From: owner-hollow-digest@smoe.org (hollow-digest) To: hollow-digest@smoe.org Subject: hollow-digest V1 #6 Reply-To: hollow@smoe.org Sender: owner-hollow-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-hollow-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hollow-digest Monday, December 7 1998 Volume 01 : Number 006 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Latest Trina Show [Linus Gelber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 12:24:40 -0500 (EST) From: Linus Gelber Subject: Latest Trina Show Just a minor update from the New York clubstomper here...I caught the tail end of Trina's show last night at Sidewalk (long days, busy nights) and it was, as ever, lovely. I whisked in at the end of "Hollow" just in time for the snaky harmonica trickle-down and caught another three or so tunes after that: including Trina trying to coax round tones out of the hard-beaten Sidewalk piano (an instrument more suited to whacking than stroking) for a co-written song I don't think I'd heard before, and an unfortunate moment when Sidewalk's Anne Husick (Shameless, Band of Susans) bumped into the mike stand whilst collecting tips for Trina and the band, swinging the boom around so Trina got belted in the mouth with the mike. It was hard to tell who was more rattled (though it looked like Trina hurt more. Trina: "So much for the dental work." Must have been something in the air last night, as Peter of The Novellas made an orthodonture joke later that evening during his set at CB's Gallery--the harmonica-holder always seems to set people off). Trina's closing "(Don't Know Where to Put You) In My Life"--title is approximate--was infected by a weird energy, and was very arresting. Sidewalk is a small and bristling venue, for those of you who've not been there, and it's quite hard to move around in the front. Usually they try not to injure the artists, but these things happen. I once whacked the mike away from Mary Ann Farley down there, right in the middle of her entrancing "Blindsided" (album: "Daddy's Little Girl," and HIGHLY highly recommended), and was mortified--and I didn't even hurt her into the bargain. (She forgave me. We're friends now.) Missed Trina with The Girls the night before, due to unavoidable other plans (my little bro was in town dancing with the Frankfurter Ballett), but am told that their set at the Living Room was packed to the rafters, ended with brisk CD sales, and was delightful as always. (Incredibly, a couple of hours on the Net yesterday failed to turn up any bands called The Girls apart from a 1947 listing on a Lerner & Lowe album: like the purloined letter, I suppose it's just too obvious a name, and perhaps no one is using it? Spice Girls, yes; Vice Girls, yes; Indigo Girls; many other flavors; but no The Girls.) And had the pleasure of watching Slide on, er, Wednesday I think it was with Trina and Marilyn D'Amato of The Girls avec des friends and partner Pierre of Home Office Records. It's been a good week for Trina spotting. Ciao - Linus Linus Gelber > Home Office Records: 10-gauge indie linus@panix.com < Please visit us at http://www.web-ho.com boss@web-ho.com > RAW Kinder's "EP" and Pawnshop's "Three cyrano@nycbeer.org < Brass Balls" are here! Cucumbers up soon! ------------------------------ End of hollow-digest V1 #6 **************************