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September 13th, 2008

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11:44 pm - A Little Flash of Orange
A blog about the CD release show - by M.

Thanks SO much to everyone who came out tonight to support us. It means a lot. The night was overwhelming for me, emotional and incredible, it was special to see all of your faces at the Lily Pad.

Dan Blakeslee opened up. He is amazing, I have known Dan for such a long time and I love his music with the whole of my heart. He didn't play my favorite oldie for me but I forgive him because it's been quite a long time since he's played it. The songs he played were gorgeous and haunting, go have a listen...he's on our top friends.

Then we went onstage. I got a chance to look out at the crowd, it made me nervous! There were a lot of people but once my eyes adjusted to the lights I could make out familiar faces and that helped my nerves (hehe). We started out the set with The Stars' Nest. It was a fun way to start the set because of the "playful" break sequence, which features Pam Ginzler ( who was our magnificent Merch Woman tonight too!) Pam told me that it was strange to hear her own voice through a looper for the first time. Our guest bass player for the night was Marc Friedman without whom The Stars' nest would not have rumbled! Thanks Marc!

Then we played The Bird In The Ice... which is a song about a little bird that could, and that turned out to be the little song that could! Because there were a couple technical difficulties that threatened to derail us but we got right back on track, take that technical difficulties!! (big thanks to Shane O'Connor for jumping up and turning the right knobs to help us get there!!)

For the next song Violet Wrist we welcomed Jennifer Greer to the stage. Jennifer was our backup singer for the night. I am totally in love with her voice. (She is also in our top friends..go and hear her sing:) And she stayed onstage for Palace of Owls. This is the song where we introduced Jeff O'Neil who would be playing Cello with us on a few more songs.

Drug Company sounded glorious on the grand piano. I looked over at Sharon during that song and had to smile because she was LOVING playing on that piano, if it could fit in her car the Lily Pad would be piano shopping right now. Allen kicked the shit out of this song!

Then, during Cape the Pearls I caught the eye of Michele Naughton (who was our Door Woman xoxo) and saw her singing along. She sang in the choir on the recording of that song. I must admit it made me a bit misty in the eye area to see her singing her parts. Betty's duet with the Cello at the end was the the thing that sent me over the edge. I pulled myself together and used the little break to finally remove my suit jacket and reveal my sweat soaked shirt. For everyone who wasn't there: we were all dressed up! I wore a grey suit with a grey sweater vest and an orange shirt and a grey tie, um, you would have developed a crush on me if you saw me. But it was way too hot for all that and when it's wet with sweat...it's heavy. So off came some clothes, it was that kind of night ;)

Jane Park, one of the string players on the recording of Dust for Kissers came up on stage to play that song with us, that song is fucking awesome and it kicked ass when we played it if I do humbly say so myself. Jane stayed on stage for the next song, which was Airedales. The ginormously talented Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee joined me on vocals. Her angel voice makes me want to stop singing and just listen to her. With the lovely strings Airedales was realized.

For our last two songs we chose Macaw and Lily of the Mouth. On Macaw we had Dan Blakeslee come back onto the stage and play the guitar just like he did on the record. Jennifer Greer came back onstage...she sings those heavenly vocals on the CD - we were just so lucky to have her tonight. We closed the show with Lily of the Mouth and then breathed a satisfied smile. That's how CD release shows go...Now I know!

Thanks to everyone who bought Diving Bell Shallows, Light Of The World Shine On Me or one of the beautiful t-shirts Allen designed. Thanks again to all the guest players of the night.

We had a great time!
Love, M.
ps: thanks walter sickert for art and black ponies!
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