We've just spent two nights in
succession at the BSP Lounge in Kingston, down the road from us here
in Catskill where according to Mojo magazine we live in bohemian
squalor. They pulled that from a biography piece I wrote and somehow
the word splendour got translated to squalor. So just
for the record we live in Catskill NY in bohemian splendour.
Except when we're practically moving
into the BSP Lounge.
We went down on Thursday night to see
Laura Cantrell. A captivating set – just Laura and an acoustic
guitar player who's name escapes me for the moment. Two acoustic
guitars, a harmony vocal and a bit of acoustic lap steel. They
started with Amy's song Don't Break The Heart and ended with an Amy
Allison song – a mesmorising set book-ended by Amys!
I only wish the people at the back
hadn't been talking – it was like a bus station in there. I don't
think people realise sometimes how loud they're being, and I think
they forget why they're there. They meet their friends, get excited
and the evening turns into a social occasion with music in the
background.
One has to be forgiving, they don't
mean any harm, but I wish they'd shut the fuck up.
We didn't have that problem last night
when The Schoemer Formation opened for Purple K'nif. I think there
may have been as many as ten people in the audience and most of them
were a dancing Jane Scarpantoni. Jane is a great cello player, and
one of my favourite people to hang out with.
I'm writing this in my preferred coffee
place, Swallow on Warren Street in Hudson. It's not the ideal place
to be writing on a Saturday morning. I'm getting increasingly annoyed
by a rich, middle-aged, house-hunting gay couple at the next table.
One of them keeps reading stuff out loud from a magazine that must be
called Sumptuous Homes or some such drivel.
I'm going to have another espresso –
it's a two espresso day.
The Sumptuous Homes out loud
reading guy seems to have put a sock in it, he could probably hear
what I was writing. They're leaving so I'll drop it, except to say
that there's got to be a cut-off age and weight for wearing a candy
striped blazer - he looks like all of The Troggs poured into one
garment.
It's not a pretty sight, unlike the
young hipster couple making out at one of the other tables. Oh to be
young again.
We're playing with The Schoemer
Formation tonight at The Low Beat in Albany NY. For anyone who
doesn't know - which is almost everybody in the entire world - The
Schoemer Formation is the writer Karen Schoemer delivering poetry and
spoken word, backed up by Amy on keyboards and electric guitar, and
me on the bass guitar, fuzz boxes and echo units. According to our
bio which we wrote ourselves we're a three piece in the tradition of
The Doors, Suicide and Two Lone Swordsmen.
Here's a link for a new Wreckless Eric
Radio Show – I really should have played The Doors, Suicide and
Two Lone Swordsmen so that everyone could have admired the
synchronicity and integration of my act, but I
hadn't thought of it then so I didn't and haven't.
And before I go a ticket link for my 60th birthday bash in London on May 17th: TICKETS!
And here come the tour dates:
MAY
14 BRIGHTON, The Prince Albert www.wegottickets.com/event/267391
15 BBC 6 MUSIC, Marc Riley Show, session with band
17 LONDON, The Lexington – Eric’s 60th Birthday TICKETS all star band spectacular!
23 LEEDS, Belgrave Music Hall - jumborecords.co.uk/tickets - wegottickets
25 MANCHESTER, The Castle Hotel
26 LIVERPOOL, The Lomax
27 EDINBURGH, Voodoo Rooms TICKET LINK
JUNE
12 PHILADELPHIA PA, The Tin Angel
14 ALBANY NY, The Low Beat thelowbeat.com
19 MEMPHIS TN, Murphy's
20 KNOXVILLE TN, The Pilot Light www.thepilotlight.com21 COLUMBIA SC, The Conundrum Music Hall http://conundrum.us/calendar
23 WASHINGTON DC, The Black Cat www.blackcatdc.com
24 ASBURY PARK NJ, The Saint www.thesaintnj.com
25 NEW YORK NY, The Mercury Lounge
JULY
26 HOLT, NORFOLK UK, The Holt Festival with The Bad Shepherds TICKET LINK
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