FANGS - "You Can't Do That"
11:15pm THE BELLFURIES - "Tell Me Why"
11:35pm THE VIET MINH (THE BLACK ANGELS side project) - "Tomorrow Never Knows"
12:10am THE TUNNELS - "Working Class Hero"
12:35am RIPE - "Don't Let Me Down"
12:55am A FEW NICE THINGS - "Cold Turkey"
1:15am HACIENDA - "I Call Your Name"
1:35am THE LOVELY SPARROWS - "Oh Yoko!"

Bleu French Laundry Productions marks this righteous affair as a raucous
farewell to it's residency at Ruta Maya HQ.
Backlining by Gibson GUITARS. Cover is an $8 steal, $7 student.
Portion of proceeds donated to Resistencia Bookstore,
for reverence & memory of Raúl Salinas,
poet, activist, humanitarian, friend, human.
Who needs a reason to rock? Come see JOHN LENNON 12 feet tall.
Bring 3 friends. Drink a beer.
Shake it up. Rip it up. Ball it up.
Think.
Come ready ready teddy
come ready ready ready to rocknroll.
This is your revival.

You say you want a revolution?

A Bleu French Laundry Production