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@Lafayette wrote:
I can’t head south to Macon so I suppose the next best thing is to head south to WNKU studios tomorrow afternoon. I was invited to the “secret show” for being a volunteer at the studio. Stevarino, I doubt now I will go to Southgate House. Lefty, I will pass along your regards to Erika.
A special request Lafayette, for your studio visit this afternoon.
Can you bring along your trusty Kodak and possibly tape one of Erika’s new songs, that is if it’s ok with your favorite DJ ?Enjoy the performance.
lwj
Since Lafayette was planning on attending the “secret” show on Thursday at WNKU’s studios and skipping Southgate House that evening, here is a great review from Southgate House.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110729/ENT03/110729011/Heartless-Bastards-go-drummerless-Newport?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CEntertainment
Perhaps stevarino attended and can add to the commentary.lwj[attachment=0:3fir20n6]Erika at Southgate House.jpg[/attachment:3fir20n6]
I made the ‘secret’ show with minutes to spare after hoofing it across campus from the studio, where I thought the show was scheduled. The station is trying to expand its events across campus and utilized the student union buildin. Will teach me to read my emails more thoroughly. 😮
The show was actually broadcast on the station (I should have guessed) as a question and answer sesssion with performances inbetween. Erika took the stage, along with her band sans drummer– therefore the acoustic show billing– in an ivory tank top, daisy duke shorts, turquoise necklace, wedge heels. It was very hot Wednesday, my car thermometer registering 102 degrees at various points on my 40 minute drive, but averaging a cool 98 degrees for most of the duration of the trip.
Videotaping was not allowed but still photos with no flash was allowed. I will post a few shortly. The station was filming the show. I suspect videos will pop up of select songs on WNKU’s YouTube channel along with some sort of podcast, either in full or snippets.
Erika talked about her move to Austin (four years now), how she has been listening to country music more since her move, gravitating toward Ray Price. The new album has been recorded with an expected release date beginning first of year. The working title at present is “Arrow.” They are doing a short run of shows to play the new material. She said their van just turned over 200,000 miles .
She played several new songs — “The Arrow and The Beast” and another I forgot to write title down but really liked —something about bare bones.
They are recording a soundtrack for a movie and after this short run of shows are returning to work on it.
She said at one point she will always consider Cincinnati home and it was good to be back.
The Skyline chili question came up, a Cincinnati favorite, and she said her guitar player took a picture of a cheese coney earlier in the day with his phone, posted it to FB and had 15 comments about the post. 🙂
The broadcast was 45 minutes in length.
I spoke to Erika afterwards but only briefly. I told her I actually discovered her on Lu’s forums and had bumped into her at Lu’s wedding (even with her being a local band at one time 😳 ). I had people waiting behind me so I left it at that.
Great opportunity to see her and the band — with no one chatting during songs!
Outstanding report as usual, Lafayette. Thanks so much.
Simply reaffirms keeping the HB’s in my Top 5.
You were right about videos of the performance appearing eventually.
I saw these yesterday but kept them “secret” from posting until your report.
So, here they are.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9evvR81q0
Untitled song –sound track “Winter in the Blood” ( Mark’s guitar sounds great on this one )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdmlyfxHwE
New song “Skin and Bones”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp-zN4S-qU&feature=related
“Hold Your Head High”
Makes all your volunteer work at WNKU very worthwhile when you had this opportunity to meet Erika again.
I’m bettin’ Lefty will enjoy these videos and your commentary as much as I did.lwj
Live from the Mercury Lounge, NYC Sat. July 23
http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=6768
SETLIST:
[Total time: 1:11:10]
01. [new song]
02. Sway
03. Hold Your Head High
04. The Will Song
05. Skin and Bones [new song]
06. The Arrow Killed the Beast [new song]
07. Searching for the Ghost
08. [new song]
09. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere [Bob Dylan]
10. Runnin
11. Could Be So Happy
12. encore break
13. The Mountain
If you download this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Heartless Bastards, visit their website, visit their MySpace and Facebook pages, and purchase their official releases and merchandiseEnjoy.
lwj
Good job lwj. Someone must have gone rogue with video recording. 😉 Good recording, but I dont think those are official. 😮
The one new song I liked, from set list and video recording is “Skin and Bones” and it looks like I didn’t have my ears tuned in quite right as the other new song is “The Arrow Killed The Beast,” according to Mercury Lounge setlist…not “The Arrow and the Beast.” 😆
This video was just uploaded today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhr2FjHhwC0Erika and the HB’s opened for Wolfmother at The Riveria in Chicago Nov. 13/09.
Great 10 minute video inside and outside the “Shake, Rattle & Read” record/ bookstore.
