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December 6, 2005
There you are in me
Nellie McKay - December 6th, 2005 - Mercury Lounge
Managed to finally hear all the new material from Nellie McKay's forthcoming album Pretty Little Head tonight at the Mercury Lounge and fans will probably be in for a shock. She's dropped her piano and picked up a keyboard and a band. I've always though Ms. McKay sounded better with just a piano but with a majority of these songs she's stucked with some instrumental accompaniment. I don't know what she's trying to do. It seems like she's trying to be more mature, which is the exact opposite of what I'd like her to be. We'll see how much I like this new album, but for now, I miss her baby grand.
Pics are on flickr as usual.
Update:Hrm... looking at some forum postings regarding her show in LA which sounds a wee bit interesting:
I just got back from Nellie's Troubadour show and was pretty blown away. She was very passionate and very frustrated with her position at Sony and how they're handling her, getting really worked up, yelling and crying as she pleaded her case to put out the CD as she envisions it (they want to take off 7! songs and release a 45 minute CD instead of a 70 minute CD). She asked everyone to please e-mail the president of Sony (will.botwin@sonybmg.com I believe, I haven't tried yet). At one point a woman yelled "shut up and sing" but she was booed away and Nellie snapped back at her saying something, something "you bitch."It was intense, no one there to give her a hug or a tissue, she just broke down for a few minutes and I totally expected her to walk off (we were only a few songs in) but she composed herself and powered straight into a song, still crying (and ended up playing a 2 hour set). She said later that the band must be really on edge now, waiting for her to freak out again.
Interesting....
Posted by gopster at December 6, 2005 11:23 PM
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