7 posts tagged “live”
Tea with Hungry Lucy, Episode 113 ends with a performance of "Shine" (originally from the album, "To Kill a King"). This version is just electric piano, hammered dulcimer and Christa's delicious vocals. Rather un-electronic for Hungry Lucy. Before the performance, though Christa goes on a rant about a newly opened local "restaurant" that the pair visited on their Sunday of attempted creativity boosting. War-N and Christa take a personal trip down memory lane and tell us about the apartment from hell in which they used to live. in the "other people's music" segment, War-N talks about trip-hop pioneer's Portishead and their very challenging, but rather clever new album "Third". CB & War-N also talk about MP3 vs. CD vs. vinyl.
Do you still buy vinyl, or is it ancient history?
Any Twitter-folk out there? Why not follow War-N's ramblings? It's fun. You can point and laugh.
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Portishead - Machine Gun (Live on Jools Holland)
What did HL talk about this episode? Well, there was Howard Jones, Howard Jones and uh Howard Jones! Just back, literally, from the road on a trip to Pittsburgh, the duo settle back into a warm house with a nice little chat. Other than HoJo madness, CB mentions an unusual OPM (in this case Other People’s Market’s) in the form of Jungle Jim’s International Market. A mainstay in Christa’s culinary adventures, she just wanted to “shoutout” to the man in the cape for sticking with small business since 1974! Thanks, Jim!
What the SMEG is this? It’s beautiful, it’s functional and it’s in the kitchen! What Christa thought was Italian is actually British. Oops!
Also, a BIG thanks to Ellie for allowing two total strangers to sit front and center at the Howard Jones show at her table! It was lovely to meet you and hope you made it back to Wisconsin safely
You made the experience even that much cooler!Hey…you should grab the original version of ‘Glo‘ while you still can. After this bunch runs out, the double-disc will no longer be available!! A single disc version will be put in its place. This is all in the hopes to draw more folks to the lovely songs on the album and make it more affordable for YOU! Oh yeah. Don’t forget we still have a bunch of t-shirts and hoodies available for your lovely body to wear!
See ya next week on the 100th episode of Tea with Hungry Lucy!! Thanks for listening all these episodes! You’ve made it great
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Howard Jones now(ish):
For this week's Tea with Hungry Lucy, Christa and War-N chat about the fun they had performing and attending the Fetish Fantasy Island - Pirate Invasion event in Pittsburgh. There was lots of spanking and exposed parts, fire, flying luncheon meats and even a little (unintentional) blood .... eek! Both War-N and Christa were impressed with the venue and hospitality of everyone involved. Although still having voice problems, Christa pulled off a great performance and War-N said it was the most fun he's had on stage in a while. Christa expresses concern that HL is still not quite "there" yet, when it comes to live performance. No worries, the next few months are about finishing the next CD anyway!
Your questions and comments will be addressed next week ... so tell us what they are.
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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.
Just a quick update in case you’re not listening along on the podcast (why not?). We’re currently working on a remix for our European friends, The Dreamside. We’re also getting basic tracks together for a new Hungry Lucy song called Erase Her. This song will feature a guest vocalist so we’re getting all the bits together for her.
We currently have two lives shows coming in April (Chicks RockFest and Diet Audio’s CD Release). We plan to do both as our “Café Style” set. One keyboard, one microphone and some of our songs … simple. We will be performing one such song on the next podcast … so listen in.
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“.
Hungry Lucy want’s YOUR feedback: More live performances on the podcast? What songs would you like to hear? Which songs means something to you, and why?
Please, tell us what is on your mind in text or using your sweet sounding voice!
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