NTERNATIONAL APRIL FOOL'S PARTY CARNIVAL Saturday March 31st 8pm - 2:30am Rotture - 315 SE 3rd on the East waterfront APRIL FOOL'S PARTY

I just went to see the venue last week, it's gonna be great, expect a mermaid lagoon, three stages, a lounge as well as a frikkin parade!
Below is what ringmaster Noah has to say about the event.
Dingo-

Rotture 315 sw 3d on the East Waterfront.
NTERNATIONAL APRIL FOOL'S PARTY CARNIVAL

Saturday March 31st
8pm - 2:30am


STARRING: MiruMir, Trashcan Joe, Here Comes A Big Black Cloud, DJ Dimon,
The Alberta Clown House, Professor Gall, DJ Global Ruckus, Chervona,
John "Elvis" Schroeder, Krebsic Orkestar, Noah Mickens, Krystal Z, Paul Clay,
Pointblank Selector, Travis McAlister's Oomphadelic Soundsystem,
Infamous Dangerous Psychopath, Spitting Seamen, Alex Magic, and tons more

$10 at the door, $7 in advance
21+


The Council of Fools has sent out a clarion call for all of our number to assemble on March 31st, so we can be together to celebrate the Fool's New Year when midnight strikes.

At 8pm, we are gathering outside Rotture for a parade and pre-show starring The Alberta Clown House; then opening the doors at roughly 9pm and letting in as many fools as the place can hold. A`profoundly foolish line-up of music and oddball performances culminates in a countdown at 12am, and we'll keep the scene lit-up well into April 1st with a late-night dance party.

Our main stage will be held down by prominent fools from all strata of the Portland underground

MiruMir, Russian rock ambassadors from the Communist Afterparty - www.myspace.com/mirumir
Here Comes A Big Black Cloud, party-crashing visitors from a distant world - www.myspace.com/herecomesabigblackcloud
and Trashcan Joe, hobo souls from the scrap heaps of old-world America - www.trashcanjoe.com

And we're filling the rest of the bar, from the staircase to the ladies' room to the smoking patio, with a head-spinning gaggle of performers:

If you attended our chaotic open audition at The Know, you'll remember old-time booze singer Professor Gall; and the Infamous Dangerous Psychopath who played the double-nose-recorder. Other acts on the side-stages and throughout the venue will include gypsy brass band The Krebsic Orkestar, singer Paul Clay, gypsy pop band Chervona, nightmare raconteur John "Elvis" Schroeder, international scoundrel DJ Dimon, Travis McAlister's Oomphadelic Sound System, a demented puppet show from Rale Sidebottom, femme fatale Krystal Z, and just tons of other people.

It's the most astonishing collection of nutcases assembled in a single room since they brought the curtain down on Dammasch, brought to you through the combined efforts of the same crew of zealous Russian party evangelists who brought you The Red October party at Slabtown, the Ararat after-hours, and Gypsymania; and the man behind Batty's Hippodrome, Societas Insomnia, and Cicuri Curajul.

And it's not too late to get involved - if you'd like to contribute your foolish performance to our little Bedlam, contact Noah Mickens at radonpdx@yahoo.com and he'll make sure you get in the door and onto the schedule. No non-fools need apply.


"What is a fool?" the newspaper man asked me.

It's a deeper question than it might seem to be. I don't want to bore the
reading public on such a festive occasion, but please do consider that The
Fool in the Tarot represents the number zero, and thus the very center and
origin of all things. We of the Fool's Council believe that life can be
lived on this path, which begins with a single courageous step that leads
all the way down, only to deliver us each time to the tools we need to
recreate ourselves, more wholly realized in our own image. But far more
important to a fool than his own success is to spread misrule and merriment
throughout the world, like a Pied Piper leading we children dancing over the
cliffs of reason.

Follow us.
Noah-

If this seems like a great way to spend the night before April Fools day contact me at fastclown@veryfast.biz
you can get tickets from us for $7