Southern California - Bicycle Film Festival + Bicycle Bell Ensemble

The Bicycle Film Festival (http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/2007_site/la/) is coming to LA with an awesome block party featuring The Bicycle Bell Ensemeble on July 1.
(http://bicyclebellensemble.org)

http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/2007_site/la/images/BFF_07_LosAngeles_final.jpg

Good stuff, trickmilla. Klunkerz is making the circuit and Billy is really stoked about that. I saw it in Zooport a couple of months ago at the film festival in Facist Island. My bud Greg and I were the only ones to ride in to see it.

haha

This is what we sound like. (http://bicyclebellensemble.org/excerpt2.html)




edit: this link has been redirected to a page with an image of the spokecard/ score.

^^^ cool stuff! :)

I wouldn't miss this for a million bux...

Careful . I went last year and it was great but that was before I realized how dangerous it is to associate with people that might be Ridazz. Lots of bike messenger fashion and I can't remember one person wearing a helmet. Cannot confirm but am also sure that some were not entirely sober. You could easily jeopardize your standing as a true roady.

I have a pretty and shiny bell, too.

I know of no true roadies...no

I mean look at me...I'm a cute lil' white dog with a blue bow.

Roadies scare me. They go fast. They might run over me.

I am a little pissed about the bow...

This is what we sound like. (http://bicyclebellensemble.org/First_Movement_excerpt.mp3)

Nice, but a limited sound palette. How come there are no horns like the one I just got for Father's Day?

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1226067/2/istockphoto_1226067_bicycle_horn.jpg

It could mix things up.

Careful . I went last year and it was great but that was before I realized how dangerous it is to associate with people that might be Ridazz. Lots of bike messenger fashion and I can't remember one person wearing a helmet. Cannot confirm but am also sure that some were not entirely sober. You could easily jeopardize your standing as a true roady.

Wow. Let it go.

whats the matter? are you touchy? cant take a joke? lighten up. etc etc.

I just don't find it funny. I'm not offended at all.

Comedy is funny that way.

true roadie humor is as pervasive as it comes, yeah?

The BBE knows nothing of the imaginary divide between "roadies" and "...'s" we just make sweet sweet music with our bells.

We aren't against horn players or any other musicians for that matter ... in fact the reason why the above clip shines is because we were riding past a bucket drummer in hollywood who helped our cadence a bit.

Maybe somebody needs to form a bike horn ensemble ... we could go on tour together.

We have a plan!
We will meet in downtown (union station or china town) at Noon, have light lunch, then find a quite spot in a vacant corner of china town or union station (i'm researching this week) to rehearse. We will depart around 2.
We will then ride a leisurly 5 to 6 miles hitting up a bunch of cool spots with lots of pedestrain traffic, some quiete neighborhoods, and a few bike friendly roads. We will decend on the Bicycle Film Festival at 3p for our performance that shoudl last no more than 6 minutes.

We play on time and our set is short. so, if you dont want to miss us be there early.

If you want to join us
Sign up for our google group. (http://groups.google.com/group/bicycle-bell-ensemble/web/bbe-main)

all are welcome.

contact: infos -at- bicyclebellensemble -dot- org

I'll be up there Friday night.

Wow! I'll be there! (barring some unforeseen event)

Our meet up is sunday at Noon at union station
unless you just want to watch ... then you can just see our performance at the Bicycle Film Festival Block Party at Orange 20 at 3pm

The final update is here (http://groups.google.com/group/bicycle-bell-ensemble/msg/88682ef6d77163f5)

Sounds like fun. Take pics.

i'm gonna go check it i think.

So how was it? Pics?

I'll link up some pics and sound soon ...
The BBE performance went pretty well
it was definately fun.
The vibe at Bicycle Film Festival was simply amazing.
Something special is happening in LA with bike culture and its pretty awesome to see it in action.
Alice, Thanks for coming out and performing ... and you thought you were going to be a spectator.
haha.

Hey , thank YOU...and it was great fun, especially watching people's smiles when we rode in, making our grand entrance in unision.

I agree the vibe there was really special.

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