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Gavin played clarinet with the NiteOwls tonight.

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Videos

1. Diga Diga Do
2. Jack I'm Mellow
3. Honeysuckle Rose
4. Breakin' the Ice
5. Crazy 'bout my Baby
6. Making Whoopie
7. Have a Little Dream on Me
8. Bloodshot Eyes
9. Louisiana Fairy Tale
10. Jerry the Junker
11. Ninety One in the Shade
12. Staying Alive
13. Nagasaki
14. Cross Patch
15. When Day is Done
16. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
17. I Wish I Were Twins

Previous shows:

• Barbes, July 1, 2011
• Two Boots, 2010/12/10

Thursday night at The Rock Shop, Out of Order opened. I didn't really see their set.

Then Big Balls, an AC/DC cover band, played their premier show -- AC/DC's entire first album High Voltage and the first song from their second: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".

Finally Les Sans Culottes played an excellent set.

1. Monsters
2. Allô Allô
3. Chaussures
4. Gangsteur d’Amour
5. Boots
6. Je Suis Content
7. F.U.C. Something
8. Les Cactus
9. Jour du Vélo
10. Magic Bag
11. Téléphone Douche
12. Hypocrite Lecteur

Encores: Ecole du Merde & Shuba Duba Luba

Marc Peloquin played at Barbes, with David Del Tredici -- half pieces by David, and much of it four hands. Dennis Tobenski was also present.

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1. Marc & David: Dolly Suite, Op. 56, Gabriel Fauré
2. Marc: Novelette No. 1, Robert Schumann
3. Marc: Song Suite: Four Songs, Ned Rorem (transcribed for piano solo by Marc)
4. Marc: Growl, Dennis Tobenski
5. Marc & David: Suite, Op. 11, David Del Tredici
6. David: Fantasy on a Cherished Name (In Memoriam, Andrew Imbrie), David Del Tredici
7. Marc: Farewell, R.W., David Del Tredici
8. Marc & David: Carioca Boy- Tango, David Del Tredici

I went to Jalopy again to see Robin Aigner. Unfortunately her site had the wrong time, so I showed up a couple hours early, came back home, and went back again! The show was a benefit for the Music Maker Relief Fund, put on by The Whistlin' Wolves (who joined most of the performances, along with David Bennet Cohen on piano).

It was funny to hear Old Plank Road performed by someone other than The Magpie, although I heard Benjoya mentioned a few times. I sat next to Sheriff Uncle Bob and recognize he was dressed for the evening from his sheriff's star (and tie with more stars), but didn't realize until he went onstage that he was a performer.

I took some photos.

Videos

• The Whistlin' Wolves, with David Bennet Cohen
  1. Way down the Old Plank Road
  2. Bucket's Got a Hole in it
  3. Likes Likker Better Than Me
  4. Pass around the Bottle
  5. Wine with Dinner
• Memphis Minda & Banjo Dan, with Mark
  1. Quiet Whiskey
  2. Good Liquor
• The Birdhive Boys
  1. Hot Corn Cold Corn
  2. Drunkard's Hiccups
  3. Dooley
• Doug Hatt, with The Whistlin' Wolves & David Bennet Cohen
  1. It Won't Hurt
  2. Tell Me Baby Why You Been Gone So Long
• Sheriff Uncle Bob, with The Whistlin' Wolves & David Bennet Cohen
  1. Cigareets
  2. Rocks off
  3. Willin'
• Robin Aigner, with The Whistlin' Wolves & David Bennet Cohen
  1. Bootleggers Blues
  2. Was I
  3. Raleigh & Spencer
• Rachel Zevita, with The Whistlin' Wolves & David Bennet Cohen
  1. Danny Boy
  2. Another Irish Drinking Song ...

Molly Mae and crew performed at Pianos, with a couple appearances by Latex Lily. Princess Sunshine opened, Amazing Amy contorted, and MDNA jammed with Squeezerock after their set. I got a bunch of decent photos.

