Posted: October 3rd, 2006 | Filed under: Art | Tags: curiosities, danny elfman, fortune teller, gavin friday, lizzards, lou reed, millionaire industrialist, musician, narration, october 19, original music, puppet, puppets, sanko, tom waits | Comments Off
Puppetmaker and musician Erik Sanko (Lounge Lizzards, Tom Waits, Lou Reed.) has created a puppet show called The Fortune Teller. He made the puppets and wrote the music with Danny Elfman. Pre-recorded narration courtesy of the great Gavin Friday.
The show opens at the HERE Theatre in New York on October 19th and will play through the 31st.
‘The Fortune Teller reveals a world of curiosities as seven unusual characters are invited to the estate of a late millionaire industrialist and informed they’ve been included in his will,’
The Fortune Teller
Created and Directed by Erik Sanko
Original Music composed by Danny Elfman and Erik Sanko
October 19-31, 2006 | Tickets ($20.00)
Posted: April 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: Music | Tags: george michael, morrissey, musician, peter gabriel, tom waits | Comments Off
The last musician on my list of artists I absolutely have to see live once in my life is George Michael, now that I’ve seen the other three on that list: Morrissey, Peter Gabriel and Tom Waits.
As with a lot of the artists I like his output is low and he hardly ever tours. But he’s finally getting back on the road.
Tickets went on sale today. I didn’t know about it, so by the time I got to Ticketmaster, all the shows’ (£100, £60 and £40) tickets were sold out. I tried again a few hours later and they’d put some more shows on, one of which was still giving results for single tickets. So I got one.
I’ll be checking out George at Earl’s Court in London on November 28th. Dutch shows haven’t been announced yet, but I’d rather travel to London than see him here (in Rotterdam most likely) anyway.
Posted: April 5th, 2006 | Filed under: Music | Tags: all star, antony and the johnsons, bryan ferry, chantey, cities around the world, dying sailor to his shipmates, epitaph records, gavin friday, hal willner, linda thompson, nick cave, scoop, sea songs, star line, tom waits, tribute album, wainwright | Comments Off
Bono has recorded the song ‘The dying sailor to his shipmates’ for a Chantey and Sea Songs tribute album, produced by Hal Willner.
Other artists involved in the project which is being recorded in various cities around the world with an all star line up including Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Gavin Friday, Bryan Ferry, Antony and the Johnsons, Loudon Wainwright III and Richard and Linda Thompson.
The album will be released on Epitaph Records in July 2006.
Source: U2log.com, GavinFriday.com (um, yeah, I’m blogging my own scoop.)
