From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #305 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 29 2003 Volume 09 : Number 305 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Money talks too much ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] all BMG CDs for $6.99 [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: all BMG CDs for $6.99 [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Noe Venable show ["Xenu's Sister" ] Happy in Pittsburgh Nov. 7 [Mike Goldman ] Some Catie Curtis news [Jessica Byers ] of possible interest to Chicago folks... [Michael Eisenberg Subject: Money talks too much I certainly hope to attend at least Happy's Chicago appearance, and ideally the Kenosha one as well. And I'd like to attend Noe Venable's performance if I can. As always, the wild cards are my ever-changing work schedule, and my cash flow. I'm cautiously optimistic about Happy's gigs, but I may well have to work thru Noe's set Thursday to be able to afford Happy, whom I consider the priority in the event of a forced choice. Oh, for the life of a 9to5er. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:45:34 -0500 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: all BMG CDs for $6.99 They're calling this a "one-shot" deal. Go there, pick out what you like, (from their somewhat limited selection), and order 'em up. No club to join, no strings attached. http://www.bmgmusic.com/acq/test/faf/2/?site=oneshot&dmn=www.bmgmusic.com&san=_a1__&ema=_a2__ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:24:09 -0500 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: all BMG CDs for $6.99 On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:45:34PM -0500, Jeff Wasilko wrote: > They're calling this a "one-shot" deal. Go there, pick out what you like, > (from their somewhat limited selection), and order 'em up. No club to join, > no strings attached. > > > http://www.bmgmusic.com/acq/test/faf/2/?site=oneshot&dmn=www.bmgmusic.com&san=_a1__&ema=_a2__ Let me add that there's a huge selection of ectophillic artists available! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:53:29 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Noe Venable show At 02:57 PM 10/27/2003 -0500, Mark wrote: > > I have a ticket to the Noe Venable show at Schubas on the 30th (ok, it's > > listed as a Carla Bozulich show, but I'm not going to stay for that, I'm > > only going to see Noe). Chris is out of town and can't go. Anyone else > > going to that? Noe, thank you for posting about it. > > Vickie > >Ya oughta think twice about that. See review below. Even staying to watch Nels >Cline would be worth the price of admission. Nice review, but I can't. I have to get up early Friday morning (what doofus thought up a 9:00pm show on a weekday?) and I'll be up late Friday night. I have a ticket to see the last showing (ever) of The Matrix Reloaded at the IMAX at 10:35 Friday. I've seen it several times (including at the IMAX) but I'm mainly going because people who go to one of the 3 Friday showings get first crack at buying "Zero Hour" tickets to The Matrix Revolutions (it's showing the same time all around the world. Here in Chicago that's 8:00am Nov. 5th) at the IMAX. It'll be weird. I'll be alone (Chris is in KC). It's the very last showing of Reloaded. It'll be populated by people like me who are there to get Zero Hour tickets. It's Halloween. Wow. Wish me luck. I don't hold the fact that Bozulich was responsible for the second most unpleasant experience I've ever had at a concert against her, because it could never get that bad again. (Ok, I won't keep you guessing. I was dragged to a Geraldine Fibbers show by Charley, who's a huge fan. It was at a small intimate club, and they were loud. No, they were really, really loud. No, they were REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY LOUD!!!!!!! They were so loud I couldn't tell what the music sounded like, it was just one big mass of really loud, REALLY REALLY LOUD noise. They were so loud it was painful. No kidding, honest-to-goodness, physically painful (not just pained expression painful). Migrane-inducingly, stomach-churningly, ears ready to bleed painful. I still get queasy when I think of it. How irresponsible toward their fans who were closer to the stage and almost certainly suffered hearing loss. The people around me were wearing earplugs. I guess they knew what to expect). I do realize that this is not a Fibbers show, but that experience hasn't made me anxious to see her again. I might stay if I didn't have to get up. The fact that I do have to get up gives me a pretty good out. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:33:36 -0500 From: Mike Goldman Subject: Happy in Pittsburgh Nov. 7 Hello. I'm new on the list, although I was subscribed once upon a time from a different address. Anyhow, Happy's going to be in Pittsburgh on November 7, at the Quiet Storm Coffeehouse. I was hoping to be able to find out if anyone else here is going. I've been to the venue a couple times, and went to see Gongzilla there last month. It's a really cool place, with organic fair-trade coffee and a vegetarian menu (the quesadillas are very good). Very much a hippie environment, with a strong anti-war perspective. Since I've been a Happy fan forever but never have seen her perform live, I'm really looking forward to this! