Il Corral
Il Corral was a venue located in Los Angeles, CA. that provided performance space for underground artists. It was founded by Bob Bellerue and Stane Hubert in January 2005. Bellerue ceased involvement in September 2006; Hubert and Christie Scott continued the venture until December 2007.
Il Corral provided for music and film festivals: The Turn the Screws Fest, Noisepollination, Harsh Noise v. Metal, Druid Underground Film Festival, Aloud Fest, Salient Lock-Up, The Curse of El Topo, Bent, Hollywood Nihilist Comedy Spectacular and Thee Dung Mummy; benefit shows for the Los Angeles Eco-Village, Kill-Radio and Tarantula Hill; and workshops for circuit bending and puppetry. It was a centre for L.A. director Sean Carnage's weekly Monday night event. Carnage's "Monday nights" were documented in the movie 40 Bands 80 Minutes!, filmed entirely inside the Il Corral; in March 2007, after approximately 50 shows, Sean Carnage moved his Monday night events to Pehrspace.
In addition to live recordings for CD and DVD, Il Corral hosted studio recordings for Amplified Piano Duets by Bob Bellerue & Jarrett Silberman, Snow White In Hell by KILT, Scavenger's Feast by Hive Mind, and also Corral Comp 05 for artists who had performed in the venue during 2005. Il Corral provided 215 live shows from January, 2006 until its closure in December 2007. It also served as a Bookshop and Record Store, selling cheap books on eclecticism, and music movies from the venue’s performers.
Scott and Hubert opened a similar venue, Zero-Point, south of downtown L.A.; Bellerue left Los Angeles and now lives in Brooklyn.
In October 2009, Il Corral was featured in Paper Cuts, a web site magazine produced by music label papercutsrecords.com.
Bands that played at Il Corral
- Abe Vigoda
- Alexis
- Amps For Christ
- Anavan
- Bacon Tears Up Business
- Bastard Noise
- Bavab Bavab
- Bentmonkeycage Oct 2005
- Bipolar Bear
- Bob Bellerue
- Books on Tape
- BOW+ARROW
- Captain Ahab
- Carlos Giffoni
- Circuit Wound
- Damion Romero
- Dave Phillips
- David Leikam
- Dead Machines
- Dead/Bird
- Deep Jew
- +DOG+
- Dog Shit Taco
- Ex-Jesus
- Ex-Models
- Feed The Dragon
- Foot Village
- The Fugue
- Halloween Swim Team
- The Haters
- Health
- High Places
- Hive Mind
- The Hop-Frog Kollectiv
- Impregnable
- Jessica Rylan
- John Wiese
- Josh Taylor's Friends Forever
- KILT
- Kraig Grady
- Men Who Can't Love
- Metalux
- Mitchell Brown
- Moth Drakula
- Musak John
- Nels Cline
- Oscillating Innards
- On and Off Superfast
- PDX Bike Ensemble
- Pe-eL (Lorin Edwin Parker and David Leikam)
- phroq
- Poingly
- Points of Friction
- Privy Seals
- Pulse Emitter
- Raven Chacon
- Redglaer
- Roman Torment
- Rose for Bohdan
- Rubber O'Cement
- Sean Price aka DubGoblin
- Sissy Spacek
- SIXES
- 16 Bitch Pileup
- Skull Sküll
- Spastic Colon
- STEVEN
- The Cherry Point
- The Floating Corpses
- The Rita
- The Tuna Helpers
- Thomas Dimuzio
- Toxic Loincloth
- Twig Harper
- Warm Climate
- Wives
- Wolf Eyes