From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #189 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, July 22 2007 Volume 13 : Number 189 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- **RACHAEL SAGE: STUDIO NEWS, EUROPE, WEST COAST & MORE!** [SpiritWe@aol.c] Re: Ectofest Quest...tions ["F.J.Fornorn" ] Neko Case live ["Karen Hester" ] Re: Neko Case live [meredith ] Re: Neko Case live [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:50:31 EDT From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: **RACHAEL SAGE: STUDIO NEWS, EUROPE, WEST COAST & MORE!** Greetings, bathing beauties! It's been a while since we've brought you a bevy of Rachael Sage news, but that's just because we were busy stockpiling excitement for you - woo hoo :) Please see below for the latest recording news, U.S. & overseas tour updates and miscellaneous goings-on... xoxoxo & sea-glass, The Folks @ MPress - --- 1. **SPECIAL GUESTS IN THE STUDIO!** Recently, Rachael has had the pleasure of welcoming several special guest vocalists into the studio for her forthcoming album, "Chandelier". The one-and-only NOE VENABLE dropped by to lend her ethereal pipes to an otherwise entirely instrumental track called "Beloved", and a very radiant (and 6 months pregnant!) RACHAEL DAVIS graciously spent two days in the studio crooning on a wide range of songs, including a few you may have already heard live: "Angel In My View", "Wishbone" & "Moonlight & Fireflies". Later this month, New Arrivals artists TRINA HAMLIN and GREGORY DOUGLASS will also be swinging by to contribute their musical & vocal fabulousness to the album. Stay tuned for more studio-updates... 2. **RACHAEL'S HEADING BACK TO THE U.K.** As some of you know, Rachael made her U.K. debut last fall, appearing in London, Cambridge, Brighton and Swindon. Well, it's almost time to go back! With an anchor date already scheduled at the reknowned 12 Bar in London, we're just starting to book the rest of the tour which will be between Nov. 14-28, and are very open to venue suggestions. (Note: if you're interested in hosting a house concert and happen to live in the U.K., please contact us, and we'll guide you through the protocol! Imagine 2 hours of Rachael-ness in your living room, with an invited audience of friends, family, and people on this here e-list!) 3. **RACHAEL TO MAKE HER DEBUT IN JAPAN!** Over the years, many of you have often expressed to us that you felt Rachael's music would "go over big in Japan". While we haven't always been totally sure exactly what you meant (other that the fact that her wardrobe closely resembles Gwen Stefani's and she's done pretty well over there), we trusted you completely. So - drumroll please - we're finally heading over there to play some shows! The Japanese Tour is slated for the first half of December, and concerts have already been booked in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Amagasaki City... 4. **RACHAEL BACK ON THE WEST COAST & ASSORTED OTHER SUMMER SHOWS** This month, Rachael returns to the West Coast, and will be making stops in WA, OR, & CA. In addition, she'll be joining the New Arrivals Tour for another Los Angeles-area CD Release show, sponsored by h. Magazine. See below for her complete Summer schedule*: Wed. July 25 - 7:00 pm (Rachael performs 2 songs at 7:15) 2nd Annual NY's Best Emerging Jewish Artists Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place New York, NY Aug. 1-3 Triple-A Summit Boulder, CO (Rachael & MPress Records attending) Sat. Aug. 4 - 3:00pm First Coast Pride Festival Sea Walk Pavilion Jacksonville Beach, FL Thu. Aug. 9 - 7:00 pm Eddie's Trackside Bar & Grill 214 N Lewis; (360) 805-5305 Monroe, WA Fri. Aug. 10 - 7:30 pm Jewel Box Theater 2322 2nd Ave.; (206) 441-5823 Seattle, WA Sat. Aug. 11 - 7:00 pm Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR Sun. Aug. 12 - 8:30 pm Luna (w/ special guest Rebecca Pronsky! 30 East Broadway; (541) 434-5862 Eugene, OR Tue. Aug. 14, 7-11pm **NEW ARRIVALS CD RELEASE BENEFIT** ...w/ Rob Giles, Rebekah Jordan & Kyler England! Sponsored by h Magazine! Tangier Restaurant 2138 Hillhurst Ave. Los Angeles, CA Wed. Aug. 15 - 8:00 pm E Street Cafe 128/130 West E Street; (760) 230-2038 Encinitas, CA Thu. Aug. 16 - 8:00 pm Epic Arts Studios 1923 Ashby Ave.; (510) 644-2204 Berkeley, CA Fri. Aug. 17 - 8:00 pm Dolores Park Cafe 501 Dolores St.; (415) 621-2936 San Francisco, CA Tue. Aug. 21 RAINN Benefit Concert @ The Cutting Room 19 W. 24th St. New York, NY *As always, please visit www.rachaelsage.com for a full list of upcoming shows! MPress Records - The Muscle Behind the Glitter! * * * RACHAEL SAGE ON TOUR NOW - VISIT WEBSITE FOR UPDATES Read Rachael's feature in the June issue of KEYBOARD MAGAZINE! The New Full-Length Album "The Blistering Sun" in stores NOW! www.rachaelsage.com * www.myspace.com/rachaelsage * * * "NEW ARRIVALS: VOLUME TWO" IN STORES & ON i-TUNES! A Benefit CD for Artists Against Hunger & Poverty from MPress Records... Upcoming New Arrivals Tour Dates: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York! For Press/Radio inquiries and Interview Requests visit: www.thinkpress.net www.newarrivalscd.com * www.mpressrecords.com * 1.212.481.7243 ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:08:30 -0400 From: "F.J.Fornorn" Subject: Re: Ectofest Quest...tions When we get our ship together on the PayPal availability, someone will say so here. On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Ella McCrystle wrote: > This is a very VERY stupid question, but