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At The Moore Last Night

Here's Basil warming up at The Moore, at the top of the second balcony. Right before we started a tour went through where someone was explaining that this balcony used to be where you had to sit if you were black or Jewish. There was a door on the alley that led directly up there, so they didn't have to be seen coming in the front door.

My favorite part of the show: "Chapter 4: Americans!", where I (Clark) follow Basil (Lewis), mimicking everything he does, including combing our hair and paddling our way through the seats. I also laughed a lot from my secret corner watching our violinist get all spastic and palsied at the top of Chapter 1 (Wilderness).

Other things of note:
* It was steep up there. You sort of had vertigo at first. But then I got used to it and was doing some dangerous running around.

* Some audience just watched from the lower aisle. Others came right up into the space, trying to mess with us. One guy picked up John's melodica and played it.

* Kirk's going to get me arrested.

* I found a secret bombed out room behind a golden door. There were thousands of old tickets from old shows at the Moore. I grabbed one. Later there was a staff member guarding the door. Kirk would have liked it. It reminded me of the time I was seeing Portishead at the Paramount, (was I on mushrooms? or just really drunk? I can't remember.) and I found this tiny door that led into the rafters at the top of the dome, and I watched the show from up there.

* The walls up at the top were all cracked. It made me think about the people pouring that concrete in 1907. What dead guy poured this piece of concrete that I'm touching right now? What happened to him?

* The acoustics up there were pretty fantastic. The floor tom sounded like a gunshot!


(Got photos from the event? Please post 'em here!)

Analemmanomenon

This Saturday.

(original photo taken of JO, DN, KA, EM: Victoria Lahti. Photoshop bullshit: insomnia)

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I'm not sick.

(I think.)

City Horns

Sari & Kevin (from Circus Contraption*) join Evan and Rob in recording some horns for City.




(* only 3 more shows EVER! go see them quick!)

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Our new album: an Update

We've been working on this album for a while now. It's got some older songs and some newer songs. And we're ALMOST done recording. 6 songs are completely done recording. Another 4 are really close, and just need a couple of small things recorded here or there. You know, like when you're in the studio and you're listening to what you've just recorded and someone says, "you know what would sound great in the chorus? A giraffe!" And then Pete, our Engineer Extraordinaire, says, "I know of a couple of places we could get one..." There's also 2 (?) songs that we still need to do the vocals on. There's one where some friends from Circus Contraption are coming in to fatten up our horn section. (By the way, CC has only got 8 more shows left, and this is their LAST SHOW EVER. So go see it!)

Then we've got to mix all this stuff. And there's a plan a-brewin' for that. A real good one.

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Kirk learns how to dance

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Thanks all who came to our show on Friday

It's fun to try new weird stuff out. Even if an instrument is slightly out of tune or the video projector dies in the middle of the show.

tonight's show

GALLERY 1412

Bedizzled

** See it at SIFF **

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trees don't lie

More than a feeling

Kirk rehearses his part outside the studio...

...and then inside the studio...



...and then it's time for a break.

It may not seem like it, but we're an incredibly productive group of artists ^tm .