Welcome to the only official site for People Like Us and Vicki Bennett
That’s right! On 23 December 2015 People Like Us will broadcast a 3-hour radio show, filling in for Station Manager Ken on WFMU. You can listen in live on the radio and internet from 9am-noon NY time, which is 2pm-5pm UK time. http://wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
Live playlist will occur here http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64135
As part of Radio 3’s New Year New Music, Max Reinhardt is joined in the studio by the experimental musician and multimedia artist Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us whose audio collage work involves the manipulation and reworking of sampled material. Presented by Max Reinhardt – Vicki will be on around 11.30pm. Late Junction – BBC Radio 3
While we were staying with Matmos a couple of months ago we made this video for their new album “Ultimate Care II”. Here it is!
“Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five” is from Matmos album “Ultimate Care II,” out February 19 on Thrill Jockey Records.
CD/LP: http://thrilljockey.com/products/ulti…
Video by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) and Peter Knight:
https://peoplelikeus.org/2014/biography/
http://peterwknight.net/
Matmos website: http://vague-terrain.com/
Matmos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matmosband/
Thrill Jockey on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thrilljockey
Thrill Jockey on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thrilljockey
Thrill Jockey on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thrilljockey
Thrill Jockey on Tumblr: http://www.thrilljockey.tumblr.com
People Like Us have just been invited to join M.C.Schmidt and Jennifer Walshe in an improv set tonight (19 November 2015) at London’s Cafe Oto. Expect incongruous ramshackleness to the highest degree! https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/mc-schmidt-jennifer-walshe/
On 18 November 2015 there will be a double bill of the WFMU doc “Sex and Broadcasting” and the People Like Us doc “Nothing Can Turn Into A Void” at Brighton Cinecity, at Sallis Benney Theatre. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
Respective links:
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
Also at the same festival on 21 November 2015, People Like Us will perform Citation City at the same venue. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/citation-city-people-like-us/
People Like Us will perform Citation City at Brighton Cinecity (say that fast!) on 21 November 2015 at Sallis Benney Theatre on Grand Parade, Brighton at 7.15pm. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/citation-city-people-like-us/
Also on at the same festival and venue on 18 November 2015 will be a double bill of the WFMU doc “Sex and Broadcasting” with the People Like Us doc “Nothing Can Turn Into A Void”. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/
People Like Us will present Citation City in two cities this week –
WFMU’s Monty Hall on Saturday 24 October at 8pm:
Event info here
PEOPLE LIKE US present Citation City
and
EAR, NOSE AND THROAT : M.C.SCHMIDT (Matmos), JASON WILLETT, MAX EILBACHER
M.C. Schmidt is one half of the acclaimed electronic duo Matmos. As half of Matmos, Schmidt has worked with Terry Riley, Bjork, The Kronos Quartet, Peter Rehberg, the INA/GRM, Rrose, Marshall Allen, Horse Lords, People Like Us, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antony Hegarty, William Basinski and many more.
Jason Willett is an American musician, known largely for his work with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, The Dramatics, The Jaunties, The Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering, and many more. He has also made records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, James Chance, Jon Rose, Michael Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye & his various pet ducks.
Max Eilbacher is a sound and video artist working with a wide variety of electronics, both sampled and synthetic. Deemed “American Midi Primitivism” by the New Yorker and “An algorithm most likely to fail” by the Village Voice.
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The Red Room, Baltimore on Wednesday 28 October at 9pm:
Event info here
PEOPLE LIKE US present Citation City
and
MATT WESTON Electro-acoustic percussionist Matt Weston performs a solo improvisation as only he can.
NOTHING CAN TURN INTO A VOID – The documentary film about People Like Us will screen at Huset in Copenhagen on 29 October 2015.
Details here:
http://huset-kbh.dk/event/heroes-of-the-art-underground-an-art-apart-en/?lang=en
Hello, It’s that time of the year when WFMU is running out of funds. WFMU is the home of freeform radio – which has the word “free” in it, which indeed it is to listen to and enjoy. However WFMU pays for a lot for things in order for it to be free for you and I, and if you’ve ever listened to People Like Us (which you may well have done if you are reading this) or to WFMU in general you know how important and unique this community and platform for sharing music and communications is, and it should not be taken for granted. So… well… do what you can, eh?
Yes, now available for free download courtesy of and thanks to UbuWeb:
Don’t Think Right, It’s All Twice
http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_thinktwice.html
Release date: 31 October 2013
Cutting Hedge SNIP001
The music on this album was composed between 2006 and 2013 initially for five different live performances of moving image and sound.
Performance sources:
Lyrics in Libraries (2006) | Genre Collage (2009) | People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz Live at Cafe Oto (2009) | The Magical Misery Tour (2011) | Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another) (2013)
Some of the tracks listed above also have a moving image representation in People Like Us in UbuWeb Film
RELATED RESOURCES:
Another People Like Us album now available for free download over at UbuWeb:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_welcome.html
Welcome Abroad {2011)
Release date: 24 May 2011
Illegal Art IA124 http://www.illegalart.net
Press release
“Welcome Abroad is the soundtrack to a dream – overlaying a cabaret with the circus, a music hall with the radio, a nightclub with the movies. Finely tuned sounds from the collective unconscious, fitted together with care and clarity and skill, producing a hallucinatory landscape that shifts and slides, shimmering with each new sample. Julie Andrews duets with Jim Morrison? Damn.” –Steinski
Vicki Bennett, under the People Like Us moniker, returns from several collaborations for her first solo album in several years. Stranded in the United States for an extended period after the Icelandic volcano eruption blocked her British homeland’s airspace, Bennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere, from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Volcanically marooned in Baltimore and NYC, Bennett utilized some of her “free” time to work on the album and even gained audio contributions from fellow experimental musicians Jason Willett (of Half Japanese) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos) via her extended stay.
Taking a glance at just a few tracks from Welcome Abroad, songs from The Beatles, Ennio Morricone, Danny Kaye, Bob Dylan, Rod McKuen, Elton John, Gene Pitney, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, John Denver, Julie London, and Queen are all amalgamated. While recent mashup culture often centers on the instant gratification of seamlessly juxtaposing hooks, People Like Us tracks transform the source material into collages that are equal parts dissonance and pleasure, making artful commentaries on our culture and Bennett’s own existential amusement within such a wondrous world.
Thanks to Ergo Phizmiz, Jason Willett, M.C.Schmidt (Matmos), Virginia Pipe and Wobbly for contributing instruments, audio parts and multitracking to this album.
Lyrics on The Seven Hills of Rome by Ergo Phizmiz.
Some of the tracks listed above also have a moving image representation in People Like Us in UbuWeb Film
RELATED RESOURCES:
Ergo Phizmiz in UbuWeb Sound
Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) in UbuWeb Sound
People Like Us in UbuWeb Film
Another 3 additions to People Like Us over at UbuWeb. Many thanks Ubu!
Blather (2012)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_blather.html
Radio Boredcast Blather Part 1
Radio Boredcast Blather Part 2
Radio Boredcast Blather Part 3
Full playlists for the above radio shows at http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_blather.html
Radio Boredcast: http://wfmu.org/playlists/zz