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In Which A Third Birthday and a New Record Label Inspire Switched-Up Shit "Slippery Bastards" – 8ioa.com RandomK(e) have gone and done it again. First came their nonchalant parenthetical tendencies, preceded only very shortly by their decision to create “pretty not bad” (Rolling Stone) modern music. Then there was The Band’s quite chalant, thank you very much, wooing --- with wine, whiskey and other beverages of high-class pedigree (and, perhaps, a bit of “pretty not bad” music, though the details are fuzzy at this point: All that The Band can recall is emitting a collective coo at the length of the receipt that ended the night) --- of a certain recording company (erm) “executive”, causing the (erm) “executive” to offer up a contract in exchange for a “get out of drinking with the K(e) on weekdays” pass. And all of the sudden, through the kind of silky, feel-good wine-induced haze that can only come from drinking fine Argentine chablis (as opposed to the chalky, gut-retching haze that comes from drinking Nighttrain, which The Band has also attempted on several street corners in various parts of the globe), in quantities perhaps not completely unfamiliar to, say, a 70s movie cop who’s got a case that just won’t break, The Band realizes that another year has passed, and that this other year was the third that passed, and if the years keep passing like it seems that they do, then The Band ought to Do Something before it’s too late to have a third birthday party. It was then that something important happened. A decision was made. Because while The Band’s celebration of Pi Day (yes, that’s 3.14) will certainly be one for the ages, The Band must Acknowledge Its History. And when watching the years pass, they knew where it had started and when, and consulted with various practitioners of voodoo, of astrology, of feng shui and of time and found that MARCH THE 19TH, a Wednesday, would be The Day. And lo, it was so. To be sure, the celebrations actually started before even Pi Day: The celebrations started with the band’s decision to jam-pack the otherwise painfully slow period between the beginning of the Year of the Rat and the end of the Day of the Bunny with more gigs than a whore at a dental convention. And lo, the Age Betwixt the Rat and the Bunny of this, the two-thousandth and eighth Year since Someone Started Counting, has seen various guises of The Band, the better with which to take our Heroes through their most tumultuous period since puberty: Who can forget the homage to the Beatles of Valentines Day, the metal-tinged set at Club 13, the straight-up “Don’t Call Me Foreigner” rock of Mao, the DomK(e) trio set, the Dubification of the K(e), and so on, and so forth. Thusly, in observation of this, the Most Important Third Birthday The Band Has Ever Celebrated, The Band has Switched Up Their Shit Yet Again. The Band is going All Multi-Media on the Masses. If you’ve got a Blackberry, input this info therein, then commit the info to memory, smash you Blackberry with your boot, and join the party. Because The Band frowns on Blackberries. Unless the proper pluralisation of Blackberry is Blackberrys. Then: The Band frowns on Blackberrys. Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Yu Gong Yi Shan 9.30pm Of course the evening will feature the kind of space/angst/surprising/avant/post rock music you've come to expect --- but not necessarily define --- from RandomK(e), but there will be so much more. "More?" you ask. Yes. "More." For example: *** No less than four simultaneous video projections; *** Live painting; *** Homemade Snacks; *** A special cocktail brewed just for the occasion that will be called: The K(e), and a special Gauntlet of Fire shot that’ll rock you like you were at a RandomK(e) gig but wait! You are at a RandomK(e) gig, so perhaps the effects will be doubled. Or cancelled out. It could go either way, really. Unless it doesn’t. But wait, there's even more: Musical Guests! Yup, musical guests --- no less notable than: Yan Jun (experimental musician extraordinnaire) Kang Mao (lead screamer from hot local pop act SUBS) Des "Mc" McGarry (of Black Cat Bone and Far From Home fame) And others who will wow and sass you with appearances on an improvisational set that will kick off the evening. You might not be interested in guests, and in people painting live, and in video screens. You might, though, be interested in seeing just how crazy Tag Team Records is for signing The Band to their label. RMB30 (A steal at RMB10/year!) Beast always, RandomK(e)

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