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― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Me and My Charms is one of the best songs ever, I agree. I love Hips and Makers overall as well, although I haven't ventured past that for some reason.
― humansuit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
aww u should venture
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I know. The reason why tho is that I went to college and then I traveled and then I had kids, and so I am frozen in the past. All my CD money goes into 529 plans now.
― humansuit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
oh my god
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to feel this way about Tanya Donnelly, many moons ago. We were both attending the University of Rhode Island when I wrote a positive piece about the Muses for the student newspaper (this is well before their debut album). Tanya met up with me on campus to thank me, and her smile made my knees buckle. Shortly afterward the band moved to Boston, hit it huge in England and my dream of becoming Mr. Tanya Donnelly quickly faded.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
FUCK that's so hot
i can't imaging looking at tanya smiling, i might faint
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i still can't believe i was in kristin's face and all i could say was "What a great show tonight"
what is wrong with me?
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
What do you say? Thank you for inventing the sound of modern rock and roll? Maybe that's what you should have said, because somebody has got to thank the muses.
― humansuit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
heh, i know... thank you for making me cry in my room week after week? thank you for always singing exactly what's on my mind? thank you for consistently leaving me dumbfounded?
i guess, you're right, i could have said all those things. and i didn't.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Touring Australia in October....
"It’ll be her first visit to Australia since 1994, so fans will be lining up for this one. Tickets go on sale on Monday August 27.
Thursday October 11: Corner Hotel, Melbourne Friday October 12: The Palais, Hepburn Springs Wednesday October 17: The Heritage Hotel, Bulli Thursday October 18: Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba Friday October 19: The Basement, Sydney Sunday October 21: Fremantle Arts Centre"
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/local/10182/Kristin-Hersh-returns-to-Australia.htm
Bulli???
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Hepburn Springs!? Sounds like she's using a tour as a neat adjunct to an Aussie holiday ;D I mean Hepburn Springs, Blue Mountains, Freo.
I'd like to go to this. I saw her '94 shows, they were entrancing. I wrote a gushy fan letter afterwards that I piked on sending her (or her label or whatever). Unfortunately I havent kept up at all since "Strange Angels" so I guess I'd have to do that.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
girl u have to listen to the new one
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently the Freo gig is a support(!!!) for Sarah Blasko...
The Corner gig, for which I've just brought a ticket, is thankfully not.
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
SHE is supporting Sarah Blasko? Oh for the love of... GRARGH!
Corner gig not sold out yet is it?
― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Heh I saw the 'Muses at the Corner in 92 or 93. They did "Cottonmouth" and some guy in the audience kept loudly hollersinging along to the "YOOOOOOO snake/yooooo cottonmouth" bit. So much so, Kristin was having a hard time not cracking up laughing. At the end of the song, the guys gf turned to him between songs and loudly declared "I'm not going to a gig with you EVER AGAIN" and everyone cracked up laughing inc the band.
They also did Delicate Cutters. Sigh. So wonderful.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
No, not sold out yet, but the default 'selling fast' was on the email-out I got on Tuesday.
I saw TM on the same tour, but in Perth. Fortunately, their relative obscurity made being 'down the front' a piece of cake. :)
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone planning to go to this?
Kristin Hersh is an introvert. She is extraordinarily shy. Paradoxically, she is known as an artist for her sometimes brutal emotional honesty and openness.
"Paradoxical Undressing" by Kristin Hersh is a live spoken word project incorporating film, music and essays. The show will feature excerpts from Kristin's upcoming memoir, "Paradoxical Undressing" read by the artist, with musical accompaniment.
The show tells the story of a teenage girl wrestling with issues of extreme creativity, mental illness, pregnancy and life in the music business as founder of seminal American indie rock band Throwing Muses.
The first paradoxical undressing performances will be held in the UK at St. Andrew's in the Square in Glasgow on 25 March 2008 and at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 26 March 2008.
I've just booked a ticket for the QEH performance (though I only seem to end up making it to about 3 out of 5 events that I book in advance)
― Bob Six, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
dang
― Surmounter, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
will KILL to see this
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
werd
― Surmounter, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
my KH interview, from last year: http://wildcat.arizona.edu/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=572e2352-0b06-45e8-ab11-3c4e2413bc9e
― J.D., Friday, 21 December 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you wind up going to KH at the corner, Trayce? I did. Loved it. There was a man singing along every word too.
