S P A C E C O W B O Y S

Looks like the City is going after Club Six. Considering the state of 6th Street, seems counter productive for the City to target one of the area’s few successful establishments. But it wouldn’t be the first time government did something that didn’t make a lick of sense… Here’s a plea for community support from Angel Cruz, the owner of C6:

I would like to thank all the patrons, promoters, DJs, artists, and employees of Club Six for an amazing six and a half years. We have owned and operated Club Six trouble free for all these years: there have been no ODs, no stabbings, no shootings, and no underage drinking. Now we have summoned by the Entertainment Commission of San Francisco for a hearing to suspend our Place of Entertainment Permit and our After Hours Permit. This would mean no DJs, no performers, and no dancing for one month. This would put us out of business.

The complaint states that Club Six violated the noise ordinance anywhere from three to nine decibels above our limitations. Over the last few years we have invested over $200,000 in soundproofing. We continue to do more sound work to improve our situation. Regardless of the outcome of the hearing, I am committed to meeting the guidelines the city has set forth. I have 20 years left on my lease at Club Six and intend to continue to bring quality entertainment to the community and to the City of San Francisco.

My goal when I bought Club Six was to unite all types of people, music, and cultures together in a place where everyone from all walks of life would be treated equally. It was to create one of the city’s top venues in what was and considered to be one of the city’s most blighted and destroyed neighborhoods: Sixth Street. Do you remember Sixth Street six and half years ago? Friends and business associates told me it couldn’t be done.

Now, Club Six is the largest minority-owned business and employer on Sixth Street. People from all over the Bay, the country, and the world stop off there. Club Six is the anchor of Sixth Street and in many ways the glue that keeps it together. It has been instrumental in helping to bring more businesses to the neighborhood, and I am very proud to say that I can see my vision of successful co-existence between all types of people being fulfilled every day. Club Six is Sixth Street!

Our hearing is scheduled to be held in Room 406 of City Hall on June 5th and will begin between 4:00 and 5:00 pm. Please show your support for us by showing up and saying a word in our behalf. For now, we will continue to do business as usual. Please come down, listen to some incredible music, dance, and enjoy Club Six. We are open! Please forward this to a friend, send us an email of support at clubsix@comcast.net , and cc the community leaders below.

Thank you again for allowing me this wonderful opportunity to own and operate Club Six.

Angel Cruz
Owner, Club Six

Club Six: clubsix@comcast.net
Chris Daly: chris.daly@sfgov.org
Bob Davis: bob.davis@sfgov.org
Mayor Gavin Newsom: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org
SOMPAC: mban@sompac.com
SPUR: info@spur.org
Urban Solutions: info@urbansolutionssf.org

Hello Friendly Person:

Normally when I omit an event from the announcement, I figure it just wasn’t meant to be. But once in a while I am compelled to retrace my steps and make the world right. And that is the case today, because the not only is the event I spaced an landmark opportunity for the community to come together under the banner of peace, joy and happiness, but (perhaps more importantly) it’s also an event I happen to be playing! That’s right—it’s another big opportunity to see ME, so don’t blow it! (Thanks to shOOey for catching my flub…) – 8b

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Sunday, May 6th – You Can’t Stop Weird!: Opel’s Offical After Party for the How Weird St. Faire

Because of the downsized number of sound stages How Weird is allowed, we don’t get to rock the How Weird St. Faire this year. Have no fear though, you can’t stop weird, as we host one of the official after parties starting at 6pm when the faire is over, right down the street at Mighty.

Indoor / Outdoor Sound with:
Syd Gris (Opel / Opulent Temple)
Hoj (Opel / djhoj.com)
Melyss (Opel / Sister SF)
Mancub (Space Cowboys / amp.net)
Aaron Jae (Evil Breaks / Space Cowboys)
8Ball (Space Cowboys)
shOOey (Deep End)
Scottino (Fix)
Ron/e (Fix)
Nathan Vain (Opulent Temple)
Billy Cassazza (Opulent Temple / Nutbass)
Djeeno (Word of Mouth)

Only $5 bones all night.
2 chill buses in effect
Bring your Toys!
How Weird staff & Volunteers in for Free.
More info at Opel Productions

From Andrea’s latest SC annoucement:

It has been a busy week in the Space Cowboy administrative offices keeping track of all of the links and shout outs we’ve received from the likes of Wired, CNET, sfgate, all praising the efforts of the talented crews who help put together Yuri’s Night last week down at Moffet Field.

