| Dates for your dairy. |
[May. 17th, 2012|08:08 pm] |
Dates for your dairy:
24th May, Ladies Night at Black Jacks. 7th June, Dolly Delights Lovely Jubblies, Annabels Cabaret. 9th August - An Evening with Auntie Pus @ B Bar, Plymouth feat. punk, poetry, R 'n' R & jazz with very special guests. 3rd November, supporting Doctor and the Medics, DBS Live. More tba... |
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| May Day! May Day! The biggest camera I've ever seen! |
[May. 2nd, 2012|08:27 pm] |
May Day. And I was in the studio at the art college in front of this:
It's the biggest camera I've ever seen, or been in front of, and entirely hand made by Tim Pearse and Martin... He's been taking lots of pics of burlesque performers with it and you can find the project link here: http://20x24cameraproject.tumblr.com/
This is the image that was taken of me and I LOVE it. If I'd remembered it was negative I'd have held the cello on the opposite side to normal and showed off my tattoo as well lol, but I was going for a victorian vaudeville postcard look and I certainly achieved that!!
What an amazing photo!! And here's another one from the last show taken by Michael J Cole. Thanks xx
Next show is 24th May at Black Jacks. Ladies Night. 8pm. Hosted by Laydees, for everyone...
See you there for half an hour of horror!! |
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| Oh what a night, Dolly Delight! |
[Apr. 14th, 2012|10:01 pm] |
Had a most mahvellous evening at the Dolly Delights show. Not least how fantastic my audience were - in that I got a standing ovation and had to come back for more applause. Mahvellous indeed. Also incredibly happy with this stellar testimonial from Star Khechara: "Like a gothic doll from a horror movie sits Miss Von Trapp cackling and sat astride her electric cello. Booming out morbidly moribund lyrics and revamped traditional songs with a disturbing 'sing-a'long' style reminiscent of a scene from a Tim Burton film, Miss Von Trapp will hold you spellbound with her dark operatic capers and yet it is laughter that abounds in her audience as we find mirth in the twisted details of her songs and story telling. I recommend experiencing her performances - they're to DIE for." Star Khechara http://thefaceliftdiet.com/ There's a new photo up in the gallery on http://www.missvontrapp.com and a video will be imminent. In other news, next Dolly Delights is a Jubilee theme and I'm working on ideas already... |
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| More Tragic Moments are imminent... |
[Apr. 6th, 2012|02:56 pm] |
Next Thursday I am playing here...
Thursday April 12th
Kitty’s Dolls Burlesque proudly presents
DOLLY DELIGHTS ‘APRIL ANNIVERSARY ‘ a special Celebration Show
Kitty’s Dolls Burlesque presents….DOLLY DELIGHTS APRIL ANNIVERSARY! Celebrating 2 years of Dolly delights, thats a hell of a lot of shimmies!… Bi-monthly sell out burlesque showcase. Expect comedic mayhem, birthday suits, camp nonsense, bum wiggles and a whole lotta fun! The Hostess with the mostess Lily Belle will be entertaining you and keeping your vocal chords exercised!This is a jam packed line up, we have many newbies braving the stage as duets and solos! Headlining KITTY KANE performing the classic ‘Dropping bras not bombs’ in celebration of performing it for over 2 years, a classic at the club!
DIVINE DOLLS
KITTY’S DOLLS SHOWCASE, braving the stage girls from Kitty Kanes burlesque classes! 2 large groups! Bringing some energetic routines and showcase some new faces to Annabels and to the stage!
Belly dancing from AMEERA and her AMEERETTES.
Soloists & Duets names tba There is limited seating so limited tickets, to avoid disappointment book early! All of the events in the past year have ~SOLD OUT~ the seated tickets before the doors open, so for group bookings make sure you get in touch !So Come Woop and holla to show your support and share the love! DRESS TO IMPRESS! Advance Tickets:Front Table Seats (V.I.P)£8 (limited first to buy will get, only available online) All other advance seating £6 – Tickets on the door £7 Buy online here: http://kittysdollsburlesque.com/Burlesque-Shows(2355518).htm Doors open 8.30pm Show starts 9.15pm (sharp) |
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| Mindless Fandalism |
[Mar. 8th, 2012|11:14 pm] |
They made me do it... How long have you been playing? Being a daughter of musicians, I expect I was barely one years old. Which is why I go under the cabaret name of Miss Von Trapp.
