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  • From: WWWhatsup <joly AT dti.net>
  • To: Typical Girls <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] Fwd: [ari-up] REPORT FROM BARD
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:02:47 -0500



>From: "jim_finnigan" <jim_finnigan[at]yahoo.com>
>
>
>The Slits put on a great show at the Bard College Campus Center Multi-
>Purpose Room [how swanky is that name?] on Thursday 26 October. This
>free concert attracted mostly a hunnerd or so Bard stoonts but there
>was a smattering of nutters from out in the real world of neighboring
>Kingston and Woodstock and Poughkeepsie to groove to the Slits punky
>dubby sounds. After the opening acts ­ Shellshag (the White Stripes
>meet Television Personalities meet Z'ev ­ they had the ultimate
>minimalist punk song with "1, 2, 3") and the Apes (Stereolab meets
>Devo) [and no, Leon Botstein did not give a music appreciation
>lecture at the start of the show…] the anticipation rose and finally
>out came Ari Up inna curly-locks stylee, Tessa on bass, and new
>recruits No (a/k/a Nadya) on lead guitar, Adele on scratchy guitar,
>Holly on harmonies, and clean-cut Anna on drums, launching into bird
>sounds and John Holt's Man Next Door. Well, Ari tried to do bird
>sounds but the soundman had a little trouble figuring out how to do
>reverb and there was the little issue of Ari being on the guitar mike
>and No being on Ari's mike and Tessa's booming bass distorting
>through the stage monitors but after a humorously chaotic opening it
>all worked out irie. The Slits set was a great hi-energy selection
>of stuff from Cut and some of Ari's True Warriors songs: Man Next
>Door / FM / World of Grown-ups / No More Cruel War / New Town /
>Shoplifting / Dennis Brown's Revolution / Typical Girls / Kill Them
>With Love / Let's Do the Split (2006 punky stylee). Lots of singing
>along ­ everybody knew the words - and some poging and jitterbugging
>(the stoonts, not the nutters) and girls invited on stage [a `typical
>boy' declined the honor]. Lots of bass sound ­ Tessa was great!
>Ari had the band lower volume and vamp in a buncha songs so Tessa
>could dub up the bass and Ari could rap and toast inna dancehall
>stylee. Everyone had a great time and two of my pompous and
>opinionated colleagues ­ hi Bill! hi Raissa! ­ both agreed that it
>was a fun show and that Tessa and Ari were great!
>

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