KIDS ON TV le 11 Avril 2007 @ Metz, le Tunnel, GRATOS

THREE COOL CATS présente :


MERCREDI 11 AVRIL 2007
Le Tunnel
Place Quarteau @ Metz


KIDS ON TV (Toronto, Canada – Electro Clash, Chicks On Speed Records)



Une émission pour enfants interdite aux moins de 18 ans. Sexuellement connotée, leur musique l’est indéniablement. Booty bass queer as folk. Primitive également, comme un bon gros mélange entre les BEASTIE BOYS des débuts et le meilleur du pire de DEEE LITE. Agression sonore dans la joie et la bonne humeur. DEPECHE MODE sous acide. Si on joue avec son propre caca, c’est pour mieux te le balancer à la gueule. Car derrière les couches culottes et les nez rouges de clown se cachent des armes à feu et des discours libertaires scandés comme si ceux-ci étaient prononcés pour la dernière fois.

Le site de l’ORTF : http://www.kidsontv.biz
Du son sur leur Shitspace : http://www.myspace.com/kidsontvsongs2


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Un jonglage pyrotechnique démentiellement remuant assuré par la Rock Yr Booty Brigade : CHEAPY CHIPS et LA NEIGE.


A partir de 22 heures, et gratos comme d’habitude.

Flyer :

Tin chelou ton groupe.
C'est cool tu présentes toujours des trucs assez éclectiques.

buddy satan a écrit:Un jonglage pyrotechnique démentiellement remuant assuré par la Rock Yr Booty Brigade : CHEAPY CHIPS et LA NEIGE.

Fais gaffe, vous allez tous mourir ensevelis par du plastique fondu.

Kids On Tv, My Space et la censure.

KIDS ON TV's statement:

On March 1, 2007 Kids on TV had their myspace account deleted with no warning or specific explanation by myspace. They just sent the standard list of possible reasons. And as of today still refuse to elaborate further. Kids on TV had built up 14,000 friends in advance of their album release and European tour (both of which are "full steam ahead").



We suspect that, although we kept our site visually "PG-13" and played by the rules, the discussion of sexuality in our lyrics and the open embrace or radical culture was too much for myspace. We definitely ran into their limits whatever they were.

They never responded to our questions either which is the experience everyone has apparently.



Myspace specifies that there be no nudity or "sexually suggestive photos". Altho nudity is pretty specific, the phrase "sexually suggestive photos" is vague enough to mean anything to anyone on the myspace staff. We demand that this phrase be removed or replaced. It provides no guideline at all for people producing content and it gives free reign to anyone wanting to censor arbitrarily.



We have set up a myspace profile where we encourage people to post their stories of myspace censorship as comments - especially stories where the artist suspects a political bias to the censorship. We recognize that all censorship is political. However we have a theory that recently (and in the past) myspace has been deleting accounts simply because they represent radical views, and express those views in images, video and music. This censorship will undoubtly continue and may result in the deletion of the page we created for censorship discussion. In the mean time we need to document and discuss these cases when they result from the homophobia, sexism, racism etc of myspace staff and policies. We have not found a corresponding page on myspace and the forums on censorship that we found seem pretty inactive. Others may exist that we haven't found.



Once we created the page we were surprised that everyone who responded to it with a story of censorship was a gay artist. Admittedly we are (or rather were) in touch with many gay artists via our myspace account. But this doesn't explain the repeating pattern.



Someone mailed us asking why is censorship a problem if we are all constantly spammed by commercial porn profiles - and when they appear in banner ads. The emerging cases documented on the censorship page seem to be mostly gay/sex-lib arts groups - not commercial ones. The groups that are targeted for censorship seem to be mostly non-profit, activist groups. We believe that the reason that there are so many commercial porn profiles whose accounts are not deleted is because they are paid advertisers of myspace. It seems that the way the myspace software is set up, myspace can filter and direct adult content based on the age of the profile owner receiving the content, but only for advertisements - not profiles. myspace has no designation of adult content. thus the same week Kids on TV's account was deleted we had banner ads every day advertising porn / adult dating services with "sexually suggestive photos" every time we logged into our account. which is fine by us. we just want the same courtesy



Kids on TV has made many excelent contacts and launched several very important projects because of relationships forged on myspace. When an independent artist's account is deleted, it removes the access to these relationships. But it also removers access to the free tools, content management / delivery provided by myspace which are vital to someone trying to express themselves but without the resources of mainstream media, web media, etc. Businesses (e.g. myspace advertisers) have these resources already.



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Myspace Political Censorship Page:

myspace.com/myspaceprofiledeletions



Kids on TV pages:

myspace.com/kidsontvsongs2

myspace.com/kidsontvsongs3

myspace.com/kidsontvsongs4

kidsontv.biz


Articles about Kids on TV's experience:

zoilus.com/documents//2007/001005.php

blogto.com/arts/2007/03/myspace_censorship_hits_kids_in_toronto/

Il y a pas que myspace pour poser.

Wow, quelle pertinence !

Y a emofrance aussi.

UP the queer punx.

Remonte, petit saumon.

buddy satan a écrit:Remonte, petit saumon.

J'ai écouté, c'est...barré, mais ca doit être assez intéressant en live. Après Metz...

The place to be for sex & music.

Pétage de plomb collectif demain soir.

Kids On TV, Tunnel en bouillie.

Allez les voir à la Flèche d'Or au lieu de vous branler la nouille avec vos groupes de daube. Aussi intense qu'Orchid en 1872.

pfff mais tais toi, la quiete c'était mortel!