The Starland Circus
The Starland Circus
Event on 2012-04-27 19:00:00
~Presented by Jon Taylor's The Clown Show~
"Hey gang, the Circus is coming to Savannah!
On Friday, April 27th In the heart of Midtown, an abandoned milk factory appropriated by DeSoto Row offers the gorgeous outdoor/indoor space to an array of kooks for one night only!
The triumphant return of avant-pop band New Pink Floyd is the opening feature.
Cold Blooded Adventures has a special surprise in store,
& Clothing Warehouse is providing exciting attire for a fashion show like you have never seen before.
Anitra Opera Diva will be performing an aria from Pagliacci that is sure to give you chills,
but the show isn't over until…
Peter Clark, DJ, plays his trance style sounds till the Moon rises
Gates open at 7 & the first 50 people to arrive will recieve a clown nose with entry & have first choice of the splendid balloon hats and animals, being twisted, LIVE!
~ Everyone is welcome but kids & freaks get in free!"
********Photo of Anitra Opera Diva by Robert Costello
at Starland Dairy
Bull St and 40th St
Savannah, United States
Fruit Bats, Kelley Stoltz
Event on 2012-04-26 20:00:00
Supporting Acts: Gold Leaves
Fruit Bats
In this often reflexive and world-weary era of popular music, there seems little room for unabashed wonder, or joy without suspicion. Some regrettable fear planted within each of us around the 7th grade or thereabouts still makes it hard to dance, hard to hold hands, hard to say "I love you," at least without a quick caveat or escape route at the ready. Over the course of three records, the last two on Sub Pop (2003's Mouthfuls and 2005's Spelled in Bones), Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have looked for ways to file down the cynical edge of modern life and found many. Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occasional blazing insight and tender observation, the Fruit Bats have never shied away from darkness, but more uncommon in this day and age, they've refused to shy away from light. With The Ruminant Band, this tradition continues in characteristically rich and involving fashion. Consider the title: it's no coincidence or shortcut that the name of the second track was plucked to represent the album as a whole. "Band" is the operative word here, as the Fruit Bats lineup has expanded to five, who in turn expand the sonic scope of Johnson's songs to include the barn-floor stomp of "The Hobo Girl" and the Fleetwood Mac-esque shimmy of the title track. On a recent message to fans on the band's website, Johnson promised on behalf of the Bats, "We are going to choogle for you." And while the potential for chooglin' has always existed in some form all the way back to Johnson's earliest 4-track experiments, The Ruminant Band sees it flower in full. Now ponder the multiple meanings of the word "ruminant." Its most popular definition is "thoughtful," and the Fruit Bats are certainly that. But the term is also used to describe cloven-footed mammals of the suborder Ruminantia, which includes giraffes, cattle, goats, and (please refer to your well-worn copy of the Bats' 2001 debut Echolocation) buffalo and deer. Applied to the men behind the propulsive yet spacious '70s country-rock jam "Tegucigalpa" and the parlor piano soft-shoe of "Flamingo," this descriptor aptly represents the pastoral bent of the melodies and instrumentation, as well as their refreshingly good nature. When Johnson sings "Climb up with me to the monkey's nest / … Give your lovely lonesome head a rest / In the beautiful morning light" the colors of that light nearly become visible out of the speakers. Production credit belongs to Fruit Bats drummer Graeme Gibson, who directs each song in a way that lets each composition stand on its own while remaining cohesive, recalling the good old days of albums as viable art forms. The approach lets each member play a variety of roles, with lead guitarist Sam Wagster rapidly and twangily soloing on "My Unusual Friend" and adding pedal steel to the bouncy "Being on Our Own," multi-instrumentalist Ron Lewis fleshing out the tunes with a variety of textures, and the whole thing underpinned by Fruit Bat constant Chris Sherman's inventive bass-lines. Though Johnson has spent the handful of years between Fruit Bats records playing with peers as heralded and forward-thinking as Vetiver and The Shins, the songwriting and production on The Ruminant Band mark a further crystallization of his own melodic instincts and overall vision over the past near-decade, abetted by brothers-in-arms who know both bluster and restraint.
Kelley Stoltz
While Kelley Stoltz's nigh-religious reverence for all things Beatles, Beach Boys and Kinks has been at the fore on recent albums Below the Branches and Circular Sounds, his new album, To Dreamers, blends a bit more post-punk abandon into its layered everyman pop. Tasteful horn adornments blow against tom-tom beats and 12-string guitars meet reverbed mellotrons, under Stoltz's warm vocals. The album begins with "Rock & Roll with Me," a big beat electric invitation that fades into the melodic stirrings of "Pinecone," a gently moving Pacific breeze. Later, the deceptively ethereal pluck of "Ventriloquist" is coupled with heavy lyrics, "Seems like there's no one at all who's speaking for me." The motorik élan of "Keeping the Flame" and the electric whirring of "Little Girl" offer new moods, and it's clear that To Dreamers has maintained the kaleidoscopic core of sounds heard on Kelley's previous records, while making inroads into new sonic terrains. As on prior albums, Kelley plays most of the instruments heard on To Dreamers himself, though two of the songs here were recorded by Kelley and his band live in the studio. One of these is a cover version of the '60s nugget "Baby I Got News for You," by "Big Boy" Pete Miller, who performs on the recording, dusting off the very valve amps and guitar used on the 1965 original, to add vocals and fuzz. Kelley, now a veritable godfather to the burgeoning San Francisco under/over-ground (folks like Thee Oh Sees, Sonny & the Sunsets, The Fresh & Onlys), has blazed a path since the late '90s as a home-recording guru and multi-instrumentalist. No slouch on the live front, he was asked to open the Raconteurs first US tour in 2006, toured the USA and Europe with the Dirtbombs in 2008, and through a twist of volcano ash-cloud karma, was the support act to childhood heroes Echo and the Bunnymen, in 2010. His songs have been used for international ad campaigns for Volvo and Marriott Hotels, as well as in television and movies. I would wager that the entire reason behind music itself is to dream. From the young kid strumming a tennis racket along with the Ramones, to the box seats at the opera, the goal is the same. What music does and should do is allow us to lose ourselves and be transported, to find the mystical land where milk and honey meets Xanadu. See where you go with this new Kelley Stoltz record-an album of tunes oddly familiar and yet surprising, like a dream itself.
at The Independent
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San Francisco, United States
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