Weekend O' Fun: Bakotopia 3 at Fishlips, The Filthies and new band, The Belardes Boys, featuring Kenny Mount at B Ryders - By N.L. Belardes

It's Saint Patrick's Day in Bakersfield and that means two big music shows. Show #1 is actually part three of the Bakotopia CD Release Show, and features Fatt Katt, The Silence Club, Black Dog, Safe Sounds Crew, Seed, Jane Friday, Mento Buru and more!

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Now, I will be at the Bakotopia party most of the day, but in the evening I will be at the only Irish music gig in Bakersfield. The Belardes Boys, featuring Kenny Mount will be performing tunes from The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, and more!




Kenny Mount plays a violin?


Oh yes!

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Bakotopia CD Party 1 exclusive mosh pics:




You can see Jordo from Black Dog's hand wrapping Kenny Mount

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE SILENCE CLUB:



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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OF BAKOTOPIA SUPREME SKA-LEADER!



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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF BAKOTOPIA CD RELEASE PARTY 2!


T-Sack from Krotch prepares for a dirty night


Matt Munoz of Bakotopia pauses for a breath of bakotronica


Matt from newly formed band, The Dewskies


Dillon chokes Jorge! Film at 11!


Emily and her friend talk feet and 80s bowling


Uriah (Upper left), Kris from Dirty Spanglish (Upper Right). Bottom Row: Lando and Shaun from Dirty Spanglish and Austin from The Dewskies...


The Silence Club ROCKED! Aaron has a great voice and fun melodies to his songs


This is Aaron. He's cool


And he has cool hair


Noveltown was on hand to sell Hockey CDs and a few books


Tekwiz tests the sounds!


Jordo and his uncle Kevin. They arm wrestled. Jordo barely lost


Dirty Spanglish!


Whoah!


Ya ya!


Seed performed. So did From Ritual to Romance. I was sad I missed Big Daddy Ruben Val Verde and company... I also missed Krotch. Lando and the rest of Dirty Spanglish stayed. He says about Krotch, "It sunk deep into my memory..." Lando also said about From Ritual to Romance, "They're one of the only Screamo bands I like."

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Now get a load of Hectic Films interviews:

Video publicity the newest trend in the literary world – By Melinda Carroll

How many hours a day do you spend watching videos on youtube.com or movie trailers online? With millions of people tuning in… clearly video makes a difference.

Poets and Writer’s magazine reports that the literary world is jumping on the video bandwagon.

“Taking their cue from the film industry, in which a well-produced trailer is infinitely more valuable than a print advertisement or press release, commercial publishers such as HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin are taking advantage of new technology to offer promotional videos on their web sites to augment their traditional publicity campaigns.”

(Check out HarperCollins Digital Media Café with downloadable videos).

“VidLit Productions (www.vidlit.com) in Santa Monica, California, has created promotional videos for publishers such as Penguin, Random House, and Bard Press, and uploads them to its own web site as well as more than seventy-five others, including YouTube. The book trailers, or VidLits, as they are called, can also be accessed using mobile devices such as iPods and video cell phones. “There’s no barrier to distribution,” says VidLit founder Liz Dubelman.”

(Read the full article)

Video is not new to Noveltown. With Noveltown’s Zowietown video productions and videos uploaded to Noveltown’s blog Paperback Writer; Noveltown’s been promoting Bakersfield’s music, art, theatre and film scenes for a while now. Book trailers or VidLits is a natural evolution in video for Noveltown.

New Noveltown contests are on the way? - By N.L. Belardes

Bakersfield's Indie press, Noveltown (That's us) is gearing up for some cool contests. Get ready. Get your thinking caps on. Get your game on... Keep checking the Noveltown site for details... go there now for some hints...

You ready?

-n.l.