Wired article on Polaris tour: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/polaris-pete-and-pete-band/Thought Mulcahy lived in Springfield, Mass. these days, but this says New Haven, Conn.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Saturday's kickoff to the Polaris reunion tour was fantastic. They opened with "Baby Tae Kwon Do" from their new cassingle (available here: https://thebandpolaris.bandcamp.com/releases). Also played a Magnetic Fields cover ("Why I Cry") and a Sesame Street song ("I Don't Want to Live on the Moon," also covered by the Queers). And, of course, Little Pete's favorite song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmPmIARgMhk
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Ahhhh the Philly show is sold out! Seriously considering driving to Baltimore to see them.
― DavidLeeRoth, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
The most recent Mark Mulcahy solo record is quite excellent and it appears most of the Miracle Legion stuff is a available once again via the Mezzotint website.
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
Can't believe I haven't heard this until now. Mulcahy released this as a single/download in 2006. About a soldier wounded in war, it takes on new meaning in this performance from 2009, a year after his wife died. Just devastating.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEVYnGHt39k
― Jazzbo, Friday, 24 June 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
Caught the first show of the reunion tour last night in a sweaty little theater in Providence and it was great. Nice to see Mark and Mr. Ray back on stage together. Mulcahy had a strange getup — Member's Only jacket zipped all the way up — and he came across as a crazed homeless guy with his new Civil War-era beard, but he sang like an angel. Here's a snippet (not my video).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAdCqMEXdk
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Seems like some reissued stuff just showed up on Spotify.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
(-the Cave-) meant the Grotto.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Feel like once I saw Mark + Ray did a song called "Valentine's Day," but I can't find mention of it anywhere except some weird stub on BBC music. Did they end up recording this song under another title?
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Oh wait BBC page has sound, so I didn't dream it after all: https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/tracks/n24bwf
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
Weird/frustrating when you remember something pretty strongly but can't seem to find confirmation on the intranetz
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
Maybe it became the song "Velvetine"?
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 June 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
I've only dabbled in Miracle Legion, but thanks to this thread I finally gave Fathering a listen. Christ, it's magnificent.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
Cool.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 June 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
Listening now and realizing Mark Mulcahy can sound amazing like Bob Dorough. Perhaps they should have done a kid's show collabo
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 June 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedPsqOgpbE
― MaresNest, Monday, 7 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
Mark played a great but too-brief set in support of j. Mascis last night in Rhode Island. They'll be in Northampton, Mass. tonight. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6OdBRhD9V/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
― Jazzbo, Friday, 15 February 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sWAOHgsyQ
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
He’s playing in Rhode Island April 3rd
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
Back to school - Autumn is the perfect time/weather for listening to Mark Mulcahy.Why is that?
There's something very meta about latter day Polaris/P&P fandom: Nostalgia for a show about nostalgia. Wistful memories of childhood are both the subject of the Polaris album and its associaiton to most listeners. For a certian age group, it was probably also your very first introduction to indiepop.
When I was about 17, I became briefly obsessed with this show and its soundtrack and endeavored to collect all the music from it, which I wasn't able to do. The best story I have about this was that when I went into the Virgin Megastore to look for Starfish by the Fat Tulips and they didn't have it, for whatever reason I was so intent on buying an album called Starfish that day that I got the one by the Church instead.
But I found the Polaris album held up a lot better alongside the rest of the music from the show: various Stephin Merritt songs, the Shackwacky cassette, a couple of tracks off the first Drop Nineteens album, Luscious Jackson, etc. Taken on its own, it tended to hammer you over the head with a particular sound and mood and became cloying long before its runtime finished.
Mark Mulcahy's voice is a thing of wonder at times and suits the more intimate material a lot better IMO than something like 'Snacks and Candy' above.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
There were also a few songs like 'Everywhere' (or whatever it was called) that worked a lot better as 30-60 second instrumental cues on the show than as standalone songs.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
I went to the Pete & Pete reunion tour 8ish years ago at Bowery Ballroom. It was nice. I think think there are videos online.
― Yerac, Sunday, 16 February 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link