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Booji Boy's Basement:

  • no show audio or video

Setlist:

Unknown.


Venue:

  KIVA,   Student Center,   Kent State University

City:

  Kent, OH

Date:

1975-11-25[1]

Time:

Unknown.
"...after Teus. Flicks."
Probably close to midnight.

Opening Acts:

None known.
(Preceded by two science-fiction films.)
Trivia/Info:[]
  • This is the first known show after the Halloween '75 show in Cleveland.
  • This is Devo's first known show in the Kiva, a "multi-purpose conference theater"[2][3][4] on the Kent State University campus.
  • The Kiva is located on the first floor of the Student Center, one floor under the Student Governance Chamber, which was another KSU venue for Devo.
  • Devo had performed their nighttime set after the double feature screening of the classic science fiction films Things To Come and Metropolis.[5] Each film features both Utopian and Dystopian societies.
References[]
  1. Kent State University - Library archive.
    Daily Kent Stater. 25 November 1975. page 10.
    "DEVO continental Soupdujour Europe and wet look experience Devo Nov. 25 at the Kiva after Tues. Flicks."
  2. Daily Kent Stater. 4 March 1970.
    "The University Center today ..." (pics) "... and tomorrow".
    (Article about the six-acre, 12.5 million dollar construction that was due to be completed in 1972. Includes info about the Kiva.)
  3. Daily Kent Stater, Volume LX, Number 45, 19 November 1985.
    "They call it a Kiva; but what is it?"
  4. https://www.campus-maps.com/kent-state-university/kiva/
  5. Daily Kent Stater. 25 November 1975
    page 2 ad, page 6 ad, and page 9 article.
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