What was the first concert you ever went to?
Julian Lloyd Webber playing the Elgar. I was 11 I think. Memorable because I got his autograph in his Travels with my Cello book.
What gear do you use?
Old Scratchy - a boosey and hawkes Golden Strad acoustic cello.
Spike - a Yamaha silent cello - aka the black stick. They are both favourites.
Who was your biggest musical influence growing up?
The church organ. Dad plays it. Goth and punk music. Screaming Lord Sutch. Many and varied influences... but mostly experimental and physical theatre (brechtian schtuf and whatnot) that I've been involved with since I was about 14 - 24 years ago. Argh.
Are you in a band? Have you been in bands?
Have played for a few bands. Folk one 'Strung Out Folk' supported Seth Lakeman and did a few random festivals. I play with myself as Miss Von Trapp usually. A dark cabaret act of murderous original and folk songs and gruesomeness... Such fun.
If you could jam with anyone, who would it be? Orpheus. In the Underworld. Get those harp strings twanging...
What's the biggest audience you ever performed to? What's the smallest?
Biggest audience as a singer - in a choir in the Royal Albert Hall probably. As me on cello, probably a few hundred in a theatre thing. Smallest, an audience of one. Captive. In my living room. Haha...
You're stuck on a desert island and only get to bring one album with you. What do you pick?
The Damned. Phantasmagoria. http://www.fandalism.com/missvontrapp
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| You can be anyone you want to be. But above all, be yourself. |
[Mar. 6th, 2012|08:25 pm] |
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You can be anyone you want to be. But above all, be yourself.
I don't honestly think I could be anyone else.
Was stood at a bus stop today watching people going by and looking at their clothes and shoes, thinking 'would I ever wear that?' and then comparing what I was wearing to them.
Kitty shoes, black and white stripy socks, black velvet skirt, black and white stripy jumper, black fake fur coat with spider brooch and my red work bag...
And I thought: 'I'm comfortable with what I wear, and I wouldn't EVER be comfortable with what they wear, whether it's regarded as 'normal' or not, I'm wearing what's normal and comfortable for me'.
At the end of the day, they may regard me as odd or a freak but I'm my own normal.
Define normal. I don't think you can. Everyone is unique in their own way, and being true to ourselves is the most important thing of all.
So I'll keep my stripy socks, and 'never grown out of goth' wardrobe, and every idiosyncrasy that make's me me, and I'll not change for anyone, ever.
And I'm not trying to be like anyone else, or look like anyone else, and I don't WANT to be anyone else. I'm just being me.
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A little something I penned in 2003 but still applies:
I am
Take me as I am
Do not attempt to change me
I will not modify myself for you
Take me as you find me
I will not suck up to your pretension
Strive to attain your ideal of perfection
I will always find my own direction
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I am happy with myself - No - I KNOW myself
I accept who I am
And embrace my faults and limitations
You can take your clique
Shove it up the hole in your 'perfect' physique
Closed walls - closed doors - closed minds
are not my idea of a welcome
Mine are always OPEN
(c)Liz Fugeman 2003
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| Roses are Red and the birdies are in it. |
[Feb. 25th, 2012|12:21 pm] |
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Nearly the end of February and my husband is going to be 10 on Wednesday. I am also on holiday from work until next Friday - whee!!
I've started a painting again that I began in 2007 and stopped. It's an American Gothic version with myself and Mike in - cartoonised - and I've had to addd two more cats, and a fringe, and Hazel in it. It's all sketched out now and I will be painting it soon. Maybe tonight as Mike has a gig with Blue Angel.
I've also thought up a makeshift tune for Roses Are Red - my valentine 2012 poem - you can hear it here: http://soundcloud.com/missvontrapp/roses-are-red I recorded it en route to work so it has birdies and cars and whatnot in it, but it thankfully doesn't have the drunken man who was following me in, singing at the top of his lungs "She's sexy and she knows it clap your hands". I didn't clap. I kept walking and tried to ignore it.
Short entry here as my brain has stopped working.
Have a good weekend.
MVT |
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| Sticky Moments |
[Feb. 17th, 2012|07:57 pm] |
Last night was a blast. Had Mr. Feldon round for a jam. We recorded a version of Tragic Moments (Perry Coma) that I played live for the first time on the 9th Feb and added duet vocals on the chorus and guitar throughout. You can hear it here: http://soundcloud.com/missvontrapp/tragic-moments-1
It's on my soundcloud. And I rather love it. We also recorded some cello for a couple of his original songs on a rather old cassette player. The old ones are the best!
