Stormcellar at the Town Hall Hotel Newtown, Sat 22nd Nov, late show.
Late show starts at 10. We'll have a mystery special guest.
I say 'mystery' because I have no idea who it will be.
yet.
Stay tuned while we random it out.
10pm-2am.
yep 2am.
Late show starts at 10. We'll have a mystery special guest.
I say 'mystery' because I have no idea who it will be.
yet.
Stay tuned while we random it out.
10pm-2am.
yep 2am.
I've been doing so much clicking that I have stayed away from posting stuff for a few days. Nonetheless the blog rolls and on so do we.
Mr Wizard remarked that 'once you've gone cello you've lost all musical sensibility you wannabe-pop-douche you'
Fie on that say I.
HA!
I just spent the afternoon with Geoff, Rosie and Bill adding some cello to The flood and 'that song that shall not be named' to see how it sounded and.
It was, in Bill's words, Brutal.
That means 'good' for all you lost in translationers.
With luck, we'll be able to share it soon.
Of course after rehearsal came the round of showing each other clips from you tube and saying 'hey have you hear this'
From rap to Tibetan Chanting and French Electronica in one afternoon.
That's what's fun about being in a band. Sitting around and playing each other favourite songs. Decrying each others tastes (don't mention my penchant for BOC).
Anyways, as part of that general theme, I mentioned some europop by our mate in Berlin and Verschleiert! here ya go.
We cool you know.
Rosies guitar is sampled in this track which is the whole connection deal about mates and songs and so forth. trust me, I am on theme. Click play and enjoy.
Cheers Craig.
Hiya,
One of the highlights of the tour was playing Danny Cox’ yard party – Coxstock. The time spent playing and hanging out was wonderful. Setting up in the blazing sun, firing up and playing some of our stuff and then being the house band to some of Kansas City’s finest was terrific. The warm welcome we received, the hospitality, the conversations with Mr Millage Gilbert, Mr KC Kelsey, Mr Ron Teamer, Mr DC Bellamy, Mr Dawayne Gilly and of course Mr Danny Cox are memories I’ll carry with me.
I was on and off stage as Mr Wizard, Double Bill and TWanders formed the backbone of the house band which meant that I had much time to take some photos. Here’s a few. You’ll note that there may be several of the same subject – it’s because the variations in movement show a moment in time that were worth capturing.
Here we go ...
The arrival - okay so you may have figured it that I might not have taken this photo. You might be correct. Thankyou MJEB - proof that I was actually present! That's Danny welcoming us. He's a gentleman ... but don't tell!
This is Millage Gilbert. In amongst his career he can include that he used to play with Elmore James. If you've watched MJEB's footage you'll have heard what a touch he has. He's got a commanding presence on stage as well.
Here's a few more of Millage.
MJEB joined the Theo, Bill and Mr Wizard in backing Millage for a couple of tunes.
Now this is Mr Ron Teamer - he's got his own flavour and gets his boogie on!
Now this is Mr KC Kelsey - the guitar storm that came from his hands was simply scary!
It was a hell of an afternoon - one to remember.
Cheers,
Rosie
Howdy Folks. I've been light on the gig blogs because I got caught up in that videoclip for Push Me Away.
We played the Cruelty free festival a few weekends back, here's our afternoon, compressed into a few minutes, set to the background music of Jefferson.
Our mates are making music too. Both Rosie and Paul shared some stuff that they had been involved with.
Rosie dropped some eurofunk disco on me the other day, courtesy of C in Berlin, maybe i'll get to link.
Mr Wizard dropped a cd off with some songs by our mate and site contributor Terry Lyndon and I've been digging on it for the past few days and thought I might share some of it.
Mr Lyndon has quite the turn of phrase. This track, 'another day' has a refrain that I just can't shake. i wanna get it. But i just dont get it. :-)
Almost english pop sensibilities with Terry's pragmatically dark view of the world, mixed with a hidden optimism.
Another of Sydneys hidden talents :-)
Check him out on soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/studio366
looks like Terry pulled 'burned' from the web oh well. Removed from the article. Sic Transit Gloria Website.
When we last left our heroes, they had bid a fond good bye to Danny & Mona after a pretty awesome day of music.
We were due to record 'Push me away' as a duet between Jo and Danny in two days time and I had hoped to run through the song with him, but he was looking kind of tired. Mona had a serious expression, but Danny played it down.
