well here we go my friends; your last christmas gift from me this year is the Song of the Moldau, written by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler and based on a old czech folk song. we recorded this all in one big room together, me and my pals...
ok, this is one of the songs that i wrote in berlin for the upcoming leaky heaven/neworld theatre show Peter Panties. the script and lyrics were written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef. i’m singing the part of Wendy Darling and Josepha Conrad is singing Mrs. Darling. ...
a little instrumental ditty for you, with a horn arrangement by the inscrutable ford pier. someone should make an animated short out of this one. i offer it up.
and here we have another outtake from This Riot Life: a version of Soapland Serenade sung in Japanese. that’s us: maiko, patsy, skye and me, singing phonetic japanese. except maiko of course, who actually speaks the language. skye had a leg up because of his extensive karate lessons. ...
ok, this is a song from the long ago first cassette. i know that some of you already have this, but a fellow was asking about it at the shows last weekend and i promised i’d put it up. and yes, i still live in the same hood. this song also acknowledges my lifelong debt to sesame street.
this is a recording from about a year ago, made on my ipod which you can hear gurgling and ticking away. this is an early version of the neil young song Transformer Man, which i cover on the upcoming record Young Saint Marie. due out next year. teaser!
hey team. here begins my little series of presents for you. there’ll be a free song up every day or so until christmas. kind of like a stunted advent calendar!
alright, a little info on the upcoming shows: duplex is going to raise the kiddie roof on thursday night AND saturday day AND sunday day. friday night is all cover songs, with The Fits (who are working on a live record) and a 15 piece band conducted by giorgio magnanensi...
we are home again! phew. vancouver is obliging with stunning winter weather. i have promised some exciting posts, and they are coming. in the meanwhile, check out this interview that i did with jessa at bookslut: right here. anders steals the show, of course...
i’m happy to say that berlin has turned back the seasonal clock, and it is a warm fall here again. just in time for a very busy week: wednesday night in munich at the bayerischer hof, thursday night in berlin at lagari, and saturday night in bremen at ratsaal stuhr. ...
hello folksens. i’m sorry, i’ve been neglectful of my posting lately. to be fair, i am twittering and myspacing and facebooking. it’s ridiculous. plus we’ve been sick ALL MONTH. wah wah wah. so this is my promise that once we are home from berlin in december i will do some cool posts. and g...
a southern show! nov 18 in munich at the bayerischer hof. and bremen is on a different day now, the 21st at the ratssaal stuhr just outside of town. we may move the berlin lagari date…..it’s just a shuffle fiesta around here.
stop bc arts cuts, a great website, and just the beginning. i particularly like geoffrey farmer’s suggestion that we jazz-hands this government out of office. i can see it in my head.
