31 January 2004
A very old (judging by the picture) interview with Chan Mashall by crimewave.
30 January 2004
More european Cat Power gigs. Seems the band's gone bye-bye. Too bad I missed that.
March
25 Paris@Cafe De La Dance
26 All Tomorrows Parties festival, Camber Sands
31 London@Shepherds Bush Empire (seated)
April
01 Edinburgh@Liquidroom
04 All Tomorrows Parties festival, Camber Sands
Would anyone offer me place to stay, tickets and lots of coats?
March
25 Paris@Cafe De La Dance
26 All Tomorrows Parties festival, Camber Sands
31 London@Shepherds Bush Empire (seated)
April
01 Edinburgh@Liquidroom
04 All Tomorrows Parties festival, Camber Sands
Would anyone offer me place to stay, tickets and lots of coats?
25 January 2004
3 new Cat Power gigs:
February
13- Brooklyn, NY- North Six
15- New York, NY- Knitting Factory
16- New York, NY- Knitting Factory
February
13- Brooklyn, NY- North Six
15- New York, NY- Knitting Factory
16- New York, NY- Knitting Factory
Gig review of Cat Power in Clermont-Ferrand, France last May 26th. In French, with 2 tiny pics.
From The Greg Weeks Website:
"And All Shall Gather To Leave (Or Die): Song For Chan"
Ptolemaic Terrascope (Magazine Supplemental CD) (England)
Spring, 2000
When Chan Marshall was in the midst of recording initial sessions for The Covers Record (most of which weren't used), she, Jim White and I ventured upstairs to my apartment to get the autoharp she had left behind for safe keeping. At some point I said something that was misunderstood by Chan, and Chan's feelings were inadvertently hurt. The incident plagued us both over the next day, and when we saw each other back at the studio we gladly reconciled and put the entire thing behind us. As is the nature of my personality, I continued to feel a low-grade misery over the whole thing, and channeled that misery into the song provided here. It was my way of saying that interpersonal communication is inherently flawed, and that in any situation you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the person you're with. This track was also the song that got me thinking about multiple vocal melodies, which I tried to make greater use of on future recordings.
The saddest song/
it serves you wrong/
don't look away/
I'm not the one/
there's an evil/
under the tongue/
lies they appear/
and the truths/
they come undone
Holding out/
forgiveness counts/
please let me leave this place/
I'm not the one/
to deliver/
this fallen race/
I saw the face /
of a child/
born out of place/
come gather 'round/
holding hands/
and leave this place.
anyone got that song?
"And All Shall Gather To Leave (Or Die): Song For Chan"
Ptolemaic Terrascope (Magazine Supplemental CD) (England)
Spring, 2000
When Chan Marshall was in the midst of recording initial sessions for The Covers Record (most of which weren't used), she, Jim White and I ventured upstairs to my apartment to get the autoharp she had left behind for safe keeping. At some point I said something that was misunderstood by Chan, and Chan's feelings were inadvertently hurt. The incident plagued us both over the next day, and when we saw each other back at the studio we gladly reconciled and put the entire thing behind us. As is the nature of my personality, I continued to feel a low-grade misery over the whole thing, and channeled that misery into the song provided here. It was my way of saying that interpersonal communication is inherently flawed, and that in any situation you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the person you're with. This track was also the song that got me thinking about multiple vocal melodies, which I tried to make greater use of on future recordings.
The saddest song/
it serves you wrong/
don't look away/
I'm not the one/
there's an evil/
under the tongue/
lies they appear/
and the truths/
they come undone
Holding out/
forgiveness counts/
please let me leave this place/
I'm not the one/
to deliver/
this fallen race/
I saw the face /
of a child/
born out of place/
come gather 'round/
holding hands/
and leave this place.
anyone got that song?
On the "polemic" picture of Chan Marshall in a New Yorker issue last year:
Get used to it
Kilbourne thinks the limits of vulgarity are getting pushed out.
"What would have struck us as vulgar and even pornographic not that long ago just slides by," she says. People have become desensitized to vulgarity, as they have to violence.
For several media specialists, though, the Avedon photo in an August issue of the New Yorker is daring, but not vulgar. Chan Marshall, who performs as Cat Power, strikes a straightforward, amused-by-it-all pose. Over her breasts, she holds up a Bob Dylan T-shirt. Her low-slung jeans are unzipped to reveal pubic hair.
"If she was in a pose where she was attempting to be seductive or something, then the image would slip into mere vulgarity," says Harry Haines, professor of communication at Trinity University in San Antonio. "For women in their 20s and 30s, this sort of in-your-face sexuality is probably pretty potent politically, as if to say, "Yeah. What you see is what you get.' It's very unapologetic and playful."
A spokeswoman for New Yorker editor David Remnick said he would not comment on the photo.