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:43:07 -0700 From: Jessica Byers Subject: Some Catie Curtis news I thought people would maybe find this interesting, new label and all.... Her own site is http://www.caticurtis.com. Jess >Hello all, > >While the ink is drying, I'm dashing off a note to tell you: I have just >signed a deal with Vanguard Records! http://www.vanguardrecords.com. >Roster-mates on this cool indie label include artists Sinead O'Connor, Patty >Larkin and John Hiatt. We are planning a March 2004 release of my new >studio album, "Dreaming in Romance Languages." > >If you need to laugh this weekend, go see the Miss Folk America DVD release >party/performance (see trailer and get info at www.faithsoloway.com) at the >Somerville Theater (Somerville, MA), Saturday November 1st. The cast >(including me) will be there, and Faith has written a new script which will >involve us in a crazy interactive media extravaganza. Then, next week I'm >playing two shows at an intimate venue in New London, NH on November 5th and >6th (see itinerary below) > >Rob Millis' documentary of me is continuing to evolve, and if you'd like to >see the new trailer, it's playing now at www.symphonyofchaos.com. It will >be available on DVD in the spring of 2004. > >Finally, check out new records by Deb Talan (A Bird Flies Out) and Kris >Delmhorst (Songs for a Hurricane) -- they are both sold through >www.folkweb.com. They are what I am listening to these days. > >See you out there, >Catie > >TOUR DATES > >Thu Nov 13, 2003 Catie Curtis >The Turning Point Cafe , Piermont, NY >http://piermont-ny.com/turning/index.htm >845-359-1089 >8 PM > >Sat Nov 15, 2003 Catie Curtis and Ellis Paul >Connecticut College , New London, CT >Palmer Auditorium >860-486-4226 > >Fri Nov 21, 2003 Catie Curtis >Lawrence Arts Center , Lawrence, KS >785-843-2787 >8 PM > >Sat Nov 22, 2003 Catie Curtis >Off Broadway Club , Saint Louis, MO >314-773-3363 >9 PM > >Fri Dec 05, 2003 Catie Curtis and Laura Love >Somerville Theatre , Somerville, MA >http://www.multistage.org >617-625-4088 >8 PM > >Sat Dec 06, 2003 Catie Curtis and Laura Love >Grace Church , Wilmington, DE >302-834-2388 >8 PM > >Sun Dec 07, 2003 Catie Curtis >Babes of Carytown , Richmond, VA >804-355-9330 > >Mon Dec 08, 2003 Catie Curtis, Laura Love and Kris Delmhorst >The Birchmere , Alexandria, VA >http://www.birchmere.com/ >703-549-7500 > > >Tue Dec 09, 2003 Catie Curtis >Rams Head Tavern , Annapolis, MD >www.ramsheadtavern.com >410-268-4545 >8:30 PM > > >Wed Dec 10, 2003 Catie Curtis >Tin Angel , Philadelphia, PA >http://www.tinangel.com >215-928-0770 >8:30 PM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:54:25 -0600 From: Michael Eisenberg Subject: of possible interest to Chicago folks... Hi everyone, I've been on a roll with these updates so why stop now... The next show in the 2003 Outri Music Series is: CARLA BOZULICHS' RED HEADED STRANGER with NELS CLINES' CASIO CONSPIRACY and NOE VENABLE Thursday, October 30th Schubas 3159 N. Southport, Chicago $12 9pm "Former Geraldine Fibbers front woman Carla Bozulich and avant guitarist Nels Cline make a fascinating team--there's a natural fierceness in both of them that seems all the stronger when it's restrained. In the latter-day Fibbers and their experimental group Scarnella they operate on a shared frequency that makes the weird seem normal and the down-home seem charged with fear and magic. This is their second time through Chicago behind their latest project, an album revisiting Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger in its entirety. The source material is weird to begin with--it's a sustained look at an antihero driven to violence by grief--and Bozulich and Cline play it fairly straight, with her throaty, black-coffee alto in the center and his ghostly lap steel and guitar winding around it like a cool wind. But there's something dangerous lurking in there, threatening to break out. They've clearly got Willie's blessing: he adds guitar on three tracks and vocals on two." Monica Kendrick-Chicago Reader ...and from the Washington Post... "Of all the innumerable collaborations Willie Nelson has entered into during his nearly 50-year career, the one he recently undertook with Carla Bozulich certainly ranks among the most unusual. Bozulich -- a maverick artist whose work includes leading the sexually drenched industrial rhythms of Ethyl Meatplow and the unhinged country-punks the Geraldine Fibbers -- recently recorded a song-for-song cover album of Nelson's 1975 classic "Red Headed Stranger" and called it by the same name. When Willie got wind of her dramatic re-imagining of his lonesome murder epic, he welcomed the chance to duet with her on a couple of tracks of what became one of this year's most offbeat and moving albums. Willie wasn't with Bozulich during her excellent show at the Warehouse Next Door on Wednesday night, but the California-based singer had a crack band featuring the amazing guitarist Nels Cline, and she delivered a great program that included "Stranger" songs plus material from her overlooked back catalogue. Bozulich's arrangements of "Time of the Preacher," "Remember Me" and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" turned on her husky, smoldering vocals and Cline's doleful leads, which he often fed into a sampler box that returned them backward, sideways and drenched with echoplex. Complemented with drums, double bass and violin, the country-western vision Bozulich's band concocted was modern and magnificent. Bozulich offered reminders that she is more than a clever interpreter, offering her own "My Diving Day" and "Ripened Peach" (an Ethyl Meatplow standout), then closing the show with a totally different cover, torching up Marianne Faithfull's "Times Square." Between twisted country and dark-city anguish, Bozulich continues to walk a lonesome and inventive musical path." Patrick Foster NOE VENABLE and Todd Sickafoose open the show followed by NELS CLINES' CASIO CONSPIRACY. and... An Evening with THE ACOUSTIC STRAWBS Thursday, November 6th Fitzgeralds, 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn Illinois $20 8:30pm Till later Michael Eisenberg p.s. Check out outremusic.com for the latest info on these shows and other stuff too. - -- Outri Music Music Beyond Boundaries http://www.outremusic.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #305 **************************