It was not the Unimog’s first appearance at Yuri’s Night, and hopefully not the last. We had a great time rocking on the tarmac while NASA security gave us props on the music and our truck. Not to mention the huge crowd getting down in front of her bass. A big thanks to everyone who worked on, came out, rocked on and supported this night. We hope a greater appreciation for Space was at least one of the things you left with that night.

For those of you who missed it, here a just a few links and photos to check out:

From SFGate: The Space Cowboys’ UNIMOG has a few hundred people’s bootys on fire just a dozen yards from barbed wire fences.

From Business2.com: ...Space Cowboys – the Bay Area’s hottest DJ posse – were on hand with their Burning Man art car, the Unimog, to lead the dance.

And an article on News.com

A mention in this article on Wired

And also from Wired

And from Scott Beale

And on Flickr – 1 , 2 , 3

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For those of you who are tired of FOMO – here are a few more opportunities to check out your local Space Cowboy DJs:

Friday April 20th, 2007
Mighty Breaks presents A Finger Lickin’ Thang
with beat bashers The Drumattic Twins!
Mighty – 119 Utah @ 15th
$15 at the door before midnight
$10 presales available

Their visas are sorted, the dex n’fx show is packed and they have their eyes locked on SF. We were disappointed with the problems in January, and have got everything aligned for next weeks show. It will be the premier Finger Lickin’ performance in San Francisco for the Drumattics, nowhere else but Mighty. Check out the exclusive mighty breaks mix

Joining the drums are local rockers: Murphstar (SEISMIC)
rrrus (Space Cowboys)
Trav (SEISMIC)
Syd Gris (Opel)
Kramer (djkramer.com)

### Saturday April 21 OPULENT TEMPLE PRESENTS: EVOCATION Porn Palace, 415 Jesse @ 6th $10 playa wear, $20 street clothes

With Carbon Community (Sober Music / Bless, Dallas TX) Aaron Jae (Evil Breaks / Space Cowboys) Evinrude (Space Cowboys) and more…

Please come in your sexy playa best.

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Saturday April 28th MONKEY 9PM – Later – Later! The Porn Palace 415 Jessie St. (@ 6th) $20 Donation Burning Man Ticket Raffle!

Join us Saturday, April 28th, for MONKEY: a banana peelin’, vine swingin’, primal primate throwdown featuring two rooms of boom to shake your prehensile tail ‘til the early morn’! 100% of Proceeds to Benefit “Homouroboros”; Peter Hudson’s next playa masterwork. Everyone involved has volunteered to support the production of Peter’s next stroboscopic zoetrope.

Come see why: www.hudzo.com

In the Art Barn, you’ll view Peter’s past work and speculate on the scope of homouroboros. You can also buy limited edition homouroboros tees, bandannas, panties and more. Plus, preserve your posterior for posterity. Live ass-casting is back! And with all our favorite Playa sound camps and DJ’s under one roof, this is a rare opportunity for those allergic to playa dust to hear some Black Rock legends.

Monkey Room Lineup (main room)

An-ten-nae (Get Freaky) vs. Laird (Get yer’ Freak on!) Ernie Trevino (Space Cowboys) vs. Ethan Miller (FNF) Anthony Garlic (Green Gorilla) vs. Fred Funk (Brass Tax) Syd Gris (Opel) vs. Shissla (House of Lotus) j9 (Angels of bAss) vs. Viajay (Angels of bAss) and more!!

The Guerilla Lounge (front room)

The rumble in this jungle will be brought by the legendary Radio Active. Master MC, beatboxer, writer, painter, and b-boy, Radio Active was a longtime member of Spearhead. For those of you unfamiliar with the true art of vocal percussion, prepare to get old-schooled.and El Papa Chango’s gonna be dropping Latin Guerilla BOMBS long into the night!

Guerrilla Lounge Lineup:

Radio Active (Live MC/Beat-box) El Papa Chango (El Circo), Tamo (Angels of bAss), Aaron Pope (The Deep End)

COSTUMES encouraged/rewarded: Show me the MONKEY!!!

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Friday May 4th FRESH at Shine Another installment of Fresh underway, this time hosted by 8ball (or maybe H8ball?) and Mr. Pickles. Lineup and workup TBA – watch this space: http://spacecowboys.org