Trinity associate professor of communication Robert Huesca thinks it might be part of a strategy to attract hip younger readers to a magazine with a sophisticated but aging readership. He does not find the photo particularly tasteful, but he does not think it is obscene either.
"It will probably be disturbing to some people because it violates the master portrayal of women as seen in commercial ads and television," he says. "It signifies maturity, and the way the pants are open, it also signifies sexual availability. If we were baboons, that's what it would mean."
Jay Barth, who teaches gender sexuality and American politics at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., likes the candor of the photograph, finding it more honest than images of women that are shaved, waxed and airbrushed into unreality.
"We had centuries when a woman's pubic hair could not be seen at all because it was seen as so dirty and troubling. It was a sign of a woman's sexuality," Barth said. "You could make a good case that having women's sexuality more open has empowered women as sexual beings in a positive way."
Get used to it
Kilbourne thinks the limits of vulgarity are getting pushed out.
"What would have struck us as vulgar and even pornographic not that long ago just slides by," she says. People have become desensitized to vulgarity, as they have to violence.
For several media specialists, though, the Avedon photo in an August issue of the New Yorker is daring, but not vulgar. Chan Marshall, who performs as Cat Power, strikes a straightforward, amused-by-it-all pose. Over her breasts, she holds up a Bob Dylan T-shirt. Her low-slung jeans are unzipped to reveal pubic hair.
"If she was in a pose where she was attempting to be seductive or something, then the image would slip into mere vulgarity," says Harry Haines, professor of communication at Trinity University in San Antonio. "For women in their 20s and 30s, this sort of in-your-face sexuality is probably pretty potent politically, as if to say, "Yeah. What you see is what you get.' It's very unapologetic and playful."
A spokeswoman for New Yorker editor David Remnick said he would not comment on the photo.
Trinity associate professor of communication Robert Huesca thinks it might be part of a strategy to attract hip younger readers to a magazine with a sophisticated but aging readership. He does not find the photo particularly tasteful, but he does not think it is obscene either.
"It will probably be disturbing to some people because it violates the master portrayal of women as seen in commercial ads and television," he says. "It signifies maturity, and the way the pants are open, it also signifies sexual availability. If we were baboons, that's what it would mean."
Jay Barth, who teaches gender sexuality and American politics at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., likes the candor of the photograph, finding it more honest than images of women that are shaved, waxed and airbrushed into unreality.
"We had centuries when a woman's pubic hair could not be seen at all because it was seen as so dirty and troubling. It was a sign of a woman's sexuality," Barth said. "You could make a good case that having women's sexuality more open has empowered women as sexual beings in a positive way."
Letter from Chan Marshall to Taiwan:
"hello everyone in Taiwan!!
i am very upset that i couldn't make this trip to Taiwan because of stupid unforseen complications with my passport/visa. although i will be coming back to see you all,
hopefully in April.
i will most assuredly make up for not being able to be with you all now. i would sincerely like to apologize to all of you here tonight, james, kristen, and billie, james' mother, who was most hospitable upon my last awesome visit to Taiwan.
i am saddened and disappointed i will not be able to be a part of such a cool and interesting festival that james chen has prepared solely with his hard work, imagination, and determination.
for anyone who has traveled a great distance, please please accept my sincere apologies for not being able to make these dates.
i do hope you all have a rockkin great time without me (u know i don't rock anyway... ha!)
please please have a great time and i look so forward to seeing you all in the spring!!!!
all the best
with love,
yours,
Chan "
"hello everyone in Taiwan!!
i am very upset that i couldn't make this trip to Taiwan because of stupid unforseen complications with my passport/visa. although i will be coming back to see you all,
hopefully in April.
i will most assuredly make up for not being able to be with you all now. i would sincerely like to apologize to all of you here tonight, james, kristen, and billie, james' mother, who was most hospitable upon my last awesome visit to Taiwan.
i am saddened and disappointed i will not be able to be a part of such a cool and interesting festival that james chen has prepared solely with his hard work, imagination, and determination.
for anyone who has traveled a great distance, please please accept my sincere apologies for not being able to make these dates.
i do hope you all have a rockkin great time without me (u know i don't rock anyway... ha!)
please please have a great time and i look so forward to seeing you all in the spring!!!!
all the best
with love,
yours,
Chan "
22 January 2004
21 January 2004
Ms. Chan Marshall turns 32 today.
the 1st 3 officially announced Cat Power gigs in 2004: the two weekends on All Tomorrow's Parties and March 31, all in London.
Then news on Fuck (the band) from Pitchfork.
Last but not least, Melissa Auf Der Maur's video for "Followed The Waves" is on the net. I gotta find where.
Then news on Fuck (the band) from Pitchfork.
Last but not least, Melissa Auf Der Maur's video for "Followed The Waves" is on the net. I gotta find where.
