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Current mood:  contemplative
Happy 2009!!! We are still in hibernation working really hard finishing EP II....it's almost done...seriously. I didn't want to play any shows until it was actually in my hands in shrinkwrap, but some things came up that were too much fun to pass up. The first is POPAsheville (Asheville, NC) at The Rocket Club on Saturday January 17th. POPAsheville is seriously looking awesome this year. Dave Allen from Gang of Four is speaking and the lineup is totally badass (mostly because it includes the HOWLIES!!!)
And then on on Saturday February 7, we are totally psyched beyond belief to be playing the WKNC Double Barrel Benefit 6 at The Pour House in Raleigh, NC with Polvo, Birds of Avalon, and I Was Totally Destroying It. Whoa!!! Not only is WKNC our favorite radio station, but we get to play with some severely mind blowing bands!!!! AND my mom is coming to the show, all the way from New Hampshire. Please say hi to her at the merch booth, where she will probably be hanging out unless she is in the front row during Polvo screaming "Enemy Insects!!!" Well, if that isn't motivation to go, I don't know what is.
You can find more info here on both of these spectacular events:
http://www.popasheville.com
http://www.wknc.org/dbb6/
Sometime in April, we'll have a big party at the Local 506 and EP II will be done and I will be able to stop being such an obsessive lunatic about it and do something else for a little while...like take ballet lessons so I can be in the Nutcracker someday. Those are some hot jamz and the original sunbeam sugarplum sound, for sure. Until then, I am going back to bed to watch some interviews with Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) from the "Don't Need YOu: Herstory of Riot Grrrl" DVD. She is my absolute hero, hands down. Until watching this, I had no idea the extent to which women playing punk music were attacked onstage back in the early 90s. Spit on, yelled at, told they were bitches and that they sucked at music, pulled off the stage by their ankles, sent threatening letters. I just want to say THANK YOU BIKINI KILL for not being scared and continuing to play shows and make records so I could hear you and want to have a band too. A band that wasn't about being "professional" but about having something to say and not being scared to do something we weren't already "good" at. And even though VVLL doesn't sound anything like Bikini Kill, they are totally a huge part of why I had the guts to play guitar in front of people even though I didn't really know what I was doing. Because the important thing is believing in the things you think up and just going for it, whether you are singing about revolution grrrl style now or technicolor sunshine.
So I hope everyone goes out tonight and listens to/sees/reads whatever it is that makes them remember to keep doing what they wanna do without being afraid they aren't professional enough or good enough or special enough!!!!
See ya in ballet class,
xoxo
Amanda for VVLL
2:13 PM
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