Friday May 25 2018 8:00PM
doors -- music at 8:30PM •••
21 AND OVER $12in advance / $15 at the door Vandella x Seaweed Sway present... Vandella's 2nd Annual Night of 1,001 Stevies A celebration of the music of Stevie Nicks x women x feminism
featuring performances by... Vandella Everyone Is Dirty Lapel Katie Day Jeremi Rebecca Hushof The Come Ups Josiah Johnsonof The Head And The Heart Marston also... Tarot by LouReads and Artwork by Sister Stranger
Vandella Tracey Holland, Chris Tye
Fritz Mueller, Dan Miller-Schroeder, TJ Mimbs
-from San Francisco, CA -SF’s Vandella is a lovechild of rock &
roll, roots & soul, helmed by two enigmatic frontpeople and
distinct songwriters. A modern-day Buckingham-Nicks, vocalist Tracey
Holland and guitarist Chris Tye mix up a potent potion of sexy, sweaty
70s-era rock & roll. A package of Rolling Stones rock-meets-Alabama
Shakes soul, the two met while both studying music in LA and spent the
subsequent years traveling up and down the West Coast, honing their
individual signatures and tying them together to form Vandella.
Garnering comparisons to Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin, Holland is a
powerhouse of a frontwoman, whose vocal prowess is matched only by her
insistent command of the stage. As writers, Holland is at times intense
and bewitching; tempered by the understated, perennially-cool air of
her counterpart in Tye. The result is a sound that feels both exciting
yet effortlessly vibey – evocative of that hazy sheen of their native
California.
Vandella’s 2009 debut EP, V, saw the band move 2,000 copies
independently, and in May 2012, with several West Coast tours
completed, they released the full-length Fire in the Desert. For their
2014 follow-up, the band teamed up with SF producer Scott McDowell at
his Hyde Street Studio C and released a 12-inch, 4-song EP titled Shine
You Up. Shine You Up captured the basement-party, Exile On Main
Street-esque style that the band has come to be known for in live
shows, and established Vandella as a fixture on SF’s indie-rock/soul
scene. Vandella’s newest EP, Strange Calls, was released on April 28th,
2016, with the first single, A Feeling I’d Forgotten, premiered on the
Huffington Post.
Everyone Is Dirty Sivan Lioncub
Christopher Daddio
Tony Sales
Tyler English
-from Oakland, CA -Formed in early 2013 in Oakland, Everyone Is
Dirty has been steadily rising on the strength of their hard-hitting
home recordings described as "bedroom-tapes on bath-salts" and their
explosive live show, distinguished by frontwoman Sivan Lioncub's exotic
electric-violin antics and emotionally charged performance. Her violin
style has been described as punk, noise, romantic, ethereal, and it
encompasses all that, but her violin is a captivating tool of self
expression that you really just have to witness. As she moves across
the stage wielding her fiddle like a weapon, co-songwriter/engineer
Christopher Daddio culls monstrous tones out of his beat-up acoustic
guitar, while heavyweights drummer Tony Sales and bassist Tyler English
keep that rhythm section cooking hot hot.
Their debut LP, Dying Is Fun, was released on vinyl & digital
formats in September of 2014 on SF's Tricycle Records, and made the
year's top 10 list on The Bay Bridged, SF Weekly and KQED, and they
played BFD, Noisepop, and Treefort. Strange, but shortly after Dying Is
Fun was released, Sivan became deathly ill due to a penicillin allergy,
and was hospitalized for several months. Looking back on that time, she
feels that the album was a prophecy for the illness she later endured.
If you want to know if she still thinks Dying Is Fun, you'll have to
ask her.
Lapel Debbie Neigher (vocals/keyboards)
Jess Silva (vocals/keyboards)
Cody Rhodes (drums)
Jeremy Lyon (guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion)
-from San Francisco, CA -In a 1977 interview, Margaret Trudeau was
asked about her marriage to the former Prime Minister of Canada. An
accomplished professional and mental health activist in her own right,
Trudeau wasn’t having it. "I want to be more than a rose in my
husband's lapel,” she replied.
The sentence has been stuck in Debbie Neigher’s head ever since, like a
song that’s familiar but impossible to place. Lapel, the new solo
project from the San Francisco singer-songwriter and musician, delivers
a similarly elegant declaration of identity -- a fresh debut from a Bay
Area music scene veteran. After years as a backing vocalist and
keyboardist sitting in with bands like Ezra Furman, Curls (Christopher
Owens), The Family Crest, and the Magik*Magik Orchestra, Debbie Neigher
has claimed her place in the spotlight.
By turns playful and personal, introspective and danceable, Lapel’s
debut record Periphery marks both a new sound and a new level of
creative control for the artist. While Neigher, a lifelong pianist,
earned critical accolades for her lush, lyrical indie-pop on her 2013
solo work Unravel, the piano “had started to feel like a ball and
chain,” says Neigher. “So I made a rule for myself that I wasn’t
allowed to use any piano on this record.”
Inspired by the space that remained, she felt a new freedom to
experiment, and invited friends from Geographer and Astronauts, Etc to
help her craft an immersive, atmospheric and entirely new electronic
landscape. Recorded at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studios, the
record was co-produced by Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie,
Tune-Yards) and Neigher herself.
The result is a confident record with a singular voice: Neigher delves
fearlessly into a range of serious topics, from the personal (the death
of her first boyfriend from a drug overdose) to the global (police
brutality, reproductive rights). “This was an opportunity to play a new
character, with a new sound, in a whole different visual universe,”
says Neigher.
In other words: Lapel is a new beginning, but it’s been a long time
coming. “It’s a proclamation,” says Neigher, “against allowing yourself
to be defined or diminished by anyone else.”
Katie Day -from Los Angeles, CA -After years of performing and recording as a
multi-instrumentalist/background vocalist for various bands across the
country, Midwest native Katie Day packed up her life (mostly
instruments & Chicago Cubs merch) to head west. It was there
that a barrage of growing pains led her to find her voice, put her foot
down, and enter the studio to record her debut solo EP, Burn It to the
Ground. Burn It has been featured both on Mtv’s The Real World
and on the big screen. Following the success of her debut EP, Day once
again hit the studio to produce her latest work, Kids. An homage to her
Midwestern upbringing, Kids is deemed as “dreamy indie pop” and likened
to Washed Out, Tame Impala, and M83. Kids was written (with the
exception of Foo Fighters cover, “Everlong”), co-produced, and
performed almost exclusively by Day. With such a diverse range of
talents, Katie Day is surely an artist to keep your eye on. Currently
based out of LA, Day is in the studio working on a third EP.
Jeremi Rebecca Hush of The
Come Ups -from San Francisco, CA -
Josiah Johnson of The
Head and the Heart
-from the Bay Area, CA -Southern California native, current resident
of the Bay Area, former Seattleite, one-time Torontonian, and long-time
tour busy resident. Josiah Johnson's immersion in the musical culture
of so many locales, as well as his dedication to constant touring, have
given him the means to share his music far and wide. But the strength
of his songwriting has carried his music far beyond his physical reach.
Best known as a member of American indie-folkers, The Head and The
Heart, Josiah's solo performances highlight a stripped down, emotive,
lyrics-first kind of song craft, inimitable in its sincerity and beauty.
Marston Oona Garthwaite
Suzanne Galal
Scott Griffen Padden
-from Oakland, CA -It's good to be here.