Love Erika’s interviews. a shy and comical star.Enjoy.
lwj
Anyone near Marfa, TX would be in for a treat this weekend.
http://elcosmico.com/This is an outdoor camping event.
Just look at the lineup.Dance In a Wide Open Field
Live Music nightly starting at around 8 pm . . .
Thursday night: Tift Merritt, Patty Griffin with special guests, Barbara LynnFriday night: El Cosmico Family Band with David Garza, Josh Block of White Denim, and Jesse Ebaugh of the Heartless Bastards, featuring performances by Adam Bork, Kat Edmonson, Tift Merritt, Amy Cook, Alejandro Escovedo, Erika Wennerstrom and Ben Kweller
Saturday night: Mother Falcon, Alejandro Escovedo, Black Angels
Trans-Pecos Festival of Music & Love: Sept 22-25, 2011Overview
Intrepid travelers and lovers of adventure: the 6th Annual Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love is just beyond the horizon. September 22-25, 2011. This year we’ve added a concert for Thursday night, so come early and stay all weekend for the usual merrymaking and some unusual surprises. (Note: we will not have music on Sunday night as previously stated on our site – we’ve moved that magic to Thursday).lwj
Newsletter from the HB’s sent to my e mail yesterday.
· October/November shows & new album title
30/09/2011
·From: Heartless Bastards (do-not-reply=topspinmedia.com@topspin.net) on behalf of Heartless Bastards (do-not-reply@topspinmedia.com)
Sent: September-30-11 6:00:24 PM
To:
Hello Everyone,We hope you all are well. Dave of the HB’s is now the proud father of a healthy baby girl! Her name is Adel Melero Colvin.
The band’s been hard at work on the soundtrack to the upcoming feature film Winter In The Blood. We are looking forward to collaborating on the project with Chris Funk from The Decemberists. We’re setting up a studio to record on a ranch outside Marfa TX next month.
The new album, which will be titled Arrow will be coming out early next year. We’re really proud of this record, and can’t wait for it’s release.
We’re playing several upcoming dates with the full band. One of the dates is the Ohio Film and Music Festival in Columbus. It will be our 1st full band show in Ohio in a year in half. We will be playing all the songs from the upcoming album.
Here’s our upcoming dates:FRI, OCT 7 / Columbus, OH @ Skully’s for the Ohio Film and Music Festival / Buy TicketsTHU, OCT 27 / El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow PalaceFRI, OCT 28 / Marfa, TX @ PadresFRI, NOV 4 / Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest / Buy TicketsTHU, NOV 10 / Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock / Buy TicketsFRI, NOV 11 / San Antonio, TX @ Sam’s Burger Joint / Buy TicketsOnce the new album comes out we will be hitting every where, so if we’re not in your area for any upcoming dates, we’ll be there soon.
Take care
Jesse, Mark, Dave, and Erikalwj
Back in time to December 23, 2006 with the original band.-Erika, Mike and Kevin at Southgate House, Newport, KY.
Three excellent videos just added.
Very clever camera work alternating between color and black and white.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrXyQvtCk50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IE2CBgTRqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lH6sJ-loAslwj
@LWjetta wrote:
Back in time to December 23, 2006 with the original band.-Erika, Mike and Kevin at Southgate House, Newport, KY.
Three excellent videos just added.
Very clever camera work alternating between color and black and white.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrXyQvtCk50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IE2CBgTRqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lH6sJ-loAslwj
Southgate House- I need to get there more often than I do. I think first half of next year will be a slow year for some of my main artists, perhaps Southgate will be seeing a little more of me.
A new interview with Erika.
The new CD “Arrow” is scheduled for release on Valentine’s Day, 2012.
Here is an excerpt from the interview.Another random question I have is, what is the strangest display of affection a fan has ever shown you?
Well, this one might be kind of a long story, but on the first album, I have a song called “Onions”. And one of the lines in it is “you’ve got me wrapped up in this mess again.” And a fan thought that I said “you’ve got me wrapped up in The Smiths again,” and he’s a really big Morrissey fan, so he created a bust of Morrissey, a miniature, kind of the size of an action figure, like a miniature wax bust of Morrissey, and brought it to me. And then he told me, we shared a mutual love of The Smiths and I’m like “what are you–what are you talking about?” And then he explained that to me and I was like, “I’m sorry, but that’s not the line I’m actually saying”. But then the next time we went–he lived in L.A., and the next time we played there he brought me the chef’s hat, you know, like to start assembling, and coming to each show and bringing me another piece of Morrissey until I’ve finally completed a Morrissey action figure.
So that’s pretty strange.Here is the entire interview.
http://austinist.com/2011/11/04/making_babies_music_and_action_figu.php
lwj
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