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The Adventures of Stickboy
1. "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Gay"
2. "Please, Please, Please"
3. "I'm Pretty Sure I Can't Go On Vacation with My Parents Anymore"
4. "Kiss Me on the LRV"
5. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
6. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
7. "Brushes with Greatness"
8. "Exterminate the Brutes!"
9. "Kill Cat Stevens"
10. "Strip Club Strip"
11. "O' Come Again, Terrible Summer"
12. "En El Fondo: Pages from an (Anti) Depression"
13. "The $100K Bowl of Shit"
Shawn Brown
The Trews: Canadian Riff Rock With Indie Sprit and a Pimps' Heart
Quit Sellin' Amos Lee Short
Carousel Roundup
February 2011: Have a Heart (It's So Tasty)
November 2010: I See Dead Things
October 2010: I'm Running Away to Join the Circus
September 2010: Almost Strictly Instrumental
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Composition Breakdown
Brian Vander Ark
Thomas Cooney:
"Another Thing!" (March 2012)
"Another Thing!" (January 2012)
"Another Thing!" (October 2011)
"Another Thing!" (August 2011)
"Another Thing!" (June 2011)
"Another Thing!" (April 2011)
"Another Thing!" (February 2011)
"Another Thing!" (January 2011)
"Another Thing!" (November 2010)
"Another Thing!" (October 2010)
"Another Thing!" (September 2010)
"10 Years of Swing Out Sister's Somewhere Deep In The Night"
"The Twenty-Five Year Seduction: Bryan Ferry’s Boys and Girls"
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
A Desert Island Scenario
Risa Nye - Stardust
Katrina Geco:
"Daydreamer's Holiday - The Clarks and the Sounds of Pittsburgh"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
Kelly Haigh:
"Stage Fright at the Railway Club"
New Crush/Old Crush
Vampire Weekend
War Elephant
Theresa Moorehouse
Kaya Oakes' Miscellany:
"Dylan: He's Just Like Us"
Recess
March 2012
The Roberge Report:
"Just for Openers"
"Jay Walter Bennett"
"Closet Classics"
"Urinal Tour Diary; A Week on the Road with the most Punctual and Polite Band in Punk"
"Room #8, Joshua Tree Inn"
Studio Musician Gossip:
"We Need A Public Option Radio Station"
"Make Out/Make Over"
"Re-Make, Re-Model"
Wildflowers
Philip Stevenson on Arthur Doyle
Book Reviews
Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth
Got No Secrets by Danila Botha
All You Get Is Me, by Yvonne Prinz
Getting in Tune, by Roger Trott
Hew, Screw + Glue: How Stuff is Made, by James Innes-Smith
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James And The Shondells , by Tommy James
Mingering Mike, by Dori Hadar
New York Dolls, by Bob Gruen
Red Album of Asbury Park, by Alex Austin
Satchmo: The Wonderful World And Art Of Louis Armstrong, by Steven Brower
Stalker Girl, by Rosemary Graham
Stone Roses, by Alex Green
Three Wishes: An Intimate Look At Jazz Greats, by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
DVD Reviews
Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live
Live Reviews
2011
2011 - The Kills
2011 - Lost Lander
2011 - Bryan Ferry
2011 - Joana and the Wolf
2011 - Jasmine Minks
2011 - Gardens & Villa
2011 - Mike Watt & the Minutemen
2011 - The Royal Bangs
2011 - Dropkick Murphys
2011 - The Decemberists
2010
2010 - English Beat
2010 - Toadies
2010 - Sick Puppies
2010 - Jennie DeVoe
2009
2009 - Forever Young Dylan Tribute
The Meat Puppets
Bob Mould with Juliana Hatfield
Pet Shop Boys
Pixies
Bonnie Whitmore
2008
2008 - The Kooks
The Subways
2007
Big Star
Coachella
English Beat
Sondre Lerche
Placebo
Sonic Youth
Best Of:
Stage Fright at the Railway Club!
By Kelly Haigh
I haven't performed live for at least six years, so when my friend Dave Hadgkiss asked me to come sing at his Folk Thief Love, Heartache and Oblivion CD release party, I was terribly reluctant. (In my old band, Ashley Park, I got to hide behind my Fender Rhodes electric piano. I only ever had to sing live once). But Dave lured me in with the promise of having super guest star Carolyn Mark open the show… How could I say no to that? I couldn't. Besides, he was kind enough to let me sing on his record, so I figured I owed him.
I suffered greatly in the days leading up to the show. I had butterflies like you wouldn't believe, and not the garden type variety. These suckers had fangs that felt like little staplers going off in my gut, and no amount of Tums could help the stomach upset and anxiety heartburn that I felt. The night before the show, I laid awake trying to figure out a few words for when it came time to get up on that stage.
Here's what I was GOING to say: "I'm terrified of microphones. My grandmother lost her teeth on one of these things! No, wait! Did I just say she lost her teeth on a microphone? My mistake! It wasn't a microphone, it was a cow. She was milking a cow when it kicked her and knocked her teeth out, so I guess there's actually nothing to be afraid of up here after all!"
It would be perfect! The crowd would laugh and cheer, and we'd sing our little hearts out.
When the show began, I sat in the audience, anxiously waiting for Dave to invite me up. I was a bit shaky, but Carolyn stood beside me, telling me I was gonna be great.
Once I finally made it up on stage...THIS is what I said:
"I'm afraid of microphones."
The lights on the stage at the Railway club are blinding, so thankfully I couldn't see all the 'what the fuck' faces in the audience. Dave started playing and I joined in. As soon as I opened my mouth, the butterflies miraculously stopped biting. (Dirty little sons of bitches that they are). I did, however, proceed to do some strange dance moves, an obscene hand gesture, and then I told the story of when I had last been applauded for anything...
(Back when I was about five or six, I was trying to get up on a carousel pony, but I noticed a cute boy sitting on the horse behind me, and I didn't want to swing my leg up and over because he'd see my panties. I was half draped over the horse when the carousel started spinning and I panicked. My face went red and I cried until I suddenly got up the gumption to swing my leg up over the horse anyway, and when I finally did, the people standing around all clapped and cheered. A small victory for a small girl). The applause at the Railway Club felt strangely similar...
Dave left me hanging with the 'oooh's, and I sound like a coyote in heat, but other than that, I think it went pretty well...
Further Reading: www.kellyhaigh.com
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