Today I am rather tired. So am not doing much at all. Going through a list of things I've been performing for AAGES that really need recording. Green and Yeller is top of my list. And Rose. And compiling a list of things that will go on the next album... Working title is Grave Folk, and anything that doesn't get included always goes in Going Spare anyway, so that'll end up online at some point.
In other news, went to The Nowhere for a valentine drink (yes, two gins) with Mike and was asked to do some celloage on a goth song somewhere down the line, and made friends with a lovely black kitty who apparently gets cranky and scritchy with people but was very sweet with me. I either have the cat magic touch or she could smell my three lol
Lucky Lizzi.
And the Z key is beginning to die on this keyboard so I am going to have to avoid it as much as possible from hereon in.
I'm wittering. So I'm going for a lie down. Only disturb me if I don't appear to be breathing. I anen't ded yet. |
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| Happy Valentines Massacre Everybody!! |
[Feb. 13th, 2012|09:08 pm] |
I have been married nearly six years - or it will be six years this June - and we haven't killed each other yet.
I did an anti-valentine (for the Death of Love) gig at the Acoustic Cafe again last Thursday and this time I managed to NOT get pregnant. I worked out that the last anti-valentine gig that I did for Acoustic Cafe wound up with me being pregnant with the Woo and put a stop to my Miss Von Trapp performances until early last year... Definately didn't want that to happen again. And it hasn't.
It went down incredibly well - including the first live performances of Tragic Moments and Little Ball of Yarn - and the audience were shouting for an encore, so I played Stabcurdle Jack (the Jack the Ripper song) which was appropriate for the evening as I hadn't included it in my half hour set. And I was buzzing for the rest of the night.
Mike and I went up Brentor today. It's quite a climb and it was very wild, wet and windy. Valentine's tomorrow isn't really going to happen as I am working til 2pm and he is working from 3pm, so we packed Woo off on a daytrip with the childminder and went out together instead.
Brentor is a 13th C church on the top of a tor at the highest point on Dartmoor. It is rumoured that the soil was too shallow to bury people and they put bodies in the crypt. During a terrible storm one year, the crypt was flooded and all the coffins floated to the top. Eeee!!
This is Mike haunting as a headless ghost haunting the interior: 
In other news, I have finally updated Last.fm. It truly was lost (not last) since I signed up in 2007 and never did anything about it. Consider it rectified.
Miss Von Trapp on Lost.fm
And I penned a little Valentine's Poem:
A Valentine Massacre
Roses are red
Violets are blue
They won't find the last body
But that's a big clue...
... So run dear, yes run fast while you still have the time
Or you'll be pushing up daisies, love.
Passion's a crime
Passions a crime with a knife or a gun
A kiss can be stolen but murder's more fun.
Roses are red
But blood is red too
So escape while you can, love
Before I am through
Cause death is the end, dear, tho love is eternal
And I've got a madness that's mostly hormonal but probably won't stand up in court.
A Valentine Massacre (C) Miss Von Trapp 2012 |
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| These are a few of my Inappropriate Things |
[Jan. 25th, 2012|02:46 pm] |
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What have I been up to?
Very good question. Not entirely sure.
Oh, yes, I did a mahvellous photoshoot with the lovely Foxy of AlienFoxDesigns recently where I got to wear some pretty amazing headpieces and fascinators and eat a lot of feathers.
Worn some inappropriate clothes to work as usual - stripy socks and bloomers mostly.
Said some inappropriate things at work. On the Ossuary at Prague (a church decorated with human bones):
"It's no different from a shell grotto, so it's not weird. It's just 'people shells'
If you were a limpet and you walked into a shell grotto would you feel weird? Ah, limpets don't walk."
and, on doing some colouring: "it took dropping out of art school three times to get this good."
Oh dear...
Investigated some inappropriate things to sing at inappropriate gigs...
(next one is 9th Feb)
Spammed some inappropriate links all over farcebook and tweeter...
And generally been inappropriate. You get the picture. Need I say more.
No. Oh okay then.
Blessed are the cracked. For they let in the light.
Lizzi x |
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| New Year's Revolutions |
[Jan. 7th, 2012|09:52 pm] |
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2012: Carpe Diem. Carpe Noctem. Carpe Jugulem.
