Festival packs live rock
WeekendM
of melodies,
fresh movies
Trying to think of something to
do this weekend? Ye verily, a
plethora of entertainment lies just
beyond that door, where (me can go
to spend an evening of bliss bask
ing in the radiant glow of Omaha
Beach.
But, since Omaha Beach is in
France and you’re in Lincoln, pre
sented here for your enjoyment is
what Lincoln has to offer for the
partier without a party.
In the movie department, two
films start this weekend.
The first, “Fly Away Home,” is
about a girl who is followed by
geese everywhere.
The other is “Maximum Risk”
with Jean-Claude Van Damme and
Natasha Hestridge. The plot of this
one is unclear, but it seems to be
another in the endless cycle of ac
tion films with Van Damme. But
who sees a Van Damme film for the
story anyway?
aiso, me xoung roisoner s
Handbook” plays this weekend and
next at the Mary Riepma Ross The
atre. The film shows tonight at 7
pjn. and 9 p.m.; Saturday at 1,3,7
and 9 pjn and Sunday at 3,5,7 and
9 pjn. Tickets are $4.50 for stu
dents.
At the Mueller Planetarium, the
laser light show will feature the
music of KISS tonight and Satur
day night, with shows at 8,9:30 and
11 p.m. On Sunday, the stars at the
planetarium will be coupled with the
music of the Beach Boys for a 3:30
pjn. show.
At Knickerbockers, Fragile Por
celain Mice will play with Rascal
Basket tonight. The show starts at
10 pjn. and cover is $3. Saturday
night, Knickerbockers will feature
February and the Sissies starting at
10 pjn., with a $3 cover.
Sunday, Duffy’s will feature the
female country band Hazeldine,
starting at 10:30 pjn. with a $3
cover charge.
me £oo Bar will teature me
music of the Fab Tones tonight and
Saturday. The show starts 9 pm and
the cover charge for the.show is $4.
If you’re feeling up for a road
trip and can leave right now, you
may be able to make The Wallflow
ers show at The Bottleneck in
Lawrence, Kan. The show starts at
9 pm, so start driving south. Jakob
Dylan (son of Bob Dylan) and com
pany are great, so the trip will be
worth your while.
For those of you who haven’t
heard, the Dave Matthews Band
concert in Kansas City this week
end has been postponed. Details
have not been released.
However, 13 bands are playing
at Edgefest Sunday at Ak-Sar-Ben.
The show starts at 11 pm and tick
ets are cheaper in advance.
“Jam On The Groove” at the
Lied Center for Performing Arts
plays tonight and Saturday starting
at 8 pm Tickets are $13, $11 and
$9 forstudents.
Hicks is a sophomore news-edi
torial and English major and a
Daily Nebraskan staff reporter.
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By Cuff Hicks
Staff Reporter
Thirteen bands. Nine and a half hours of music. Inex
pensive tickets. It could only be Edgefest ’96.
With the success of last year’s festival, which
included bands like 311 and the Violent Femmes,
radio station KGDE-FM (101.9) Hie Edge will
put on its second annual all-day music festival
at the Ak-Sar-Ben racetrack.
This year’s line up is, in tentative order
of performance: Local H, The Why Store,
Semisonic, Poe, The Refreshments,
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around,
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Verve Pipe, Seven Mary Three, Goldfmger, The Nixons,
TVacy Bonham, A Flock of Seagulls and Blue Moon
- Ghetto. There is no headliner.
Dan Charleston, vice president of Mitchell Radio
Group, which owns the Edge, said Edgefest was switched
from a Saturday to a Sunday this year for one major rea
son.
“Largely for the Nixons and Goldfinger ” Charleston
said. “We absolutely wanted the Nixons. Since they played
at Edgefest last year, they have really come into their own.”
The Nixons are this year’s only returning band. Since
last year, their album “Foma” has taken off with two fairly
big singles.
John Humphrey, drummer from the Nixons, said the
band was excited about their return to Edgefest.
“We thought it was cool,” Humphrey said. “It was re
ally an awesome day for us. It wasn’t just a standard gig,
it was an opportunity for the band to introduce them to
our music for our time. That’s what's cool about a lot of
festivals.”
Humphrey said his band has done several festivals this
year. On tour for over 15 months, the band has played
hundreds of shows coast to coast.
Last year, the Nixons had to leave right after finishing
their set because they had another show to do in Tulsa
that night. This year, however, they plan to stick around
for the festival.
A Rock of Seagulls was my first concert,” Humphrey
reminisced. “They were opening for the Go-Gos. It’ll be
k cool to see them again.”
Charleston, who lined up the bands for Edgefest,
speculated on the next Edgefest band to repeat the
Nixon’s success in the coming year.
“If Semi sonic does as well as we think, they’ll
be the ones we invite back next year.”
Jacob Slitchter, drummer and keyboardist for
Semi sonic, said the band is looking forward to the
festival.
“It’s really fun, when you get to see all these
other bands,” Slitchter said, ‘To see a good band
means you have to go to some other city and then
it’s just one band. At festivals we can see, like in
this case, twelve other bands. We plan to milk as
much rock out of it as we can.”
Semi sonic was formed by two members of the
now-defunct Trip Shakespeare and their debut al
bum, “Great Divide,” was released in April. They
have recently been on tour with the Refreshments
in support of their latest album.
Filter was also scheduled to join Edgefest but
had to cancel when their drummer left to replace
Smashing Pumpkins’ Jimmy Chamberlain, who
was thrown out of the band because ofheroin abuse.
In addition to the bands, there will also be 12
food vendors. Villians, a vendor specializing in
tattoos ana Doay piercing as well as caluomia Ban
ners, specializing in fabric band posters, will also attend
the festival.
Edgefest representatives said that as ofThursdaymom
ing, ticket sales were at about 16,000. Tickets are $12.50
in advance and $18 the day of show.
Gates open at 11 pan. and the music will start at 11:30.
The show is expected to be done by 9:30.