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Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs 11:30

New York Times 10:30
Larkin Grimm 9:30
Delany Davidson 8:30

Fri 11/7

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$12 adv / $14 dos

Holly Golightly

http://www.myspace.com/hollygolightlymusic
http://www.hollygolightly.com/
Holly started her musical career as a co-founder member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, who were Thee Headcoats splinter group in 1991. Holly made her first solo album, The Good Things, in 1995. Although often connected with garage rock, Holly's music is more a mixture of pre-rock electric country blues, folk and less frantic rock & roll. It brings to mind a bourbon soaked honky tonk bar, evenings on a dusty front porch with your faithful hound, cracked hearts and foot stomping good times. She creates a world all of her own, one that's warm hearted, true to it's roots and not swayed by fads and fashions.

New York Times

http://www.myspace.com/nytmusic
New York Times hold an MFA, a Screen Actor’s Guild Card, a Congressional Press Pass, and have illustrated for Dark Horse and DC Comics. They are: one artist, one reporter, one poet, one actor, one part UK, one part New York, two parts California, three parts Portland. New York Times play “curbside indie rock that kicks and punches before it swoons and kisses,” according to Pastaprima.net. Brightest Young Things describes their music as “literate pop” and author Jonathan Lethem calls their interpretation of his fictional song, “Monster Eyes,” “a little hit song of the mind.” In songs about a party at JFK airport, the view from a Portland porch, and the decay and transformation of cities they love, New York Times display “fiery female vocals…and have that eerie, spooky rock vibe that one would normally have to invest in some serious downers to experience” [Instrumental Analysis].

Larkin Grimm

http://www.myspace.com/larkingrimm
“Grimm sounds at various times wild-eyed and placid, witchy and innocent… she is best when she submits to her many eccentricities, manifested through bodily fixated lyrics and hair-raising singing that could spook a hardened cult leader… “ – Time Out NY

Larkin’s a force of nature and a self made woman. She’s got an elemental voice that comes from somewhere under the earth. She alternately moans like a woman-in-full, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl, depending on her mood. Born 26 years ago in Memphis TN to hippie parent
devotees of the religious cult The Holy Order Of MANS, raised by multiple “parents” in the commune environment of the cult until age 6, she spent the remainder of her youth in the Appalachian mountains of Georgia after the cult disbanded. Got the taste of music in her from her old-time fiddler and
singer father and her folksinger mother. 5 siblings, challenged economic circumstances, but was ushered into a high caliber boarding school by none other than Coca Cola, which funds it in order to help gifted Appalachian
children. Larkin excelled, (though her erupting hormones and wild imagination were already roaring) and she won a full scholarship to Yale to study art. Spent a while there then freaked out at the elitism of the place, left and returned several times. Traveled in Thailand, Guatemala, and spent a few months hitchhiking and living by herself in a tent in Alaska. Got “saved from being eaten” there by a Cherokee Indian “shamaness” named Jezebel, then hung out for a couple years off and on with eco warriors,
vagabonds and sexual deviants in Olympia Washington. Returned to Yale, was a member of Dirty Projectors for a while. Finished Yale then moved to Providence RI, where she was an active participant in the city’s noise
scene. Made a few albums of improv/freeform songs for Secret Eye Records. Books her own tours, travels light by herself, and lives in a tent in warm spring/summer months. Started out musically basic and has developed into an absolutely gifted singer, fingerpicker and multi-instrumentalist. She’s
shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Brightblack Morning Light, Entrance, Viking Moses, the Microphones, and Old Time Relijun. Larkin has no permanent address and doesn’t want one. Larkin's debut album for Young God Records (co-produced by Michael Gira and Larkin) is out October 20.

Delany Davidson

http://www.myspace.com/delaneyfdavidson
Delaney Davidson; born northern island of New Zealand,1972, age 0. Shipped down to Christchurch in a shoe box at 5 months old, after seeing the Rolling Stones play at 2 months old. Voted "Biggest Dreamer" in primary school, until he went to Special Dreamers School. Asked to leave Special Dreamers School after being suspended four times at the ripe old age of 14. Left New Zealand and migrated over the ditch to Australia to fail last year of school. Moved back to New Zealand and began his career in the Catering Industry, with training at the Rangiora Training Prison (R.T.P.), learnt to drink Whisky, and was fired from his first job as 2nd chef for urinating on the bar. Moved back to Australia, after this eventful year, and started playing music in Bars. "Doghouse" with Nique Needles, Stu Thomas and Mark Di Marzio, soon morphed into the Groundbreaking "the Brass Bed". 2002 found him married and living in Bern Switzerland, where he met with "the Dead Brothers" and signed up. After enjoying the various successes of being a voodoo rhythm artist and other projects (Delemmis Caravan Basement Band, the OTIACS, and Alpine Cretins) aswell as 7 years of swiss life, Delaney now lives in his homeland of New Zealand in Wellington.