New Year Revolutions:
1. Do more gigs (book me)
2. Do more recording
3. A photoshoot
4. A website
5. Do more hauswerk!
Also, need to learn to drive (again) and get a passport. Then my escape plan will be complete...
I also have a voice worthy of Tom Waits at present due to a stupid cold. So my usual dulcet tone has been replaced with a voice worthy of phone sex lines.
Otherwise, there are more videos on the way and a couple of links here:
First two verses of Favourite Things and a crap joke about drummers: Foxy and Fanny's Holiday Hootenanny 22.12.2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAzLuSmjpM
Stabcurdle Jack Live at the Odd Ball 9.12.2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZpd9KbGO8 |
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| A pre-emptive strike at the HAPPY NEW YEAR message!! |
[Dec. 30th, 2011|08:27 pm] |
2011. What a year!
For many it's been difficult, with the recession and jobs and schtuf, but we've actually had a fantastic year mostly. It seems when timesisard we really seem to land on our feet rather than our arses.
It got off to a turbulent start, husband finishing a job in March and all of us having to move house in April as our landlady went into a home and her children got power of attorney and decided to sell...
Stressful, very. But our friends and family rallied round and helped us out, so we moved. Did a lot of throwing out and it took a while to get things in order, but we did it. Hurrah! Our current house is a little damp in places and overloaded with instruments and schtuf, but it's a happy house, and a lucky one too.
This year has seen the rebirth of Miss Von Trapp with at least one gig every month since April, husband gigging with new bands (and depping for the regulars), and the Woo starting pre-school for the first time, having a childminder, lots and lots of activity for all of us.
And the night before New Year's Eve I am writing this because I have some quiet and I don't expect to have time to do it tomorrow... I'm not going to highlight every month's activity as there were too many gigs to mention for both of us, so this is just the top of the list for the other things that happened.
My wickle sister got married in June, the day before our anniversary, and we had a mahvellous time (her new gig stage name is Lena Smith. She'd want you to google that as she's very keen on promoting at the moment) and the following week a birthday holiday at the caravan. Which was lovely. And we hardly needed to buy any food because of the amount of stuff we had from the wedding stay in Lantallack. Beautiful place if you ever get to visit.
July I had my first tattoo and wisdom teeth out under general anaesthetic so now I am officially stupider.
August, husband got a new job and has been literally bringing home the bacon since...
September, Woo started pre-school and I set up hosting 'Let Them Eat Cake' afternoon tea parties at Kitty's studio.
October was a busy month with Halloween and whatnot and recording with Martin for his Brickbat album - a cello part for the last track, and ended the month with a Halloween Tea Party where much gingerbread was decorated as skeletons (and much gingerbread and cake was consumed).
November again, busy busy busy. Woo's third birthday (amongst other things) was the main highlight. The cake turned out nicely. Food was eaten. Children and adults entertained. Much mess was made.
And December. Here we are at the end of it, after Woos first Nativity performances with Sunday School and Pre-school. And lots of presents and eating and merriment. I have a ukulele and a children's accordion to add to my Miss Von Trapp repertoire. There's talk of forming a three-piece, and I've been so busy gigging and working and working and gigging I've not had much time for sleep between each.
Actually I get home from most gigs and into bed by 1am and am up for work at 5am with barely time to scrub off the schlap..
And tomorrow night is New Years Eve. And I'm working from 6am so I'll probably be asleep on the sofa by 11pm. Does Clive James still do the tv thing? And who's on the Hootenanny? I'll probably catch the repeat.
We've had a year of riots, dead dictators, occupying protesters and the usual capitalist crap you expect from a Tory government... So I'm supposed to be saying 'oh that was a rotten year', but in actual fact...
I'm saying it was a good year. It was a fantastic year.
It's been a riot.
Love you all fiends.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! BRING ON 2012!!
xxx
Image (c) Nass Nasko. Taken at Foxy and Fanny's Hootenanny 22.11.11. |
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| Imminent giggage and a big cloud flurry |
[Dec. 17th, 2011|09:08 pm] |
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I have another gig coming up for charidee. RNLI to be precise. And it's next Thursday. And it's going to be fun.
Details here: http://www.facebook.com/events/233764790030028/
Oh, and I got me a SoundCloud. 'Cause everyone else has one. Peer pressure and whatnot.
http://soundcloud.com/missvontrapp
And I have had my acoustic cello fixed so I am very happy:)
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
20:30 until 02:00
It’s that special time of year again...the Christmas Show at Annabel's!