I had an inkling something was amiss.
Day 19
We spent the next day in R&R and rehearsal and chanced a call to Danny later in the day. Mona answered. Danny was in hospital, he'd had a heart attack.
Holy crap.
With not much to add to that we waited.
D-Dawg texted me me 'providence in KC, KS' which I interpreted as a sign that Danny had survived. Providence indeed.
Of course what was actually meant by the text was 'Providence Hospital, Kansas.' Ah.
We waited some more.
Day 20 - The Show Must Go On
We'd booked a day at a studio run by a mate of Dannys. There's nothing more Aussie than getting Mates Rates :-) Cheers Chuck
We turned up, set up and waited for a more polite hour to ring. I got ahold of Mona and learned to our great relief that Danny was recovering well in hospital and was trying to get out of the ward to come do the recording.
Thankfully wiser heads prevailed and Danny took the rest he needed.
What A Producer Does During Crisis
With Danny unavoidably detained, we moved to plan B.
I had no idea what Plan B actually entailed, so I focused on the more vital tasks that fall under the purview of a Producer.
I went in search of breakfast for the crew.
As I pondered existence, I followed my nose across the road to a bakery.
It was authentic enough a place to require some degree of sign language on my behalf. They looked at me as if I was mad. They weren't open. what was I doing haggling for bread on the sidewalk?
Ah, I said, but I live near Auburn. No stranger to pestering peddlers for pita I.
Eventually they brought forth a gentlemen with stylish cropped salt and pepper hair and a disinctly military bearing. He looked at my wide smile, my hand full of cash and with a curt nod that I think may have previously been used to command a tank battalion in the middle east, accepted my few dollars for some fresh herbed flatbread.
Having reconnoitered the obvious place to return for lunch, my logistical challenges were overcome.
In fact, later, when i returned to get the crew lunch from the attached Middle Eastern restaurant, a softly poken Kansian chap leaned over as we waited for our Kebabs and softly whispered "This place is great' conspiratorially, as if he and I alone shared the secret of this great foreign cuisine.
But i digress.
Now, what to do about the song.
Of course, I could sing it myself. Hmm. I pondered as I returned with baked goods.
We do a bit of Metal Here.
Our Techno soundo Ninja for the day was Mr Rebeck and he has done a bit of metal recording of late. This was gonna be something slightly different.
he'd never had lunch from the middle eastern place. I made him try the Eggplant Dip. You're a brave man Mr Rebeck ;-) Oh well, at least he dug on the hummus.
Lightbulb Moment.
I drank coffee. Whilst the bread eaters masticated, I cogitated.
With Danny out the options were:
A: record Danny's bits myself
B: wait for Danny to get better
C: Other.
Option A was do-able but I realised that the bit I wanted to sing was actually the bit Jo was going to sing. That would have just been too weird. Yes we wrote it for her. That's not the point. You try giving up your new shiny toy.
Option B 'delaying' can mean 'foregoing'. Hmmm..
Option C....option C...who else do we know who could come in at the last minute and sing with Jo?
DC Rides to the Rescue
DC Bellamy had jammed with us at Danny's. I had his number. I had a phone.
Hmmm.
DC has a clever answering machine widget that plays a song to you while it connects you. I thought it was going to voicemail.
Unexpectedly, DC greeted me instead. It took me a moment to realise it wasnt a recording,
Yes he was available,. Sure he'd love to come sing with jo.
DC and his friend James had been cruising around deciding what to do for the afternoon.
They arrived in time for lunch.
You guys are brave
'Hang on a minute whilst i get the Do Wop done' isnt a phrase Mr Rebeck hears very often. he said we were very brave. That is true.
Ah heck. Enough blog. It was a brilliant, sad and wondrous day.
Sad because we missed Danny (and he would have been great in the part) but blessed because DC made Jo's first lead recording a truly special day.
I'll nutshell the rest so you can watch the video (it's long) - we recorded, Robert mixed it, Lynchy mastered it and Jo and DC sound great in it.
First the making then the full song at the end with a videoclip i made for it. or go to the videoclip by itself here: http://youtu.be/bllWcj6ixkE
Oh almost forgot. was meant to be a harp solo but Rosie pinched it cos his stuff was better. That sometimes happens
In the final instalment of our US tour blog to come:
- Final gig
- What will they make of us in Iowa?
- Sweet partings