6 posts tagged “band”
In this week's Tea with Hungry Lucy War-N & Christa share a preview of a new song (working title: Pajamas), likely title "The Best Day of Her Life". We get to hear the original noisy piano recording, and the newly arranged music.
Early Sunday morning...huh? In an earlier than usual podcast, the duo chat about the progress on their new track "Hill", which is coming along quite nicely! CB goes on a small Gardening expedition and War-N quotes Rollo from Faithless on "not catering to anyone's taste but your own." That said, Faithless was this week's OPM, without the catchy little jingle. CB&W enjoyed a fabulous film called "The Fountain" and marveled at the film's visuals and story. Wow...what a Hugh Jackman you have!!
More progress on the t-shirts. An order will surely follow soon (probably in a couple of weeks) and we can all wear new HL t-shirts designed by Neil! :) But, we need your input. What size do you prefer? We will have regular black t-shirts, baby doll t's and the long sleeved hoodies. How do you like yours...small, medium, large, XL or more? Let us know HERE.
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Hey. it’s time for another Tea with Hungry Lucy. This week CB and War-N talk about their Tuesday show at Northside Tavern. The seemingly dodgy PA surprised us all. The pair also talk about their upcoming show on Fountain Square which will debut a new version of the song that started it all (Blue Dress). Christa talks about her new video series that shows us all what goes on behind the scenes. OPM’s this week include CB’s picks: Michael Oberst and Nathaniel Seer and War-N’s picks: Stephanie’s ID (and their new CD) and an alternate piece of media in the shape of Tyim Courts’ brilliant 3-a-week comic strip, Under the Lids. War-N speaks of future music and keeping it more layered than the stripped down versions they’ve been doing live.
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If you haven’t experienced Stephanie’s Id live (from Asheville, NC), you won’t want to miss this show. They have managed to reaffirm my faith in the power of music every damn time I see/hear them!
We played our first show in 6 months (down to the day) last night at Alchemize The Decibel Lounge. We were using a new (far simpler) setup ... just two keyboards and two microphones. We had Christa's Casio Privia piano and my aging Korg Triton LE (has two knobs missing and one key that has a nice sag to it). I had sequences for bass, drums and extra bits in the Triton for several songs and others we just played using only our four hands ... shocking! This is oddly nerve-wracking new territory for me ... not being for a normal band background. I was really pushing the voice limits of the Triton on some of these sequences. A new workstation keyboard perhaps could be in order, but why focus on new tools? Our set went pretty well. I sang (on the new song, Sunday Smiled) for the first time in 11 years. In retrospect we (perhaps) should have moved that song up in the set. It was the second to last song of the set, so I spent the entire set thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit. I have to sing" rather than getting into the performance. Once that song was finished I felt relaxed and into the music ... but then we were done. Now I've done it once, I'll feel better the next time around.
This was also the first time in 2 years we relied on house monitors instead of our fancy in-ear system. I see benefits to both methods. I did feel more connected with the audience without the in-ears ... but that just fueled my nervousness I think. When writing things like this I wonder how I ever get up on a stage at all! Plus, I couldn't hear anything I was doing over the crowd noise and muffled monitor wedges. I think I'd rather continue the illusion that everyone is listening to us in my sound isolated cocoon!
It was wonderful not not have to worry about laptops, video and complex signal routings last night. Plus the songs did feel more grounded and "real". I think a little further refinement is needed, but this new setup is a good thing. This point was driven home when Diet Audio (who's release party this was) had their laptop top decide to fail mid-set. I truly felt for them as we've been there SO many times. We joked afterwards about taking their laptop and our old Power Book and having an office space moment.
OK ... on to more song writing and more shows. I feel certain there will be no major touring this year ... but we'll get out on the road a bit. Bare with us folks. This kinda feels like we're starting from scratch with plenty of lessons learned over the past few years.
Episode 57 of Tea with Hungry Lucy starts off with War-N apologizing for dissing his own music after being set straight by Angel (Kingizzard). Christa agrees with Angel and points out that War-N was doing the dissing, not her. Hungry Lucy treats us to a live performance of “Open Window” (from the album Glo) and the pair discuss past live performances of the song. Christa tells us that t-shirts are coming soon. Other people’s music touches on Erasure and their fab 1992 concert DVD “The Swan, the Tank and the Balloon“.
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