If I still played in a band, my favorite night to perform would be Thursday night because Thor’s Day audiences are ready to get crazy. All week they have put up with over-demanding bosses or teachers and over-protective parents. Then on Thursday, they pack light, come out at night and stand on the precipice of the glorious WEEKEND. So as I strolled into the Echoplex  to revel in another FYF show featuring Monotonix, Ty Segall, Devin Therriault, and Tijuana Panthers, I was ready to dive into the fray (despite the clearly posted signs on those black ‘come on in’ doors saying “NO STAGE DIVING” (yeah right…).

The Thursday night crowd was out in full force and by the time Tijuana Panthers took the stage there was a sizable presence waiting to relish in the particular blend of surf pop that TJPs likes to splish and splash in. I couldn’t help notice all the lovely girls about 3 rows deep, all transfixed on TJPs as they broke into “Girls Gone Wild”—and, whaddya know, they did! TJPs’ music is so steeped in Coppertone and 4 foot lefts that, at one point, I could of sworn I had sand between my toes. I love the fact that they relish the safe surf pop they create. If they were a surf spot they would be Trestles, not Rincon, but who cares? Their fan base was there and strong, enjoying songs like “Redheaded Girl,” “Crew Cut,” and “This Town.” They put on a solid set.

Devin Therriault and his band hail from Brooklyn and I couldn’t help but think how happy they must be to be in sun-baked Cali on the Echoplex stage. The songs smelled of leather motorcycle jackets and hollow body guitars, a blend of 1950s slick/Buddy Holly/with a hint of punk flair. “New Horrors” and “Masochist” stood out but all the songs had a shiny shoe polish on them (I wonder if I am the only one who would like to hear them scuffed up a bit?). The audience, for the most part, seemed unfamiliar with Devin’s music but was receptive and engaged.

Remember those “NO STAGE DIVING” signs mentioned earlier?

Well…the sheer sonic blast that is Ty Segall stripped any inhibitions or considerations of obedience away and by the time the chunky guitar strains of “Die Tonight” started—once sane boys and girls were diving off the stage like the audience itself was a naked, undulating pool party (much to the chagrin of the Echoplex security staff). Liability insurance aside, pretty soon even the Stage Diving police backed off because there was nothing anyone could do to stop the infectious thing that was happening here. It is no wonder that Pitchfork, Spin and Rolling Stone included Segall’s fourth album, Melted, in their “Best of 2010 Lists”—Ty Segall’s noise rock is balls-out for sure but the songs also have sweet melodies and psychedelic tones AND some brilliant songwriting. I would bet a dozen “funny” donuts that “Caesar” have William Burroughs and Timothy Leary shimmy-shaking in some lava-lamped purgatory.

Monotonix, hmmmm…Monotonix…hmmmm?? Hey, what can I say? This garage rock band from Israel baffled the hell out of me. Part performance art, part garage rock, part “what the fuck?” As the guitarist snaked through the audience like a pied piper of mayhem, the “bearded one,” as I like to call him, used the audience as a free form terrain, scaling people or drum kits or whatever to the ceiling. Monotonix was like a metal rock organism invading the entire floor space and inviting everyone in on the insanity. The stage was filled with photographers and videographers—who, by the way, looked as baffled as I felt. It was stupefying and surreal. In quite a touching way, “the bearded one” (aka Ami Shalev) announced that this was their last tour because, after 6 years of touring, he needed to spend more time with his son AND the pied piper guitarist just had a baby girl.  Awwwwww…nice. Then he said something like, “Be careful on your body…Be free on your mind,” and the mayhem started again!

INSANELY entertaining show at the Echoplex—standout performance for me was Ty Segall—Kudos to FYF for another great show—Kudos to the Echoplex’s awesome staff—Kudos to the CAPACITY crowd that came out on Thor’s day—Thanks to Ben @ Pinpoint for the awesome pics that accompany this review.

—Adler Bloom

I think I’m now legally deaf, I really do. Well, maybe in just one ear but, none the less, still partly deaf after surviving the kilowatt blaring experience that is a performance by Tel Aviv’s Monotonix. The experience must come close to the thrill of scaling a mountaintop or sailing the seven seas, plus the excitement of being left partially deaf. Recall your first concert that left your ears ringing? Well, it’s day two and I still need people to repeat words to me.

