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Foggy Notions presents:
BABY DEE (Drag City)
Featuring Alex Nielson (Bonnie Prince Billy/Jandek)
+PAUL CURRERI
+BLACK CARROT
Whelan’s, Dec 5
Tickets €16 from WAV, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster, Road, City Discs
Following her wonderful performance opening for Bonnie Prince Billy at Vicar Street earlier this year, Baby Dee returns with her all-star band to headline Whelan’s. Her fans includes Marc Almond, David Tibet, Will Oldham, & Antony and she is, quite simply, one of the most unique artists you’ll ever encounter.
“Baby Dee’s cannon teeters between bawdy and quietly moving, both delivered with the same disarming tenderness and honesty.” – Observer Music Monthly
“Resoundingly beautiful” - Pitchfork
“Oh for more albums as ambitious, mysterious and haunting as this.”- 4/5 Sunday Times (Safe Inside the Day)
“Dee is a one woman force of nature.”- Sunday Telegraph
“As vivid and original as they come.”- Time Out
“A voice like an angel who fell from heaven.”- Vice
Baby Dee originally left Cleveland for New York in 1972 on an odyssey of discovery. Swinging between the extremes of the profane and the sacred, but never stopping in the middle Dee went from the street to church and back again with alarming regularity.
She once held down a position as the musical director for a Catholic church in the South Bronx but also played accordion at the Coney Island Sideshow, appearing as “the bilateral hermaphrodite”. She was also known to ride a tricycle around Greenwich Village, customised with a platform to carry her harp.
Dee met Antony Hegarty in the mid-90s and became friends. When Antony released his first album in 2000, Dee was part of his circle and played classical harp on his record. Dee began writing her first songs during that fertile time, which saw her make the transition home to Cleveland. Recording songs as she wrote them, Dee sent each one to Antony thinking he might cover one at best. Little did she know, Antony was sending them on to David Tibet (Current 93) who offered to put the songs out on his Durtro label. Baby Dee’s debut Little Window was released in 2001.
Years later, Will Oldham came through Cleveland touring his Superwolf album with Matt Sweeney and asked Baby Dee to open for him. Having recently felled a tree on someone’s house (rather an unfortunate mishap, as tree removal was Dee’s profession at the time) Dee was in dire need of money and a miracle. With that, Oldham gave Baby Dee the opportunity to return to performing.
This years Drag City debut Safe Inside The Day came to be as a result of that first meeting with Oldham and Sweeney. As Dee recalls: “It was Matt’s willingness to produce the record and Will’s amazing goodness in the way he thinks and decides things. Will is the most wonderfully decisive person I’ve ever met and I’m probably the least.”
Originally supposed to be a re-working of a previous album, Safe Inside The Day became a complete body of new work, a songbook that details Dee's path from boyhood to transsexual torch singer. Persuaded by Oldham, Baby Dee delved into her past and travelled to what she felt was “a bad place, a place I didn’t want to go” but decided it was the good kind of scary. The neighbourhood characters and streets that Dee grew up on become the canvas for this mythical re-imagining of her life.
Baby Dee’s is a story of triumph over adversity and Safe Inside the Day journeys to the darker recesses of her mind, and back again.
www.myspace.com/theonlybabydee
Paul Curreri:
His acclaimed debut for City Salvage Records, From Long Gones To Hawkmoth, was released in 2002. A triumphant follow-up, Songs For Devon Sproule – produced by Kelly Joe Phelps – was hailed by Vintage Guitar Magazine as “one of the very finest records in awhile. And, I don’t mean just in this genre. I mean, any genre.”
2004’s The Spirit of the Staircase found Curreri continuing to shoulder into new lyrical and musical terrain: “Curreri has sculpted a direction of his own. Dexterous guitar work and hushed insight, full of soul and originality.” - Americana-UK. With clarity of vision, and astoundingly visceral playing and singing, 2006’s Are You Going To Paul Curreri captured him stretching out in front of a live audience, electric and rocking. Now married to the legendary Devon Sproule, Paul is releasing his fifth album to coincide with this tour.
www.myspace.com/paulcurreri
Black Carrot:
"Black Carrot are truly inspired musicians" - Jean Hervé Peron (Faust)
Black Carrot are a vibrant quintet who perform new-wave krautrock jazz with a psychotic edge. Fierce and abstract yet serving the concept of the song, their unique sound nods towards Beefheart and Pere Ubu shot through with flavours of New York jazz skronk and the loosest, funkiest Krautrock. Black Carrot released their second studio album Drink The Black Forest on Tin Angel Records earlier this month.
www.myspace.com/theblackcarrot
BABY DEE (Drag City)
Featuring Alex Nielson (Bonnie Prince Billy/Jandek)
+PAUL CURRERI
+BLACK CARROT
Whelan’s, Dec 5
Tickets €16 from WAV, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster, Road, City Discs
Following her wonderful performance opening for Bonnie Prince Billy at Vicar Street earlier this year, Baby Dee returns with her all-star band to headline Whelan’s. Her fans includes Marc Almond, David Tibet, Will Oldham, & Antony and she is, quite simply, one of the most unique artists you’ll ever encounter.
