I am fresh in from Jazzfest and every part of my body is swollen from excess salt consumption. I would have it no other way. It was a FEAST across the board: Crawfish, backstage Petty, deep fried green tomatoes, Springsteen, strawberry balsamic sorbet, my man Trombone Shorty (who did a sick cover of “Lets Get it On”), couchon du lait and of course the fabulous Jon Cleary. My oh my. Let us not forget a late night bounce party. If you don’t know what bounce is than i suggest you goggle it. Whoa. I mean WHOA. Serious butt dancing. There are all sorts of things to that start in New Orleans and this is surely one of them. I am now trying to figure out how I can hire two bounce dancers for half time at a late night Talkhouse show. I am already laughing. I also know my pal Riley would KILL this shit but I think I would have to offer her many, many shots to bounce. I will keep you posted.
Things here are rolling ahead. I am in full production mode for our upcoming shows. I’ve had a lot of downtime over the winter but I’ve put it to good use. I am more than ready for a cackling mic and a beer stained set list. We have the added pleasure of having Drew, aka “The Soundgod”, around this summer so shows will sound even that much better. The man is amazing. He worked with us for the first 8 years of being a band, went on the road with the Subdudes and is now back on the East End. Joy to the world. His touch is magic and he has golden feathers pricked behind his ear picking up each and every sonic morsel. So we are excitttteddddd. Drewbie DooooooooooooOO ! (said with my best scooby doo impersonation).
If I close my eyes I can almost feel like I’m at the Surf Lodge on a Wednesdays with the full band, a sunset, two sets of our best original music and a bonfire in a pear tree. I like playing at the Surf Lodge despite all the hell they are in with the town at present. I will say they treat us with respect and make sure we feel the love when we pack them in. Its a great stage, an amazing vibe and they literally thank us every time we play. I hope they can work out their parking and poop issues so we can get on with the music. Our shows there start right after Memorial Day and I hope you’ll come on down to check out what will surely be one of our best weekly gigs.
Aside from that our Gosman Dock shows are set, our Talkhouse shows are booked and we are basically ready to roll. A rock pulled back as far as it can in a sling shot. I can feel the heat of the rubber burning against my back with the anticipation of free fall in the months ahead. Summer 2012 here we come!
Ok. As is custom:
May you take the time to look down at your feet and find them walking amongst the cracks and crevasses of Frenchman’s Street as young trumpets sound from the back alleyway and the night is walking with you arm and arm. In that moment you are truly alive.
Peace, Love and Rock and Roll
Lady Atlas
WHAT? A NEW SITE! Yes. A new site.
I know. It’s totally crazy. You love it. You hate it. You don’t know what to think. The cheetah. The new buttons. What the hell is going on? You just came to check in on a date at the Talkhouse and BAM! Here it is in all it’s glory. Sit down. Relax. Take it all in. Click around. It won’t bite, I promise. Except for the FAQ link on our Contact page. That one might actually bite a little bit. I’m trying to tame it. Truly I am but it’s still very feral and needing lots of attention like only a FAQ link can.
This website update has been a long time coming. My old site has served me well for the last 10 years but it was time to bring things up to speed. I have spent the past month working very hard on it and have tried to give it some kooky Atlas lovin along with easy navigation. It is still a work in progress but there are a few new cool features I want to point out so that we can get back to the music and silly band posts that I typically like to write. Ok… so here is what I know.
1) RSS FEED or iCal Feed – on our GIGS PAGE. If you scroll down to the bottom of the gigs page (or on the sidebar by the dates) you will see two little icons. One is a little orange square and the other looks like a little paper with red and white.The ORANGE one is an RSS feed that can give you a printable version of all our shows. I think you can even subscribe to it. The RED AND WHITE one will sync the dates to your iCal . There was a third button that was green and gave you a free coffee at starbucks but I can’t get that to work. No that’s a lie. Sorry. I’m completely fried on this computer crap right now. I should, however, never promise free coffee and then not deliver. Especially if your Johnny Blood.
2)New Photo Albums/Video – in the MEDIA section. I have had tons of photos that never made it to our last site simply because it was a total and complete pain in the ass to get them up. Now with the NEW site I am able to load them up easily and keep the crazy shots coming. You can never have to many high res shots of Bartender Phils stomach next to my scratch board on your computer screen. You can thank me later. Also I’m still working on the video links but there are a plethora of videos to choose from. Old Winn Dixie commercials (because I know that deep in your heart you wanted to see me ride a swan boat… NOT). And a new, in progress, addition of my old East End Legend show. It’s coming… Just trying to get through the barrels of tape if you will. How does Woody Allen do it?
3) THIS POST- I’m still figuring this all out but I am pretty sure that you can get updates as I post on this site as well. I never really fancied myself a website designer so I’m kind of learning as I go but this just seemed like a super cool little option if you were at all interested in it.
Ok. Enough of all the boring stuff. We are returning to the stage, full band, this APRIL 21st, Saturday at 8pm. Eight PM. OCHO. As in EARLY SHOW. I know. I am repeating myself. That is because no matter how many times I tell people it is at 8pm there are still some that walk in the door at 10 and get pissed at me. So that is why I am behind this computer screen right now circling my hand in a figure 8. It so obnoxious of me but I am determined to get it into your mind.
I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL!!! Please come down on Saturday and be apart of our comeback birthday show.
Yeah baby yeah.
If you have any suggestions for the site you are welcome to email me at booking@nancyatlas.com.
I will either welcome them with open arms or crinkle it up, throw it across the room, almost make the basket, swear, uncrinkle it and re read it again.
As is custom: May you look down at your feet and find them curled under you desk as you slave away at HTML and plug ins and all things computer so that you can create a website that your supporters will dig.
Rock it,
Nancy