La Escocesa and Hangar present:
Mike Watt vs. Raymond Pettibon: The importance of the artwork in the contemporary musician releases
La Escocesa and Hangar are organizing an artist talk with the musician – artist Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, Iggy Pop, Mike Watt...) during his short visit to Barcelona as part of his European tour. This well-known musician (and United States underground art activist) will show us his vision and experience related with the graphic art of his music releases and promotion of his projects, with a special consideration of his works with the visual artist Raymond Pettibon.DATE: Monday 10th March 2014
TIME: 12:00 h.
PRICE: free entrance.
PLACE: Hangar (c/ Emilia Coranty, 16. Barcelona)
About Wike Watt
(1957, USA) Always wearing a classical lumberjack shirt, he is considered a basic stand of contemporary alternative rock music in North America, as well as a brilliant bass player and composer.
He’s founding member of Minutemen and Firehose bands, musician of Iggy Pop & The Stooges since 2003 and usual collaborator of key independent U.S. musicians of bands such as Sonic Youth, Porno for Pyros, Dinosaur Jr., Beastie Boys, Nirvana, Black Flag or Soundgarden.
Watt is currently leading his own music project since 1995, with the participation of a lot of other well-known alternative musicians of that country. He began his friendship and professional collaboration with Raymond Pettibon in the early eighties, during the emerging punk scene of Los Angeles. Pettibons’s brother, Greg Ginn was the responsible of the music label that produced Watt’s Minutemen’s records -one of his earliest bands-, and musician of the mythical punk band Black Flag. Since then, they’ve been working together periodically. Raymond Pettibon’s elaborates the graphic art and promotional material of Mike Watt’s bands (Minutemen and Mike Watt). And even sometimes, they collaborate in duo music projects, such as Sock-Tight or live duo interventions.
Mike Watt interviews Raymond Pettibon:
http://swingsetmagazine.com/2012/06/mike-watt-vs-raymond-pettibon/
Mike Watt´s collaboration with Raymond Pettibon video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjXvrCzuUw
Interview with Mike Watt:
http://www.vice.com/soft-focus/mike-watt
Facebook’s event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/682126768492916/
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