“Baby Dee’s cannon teeters between bawdy and quietly moving, both delivered with the same disarming tenderness and honesty.” – Observer Music Monthly
“Resoundingly beautiful” - Pitchfork
“Oh for more albums as ambitious, mysterious and haunting as this.”- 4/5 Sunday Times (Safe Inside the Day)
“Dee is a one woman force of nature.”- Sunday Telegraph
“As vivid and original as they come.”- Time Out
“A voice like an angel who fell from heaven.”- Vice
Baby Dee originally left Cleveland for New York in 1972 on an odyssey of discovery. Swinging between the extremes of the profane and the sacred, but never stopping in the middle Dee went from the street to church and back again with alarming regularity.
She once held down a position as the musical director for a Catholic church in the South Bronx but also played accordion at the Coney Island Sideshow, appearing as “the bilateral hermaphrodite”. She was also known to ride a tricycle around Greenwich Village, customised with a platform to carry her harp.
Dee met Antony Hegarty in the mid-90s and became friends. When Antony released his first album in 2000, Dee was part of his circle and played classical harp on his record. Dee began writing her first songs during that fertile time, which saw her make the transition home to Cleveland. Recording songs as she wrote them, Dee sent each one to Antony thinking he might cover one at best. Little did she know, Antony was sending them on to David Tibet (Current 93) who offered to put the songs out on his Durtro label. Baby Dee’s debut Little Window was released in 2001.
Years later, Will Oldham came through Cleveland touring his Superwolf album with Matt Sweeney and asked Baby Dee to open for him. Having recently felled a tree on someone’s house (rather an unfortunate mishap, as tree removal was Dee’s profession at the time) Dee was in dire need of money and a miracle. With that, Oldham gave Baby Dee the opportunity to return to performing.
This years Drag City debut Safe Inside The Day came to be as a result of that first meeting with Oldham and Sweeney. As Dee recalls: “It was Matt’s willingness to produce the record and Will’s amazing goodness in the way he thinks and decides things. Will is the most wonderfully decisive person I’ve ever met and I’m probably the least.”
Originally supposed to be a re-working of a previous album, Safe Inside The Day became a complete body of new work, a songbook that details Dee's path from boyhood to transsexual torch singer. Persuaded by Oldham, Baby Dee delved into her past and travelled to what she felt was “a bad place, a place I didn’t want to go” but decided it was the good kind of scary. The neighbourhood characters and streets that Dee grew up on become the canvas for this mythical re-imagining of her life.
Baby Dee’s is a story of triumph over adversity and Safe Inside the Day journeys to the darker recesses of her mind, and back again.
www.myspace.com/theonlybabydee
Paul Curreri:
His acclaimed debut for City Salvage Records, From Long Gones To Hawkmoth, was released in 2002. A triumphant follow-up, Songs For Devon Sproule – produced by Kelly Joe Phelps – was hailed by Vintage Guitar Magazine as “one of the very finest records in awhile. And, I don’t mean just in this genre. I mean, any genre.”
2004’s The Spirit of the Staircase found Curreri continuing to shoulder into new lyrical and musical terrain: “Curreri has sculpted a direction of his own. Dexterous guitar work and hushed insight, full of soul and originality.” - Americana-UK. With clarity of vision, and astoundingly visceral playing and singing, 2006’s Are You Going To Paul Curreri captured him stretching out in front of a live audience, electric and rocking. Now married to the legendary Devon Sproule, Paul is releasing his fifth album to coincide with this tour.
www.myspace.com/paulcurreri
Black Carrot:
"Black Carrot are truly inspired musicians" - Jean Hervé Peron (Faust)
Black Carrot are a vibrant quintet who perform new-wave krautrock jazz with a psychotic edge. Fierce and abstract yet serving the concept of the song, their unique sound nods towards Beefheart and Pere Ubu shot through with flavours of New York jazz skronk and the loosest, funkiest Krautrock. Black Carrot released their second studio album Drink The Black Forest on Tin Angel Records earlier this month.
www.myspace.com/theblackcarrot