• Princess Sunshine opened with a rant on "Happily Ever after". Then she played accordion and ukelele and sang a couple songs about men.

Next, Molly Does Not Approve played a set:

1. Cigarette Girl
2. Free
3. Find My Clitoris
4. Canção Brasileira
5. Pinup Girl
6. Social Worker
7. Baby

After Squeezerock's set the bands recombined.

1. Hey Good Lookin' (extended jam with Julz-A -- unfortunately the lights went out partway through)
2. Fortify (jam with Squeezerock; contortions by Amazing Amy)

Videos will be up on YouTube next week.

Dances of Vice is apparently a series of shows in NYC. This was their second http://dancesofvice.com/phantasmagorey.html event. The show started with the Ghost Train Orchestra (quite good), then a bunch of dance/performance numbers, an audience "fashion show" decided by trivia questions, and finally a fashion show by Purevile.

I got some video of the orchestra and a dance number:

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Tonight Molly Does Not Approve hosted Femme Totale, inviting several dancers to perform to their original music. After throwing out more than half my photos (pole dancing lighting is unfriendly to photography) and trimming down 10gb of video, here's what remains.

Photos

• Music: Molly Does Not Approve (large)
• MC: Susie Cosmo (large)
• Juggling: Jen Slaw (large)
• Pole by Kyra Johannesen (and a special pole 'duet' with Molly) and Michelle Stanek of Body and Pole (#1, large) (#2, large) (#3, large)
• Burlesque: Rhinestone Follies (large)
  • Hazel Honeysuckle (the Sparkly Sweetie-Pie)
  • Beelzebabe (the Siren of Sodom) (large)
  • Kita St. Cyr (the Cutie with the Bootie) (large)
• Special Guest: Latex Lily (large)
• Burlesque: Superbad Akynos (large)
• DJ: Tiffany of SixSixSick

This show made clear that Festivus is the pole dancer's holiday. We saw a celebration, with Feats of Strength, all orchestrated around Festivus Poles. Fortunately Molly managed to transmute the Airing of Grievances into a song, "Stop Stealing My Shit" -- much more fun than watching Frank Costanza lay into George.

Photographic lesson of the evening: use a 'fast' lens -- give up composing in favor of more photons. Second lesson: don't take stills while filming -- the video freezes are too disruptive.

I hadn't been to the Knitting Factory in years -- so long that in the interim, they closed that 'new' location and opened a Brooklyn venue instead.

The openers were I Fight Dragons, who played 'real' instruments as well as various Nintendo controllers (beeping from the standard gamepads, as well as a Power Glove and Power Pad, and Rock Band guitar). The 5 men all wore superhero t-shirts, and the woman wore a Wonder Woman belt (and the Power Glove). Their merch was also excellent.

The second act was Whole Wheat Bread. During their short set a mosh pit formed, and we saw 2 fights. Someone just failed to knock me over. I hadn't seen a mosh pit in over 15 years!

MC Chris performed alone (aside from background recordings, including his own voice -- a bit confusing). His voice was a bit hard to hear, but a solid contingent in the middle of the room knew all the words, so they didn't need to hear him -- not that their singing along made it any easier to hear Chris. Lots of call & response. His lyrics are great, although the spoken self-deprecating (Jewish) humor and his small nebbishy appearance were at odds with the lyrics, which sound like 2 Live Crew smartened up. Last show of this tour.

Godwin's Law: invoked. He did a bit about how dropping some phat beats might have diverted the Nazis from killing Jews. All over the music from "Lowrider".

A longer review from this tour

The Magpie played a Rocktoberfest short set -- mostly German (in honor of Oktoberfest) and Spanish (not sure why) tunes. Many instrumentals -- I'm guessing to avoid having to memorize foreign lyrics phonetically. Everybody enjoyed the show. My favorite song: Kraftwerk's Autobahn. Perhaps next time they'll combine Spanish with German, and do Senior Coconut's version.