The Electric Cool Aid Test

Cindy Love

Rock and roll came out of the blues.

It originated in sweaty halls, crowded bars, and jukebox joints.

It was written off by concerned preachers and parents alike as The Devil's music, because of the fierce emotions it unleashed in the faithful. The lust, the excess and the undiluted joy. It was whispered that some of the earliest practitioners had sold their soul to the devil and while many laughed no one denied.

It spawned a generation, gave them their name, a soundtrack to their lives. It gave the world teenagers, youthful rebellion, and a damn good reason to smoke dope.

And then it died.

It became mundane, fashionable and formulaic. The passion was replaced by professionalism, the groupie by the therapist, the poet by the manager, the excess by the Bible. Stylists and label heads became more important than the tunes, and slowly the greats died, never to be replaced.

We want to turn that tide. We want to bring back the madness, the sex, the sweat and the soul. We want somewhere where you can let your hair down and get turned on.

The original Acid Tests were wild affairs unleashed on blissed out San Francisco by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. Fuelled by primal rock and roll and buckets of free Acid, they were a place you could go to go mad, to sell your soul or to just sit and dig.

They kick started psychedelia and bands such as The Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin's Big Brother and The Holding Company all made their name and found their sound at these happenings.

Its that spirit that we want to bring back with the new wave of Electric Cool Aid Tests. We're tired of paying too much money to see second rate bands in a room full of stylised dickheads.

We want to create a night where you can just turn up and be guaranteed good music and a good vibe.

We hope to fuse big name head line acts with up and coming artists giving them much needed exposure.

We want to bring back vaudeville and psychedelia, freaks and geeks, mods and rockers, hippies and harlots, sweat and sex.

We want to have good times...
Murraymint and Krishna promotions present http://www.electriccoolaidtest.com/

humbleCounty

Hey,

line up is now

The Things
StoneOcean
The Untangled

check out www.electricCoolAidTest.com for more info,
should be a cracking night, three top bands, you may not have heard of The Untangled cos they've only just started gigging, but they've got a well good vibe and are definitely worth seeing,

the other two speak for themselves, if you havent been turned on nows your chance!

www.thethingsireland.moonfruit.com
www.stoneoceanmusic.com

RasTa

Any boards heads going?

sinus

i went to see the things with life after modelling in the roisin dubh in galway recently...
my god...(not in a good way) they were rubbish...so much hype so much illusion....what happened to good decent bands not needing a gimick and playing decent music....
there was yer man prancing about with his knob on almost full display for the full gig doing bendies infront of the stage....dont get me wrong i aint a prude but is this what it has come too..... thats what sets them apart from the other bands? nudity....? i mean come on... i guess without the nudity they were just placid sub standard and just another band to watch...
mind u life after modelling needed a bit of shaking up too....

yes i am in a bad mood its sat morning and i am up too early

humbleCounty

Fair Verona have just been added to the lineup for the cool aid test,
this all female 3 piece are fresh from slots at hwch and the village, simply put these ladies kick some ass,

you can check them at at www.fairverona.com or follow the link from www.electricCoolAidTest.com

4 rockin bands, 5 euro... cant be beat!