The three-piece trash rock assemblage takes the idea of audience participation to a whole new level. As the world-wide-web or just about anyone that has seen them can contest. The band is capable of everything from lighting their drum set on fire, having 46-year-old vocalist Ami Shalev riding the bass drum as his royal carriage as it’s hoisted high above by the crowd, enlisting audience members to play their instruments and leading a whole venue on a crazed parade via a Hebrew chant. Following a personal philosophy that sets the hectic tempo and head-banging in unison, the band sets up on the ground floor, neglecting the stage, fully encircled by the crowd.

As Hendrix-like guitarist Yonatan Gat’s first note rings out, drummer and Borat look-alike Haggai Fershtman began to pound the skins, sending splinters of wood flaring into the crowd. Cue Shalev, appearing from the rafters, as he crowd surfs his way to the center of what a seasoned journalist would describe as “the crowd going ape shit!” They’re a tough act to open for, but San Fran’s Ty Segall is up for the challenge. Segall and company were recently featured in VBS.tv’s garage rock revival documentary, among the likes of the late Jay Reatard. The fresh faced, card carrying member of the East Bay’s thriving garage scene led his comrades in a Tommy James and The Shondells-ish down and dirty rock explosion. As the stage lights turned to a blood red, Segall palm-muted chords and belted out lyrics through “CENTS” and “Imaginary Person,” as locks of unkempt hair bounded around below the stage. The crowd thrashed, warming up for the creme de la creme of bare-chest bravado and sweaty gym shorts that awaited them.

Then it was time for Monotonix. The crowd grew dense around Fershtman’s drum set, waiting for the simple nod from Gat to turn the Echoplex into a frenzy of mashed bodies bouncing off one another, leaving holes in the  ceiling and leaving looks of amazement on the faces of some. The band chugged through “Before I Pass Away” and “Fun Fun Fun” off of 2011′s Not Yet, their third release. In typical fashion, the band relocated three times throughout the show, moving the chaos around the Echoplex’s entire floor plan. As the crowd held him high above the sound booth, Shalev growled and hissed along to crowd favorite “Body Language,” a track of sheer hypnotic rhythms that forces any idle bystander to join the fray. Midway through the track, Shalev attempted a handstand on some audience heads, ending with a few souls getting close and personal with the 46-year-old.

As the band found its way back onto the stage, they piped the screaming mass down enough to lead a chant in their native tongue. Afterward, Shalev dropped a bomb on the tried and sweaty mass below; this would be Monotonix’s last tour. The band will be calling it quits after touring nonstop for the last six years. Ferhtman is expecting a new bundle of joy to join his family and, frankly, Shalev said he wasn’t a young buck anymore. As the crowd moaned in disappointment at the news, Shalev requested one last thing: He wanted to float back to Tel Aviv upon his magic carpet. He threw a large red rug onto the crowd, sending Ferhtman and Gat back into a spastic jam. Shalev went for one last ride over the jittery wave of hipsters, coming together for one of the most memorable nights of their lives. A special thanks goes to Sean Carlson and the FYF Fest crew for bringing Israel’s second greatest gift to world, besides Natalie Portman, back to the States for the last time. We were all part of rock history.

—Carlos Villarreal

*editor’s note: Yes, we have two reviews of the same show. Life is subjective, after all, and this one event was pretty epic!

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Monotonix performing at The Smell on September 16, 2009 with Signals.

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Download: Monotonix “Set Me Free”

(from Where Were You When It Happened? out now on Drag City)

Israel’s Monotonix are known and respected and perhaps even secretly coveted here in L.A. because of their world-wrecking live set and super-charged rock ‘n’ roll. Singer Ami Shalev speaks now while presumably fully clothed. This interview by Rena Kosnett.