On the Thursday 22nd December we bring you
“Foxy and Fanny’s Holiday Hootenanny!”
Raising money for the Plymouth RNLI Crew.
...
Foxy and Fanny are here to get your bells jingling all night long with a Festive edition of their popular Variety Show. Featuring cabaret, comedy, song, dance, circus and some very dodgy outfits... plus an amazing line up of performers including:
“Miss Von Trapp” Vaudeville gore musician
“Ruby Rascal” Burlesque Belle
“Ameera” Miss Bellydance UK 2011
“Elly Clibbens” Circus extraordinaire
PLUS!!
Music all night from “Frankincense Relax” (probably) the best Christmas theme band in the World
AND!!
Games, raffles, sing-a-long with the band and a special musical performance from Foxy and Fanny!
Christmas wear and accessorizing is greatly encouraged ( :
This is one festive magical night you won’t want to miss!
Doors open: 8.30pm
Show starts: 9.30pm - Lots of Mulled Wine plus Disco after the Show
Entry: £3.00 (Proceeds from the door and raffle any other generous donations are going to the RNLI)
Seating: There is limited seating for the show so if you know you are going to make it for sure please contact esther.annabelscabaret@googlemail.com or Esther Alexandra on Facebook to reserve.
DISCLAIMER: Foxy and Fanny in no way support enforced festive merriment. All guests are entitled and welcome to be miserable anti-Christmas scrooges if they so wish. |
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| Nightmare before Christmas... |
[Dec. 13th, 2011|09:20 pm] |
Well, The Odd Ball was a demned fine gig, and the first public airing of Bad King Wenceslas went down treemendously well. The vocals were much better than the recording I did earlier actually, and had a lot more character in them. Buggrit. Will record proper in the new year as I am putting together material for a new album anyway.
In other news,
The TREE IS UP!! It's black (obviously) with purple and silver baubles and tinsel and does look rahther good. And it's almost time to be watching The Nightmare Before Christmas again. I asked the woo if she wanted to watch it this afternoon and got a 'no, mummy' and a 'want to cutterate the tree with marbles'. (decorate the tree with baubles). So I didn't bother. And this evening I have mostly been eating sellotape.
Note to self: Use scissors to cut tape. Not teeth.
I am almost done with present shopping, and must resist the urge to buy extra things for myself. Oops. But at least the tree is up. That's the main thing.
And Woo and I have caught up this evening on the advent calendar. Mummy was crap and only got it out of the cupboard today... but it did mean we had 13 days of chocolate doors to catch up on.
There you have it. More news later when I have found some other nonsense to witter about :)
Goodnight Fiends xx |
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| Gig tonight! |
[Dec. 9th, 2011|11:06 am] |
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Tonight! The Odd Ball Cabaret!
*The Devilriders (psychobilly rock'n'roll)
*C.D.S. (no messing 3-chord punk rock from yonks back)
*Miss Von Trapp (the darker side of cabaret - with cello!)
*Phists of Justice (frenetic comedy duo come to save us all)
*Steve Poundpants (enough to make you uke)
*Harakiri Karaoke (some twat with a keyboard and a glittery waistcoat)
The Fortescue Cellar Bar this Friday TONIGHT (9th)
8pm onwards and FREE! |
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| Bad King Wenceslas: A Song for Christmas |
[Dec. 7th, 2011|08:24 pm] |
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Bad King Wenceslas (Christmas Carol Carnage) is now available for FREE download on http://www.reverbnation.com/missvontrapp
This is my Christmas Single, recorded live in my living room, so apologies for the rain/hiss/dramatic fuzz...
I will be airing it this Friday at The Odd Ball, Fortescue Basement, Mutley Plain, Plymouth at probably 9pm ish. Doors 8pm ;)
Bring your singing lungs, and your worms, and maybe your green and yeller snakes...
See you there, fiends xxx |
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| End of an Era. |
[Dec. 5th, 2011|08:31 pm] |
Just so you know, I am no longer VampGirl on livejournal. Those of you still here that may be looking and thinking 'who the xxxx is that?'
I lost the .com a while ago, having been too crap to maintain it. So it's probably destined to be a pr0n site. And as I am now 37 and not so much as a 'girl into vampires' anymore (oh how the 20s were good to me) it seems daft to use Miss Von Trapp everywhere else and still have the same old username here.
