London Placard Headphone Festival

23-10-2008

Le Placard started in 1998 in Paris, France. At that time finding venues for alternative music was difficult, and police raids on unlicensed events were frequent. So instead, Erik Minkkinen organised a headphone party in his small apartment, called ‘placard’ after the French word for ‘cupboard’.

Since then this concept has grown to an international streaming festival, with tens of cities providing listening rooms for local and remote performances. Placard has formed part of the Mutek, Transmediale, Garage and Pixelache festivals. The event in Paris has itself grown into an institution, running for 72 hours straight where the audience sleep with their headphones on, still listening.

Le Placard London has got two headphone sessions this year, one at Cafe OTO on the 20th September and another at Shunt as part of the Netaudio festival on Friday the 24th October with a 3 hour headphone session in the Media Lounge.

Headphone listening session with a diverse packed schedule, one act every 20 minutes. Bring your own headphones if you want to hear the music. We have enough plugs for 100 listeners. The plug-in points are 1/4” jack sockets, but we’ll have plenty adaptors for hire, all headphones catered for.

Featuring:

Pausal, Sarah Angliss (spacedog), Ed Kelly, Cormac Heron, John Bowers,
Apo33, Mischa Twitchin, Cheapmachines and Cacao

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Le Placard London has got two headphone sessions this year, one at Cafe OTO on the 20th September and another at Shunt as part of the Netaudio festival on Friday the 24th October with a 3 hour headphone session in the Media Lounge. Bring your own headphones if you want to hear the music.