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Camera Obscura at Next Door
Date: Friday, July 17th, 2009
Venue: Next Door
Description:
CAMERA OBSCURA presents VOLTAIRE (LIVE IN HAWAII) The Second Annual Pirates Ahoy
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009
NEXT DOOR (43 North Hotel Street)
Doors open: 7:30 p.m.
Show starts: 8:00 p.m.
Camera Obscura's music & dancing: After concert
21+
$25.00
Purchase tickets at all the Jelly's location or
Online...log on to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71544
www.voltaire.net
For more information: www.djnocturna.com
www.myspace.com/808cameraobscura
-THE DESERT SEA
-LANA SALDANIA
-CHERRY BLOSSOM CABARET
-DJ NOCTURNA
-DJ MODBOY
-DJ SHADOWFAXXX
Dress like a pirate
Thank you to
-Jelly's the Original
-www.honolulu.metromix.com
-Millennium Hawaii
-Eternal Body Art
-Kisa Kosmos
-HNLNow.com
-Brown Paper Tickets
VOLTAIRE...www.voltaire.net
The recording artist and songwriter who has released several albums and best known for his witty satirical lyrics and chilling gypsy violins and Celtic rhythms, Voltaire will be making his first stage appearance in Honolulu on Friday, July 17 at NEXT DOOR (43 North Hotel Street) for CAMERA OBSCURA'S second annual theme party "PIRATES AHOY."
Voltaire, whose music is deeply rooted in European folk music, speaks of love and most often, the loss thereof with the added twist of how best to seek revenge on the ones who have hurt you. He explores and reveals those moments of vulnerability most would rather not discuss and exploits with childish abandon those fleeting streaks of cruelty we all feel but choose not to act upon or even mention.
The multi-talented Voltaire is not only a musician, but a director/animator specializing in stop-motion animation. Inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, the 7th Voyage of Sinbad), Voltaire began animating at the age of ten. Eventually piercing together snippets of information from fanzine, he was able to teach himself how to make foam rubber animation models and animate them with fluidity and realism. The films of his childhood landed him his first directing job in 1988. That project was the classic MTV ID called "MTV-BOSCH." The stop-motion tour of the Hellish "Garden of Earthly Delights" went on to win several awards including a broadcast design award and helped to establish Voltaire's style of animation.
For Goth's sake, he released books "What is Goth?" and "Paint it Black," a Guide to gothic homemaking, among others. His gothic darkness, baroque lushness and whimsical surrealism have been seen in a score of television commercials for clients such as cartoon network, USA and the SCI-FI channel.
Voltaire's talents doesn't end here. In March 2004, Voltaire started talks with a Hong Kong based company called "TOY2R" and plans were made to design a keychain figure of DEADY from his DEADY Comic series. In July, the official DEADY 2-inch Qee made its first appearance at the San Diego Comic Con. Voltaire and TOY2R have been working on putting out toys together since.
Voltaire's visual quality of his performances is not surprising. His live shows, whether solo or with his skeletal orchestra are highly theatrical- full of props and stories.
Voltaire continues writing, recording and performing music, while working on occasional comic books and designing toys. After ten years of releasing CDs through Projekt Records, his latest album is his first self-released studio album. "To the Bottom of the Sea" which tells the tales of piracy, sea monsters, peasants uprising with a gypsy tinker and his tumultuous journey "from the mountains of Vorutania" to the "bottom of the sea."
Hours: 7:30 pm- 2am
Age: 21+
Price: $25
Band/DJ: Cherry Blossom Cabaret, The Desert Sea, Lana Saldania, DJ Nocturna, Modboy and Shadowfaxxx
Dresscode: Pirates, Black, Goth, Gypsy, Neo Victorian
Drink Specials: Indulge in Spirits
Music: Dark 80s, Goth,Cabaret, Gypsy, pirate
Promoter: NOCTURNA
Website: www.djnocturna.com
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