Behind Enemy Lines – live at Les Tanneries

Channel Zero Episode 4, Part 1- Signal Lost

Here is the first segment of Channel Zero, Episode 4.

Featuring Clarion Alley Murals in San Francisco and Signal Lost playing at the Friese in Bremen, Germany. Punk!

I introduced the clip in Clarion Alley, near 17th and Valencia in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, a local back street that has been famous for its murals since the sixties.

The video of Signal Lost was shot during their 2005 European tour. I traveled with them through Finland, Sweden and parts of Germany. Great people and fun times!

The show featured takes place at the Friesen, a youth center run mostly by volunteers in Bremen, Germany. (Check out the Channel Zero interview with the Friesen Crew Show Collective.)

hell yeah and up th’ punks-

Erika Ransom

P.S. After compression, the video isn’t at its best! Argh and damn my slow connection. If you want to see the full-quality version of any of the Channel Zero shows, you can order the DVD (for not much dinero) from AK Press in the US, from Ruin Nation in Germany, or Active Distribution in the UK. Cheers!

This Week’s Video

Video of AVSKUM, d-beat legends from Sweden. I took this footage at the Scum Fest in London, June 17, 2007. Great show, great times!

Hello!

This  blog has been dormant for too long!

Citizen Phil and Erika Ransom, on the road again

Since my last entry, I have been traveling and on the road, most of my time spent on tour with the Subhumans, an anarcho-punk band from the UK, and Citizen Fish, a ska-punk band with Dick Lucas singing about life, politics and the insanity of our times.

I met them in Europe in July of 2007, while on another video mission, interviewing squatters, anarchists and punks in Germany, France, England and Spain.  On that trip I not only got some great footage, but I met my future husband. Luckily for me, Citizen Phil, the Subhumans bass player, chatted me up while I was hanging out at their show in Paris, and the rest is history.

Together, Phil and I have toured with the Subhumans and Citizen Fish across the US, and in Europe in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and most recently, Poland. We live in Spain when we’re not on the road, enjoying the laid-back approach to life of a small village. The past three years have gone by in a colorful blur, so to speak. Creating Channel Zero in a television studio in San Francisco and living in the Mission feels like another century.

But as my life becomes more settled in Europe, I find  myself wanting to dig into creative projects again. I am hoping to revive the Channel Zero blog and see what happens.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Erika