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Activities
from 1999 ’til approximately now
1999
juni 1999; tuinhuis/huistuin 7" on Room
records, performance Room gallery
Coolhaven exists since june 1999. In that month they
released a 7" Single on Room records, with a sleeve by the
well respected simple mind Jan vd Ploeg.
september; ‘Coolhaven plays Tourette', in
Lantaren/Venster
A try out for the theatre piece ‘tribune' that turned
into something totally different then the latter -we found that
out later- this was a performance about the Syndrome of Gilles De
La Tourette.
september; ‘Estafette' filmmusic for animations,
in cooperation with Karel Doing.
Mixing animation cinema with performance & sound.in
Nighttown, Rotterdam
2000
january/february/march 2000; ‘the linzentour'
Performances in Zwatra (Rotterdam), Vrij Entrepot (Amsterdam),
2B (Eindhoven), Extrapool (Nijmegen), London(Centurion, Klinker
en Mopomoso)Brightton, Eurodusnie (Leiden) and Ekko (Utrecht). This
tour had a conceptual program ,concerning human suffering and very
thick soup.
march/april/may ; Lantaren/Venster workshop production
‘Tribune'.
‘TRIBUNE' is a musical
performance with the help of the syndrome of Gilles De La Tourette.
Most people live their lives without ever having to seriously react
or make decisions. People with the Syndrome can't do that
; they are forced to organise their own ‘spectacles'. ‘Tribune'
used this thought as a starting point for a theatrical reality.
may; Nesserdijk (Rotterdam), Historical &
Environmental Foundation
Performance with live cinema.
july; performance festival Tilburg
august; ‘de armada' in Nijmegen,
organised by Extrapool, premiere of the piece ‘Four
Labtops'.
This piece was a comment on playing electronic music
in a live situation. With other words ; who is doing what on their
labtop and is there a big difference with just playing the tape
and who cares ?
october ; ‘the best of Impakt', Paradiso,
Amsterdam, the piece‘Four Labtops'.
Making some mighty intelligent comments on playing live-music
with labtops.
december ; the piece ‘kutbandje' during
the ‘ Ver Uit De Maat"-festival, Rotterdam.
Trying to recall that good old 'playing in a rockband'
feel, but failing miserably.
2001
april 2001; ‘Klank' festival, Den Haag.
Winning the Klank- trophy, and being very proud of that
as it is probably the only thing we will ever win.
may ; 'Futurism Was Now' workshop and presentation
during Worm In Las Palmas, Rotterdam
With students from the art-academies in rotterdam and
Den Haag we made a very audience-challenging performance.
july ; playing the ‘Stubnitz' multi media
boat.
september ; 'The Summer Of Love' set , Lantaren/Venster,
Rotterdam
Maybe this will lead someday to our long awaited spoken
word project called 'Spoken Worst'.
november; Langweiligkeit festival, Paard,
Den Haag
november; Radioplay ‘Grindpad Naar
Las Palmas' icw. radio Worm, for‘Supplement' National
Radio4.
A 2-hour live radio play with some electronic stuff,
and a neo-postmodern approach to telling stories, on Dutch National
Radio.
2002
february 2002; 'Ambiance Asthmatique'
A multi media experience for visitors of the Museum Boymans
Van Beuningen during the opening of an exposition.
march; ‘Het Zoveelste Kutbandje Dat Op Het
Dak Speelt'
During the ‘Museumnight 2002 Coolhaven played ‘Let
It Be' on the roof of the V2 building for almost an hour
april; Coolhaven goes to Russia
Playing ao. at the Kuryokhin Festival in Petersburg and
DOM in Moscow.
september; ‘Fanfare' during the ‘Kunstexpress'
A lucid tribute to the youth and it's tight ass.
october; Tour to Slovenia, Austria, Hungary and
Czech republic
Together with S.Spier and Liana Flu Winks.
november; presentation Worm salon, Worm In Las
Palmas
Which means we presented all the people that presented
something on this occasion. We created our own vehicle for this
(with wheels that is) and wrote meaningfull poems.
2003
january 2003; the CD ‘Blue Moustache'
april; ‘Stromboli' at ‘The Player'
,Rotterdam
An electro soap with lots of guests, one week ,doing
a different show every day at a former sexclub in the former red
light district of Rotterdam.
may; Hamburg, Bremen und Berlin
Confirming the friendship of french wood with german
dwarfs while drinking too much wodka.
october; Strømblocque Phantasieën
Schubert meets Electronics while baywatch is on; mega-production
for several big festivals; Crossing Border, October Music, Rumor
Festival and more.
2004
january 2004; playing 'Strømblock' at
the Transmediale Festival, Berlin
Well attended multi-media spectacle but shitty produced,
anyway, we had a good time.
february; COOLHAVEN meets STEAMBOAT
The old 'Battle Of The Bands'-thing revised, in the WIM
in Zürich Coolhaven meets up with the notorious 'Steamboat
Switserland'.
february; An evening with...COOLHAVEN in Switserland
In Uster, Switserland.Singing, dancing and other pragmatic
forms of entertainment.
May; An evening with... COOLHAVEN in Chicago
Coolhaven plays the Hidden Network Festival this time,
preparing & writing new stuff as part of the project.
July; Coolhaven plays the Garage Festival in Stralsund,
Germany.
A small but very inspiring festival on electronic arts.
August; The COOLHAVEN fashion show, in club
The Player, Rotterdam.
There were a lot of requests from fans all over the world
to make a show that showed all our different costumes we used through
all our different projects. So we got them out of their closets.
It smelled good,too.
September ; COOLHAVEN plays the performance
'Museum Darlings' in Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
We offered the museum to buy this performance (which
was to say the least, arty) but they couldn't afford it.
Preparing ;
Peet & de Teefjes CD (?)
Strömblocque Phantasieën (CD, to be released in 2005)
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