― spectra, Friday, 21 December 2007 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Totally getting the book when it comes out
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 21 December 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
That man was me. (probably) :)
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't wait for this. I ordered my ticket just now just in case.
― verhexen, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to HIps and Makers now, it sounds much more Muses-y than i had originally thought
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Really, the single greatest solo release from Kristin is the bonus disc, _Live At Maxwell's_ that came out with the all-but-forgotten _Red Heaven_. The best Muses tracks done just voice and guitar, oh man...
― Mr. Odd, Friday, 8 February 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I found this event pretty hard going this evening. I had had a really tiring, frustrating day at work which was maybe why I was dropping off during the spoken word bits.
Just the songs please next time.
― Bob Six, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
iiiinteresting!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
So I'm a teacher, planning my lesson for the day, and I see that one of the supplemental exercises is about someone named "Hersh"
KRISTIN HERSH
She is in my developmental English grammar textbook! There must be a fan on the editorial side. Ha.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
What, her lyrics are in the book? Please tell us more.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
HA seriously, what??
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
No, it's like a grammar exercise about "musician Kristin Hersh" It's about how she balances work (being touring musician) and home (being a mom/wife). It is used to practice correcting run-on sentences.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"I had to play the Palladium Thursday night but first I needed to take Dylan to a doctor's appointment because he had an ear infection so I arrived late to the gig and David was really pissed at me so he threw a tom-tom at me and hit me squarely in the eye and I had to go back to the very same doctor which I thought was pretty funny."
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Kristin Hersh is a working mother, she has a rather unusual job. A. Kristin Hersh is a working mother; but she has a rather unusual job. B. Kristin Hersh is a working mother, although she has a rather unusual job.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a riot. I bet she'd get a kick out of that.
B, right?
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, B is the correct answer. A++ for you! You really know you've made it when you appear in a textbook.
Queen Latifah and Jon Stewart are both in the new edition as well.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking hilarious
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been feeling kristin a lot lately. i mean, not just that i need to listen to her, but more generally. i feel her presence in my house, when i'm home alone, at night, in the studio. i wish the whole house could fill with wind, howls and kristin's voice, on the guitar. well, i suppose it can. nothing fills a house like her records.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 22 May 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
summertime -- time for sunny border blue! !
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 May 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
her harmonies are always surprising
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 May 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I have Sunny Border Blue but I haven't been able to get into it yet.
Summertime, though - time for Hunkpapa! Extremely underrated album.
― verhexen, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Re: Sunny Border Blue. Get into it. It's probably (taking the long view) the best thing she ever did.
― dlp9001, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy mother of god, "Sundrops": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoqCBlzKhg
I'd forgotten this song...and today out of the blue I heard the lyric "I never, never knew" and it took me awhile to figure out where it came from but I am AGHAST. Oh my god I don't even have Hips & Makers anymore and I need that shit like heroin right now.
― Bimble, Thursday, 28 August 2008 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i know that song is pretty spectacular!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 28 August 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Something I hadn't been aware of -- and quite enjoyable it is:
http://www.throwingmusic.com/lists/archive.php?listID=2&layoutID=1&pagerows=50&pagenum=1
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope Kristin and Billy's 'The Shady Circle' idea takes off.
I saw Kristin perform her 'Paradoxical Undressing'* show in Edinburgh last month, and fascinating it was too. Can't wait for the book.
*http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/view_item.aspx?item_id=50407
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Speedbath. Enough said. Dear God, Speedbath.
I also think I need that textbook.
― Lucea, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I've just been listening to my tape of Hips & Makers again. What features or tracks does anyone now think is good about it?
...and now continuing the thread a bit, if you've not heard the Strings EP, which consists of a Martin McCarrick-arranged string section working with Hersh on rerecordings of four Hips and Makers songs, you have no idea how you're missing out. It's absolutely wonderful.― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005
I haven't heard this for years, if ever, but I think Raggett is right. There was this STUNNING song called 'The Key' way back when (1994?) - did it appear on that ep? don't know - but if she did more work like that then I would like to have it.
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link