Tiny Masters of Today & Smoosh @ Southpaw, June 2, 2007

Here are the end of my pictures from the 826NYC Benefit that was held last Sunday @ Southpaw.

Tiny Masters of Today was the second band to play and it was really cool to see them playing with JSBX drummer Russell Simins.





Smoosh was the final band to play. The band is getting a national buzz as they have previously shared the stage with Sleater-Kinney, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Pearl Jam and many others. Smoosh opened for The Pipettes' at their show at Highline Ballroom last Wednesday.






Both bands were recently written up in a NME feature article:

Links:
Tiny Masters of Today's MySpace page (link)
Smoosh's MySpace page (link)

Monster Bobby and the Pipettes Play Other Music on June 5th

The Pipettes and Monster Bobby are playing an acoustic set at Other Music on June 5th before The Pipettes show at the Highline Ballroom that night. The Pipettes' MySpace page states that the Other Music performance is at 7PM but that doesn't seem to allow a lot of time for two bands (Pipettes and Monster Bobby) to perform and sign autographs prior to the Highline Ballroom show. No information is posted to Other Music's site at the present.

This show marks Monster Bobby's NYC solo debut. For those who don't know, according to Wikipedia...Monster Bobby is one of the principal songwriters for the Pipettes, and is the guitarist for The Cassettes, their all-boy back-up musicians. He is frequently credited by the Pipettes both with developing the idea of a modern girl group, and with introducing the members of Pipettes to one another. He has been described as the group's "Concept Engineer" (to use Kodwo Eshun's terminology), but rejects any notion of "individual genius" in his role with the Pipettes, stating that "most of the most interesting music is made in such a collective fashion that it is very hard to assign individual responsibility".

Monster Bobby has opened for the Pipettes countless times on a fairly casual basis in England and throughout Europe but for the very first time, he is actually receiving proper billing at venues throughout North America in advance of the mid-July release of his album Gaps, on the Hypnote label.

There are a couple advance mp3s from Monster Bobby's forthcoming CD posted to the Internet:

"The Closest Experience to That of Being WIth You Is The Experience of Taking Drugs"
"The Burning Ambition of Early Diuretics"

The Pipettes, Luna Lounge, NYC March 12, 2007

Last night was my first time at the Luna Luna since its reopening in Williamsburg. I really enjoyed the show -- The Booze (pictures to follow) were reminicent of the 1965 version of the Rolling Stones and The Pipettes were simply a lot of fun.

As this was my first time in the club - my general comments are great sound and great sight lines.



I picked up The Pipettes set list as I was leaving the club:
- Intro
- Baby Don't Leave
- Yr Kisses
- Why Did You Stay
- Your Love For Me
- Cuz It's Not Love
- Diuretics
- Hurts 2 C U
- Guess Who
- Tell Me What
- Really That Bad
- I Love You
- True Love Waits
- One Night Stand
- Judy
- Dirty Mind
- Pull Shapes

Additional Tickets for The Pipettes' Show at Luna Lounge Just Released

Luna Lounge just released a handful of tickets to The Pipettes' sold out shows on Sunday and Monday. Get 'em quick!

Tickets are available through Ticketweb.