Hello, Ami—ma shlomech?
Ami Shalev (vocals): Ani beseder. At yodaat eich ledaber ivrit?
No, no—I don’t speak Hebrew really.
Ami Shalev: Ohhh—because I prefer to do it in Hebrew!
The music trend in Israel is much more about the club scene, rather than live music. Do you think this is a positive or a negative thing?
Ami Shalev: I have to say that the rock n’ roll scene in Israel, it is almost not exist because it’s too small. You can’t tour in Israel. It’s not like to live in the real world of rock ‘n’ roll. Most of the music in Israel is a mix between Arab music and Greek music, as you know, and there’s a club scene in Israel. There are more people going to clubs than to shows. There are underground shows of course. Madonna is playing here next week so she’s going to have a lot of crowd. But it’s not something that happen every day. But I have nothing against it. I’m not angry about it because I love this country, and If I wanna tour I am going to Europe or Australia or the U.S., Canada, whatever. And it’s perfect because I come back to Israel, chill out a little bit and then going for another tour.
My mother is from Ramat Gan, and she left Israel for a lot of reasons. One of them is that her good friend was killed while she was in the army. But another reason was because as a young painter, she didn’t feel like she had the creative freedom to develop. Have you felt stifled like that?
Ami Shalev: Yeah, because in Israel… the thing is… It’s not that people don’t let you do whatever you want to do with art. People let you do whatever you want to. But there’s no really big art scene in painting, and in music, and you don’t have the opportunity to talk with other people about it—to see other people doing it. In Israel, if you are not in the mainstream and success, you can’t make a living for it. You don’t have a real market for it, so you’re just doing it for yourself. In the U.S., everything that you do got a huge market. Everything that people can go with their heart—with the freedom of their mind to do whatever they want. At this point, it’s not that people tell you ‘don’t do this,’ and ‘don’t do this.’ But there’s not a lot of people doing it and there’s not a lot of ideas in the air, so that’s the situation here. So I understand your mother.
Now she wants to move back—she’s longing for Israel.
Ami Shalev: That I can understand too. For people that born in Israel and raised in Israel, it’s home. America is not the place that I born in—it’s not my real home. My real home is here, my culture is from here, and the food, the language, the way people act, everything. So maybe that’s what she feels—that after she finishes her mission about painting and doing her art, she kind of miss the little things that make different—the food, the other part of the family, the culture, the language.
How were you exposed to rock ‘n’ roll music when you were growing up?
Ami Shalev: Ehh—for my age because I am 44, there was no Internet at all, there was no such a thing like MTV or music videos—I mean, music videos you could see, ppppfffffff, something like an hour per week. And of course records—as a rock ‘n’ roll record collector, you could search in the music store for something that you want. But actually it was very hard to follow all the things that happened in rock ‘n’ roll music in Israel. You can’t expose to all the underground scenes that happen—even in the ’60s and ’70s you can’t expose to it because you’re in Israel. So a lot of the bands that I growing up with—the classic ones, you know, Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, things like that, I found in the record stores. Now most of the bands from U.K. and America that come to Israel, it’s huge mainstream bands. Because to fly, there’s no chance that if you are a small band that you can cover the cost coming from the US, or even Europe—especially if you need to fly something like 3 or 4 people. That’s a real problem because it’s a kind of isolation. If you can drive with your car around Europe you can put it on your tour plan. But you need to fly to Israel, so it make it very difficult. It’s a shame because people don’t get the opportunity to expose to really new music. Or the chance that they got to expose is only by record or Internet or huge mainstream bands. It’s a shame. But ahh, you know, that’s what we got.
It’s funny because Monotonix have an amazing reputation developing in the States. In Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Portland, Seattle—reporters are writing about Monotonix being their favorite live band and one of the best shows at SXSW, but all the Israelis I spoke with, even the ones in Tel Aviv—
Ami Shalev: They don’t know us! Because we are not playing here. We are not playing shows in Israel.
I read that you saw Fatal Flying Guilloteens a few years ago, and that show made you want to form a new and more extreme band.
Ami Shalev: The first time that I saw them it was, I think 5 years ago. And this was the first time I saw a band that take the musical act as physically as they took it. And it makes a real impression because when you come from a place like Israel that you can’t be expose to things like that—I mean, you see something like that and it really impress you, and you say, ‘Whoa, that’s another way to do a live show!’ So I must say yes.
About your very physical live show—It seems like Israel is a country that is inherently all about the negotiation of borders. Do you think that shoving the microphone up your ass, groping women in the audience, pouring beer down your pants, etc., is your response to an environment of limits?
