Here's all the info you need for both the LA and SF shows. If you have any questions, please contact me at lighthousepromo@sbcglobal.net - hope to see you there, Lisette
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* 12 April, Monday
SORROW (Featuring Rose McDowall of Current 93 and Strawberry Switchblade)
Globe Theatre
1107 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Support from The Master Musicians of Hop-Frog
The Globe is a small intimate venue with strictly limited seating of 99 people. Guests are asked to arrive by 9pm so as not to disrupt the proceedings.
I'd like to go- but
I'd like to go- but I'm going to see Kraftwerk o the 29th- and since we turned 30 my g/f and I can't deal with more than one evening of excitement per month!
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WIOUX-HIOUX!!!! It's tonight and I can't wait. Don't know anything about thee opening acts, Faun Fables sounds familiar, and I am scared of "the master musicians of hop-frog"- afraid it might be some silly-nilly performance, hip-hop/rap type thing. UGH! Oh well, we'll likely miss them anyway as my ride doesn't wanna get their too early, just in time to see Faun Fables cuz he's heard she/they is/are good.
Have a great day and night everyone. Will report on the show tomorrow! Now, what to wear? Camo pants and a brown, long sleeved shirt w/ tiny Totenkopf's sewn onto the lapels, or a black silk shirt w/ red flames stitched across the chest and ruby buttons w/ black lace-up-the side pants?? Guess I'll wear whatever's more comfy at closer to the time to go.
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WOW! Rose put on a STUNNING performance last night- she sounds better than ever and looks great and happy. Got an interview w/ her the night before on a local college radio station- about 40 minutes!
She played acoustic guitar, as did one other guy, and had a bassist, who also switched off on guitar and some other "celtic" looking instrument, and a cellist (who is amazingly gorgeous!) and one bongo drum during a couple songs.
They did Let There Be Thorns, To Drown A Rose, Voices(which was uber-intense! "If I Had A Gun, We'd All Be Dead"!- she started screaming it as the music rose- just amazing!) and ended w/ Since Yesterday, which she wasn't sure she was going to play before the show.
They played for about an hour and half and the crowd was so respectful and quiet, except for one annoying guy trying to sing along out loud w/ every song directly behind me. If I was a violent type, he would be having his jaw wired shut today cuz I would have loved to smash him in the mouth. It's one thing to sing along, but at least know the words, and please, don't scream and SING IN KEY OR SHUT UP!!!!
Anyway, ran into many friends, some old, some new, some current, etc. Ran into my ex-beau and his friends and that went really well- we're friends again.
A great night was had by all and I think Rose was surprised at the turnout! Good size crowd, though nothing like a jam-packed crowd when Nina Hagen plays or someone.
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OH my goodness, golly, jeepers! How could I forget to mention they did a stunning rendition of one of my favs- The Wickerman Song from the Nature and Organisation album "Beauty Reaps The Blood Of Solitude"??? AND another cover of a DIJ or possibly C93 (certain songs get all confused in my head w/ all thee different versions and such!) song, which I'm spacing on at thee momeant. Hope to have the recording siouxn!!!!!
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Sounds like a memorable performance. Speaking of the 'Wicker Man Song', what interests me is that Michael Cashmore credits it on the album as being a 'traditional song', when it is in fact a cover of 'Willow's Song' from The Wicker Man soundtrack, composed by the forgotten musician Paul Giovanni. Presumably when the Nature & Organisation album was made in 1994, information about the soundtrack was scarce, and they assumed that it was all traditional material, which is in fact only true of a couple of the items.
The soundtrack for The Wicker Man has obviously been an influence on a lot of this circle; its success is in seeming traditional when it is actually manufactured. Giovanni's singing voice sounds plausibly Scottish/Irish, when he is in fact American. Incidentally, Rose McDowell's voice often sounds the opposite to me: Scottish yet American-tinged.
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She has a very thick accent in person, it is SO cute! She's so tiny too! I know what you mean about The Wickerman Song, but don't have an answer.
OH- BTW, Faun Fables was AWFUL and luckily we missed the first band, who everyone said was even worse. To me it's hard to imagine being worse than what I witnessed of Faun Fables last night. Yeee-UCK!
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