So I've changed it. VampGirl on lj is now Miss Von Trapp.
Huzzah and hurrah. And whatnot.
(if you never knew, it doesn't matter) xxx |
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| Tis the Season. Eep. I have more gigs. |
[Dec. 5th, 2011|07:32 pm] |
Tis the season to drink Bolly
Fa la la la la etc
In actual fact, I have been indulging in a combo of mulled wine and benylin in a bid to improve my health... on account of a couple of imminent gigs (babysitters needed) over this festive season. I have also found that gin and lemsip go very well together, so have christened the new cocktail: Gymslip. Nice.
So here you have it, the things I am supposed to be practising for:
On the 9th we have the return of The Odd Ball. Remember that? I was last at that in 2007, as was the Odd Ball itself I believe... And I seem to have gotten myself into a Christmas Carol Carnage at Annabel's as well on the 22nd.
Last month I was doing some recording for this chap: http://www.reverbnation.com/brickbat so go and make yourselves known while your at it. I need to go and get myself some practice in. Argh!! |
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| Bad King Wenceslas: A Song for Christmas |
[Nov. 19th, 2011|11:51 pm] |
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I shall be recording this at some point as it is traditional to release a song for Christmas...
Here's the words so you can learn it for the candlelit service.
Bad King Wenceslas
Bad King Wenceslas look'd out
On the Feast of Stephen
Saw the bodies strewn about
Limbs all hack'd and bleedin'
Brightly shone the moon that night
And the wolves did howell
Just one poor man left in sight
For to disembo-ow-ell
"Hither, Page, and stand by me
If thou know'st it telling
Yonder victim who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?"
"Sire, he lives a good league hence
Halfway up the mountain
Trapped beneath that barbed wire fence
By St Agnes Fountain"
"Bring me flesh and bring me wine
Bring me pine-logs hither
Thou and I will hear him whine
When I eat his liver"
Page and Monarch forth they went
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind's wild lament
And the bitter weather
"Sire, the night is darker now
And the wolves howl stronger
Fails my heart, I know not how
I can go no longer"
"Mark my footsteps good, my Page
Tread thou in them boldly
Thou shalt find my murd'rous rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly"
In his Master's steps he trod
Where the snow lay dinted
Blood filled up the very sod
Which the mad King printed
Till they reach'd the peasant's door
Bound and gagged and bled him
Disembowelled him on the floor
Took him off for roasting
King and Page dined well that night
What a Christmas supper!
And the corpses were a sight
Glazed in garlic butter
Therefore, Christian men be sure
Wealth or rank possessing
Ye who now will roast the poor
What a feast you're getting!
(c) Miss Von Trapp 19.11.11 |
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| Random Witterings of a Frazzled Mind. Fetch the Gin, I need a nightcap. |
[Nov. 18th, 2011|09:02 pm] |
I am supposed to be tidying the dining room. Am I doing it?
No.
I did the living room last night and after being the Grand Old Duke of York and other such action songs with woo beforehand, then tidying, then baking gingerbread bears for Children In Need, I was knackered when I got to sleep at half eleven.
Having been up since 5 this morning for work and behaving like the childcatcher at work all day touting my gingerbread I am still somewhat tired so haven't done much this evening except spam facebook accidentally while syncing reverbnation and myspace accounts for Miss Von Trapp, and watching Doctor Who take his clothes off on le tellybox I've kindof lost the thread of what I'm typing about as well as the energy to pick up more than a few random items of schtuf. As you can tell from attempting to follow the grammar in that previous sentence. I don't fancy moving amps and whatnot right now so I'm going to bed in a minute.
Why am I doing all this hauswerk frenzy?
The woo is going to be three on Monday and about 10 small humans plus adults in tow are arriving for her birthday party and I live in a musician's bombsite. Amps, instruments, books, schtuf, toys, cats.... ARGH!!
So I really ought to stop prattling about it in a blog-stylee and get up and do something. But what I'm actually going to do is PLAN A LIST of what I need to do and cram it all on Saturday night and Sunday day/night until I flop.
I can't quite believe she's going to be three. It's gone so quickly this year already. We have been busy though, with me going back to gigging after such a long break as well.