Ami Shalev: No, I don’t think so. I mean, I’m doing whatever I feel during the shows, and everything is kind of improvised. We don’t plan it before. That’s what everybody in the band feels very nature and comfortable with. But still, I must say, that I feel we are VERY Israeli. I think that we got—how you call it? Chutzpah! It’s the chutzpah and the bad accent and the bad English. Our show, in a way it’s kind of different from other shows because I’m aware that we are not the only or the first band that are playing on the floor and being physical with the audience. But I think we are taking it for another place. There was a lot of hardcore bands back in the ‘80s that the singer get into the crowd. Jello Biafra, David Yow, people like that. But our show is kind of different because we don’t take it from the anger side. We take it from the fun side. That is what people really want—is to have fun. So I think we got kind of a formula that work for us. A kind of point of view so that people relax about the show. And it’s amazing, because you can spill on people beer! If I spill beer on people on the street they will beat me! But, we got the vibe and during the show people kind of going with it. They see the band and the band not afraid to get dirty. To be in the crowd and everybody together in this party. So this is the magic.
Are you secretly self-conscious about your body when you take your clothes off?
Ami Shalev: Yeah, I’m working out. When I’m not touring I’m working out. I mean, I’m 44 years old.
You look great. And I’ve practically seen you naked.
Ami Shalev: Thank you. I’m working out back home when I’m not touring, and I’m not kidding about it, because at my age you need to keep working all the time if you don’t want to lose your shape. I remember when I was 20 or 25 I can eat whatever I want, do whatever I want, and nothing affected my body. I’m not saying that I’m eating only health food, but I need to work out when I’m not touring to keep in shape. I’m biking, doing a little bit push-ups, things like that. Not so much, but yeah—I’m aware that I need to maintain my body because the nature of this show.
I’m sure it didn’t hurt to be a looker when you got your record deal. That’s all they’re looking for at Drag City—a good physique.
Ami Shalev: If Hollywood want it like this, I will give it!
What do you think about the separation barrier being built along the West Bank? I’m interested in an Israeli artist’s opinion about this.
Ami Shalev: I’m not speaking about politics. We are coming from a very sensitive place, politics-wise. You know what I mean. And it will sound a little bit hippie, but that’s my point of view that people should relax. Take it easy. Wars are not good for anybody. And if people would just stop and think with logic, things would be much much much better and easy to settle up between countries and people. The situation that the world gets into…it is all the time like that, and I’m aware that this is human nature. But I think that people should make decisions by their sense, not by the instinct. Be aware that violence and war and all these things are not acceptable. It’s bad. It’s bad. So everyone should be act positive. I am aware that there is a lot of interest about this war, but that’s my point of view about it.
It’s specifically a feeling of not wanting to talk about the Middle East?
Ami Shalev: I can talk to people about my point of view, but I will take the position that John Lennon took, and say ‘Give peace a chance.’ That’s what I think. We should take this chance. About Israel. Here it is. About the Israeli politics, I think that’s what we need, what we must do.
What about trying to change things yourself inside Israel?
In Israel, I don’t know if it’s not going to change for the next 100 years, but for the near future you can’t change—I mean, I can’t change—I’m not a guy that’s gonna lead a revolution or something like that. I live with it in peace. I’m feeling very comfortable in Israel right now because I don’t have any expectation from Israel to be something that it can’t be.
Do you really think it can’t be, or do you just think it’s not going to happen any time soon?
Ami Shalev: I think that to be the country that I want Israel to be, we should solve a lot of problems before. We got a really long way to do, and it’s OK by me because we are a very young country. Even compared to the U.S., where it is a young culture and a young country, we are still very young. And still a long way to do. Really really really really important things we need to deal with before we start dealing with whether you can do your rock ‘n’ roll. There’s a lot of things we need to deal with.
If you look at social evolution historically, though, there’s an inextricable connection between creative change and political change. For example, if you think of the Dadaists in Zurich and Berlin, it was all about a political and cultural shift.
Ami Shalev: I agree with you, I agree with you. But it’s very difficult to do, because we are still fighting on our living here. It’s very hard. And we need a very strong leader who will take us to the next level of this kind of thinking. It’s very hard. I don’t know, I pray for this kind of day every day. I hope it will come soon.
You toured around on the F Yeah Bus, ‘Greased Lightning,’ in July of ’08 with some of my favorite people.
Ami Shalev: It was really interesting to get into a bus with 15 or 20 people and tour with them, and to do it with an American people. It almost felt like it was to—to get into bed with people that came from another culture!
Would you do it again?
Ami Shalev: No. I’m too old for it.
Too old to spend time in a bus full of young smelly Americans?
Ami Shalev: And the bus with no air condition? It’s too much for me!

