From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V4 #220 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Monday, September 24 2001 Volume 04 : Number 220 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OAC: Melissa Ferrick [K3285@aol.com] Get Your Headliner Pass! [KNicky3116@aol.com] Headliner Pass EMAIL address [KNicky3116@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:33:44 EDT From: K3285@aol.com Subject: OAC: Melissa Ferrick Okay, Melissa Ferrick has been mentioned her a few times so I thought I'd let you know about a few of her shows. Tonight (9/23) she is playing at the Club Zone 1186 in Montreal. On 9/25 she is playing at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. Her site says that the Horseshoe show is FREE!! (see her site www.rightonrecords.com for all her tour dates). I've enclosed a recent review from the New York Times. Melissa is an amazing performer. Please go see her if you get a chance. Melissa http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/arts/music/19FERR.html?pagewanted=print September 19, 2001 Playing a Guitar as if It Were a Full Band By ANN POWERS Melissa Ferrick's head gleamed as she stood onstage Monday at the Bowery Ballroom. The light hit that shaved pate as if it were a reflector warning the world that this feisty singer-songwriter was zooming into its lane. "I'm gonna grab my soul and leave my ego at the door," she sang in "Welcome to My Life" as her fervent audience cheered. Her devotees may love Ms. Ferrick for her rock 'n' roll heart, but her ignited mind gave her show its excitement. A road veteran for a decade, starting when she snagged an opening slot for the English crooner Morrissey and suddenly won a cult, Ms. Ferrick has done time on a major label but found relative security as a stalwart independent. Her live shows define her popularity; like Ani DiFranco, her most obvious peer, she plays her acoustic guitar as if it were a full band and stresses improvisation in her vocals. Yet Ms. Ferrick also has a strong classic rock side, recalling Melissa Etheridge, the other artist to whom she probably dreads comparison. Songs like the bittersweet "Crack the Mirror" could be rock hits if more slickly packaged. Beginning the new "Let's Fly," she joked about the Dixie Chicks and their similarly titled tune; her comment suggested that Ms. Ferrick is aware that a different career turn might have placed her in the sales category of those megastars. Instead Ms. Ferrick turned against the mainstream, in her persona and her music. Openly gay, she presents herself as a sexual adventurer; her long encore performance of "Drive" was as erotic as folk-rock gets. And musically, by mixing experimentalism with straightforward balladry, she slips through categories. Her set showed the strong influence of reggae and even hardcore punk, but at one point she happily broke into a verse of "Summer of '69," the radio-hugging Bryan Adams song. Brian Winton, who accompanies Ms. Ferrick on drums, was a sensitive foil, following her quick shifts from straightforward rhythms to jazzier passages. To a noninitiate, some songs felt too long; even a bright musical mind like Ms. Ferrick can wander when her audience embraces every detour. Yet even in her indulgent moments, Ms. Ferrick retained an element of sharpness. She clearly knows that her music is best fed by an openness to whatever inspiration comes around the bend. = ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:04:51 EDT From: KNicky3116@aol.com Subject: Get Your Headliner Pass! Headliners, Lots of you emailed me about the idea of a Headliner Pass, so we decided to go ahead with it. The passes will be available on a first come, first serve basis. There will only be a limited amount of passes made, and that is because the idea behind all of this is to separate the long time fans from brand new ones. Emm really wants to show her appreciation to the people who have been fans for a long time. Because all of you have been so supportive over the years, the Headliner Pass will allow you to get into special showcases in the future, to receive discounts on merchandise, and a whole bunch of other nice stuff. There is no fee to apply but it will be up to the Emmteam and Dead Daisy Records to give out or decline any applicant a pass. Emm will handmake the passes herself which makes them extra-cool and collectable. To apply for your Headliner Pass, all you have to do is send an email to headlinerpass@yahoo.com with the following info: 1. Full Name 2. Snail Mail Address 3. Email Address 4. A Headliner Codename which each person can make up, which maybe used in the future for contests or promotions Nicky who is still trying to think of a Headliner Codename...hmmmm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:19:29 EDT From: KNicky3116@aol.com Subject: Headliner Pass EMAIL address Sorry folks, I cut and pasted an email html link...and AOL may have messed it up. The email to send your Pass "application" to is headlinerpass@yahoo.com sorry for the bad link! Nicky ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V4 #220 ***********************************