Kristin and I played some voice+piano versions of Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra songs (and some covers) at the opening party for Celeste Gillis’ art show at the Tranzac. Our mysterious friend Alan R. took a photo:
It was a good show – crowded and noisy, but a lot of fun. Since I don’t play the piano very often these days I’m finding that I really enjoy it when I do. Kristin was – as always – a nuisance to rehearse with: always complaining that I don’t know the songs properly. But the problem is that it’s only fun for me to play when I don’t know the material perfectly well… it’s more of an adventure when you know that you’re going to be making a lot of stuff up as you go!
Here’s a few of my favourites from this show:
Only the Sun:
Driving Me Backwards (Brian Eno):
The Day the Planes All Stopped (Chris Warren):
The Stars of Reality TV:
Impostor (Karl Mohr):
Letter From London:
Congratulations on the great art show Celeste – and thanks for inviting us!
Tags: Benjamin Mueller-Heaslip, Brian Eno, Celeste Gillis, Chris Warren, Karl Mohr, Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, Tranzac
CRAZY & ANGRY 
10/11/2009 at 2:05 am |
Sweet post Ben, thanks.. you guys were awesome and I really appreciate your joining me for this special night.
Though..
I’m slightly nervous now knowing that someone was standing beside me with a tape recorder while I was drunk amongst all of my friends, family and often self-navigating big mouth. Should I be listening to these?? haha.
10/11/2009 at 6:02 pm |
I didn’t notice anything ugly or revealing in the background… lots of weird little out-of-context phrases though.
12/11/2009 at 11:39 am |
Maybe you can write a thing, call it “The Art Show” and use the little snippets as the text.
15/11/2009 at 8:10 pm |
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