MONOTONIX WITH SIGNALS, THE PRESS FIRE! AND PROTECT ME ON WED., SEPT. 16, AT THE SMELL, 247 S. MAIN ST., DOWNTOWN. 8 PM / $10 / ALL AGES. THESMELL.ORG. MONOTONIX’S WHERE WERE YOU WHEN IT HAPPENED? IS OUT NOW ON DRAG CITY. VISIT MONOTONIX AT MONOTONIX.COM OR MYSPACE.COM/MONOTONIX.

One must personally invest in subject matter. In the case of Monotonix, that dedication involves a smush of bodies holding each other by the waist with one hand and passing around people in the air with the other. Perhaps that involves your own body, whether you asked for it or not, rising seven feet in the air on drunk people’s fingertips. The Monotonix threesome is the hairiest, sweatiest 3-headed creature since mythological times. There’s a blues-riffing guitar and a rousing drumbeat, but the physicality of the band’s performance overshadows everything else. The look in singer Levi “Ha Haziz” Elvis’s eyes, wide open and peering about, is louder than the English and/or Hebrew words he’s growling into the microphone. Anavan’s Aaron Buckley took on the role of making sure the mic, as well as the guitar and drum being tossed around Spaceland, remained plugged in. He appeared delighted with the responsibility—as focused as a hyena. Earlier, Anavan opened the evening’s events by delivering that warm, gushy tootsie-pop three licks below its hard-candy shell. The Mae Shi played next, pep-rally shouting in unison while the audience played under the band’s signature parachute tarp—we all miss kindergarten, don’t deny it. Tonight’s lineup combined effectively to unwind any gripes dragged in, draining the mind of all bullshit. The room reeked of camaraderie and armpits by the time “Ha Aziz” turned his underwear into a thong.

“My body language says I am not afraid.” — Monotonix

—Daiana Feuer

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This summer we are taking the F Yeah Fest on the road! 28 shows in 28 days. Music, comedy and art every night! Here are the dates. It’s gonna be beyond EPIC!!!!!

F Yeah Tour 08’!

Tuesday, June 17th – Baltimore, MD
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
+ comedy by Reggie Watts
@ Sonar
407 E. Saratoga St
$10 adv . $12 day of / 8:00pm / All Ages
www.sonarbaltimore.com

Wednesday, June 18th- Washington DC
w/ Dan Deacon, Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix, Team Robespierre & Mannequin Men
+ comedy by Reggie Watts
@ the Black Cat
1811 14th St NW
$13 / 6:00pm / All Ages
www.blackcatdc.com

Thursday, June 19th – Winston-Salem, NC
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
+ comedy by Reggie Watts
@ The Werehouse
211 east 3rd street
$10 / 8:00pm / All Ages
www.thewerehouse.com

Friday, June 20th – Atlanta, GA
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
+ comedy by Reggie Watts
@ Whirly Ball Atlanta
608 Holcomb Bridge Rd.
$12 / 8:00pm / All Ages
www.whirlyballatlanta.com

Saturday, June 21st – Birmingham, AL
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
+ Reggie Watts
@ The Bottle Tree
3719 3rd Ave S
$10 / 6:00pm / All Ages
www.thebottletree.com

Sunday, June 22nd – Gainesville, FL
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
@ The Atlantic
15 N Main St
$8 / 7:00pm / 18+
www.atlanticnights.com

