When

Friday October 25, 2013 at 9:00 PM PDT
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Saturday October 26, 2013 at 2:00 AM PDT
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Where

The Presidio Yacht Club 
Sommerville Road, Travis Marina
Fort Baker
Sausalito, CA 94965  
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Contact

Cathey Cotten 
Bombshells and Rockstars Presents 
415-508-PLAN 
theevilchick@theevilplan.com 

2013 ENTERTAINMENT

THIS YEAR we will be featuring one of two of the Bay Area's hottest funk bands........

THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY

 This new incarnation of Cathey Cotten and Elliott's Evil Plan is a 10 piece "Big Band" that is a fan of polyester bell bottoms and oversize Bootsy Collins sunglasses. Whether they are performing dance songs from the 70s that have a political bite and a gospel soul or funky arrangements of tunes by Issak Hayes, Stevie Wonder or the Beatles, The Atomic Beat Society's fresh take on classic grooves keep fans on the dance floor.

Striking a fine balance between exciting arrangements and fiery solos, The Atomic Beat Society never fails to delight with their feel-good, high-energy hybrid of funk, soul and jazz. At the band's core is Cotten (bandleader, singer), Elliott Shannonhouse (lead guitar), Byron Rynes (guitar), John-Paul McLean (bass), Steve Guerrero (drums), Ron Ransford (percussion) and Gig Anderson (keyboard). Alongside this core group, the Society features the finest horn section from the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area jazz and funk scene - alto saxophonist Ray Clement (Wall Street), trumpeter Rich Armstrong and tenor saxophonist Rob Zuckerman (Cold Blood).

AND SPECIAL GUESTS - 

THE FUNKANAUTS

Fear not cats & kitties of cosmic strumpet Mother Earth, for the Funkanauts have returned to claim the pyramids with this jubilant world-quaking, life-affirming voluminous funk groove. This music comes down so hard on the one it naturally locks you into an ecstatic frenzy from the opening crackle of “Groove With You” ….thru the outer space ways of “Commander Broun” .

All this funk is wrapped up in super-charged crack horn charts, slippery synthesizers with bad-azzed bass & guitar shredded madness all anchored by a fat, throbbing drum beat. Stimulating multi-layered choir-like vocals swirl over the top.

It’s funky fresh and energetic melodies like “Keepin It Real” that prove even in this day and age of plastic radio sounds The Funk is alive and thriving. The Funkanauts launch a full frontal assault against all of the negativity of life like a funky rainbow of sunbeams out of the Bay Area. Just check the clavinet-drenched, Bootsyesque bass acrobatics of “Give You What You Want” and you quickly realize the Funkanauts mission.

Simply put, these are the brothas from Planet Funk-the Guardians of the Good Groove. The funk flows freely thru their veins and is in the secret of the DNA. Its just a natural progression of the James Brown, P-Funk, Ohio Players, Sly, Prince-influenced sounds that bombarded their own young sensibilities and now ooze from the pores of their very soul.

They’ve picked up the instruments and started channeling that same energy by tapping into the immortal, esoteric and celestial frequency that is The One. This is the stanky and sweaty essence of creative juice, not some slick homogenized deodorized over-produced pre-packaged placebo schmuck we hear on the radio. Funkanauts be the reel deel. It’s just a wide-open, high-octane, toilet paper-ripping wipe out of colossal stank.

The message in this music is to simply “Feel the Funk”, use it to inspire yourself. No need to intellectualize, just let these joocy grooves into your very psyche and the vibrations will do the rest. Free your mind this is One Nation. They ain’t gonna spend no “Life Time” worrying about it either, just gonna live and let live and unite all under the common denominator of universal love and grooveallegiance. The paradisiacal beat of “Chocolate Lollipop” and “Right Thing” are a celebratory fete of libidinous bliss. For those that like to groove we salute you on the pounding “We Got Funk”.

The Funkanauts have come to this dimension to awaken you to and remind you of your own birthright as the “Funky People” of the Universe. If you find yourself “all strung out on corporate radio, the feeling just ain’t real when you change the dial, did your boss lay you off from the job?” Funk it. Go forth and get off your ass and jam, awake and pay attention, for these Funkanauts have got “Something Fo’ Ya”.

AND - M.I.L.F.s own Flygirl MICHELE