ESS hosts a Meet & Greet/Q&A/Art Show featuring past Million Tongues Photos/posters. This event is a pre-party for the following two nights of the festival at Empty Bottle. Learn more below:
The famed happening is back with its 20th Anniversary Celebration of Million Tongues Festival at Empty Bottle!
Yes, for you younger heads, my very first Million Tongues fest was wayyyy back in 2004, and featured a VERY rare appearance by 70s UK dark-folk legend, Simon Finn (of Pass the Distance fame)--as well as astral folk vagabond Josephine Foster, avant goddesses Spires That in the Sunset Rise, and when legendary Deviants frontman Mick Farren canceled last second, my band instead ended up backing local legends like Christopher Connelly (of Ministry/Sons of the Silent Age/Rev Co), for a rousing "Proto/spacepunk cover set"
ALL THIS IS HAPPENING AGAIN AND THEN SOME!!
The fest has always had a tradition of hosting international "cult/underground legacy" artists like Terry Reid, Keiji Haino, Bert Jansch, Acid Mothers, Mark Fry, LSD March, and Michael Chapman, and this fest is no exception—with the second-ever Chicago appearance of exalted Mexican 70s psych-rockers Los Dug Dug's! Thrilled to also have the long-awaited return of Windy City hallucinogenic hellions, The Great Society Mind Destroyers, who played MT eons back with literal cult-rockers Ya Ho Wha 13 of the Source Family. Folk/drone has a rich history with the Tongues, with past fests featuring Tony Conrad, Peter Walker, Cave, Mark Fosson, Ruthann Friedman, Jack Rose, Espers, Fursaxa, Charalambides, 6 Organs, and now the acclaimed Eli Winter. If that wasn't enough, the genius sike-tunesmiths The Joy Poppers with Tom Szidon and Jason Batchko are back for a rare side set, as well as the esteemed William Vermette, who has been crafting synth soundscapes since the 70s. There'll be psychoactive/rare record dealers too, and mind-expanding visuals courtesy of Interstellar Space Records. There's discounted 2 day passes too, so miss this hoo hah at your own peril (your spiritual growth might be stunted forever). Major thanks to sponsors Daze Off and there just MIGHT be more fest-related haps being announced soon, so stay tuned in and turned on..