Mike has a gig tomorrow night anyway (dep drumming for Blue Angel in Calstock) so he'll be off at 7pm and I can get on with it then. No work in the morning so I can plod on all night. If I make a big pile of schtuf on the bed I won't be allowed to go to bed until I've cleared it all off... And the same goes for piling amps and instruments into the spare room. If I do that I won't be able to flop onto the spare bed in there either. Therein lies my plan. Or my folly.
In other news, I am cranking up the pimping of my Miss Von Trapp dark cabaret/vaudeville/whateveritis*. Up to and over Christmas I shall probably mostly be fiddling about with web based wotsits and then get more gigs in proper in the new year. I am working on a Christmas song should the opportunity arise, but may well record it anyhow and pimp it on teh interweb also. As I ought to be doing with my Morbid Ditties album on iTunes if I can get to grips with it... Because I'm not on iTunes, and I ought to be. But I don't rightly understand it.
Also, I just saw the trailer for the Christmas Doctor Who and it looks rather good. So I'll be watching that as I sip my gin**.
*what is it? What is Miss Von Trapp?
It's actually just an unleashing of my inner self into performance mode. Me cranked up to the limits... So it's mostly gory folk songs and my gory folk-style songs and performance poetry. I'm not sure what I actually would categorise it as apart from perhaps vaudeville, but the music is different as I don't wield an accordion... At least I think so. It's a lot more layered and orchestrated on the actual recordings but the live experience is just me and a cello for solo accompaniment for noises as well as actual playing... so it could probably fit into both the vaudeville and the folk circuit for those with peculiar tastes also. Or seasonal work. I don't know.
What do you think? Have a look on my Youtube at my wideos and compare live to recorded if you like.
Answers on a bloodied postcard please. So I can analyse your thumbprints.
** I hope.
Goodnight, Fiends. |
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| Miss Von Trapp's Previous Giggage and Mayhem: A Horrible History |
[Nov. 15th, 2011|07:56 pm] |
Have been going through my old LJ and photo galleries and previous paper diaries and whatnot in an attempt to compile my gig history for Miss Von Trapp.
It seems that in my absence (29th Feb 2008 to 6th March 2011) there has been a whole dark cabaret scene spring up that I have totally missed out on due to parenthood... and now I am so out of the loop it's unreal, and to be honest, very frustrating. I want to learn more about what's happening. Is there a 'scene' I belong to etc etc etc. Which is difficult now I am a mummy and this restricts the ability to travel/gig/circulate and whatnot. Buggrit.
Anyhow, cobbled together from various scraps of info I have left lying around here is the incomplete gig history of Miss Von Trapp:
2007
9th June 2007: Art Box Bus Opening (and my birthday)
July 2007: Featuring on Bowed Radio Episode 33
August? 2007: Freedom Fields Folk Festival
4th Sept 2007: Sanity Fayre
8th Sept 2007: Odd Ball Cabaret
25th October 2007: Acoustic Cafe, The Fortescue
31st October 2007: Halloween at the Mortescue
13th November 2007: Odd Ball Cabaret@Barbican Theatre, In The Flesh Festival
20th? (Saturday) 2007: Black Catz Goth Club
26th November 2007: Acoustic Cafe
29th December 2007: Odd Ball Cabaret : Last of the Year
2008
7th Jan 2008: Bowed Radio again Episode 53
14th Feb 2008: Anti-Valentine Gig for the Death of Love, Acoustic Cafe, The Fortescue.
The one where I got pregnant and had to stop gigging shortly after incidentally...
So then I had to have time out apart from my husband's birthday party gig on 29th Feb 2007 - nobody can play a cello and sing while pregnant unless you want to play sideways and risk throwing up at your audience... And then being a mummy with no time to practice meant that I didn't get gigging again till Woo was old enough.
My Miss Von Trapp giggage and mayhem began again in March of this year...
2011
6th March 2011:Twirls of the Unexpected, Voodoo Lounge
8th April 2011:Twirls of the Unexpected, Voodoo Lounge
8th May 2011:Twirls of the Unexpected, Voodoo Lounge
23rd June 2011: Va Va Voom Variety Charity night for Macmillan
28th August 2011: Freedom Fields Festival
4th September 2011: Kitty and Fanny's Big Phat Hootenanny
27th October 2011: Acoustic Cafe...
And that's it so far. As you can see I was somewhat busy, but am rebuilding it again. Where I go next, who knows. But I will mostly be wielding the Token Folk Song envelope and encouraging gory singalongs wherever I go.
Thankyou for reading, fiends ;)
sleep tight x
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