you will announce when the > tickets officially go on sale, won't you? > > Thanks! > > Be well, Ella > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Be who you are and say what you feel > because those who mind don't matter, > and those who matter don't mind. > > ~ Dr. Seuss > ----- Original Message ----- From: "F.J.Fornorn" > > To: "Ecto" > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:46 PM > Subject: Re: Ectofest Quest...tions > > >> On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:30 PM, Xenu's Sister wrote: >> >>> It'd help if someone gave the URL when they talked about the web >>> site. >> >> ectofest.com, of course. Also ectofest.org. >> >>> What if people don't want to use the old-fashioned check method? >>> What about using PayPal and getting a confirmation/print out by >>> mail? >>> What about taking credit cards online? I don't know what to tell >>> people. >> >> We're probably going to do PayPal. Neither of us is set up for >> credit cards at the moment. I believe you can do PP with credit >> cards anyway. It looks like PP charges will add 88 cents to the >> price of a ticket. >> >> What I'm thinking is no physical ticket, we'll reply to the >> confirmation email PP sends us and then keep a list at the door. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:37:56 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Neko Case live My ears can't quite comprehend the constant plea "give us money to keep these concerts free." Central Park Summerstage has a few bleachers, a green carpet with moisture seeping through for picnickers and trees above and around that filter the last gasps of sunlight with dancing leaves. Loved Neko. However, if you were intending to come but weren't quite over your 3 day illness, and not up to loud music and crowds, then you made the right decision to go home and sleep. The sound wasn't great (though fine for free outside show), the volume on Neko's vocals high enough to give her a buzz like a radio station not quite tuned in. Again, loved Neko. She wore the same straggly clothes and just-out-of-bed hair as her New Pornographers gig. Lots of silly and cute stage banter, trying to decide what kind of car a song was and explaining that when they go off stage before an encore she doesn't go back to a trailer where a drunken husband tells her to "git back on stage, woman". And after every bit of silly banter *that* voice would belt out something dark and troubled or whoop through 'John saw that number.' Banjo, slide guitar, all good. Then more silly banter - "when someone yells out 'shut up and play' it makes me want to talk more." Enjoyed backup singer Kelly Hogan too, who I realize I've 'saved for later' in eMusic. She looked like a perfect southern lady who has gone bad and now lives a trashy 1950s paperback existence with hard alcohol, brassy attitude and one button too many open. Karen. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:04:02 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Neko Case live Hi, Karen Hester wrote: > Loved Neko. However, if you were intending to come but weren't quite > over your 3 day illness, and not up to loud music and crowds, then you > made the right decision to go home and sleep. The sound wasn't great > (though fine for free outside show), the volume on Neko's vocals high > enough to give her a buzz like a radio station not quite tuned in. Aww, y'all should've come up to beautiful Greenfield, MA to see Neko at the Green River Festival today instead. :) woj and I just got home, and we're still giddy from the wonderfulness of it all. The sound was great, too -- Klondike did the sound, using the exact same system that is going to be packed up and moved to Falcon Ridge this week. Our day there started early -- we arrived around 2:30 pm, in time to see Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem on the main stage. After that was the afternoon's main event (for us, anyway) -- Erin McKeown, accompanied by former The Nields rhythm section Dave Chalfant and Dave Hower, plus a keyboardist whose name I have a mental block on and, for the last few songs, a great horn section from a local band called Primate Fiasco. Erin was awesome, as usual. She mentioned she has a live album coming out this fall, which I believe is from the incredible _Sing You Sinners_ CD release show she did at Joe's Pub earlier this year. A must to pre-order, believe me. woj and I took a break for food and a nap before Southern Culture On The Skids took the stage for an amusing high-energy set of "white trash geek rock" that we enjoyed immensely. Then, after an extended changeover break during which time we moved to the front of the crowd right in the center, and the evening balloon launch took place behind us, Neko and her band finally came on. > Again, loved Neko. She wore the same straggly clothes and > just-out-of-bed hair as her New Pornographers gig. Lots of silly and > cute stage banter, Same here. I don't remember a lot of the banter details, but she did mention being hung over, and warning us all never to party with The Hold Steady. ;) > Then more silly banter - > "when someone yells out 'shut up and play' it makes me want to talk > more." Someone yelled at her to shut up this evening, too. She found the offender in the crowd and called her out and heckled back, and the woman ended up fleeing in mortified terror. It was brilliant. So yeah, great show, intense music interspersed with silly moments. And the best part was, even though it was a festival Neko