MouseFace
My brother's girlfriend was intrigued by the idea of a website called MouseFace with lots of different bands on it....
Songbird was really really good last night- best ever. Bela Emerson has an electronic cello and improvises over sounds she builds up with pedals; Ninki V wins a prize for being the most glamorous woman I have seen this year, in a sparkly black dress and cheeky smile, gracefully conjuring sounds out of a couple of theremins (therema?) with her arms and playing a toy piano over beats from cheesy machines. From my perch in the DJ box it was very funny to see the crowds of young men surrounding her afterwards, bearing gifts of CDs of their bands, and sheepish smiles. The Society of Imaginary friends blended operatic singing with accordion and violin- worth seeing twice, I thought, and best of all were Geordie hip-hop band, Dialect (must look them up on MouseFace) who got the joint rockin'. Jamie did the door and it was nice peering thru the gloom and seeing him there. And I did the DJ-ing, hampered by a deck that only 50% worked but nobody seemed to mind the gap between tracks. Someone even came up and tried to buy one of the CDs from me! Wanna know my playlist? Here goes! (Some missing as I only thought to note what I was playing after I'd started). Not in order of playing; forgot that:
Janet Kay- Silly Games
The Crystals- Up On the Bridge
Lord Kitchener- London is the Place for Me
Jocelyn Brown- Someone Else's Guy
Toots and the Maytals- Funky Kingston
Can't Remember- Rudi's In Town
Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band- I'll Play the Fool
Curved Air- Back Street Luv, and Bright Summer's Day
Detroit Spinners- It's a Shame
James Brown- Talkin' Out Loud (and Sayin' Nothing)
Sly and the Family Stone- If You Want Me To Stay, and Family Affair
Wanda Jackson- I Gotta Know
Carroll Thompson- Yesterday
French Film Music (un Homme Et Une Femme)
Plus some quite obscure Lover's Rock from the 1960s and a track I bought the other day that has Tipper Irie on it (distinctively nice speaking voice)
Lots more, but I can't remember. I don't normally go to bed at 2 a.m. Most times I turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
I've got a new job; isn't that funny?
Songbird was really really good last night- best ever. Bela Emerson has an electronic cello and improvises over sounds she builds up with pedals; Ninki V wins a prize for being the most glamorous woman I have seen this year, in a sparkly black dress and cheeky smile, gracefully conjuring sounds out of a couple of theremins (therema?) with her arms and playing a toy piano over beats from cheesy machines. From my perch in the DJ box it was very funny to see the crowds of young men surrounding her afterwards, bearing gifts of CDs of their bands, and sheepish smiles. The Society of Imaginary friends blended operatic singing with accordion and violin- worth seeing twice, I thought, and best of all were Geordie hip-hop band, Dialect (must look them up on MouseFace) who got the joint rockin'. Jamie did the door and it was nice peering thru the gloom and seeing him there. And I did the DJ-ing, hampered by a deck that only 50% worked but nobody seemed to mind the gap between tracks. Someone even came up and tried to buy one of the CDs from me! Wanna know my playlist? Here goes! (Some missing as I only thought to note what I was playing after I'd started). Not in order of playing; forgot that:
Janet Kay- Silly Games
The Crystals- Up On the Bridge
Lord Kitchener- London is the Place for Me
Jocelyn Brown- Someone Else's Guy
Toots and the Maytals- Funky Kingston
Can't Remember- Rudi's In Town
Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band- I'll Play the Fool
Curved Air- Back Street Luv, and Bright Summer's Day
Detroit Spinners- It's a Shame
James Brown- Talkin' Out Loud (and Sayin' Nothing)
Sly and the Family Stone- If You Want Me To Stay, and Family Affair
Wanda Jackson- I Gotta Know
Carroll Thompson- Yesterday
French Film Music (un Homme Et Une Femme)
Plus some quite obscure Lover's Rock from the 1960s and a track I bought the other day that has Tipper Irie on it (distinctively nice speaking voice)
Lots more, but I can't remember. I don't normally go to bed at 2 a.m. Most times I turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
I've got a new job; isn't that funny?
posted by Helen McCookerybook at Saturday, July 08, 2006
1 Comments:
I saw Society Of Imaginary Friends at 12 Bar. They were quite stunning really. I had never heard of them previously so had no idea at all what they sounded like which are probably the best gigs. Of course I didn't expect Louise to sing the way she does - I don't normally expect operatic voices in small bars.
And I love Ninki-V's theremin too.
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