Monday, June 23rd – Tampa, FL
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
@ Tampa Bay Skate Park
4215 East Columbus Drive
$8 / 7:00pm / All Ages
www.skateparkoftampa.com

Wednesday, June 25th – Baton Rogue, LA
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Team Robespierre
@ Spanish Moon
1109 Highland Rd
$10 / 10:00pm / 18+
www.guerilla-productions.com/spanishmoon/home.php

Thursday, June 26th – Houston, TX
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Team Robespierre & Brother Reade
@ Walters
4215 Washington Ave.
$10 / 8:00pm / All Ages
www.4215washington.com

Friday, June 27th- Austin, TX
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Team Robespierre & Brother Reade
& spoken word by Keith Morris
@ the Mohawk
912 Red River St
$10 / 9:00pm / All Ages
www.mohawkaustin.com

Saturday, June 28th – Fort Worth, TX
w/ Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Team Robespierre & Brother Reade
& spoken word by Keith Morris
@ 1919 Hemphill
$10 / 8:00pm / All Ages
www.1919hemphill.org

Monday, June 30th – St. Louis, MO
w/ Monotonix, Team Robespierre, Crystal Antlers
@ Bluebird
2706 Olive St.
$10 / 8:00pm / All Ages
www.bluebirdstl.com

Tuesday, July 1st – Iowa City, IA
w/ Monotox, Team Robespeirre, Brother Reade
@ the Mill
120 E. Burlington Street
www.icmill.com

Wednesday, July 2nd – Minneapolis, MN
w/ Monotonix, Team Robespierre & Crystal Antlers
@ Triple Rock
629 Cedar Ave S
www.triplerocksocialclub.com

Thursday, July 3rd – Chicago, IL
w/ Matt & Kim, Monotonix, Team Robespierre, Mannequin Men
+ comedy by Nick Flanagan
@ Stan Mansion
2408 N Kedzie
$12 / 7:00pm / All Ages
www.emptybottle.com

Friday, July 4th – Kalamazoo, MI – TBA

Saturday, July 5th – Columbus, OH
w/ Monotonix, Team Robespierre & Totally Michael
+ comedy by Nick Flanagan
@ The Sky Lab
57 E. Gay st. (5th Floor)
$6 / 9:00pm / All Ages
www.myspace.com/skylabgallery

Sunday, July 6th – Buffalo, NY
w/ The Death Set , Monotonix, Team Robespierre & Totally Michael
+ comedy by Nick Flanagan
@ Sound Lab
110 Pearl St.
www.myspace.com/bigorbitsoundlab

Monday, July 7th – Toronto, ON
w/ Brutal Knights, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
@ Sneaky Dees
431 College Street
www.sneaky-dees.com

Tuesday, July 8th – Ottawa, ON – TBA

Wednesday, July 9th – Montreal, QC
w/ Brutal Knights, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
@ La Sala Rossa
4848 boul. St-Laurent
www.casadelpopolo.com/salaconcert/

Thursday, July 10th – Boston, MA – TBA

Friday, July 11th – Philadelphia, PA
w/ Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, Matt & Kim, Paint it Black, Monotonix & Team Robespierre
@ Starlight Ballroom
460 N 9th St
$16 / 6:00pm / All Ages
www.r5productions.com

Saturday, July 12th – New York, NY – EARLY SHOW
w/ Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, Matt & Kim & Team Robespierre
@ Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St
$17 / 6:00pm / All Ages
www.highlineballroom.com

Saturday, July 12th – New York, NY – LATE SHOW
w/ Monotonix + more
@ Loft Party – details TBA

Sunday, July 13th – Brooklyn, NY
w/ Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, Matt & Kim, Team Robespierre, Monotonix + special guest
@ Club Exit
147 Greenpoint Ave
$15 / 7:00pm / All Ages
www.toddpnyc.com

All shows will feature visual art by Space 1026 from Philadelphia – www.space1026.com

Microcosm Publishing will have a table at every show selling books, zines etc – www.microcosmpublishing.com

F YEAH TOUR 08! has also teamed up with the U.S. Campaign for Burma and every night they will have a table set up at each show passing out educational material. There will also be opportunities each night on the tour for audience members to register to vote.