still did a full 75-minute set plus encore. Pretty cool. > Enjoyed backup singer Kelly Hogan too, who I realize I've 'saved for > later' in eMusic. She looked like a perfect southern lady who has gone > bad and now lives a trashy 1950s paperback existence with hard > alcohol, brassy attitude and one button too many open. I remarked to woj that I didn't know Neko had cloned Sylvia Plath to sing backup for her. ;) Your description is spot-on. Certain musical historians may be interested to note that Kelly Hogan used to be in The Jody Grind. (Southern Culture on the Skids even did an old Jody Grind song during their set earlier in the day, inspired by Kelly's presence backstage.) Oh, one final note of ecto interest: Neko Case's drummer on this tour is Barry Mirochnick, who many of us know thanks to his years playing with Veda Hille. (woj was surprised to note that Barry still remembers how to play in 4/4, after all that. ;) P.S. Hey Karen, might we see you at the Dorothy Scott/Sloan Wainwright/Jane Kelly Williams show this Thursday at The Living Room? If you're not already planning on that show, you really, really should be. :) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:16:07 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Neko Case live Kelly Hogan sort of ubiquitous here in Chicago, being all over the insurgent country Bloodshot records thing. I went through a bit of an alt country phase shortly after moving here, during which I bought her album based upon rave reviews at Reckless Records, our local indie music shop. I had trouble getting into it, but perhaps should give it another shot. On 7/21/07 11:04 PM, "meredith" wrote: > Hi, > > Karen Hester wrote: >> Loved Neko. However, if you were intending to come but weren't quite >> over your 3 day illness, and not up to loud music and crowds, then you >> made the right decision to go home and sleep. The sound wasn't great >> (though fine for free outside show), the volume on Neko's vocals high >> enough to give her a buzz like a radio station not quite tuned in. > > Aww, y'all should've come up to beautiful Greenfield, MA to see Neko at the > Green River Festival > today instead. :) woj and I just got home, and we're still giddy from the > wonderfulness of it all. > The sound was great, too -- Klondike did the sound, using the exact same > system that is going to > be packed up and moved to Falcon Ridge this week. > > Our day there started early -- we arrived around 2:30 pm, in time to see Rani > Arbo and daisy mayhem > on the main stage. After that was the afternoon's main event (for us, anyway) > -- Erin McKeown, > accompanied by former The Nields rhythm section Dave Chalfant and Dave Hower, > plus a keyboardist > whose name I have a mental block on and, for the last few songs, a great horn > section from a local > band called Primate Fiasco. Erin was awesome, as usual. She mentioned she > has a live album coming > out this fall, which I believe is from the incredible _Sing You Sinners_ CD > release show she did at > Joe's Pub earlier this year. A must to pre-order, believe me. > > woj and I took a break for food and a nap before Southern Culture On The Skids > took the stage for an > amusing high-energy set of "white trash geek rock" that we enjoyed immensely. > Then, after an > extended changeover break during which time we moved to the front of the crowd > right in the center, > and the evening balloon launch took place behind us, Neko and her band finally > came on. > >> Again, loved Neko. She wore the same straggly clothes and >> just-out-of-bed hair as her New Pornographers gig. Lots of silly and >> cute stage banter, > > Same here. I don't remember a lot of the banter details, but she did mention > being hung over, and > warning us all never to party with The Hold Steady. ;) > >> Then more silly banter - >> "when someone yells out 'shut up and play' it makes me want to talk >> more." > > Someone yelled at her to shut up this evening, too. She found the offender in > the crowd and called > her out and heckled back, and the woman ended up fleeing in mortified terror. > It was brilliant. > > So yeah, great show, intense music interspersed with silly moments. And the > best part was, even > though it was a festival Neko still did a full 75-minute set plus encore. > Pretty cool. > >> Enjoyed backup singer Kelly Hogan too, who I realize I've 'saved for >> later' in eMusic. She looked like a perfect southern lady who has gone >> bad and now lives a trashy 1950s paperback existence with hard >> alcohol, brassy attitude and one button too many open. > > I remarked to woj that I didn't know Neko had cloned Sylvia Plath to sing > backup for her. ;) Your > description is spot-on. > > Certain musical historians may be interested to note that Kelly Hogan used to > be in The Jody Grind. > (Southern Culture on the Skids even did an old Jody Grind song during their > set earlier in the > day, inspired by Kelly's presence backstage.) > > Oh, one final note of ecto interest: Neko Case's drummer on this tour is Barry > Mirochnick, who many > of us know thanks to his years playing with Veda Hille. (woj was surprised to > note that Barry still > remembers how to play in 4/4, after all that. ;) > > P.S. Hey Karen, might we see you at the Dorothy Scott/Sloan Wainwright/Jane > Kelly Williams show > this Thursday at The Living Room? If you're not already planning on that > show, you really, really > should be. :) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #189 ***************************