Stranger freelance writer Sam Mickens of Seattle art-rock band the Dead Science has an important announcement to make, so I’m posting it here. Please read his words and help support one of this city’s most adventurous music/performance venues. Your sweetheart should understand.

“Gallery 1412, one of the city’s only dedicated all ages spaces and its only primarily experimental music venue, has recently fallen on some hard times financially. Having been kept afloat for its entire lifespan by the meager offerings of its collective members and show revenues, we need to occasionally indulge in some aggressively scrill-acquiring events.

“Tuesday, February 14th, 8pm at Gallery 1412, $5-15 sliding scale donation
1412 Valentine’s Day Benefit Party featuring:

Vermillion.Violet
(Prince cover band feat. members of The Dead Science)
Avant Bachelor Auction
(The cream of Seattle’s subcultural hunks up for bid)
Implied Violence Clown Show
(Debased outsider clowning)

“Opening the evening will be a sure-to-entertain-and-discomfort love-themed clown show from local experimental theater company Implied Violence.

“Following this will be a good old fashioned bachelor auction, but populated by the cream of Seattle’s rakish arts community and other generally “outsider” hunks. A full list is yet to be confirmed but some definite buyable men will be dancer/installation artist/salt shaker dk pan, local hiphop legend Specs One, and club promoter/incomparable fashionista Michito Iwata.

“Finally, Vermillion.violet, a Prince cover band including myself and the rest of The Dead Science, will perform. This is only the second show in three years for v.v, the last at another benefit, that time for a film project of performance art group P.A.N. Vermillion.violet is a charitable organization but that does not mean it is not wholly drrty.”