From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1222 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, September 29 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1222 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- My Brightest Diamond on tour - recap of 9/25 Bowery Ballroom show [Paul B] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:36:43 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: My Brightest Diamond on tour - recap of 9/25 Bowery Ballroom show The new album is fantastic. And Shara is doing a big tour to promote it: Southeastern US, Texas, Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, UK, Midwestern US, and then out West. Dates are here: http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/tour-dates/ The show at the Bowery Ballroom was fantastic. Before the show started, Batala - a troupe of twelve women drummers - hammered away on the floor, surrounded by the audience, for at least 20 minutes nonstop. It was like the Energizer bunny on caffeine, x12. My Brightest Diamond went on stage as scheduled, but Batala didn't stop--at that point I thought Batala was just an opening act. There was a "players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield" moment... though part of the marching band was on the stage, since Shara had brought along some trumpets, a trombone, and a tuba. Batala approached the stage and turned around to face the audience, and then everyone launched into "Pressure" -- which, for what it may have lacked in being precisely in tune, made up for it in sheer energy. Shara was dressed in a white pantsuit, and sported a huge mane of hair, but with the area behind one temple shaved. She was accompanied by Nathan Lithgow on bass and Tim Mulvenna on drums, as well as by D.M. Stith on one or two songs and someone else on guitar once (Tyler or Taylor something). For "Freak Out" she called a couple of musicians and DM Stith back up to the stage--which they evidently weren't expecting--to dance around crazily, which they did to great effect. Shara really rocked out, which she's gotten increasingly better at over the years. But there was also a very touching "I Have Never Loved Someone." She finished up with "Inside a Boy" and for her encore did a cover of "Fever," during which she came down into the audience. Brooklyn Vegan covered it, with pictures--the zany dancing to "Freak Out" is the first one: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/09/my_brightest_di_15.html And if you're going to see the show, you may want to learn to dance to "Pressure," for which the instructions are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6SuPAydrU ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1222 ****************************