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Great things are afoot!
Many announcements to make! Let's get to it!
Wayward!
We'd like to remind everyone that this Saturday, June 14th, 8pm, Vixy & Tony are playing again at the legendary Wayward Coffee House. This is Wayward's pre-Can't Stop the Serenity Screening Shindig, including a raffle and other special events. Wayward's calendar says 7:00 to 11:00, I'm reasonably sure that time frame covers the entire party, and that Vixy & Tony will be taking the middle 2 hours, from 8:00 to 10:00. If this turns out to be anything like last year's Shindig, it will be fantastic, with lots of great Browncoats mingling and lots of fun things happening. So come!
Behind the Music!
For those enjoying our Thirteen album, we have a particularly special treat for you today: Our first Behind the Music pages are up! We've got detailed stories about the songwriting and production of seven of the songs from the album. We'll announce here again as we finish and post more of them. Please enjoy them, and feel free to comment about them here in this thread. We'd love to hear what you think!
Soooooooooj!
Something we're particularly excited about, coming up in just over a month from now: Announcing two Vixy & Tony shows with Skinny White Chick! SWC is the duo consisting of the incredible SJ ("Sooj") Tucker and Betsy Tinney. We first met them at Conflikt 2008 earlier this year, and were absolutely floored by their captivating music and their energetic performances. We're honored to share the spotlight with them. Expect to see Vixy & Tony perform a decent-sized opening set before making way for SWC, but don't be surprised if you notice an extra Vixy-voice on some of SWC's songs. I hear Vixy has a tendency to grab microphones and harmonize without warning.
Sooj's music is a delightful combination of fantastic whimsy and slightly dark humor, and I truly believe that our songs are a perfect companion to her songs; similar enough to be attractive to the same kinds of people, but distinct and different enough to provide a delicious variety when absorbed in the same setting. I think that if our respective fan bases are given the chance to hear us both, we'll achieve complete fanbase unity. What could be more beautiful?
The first of the two V&T/SWC shows will be on Friday, July 11th, at the Horizon Temple at 1423 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Although their calendar seems to think 7pm, I have it on good authority that it will actually be 8pm and that they just need to fix their calendar. When July rolls around, double check our schedule to be sure, but for now assume 8pm.
The second of the two shows will be the very next day, on Saturday, July 12th,definitely at 7pm updated to 5pm, at A Gathering Grove at 2820 Oakes Avenue, Suite C, in Everett. This will be the grand opening of this establishment, and we will help get them started on the right foot, with lots of energy and great music. Again, Vixy & Tony will do a set of just under an hour, then turn over the microphones to Sooj and Betsy. And probably Vixy, too.
Please come, everyone, it's going to be two very special nights!
Wayward!We'd like to remind everyone that this Saturday, June 14th, 8pm, Vixy & Tony are playing again at the legendary Wayward Coffee House. This is Wayward's pre-Can't Stop the Serenity Screening Shindig, including a raffle and other special events. Wayward's calendar says 7:00 to 11:00, I'm reasonably sure that time frame covers the entire party, and that Vixy & Tony will be taking the middle 2 hours, from 8:00 to 10:00. If this turns out to be anything like last year's Shindig, it will be fantastic, with lots of great Browncoats mingling and lots of fun things happening. So come!
Behind the Music!
For those enjoying our Thirteen album, we have a particularly special treat for you today: Our first Behind the Music pages are up! We've got detailed stories about the songwriting and production of seven of the songs from the album. We'll announce here again as we finish and post more of them. Please enjoy them, and feel free to comment about them here in this thread. We'd love to hear what you think!
Soooooooooj!
Something we're particularly excited about, coming up in just over a month from now: Announcing two Vixy & Tony shows with Skinny White Chick! SWC is the duo consisting of the incredible SJ ("Sooj") Tucker and Betsy Tinney. We first met them at Conflikt 2008 earlier this year, and were absolutely floored by their captivating music and their energetic performances. We're honored to share the spotlight with them. Expect to see Vixy & Tony perform a decent-sized opening set before making way for SWC, but don't be surprised if you notice an extra Vixy-voice on some of SWC's songs. I hear Vixy has a tendency to grab microphones and harmonize without warning.
Sooj's music is a delightful combination of fantastic whimsy and slightly dark humor, and I truly believe that our songs are a perfect companion to her songs; similar enough to be attractive to the same kinds of people, but distinct and different enough to provide a delicious variety when absorbed in the same setting. I think that if our respective fan bases are given the chance to hear us both, we'll achieve complete fanbase unity. What could be more beautiful?
The first of the two V&T/SWC shows will be on Friday, July 11th, at the Horizon Temple at 1423 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Although their calendar seems to think 7pm, I have it on good authority that it will actually be 8pm and that they just need to fix their calendar. When July rolls around, double check our schedule to be sure, but for now assume 8pm.
The second of the two shows will be the very next day, on Saturday, July 12th,
Please come, everyone, it's going to be two very special nights!
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I think the lead guitar processing in "Companion" adds a bunch. The first time I heard the song, I laughed in that same "Oh yeah!" way I did when I first heard the opening music for the new series. The effect-driven notes have enough of the same ringing-glass-bell feel of the series theme to recall the concept, but the rise at the end of the phrases keeps the mood upbeat instead of spooky. Kind of makes me think of the whole song as an expression of the brightest part of the color band in the Who rainbow: danger on the top, mystery on the bottom, but with a big happy yellow middle, which this song is about.
I certainly can't believe it was ever in danger of sounding anything like a track off a Windham Hill compilation with starfield cover art. I admit, though, that due to my inadequate car stereo I couldn't understand the processed response lines. Cheerfully bouncing along in my car to the song, I was suddenly struck by the idea that maybe these lyrics I couldn't make out were some kind of dark harbinger of the inevitable separation to come. This necessitated a speed increase and an immediate lyric search when I got home.
Thank goodness you guys didn't pull that rug out from under me. Before "School Reunion", I spent literally decades traumatized -- or haunted, yeah, haunted is better -- by the image and voice of Sarah Jane as she wandered back to where the TARDIS had vanished. Building that idea into the song would *not* have helped my fun.
For future reference, though, a song about that idea *could* make me and a number of other people I know cry. Just in case you were looking for something to write. :)
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After getting Companion mostly mixed, I stumbled across "Don't Panic" by Coldplay when shuffling, and realized that I'd kind of emulated it in the stylistic treatment. Not surprising, since my memory of that song revolves around its use as the theme music to a sci-fi TV show (forget the series name, it was short-lived and starred Peter Weller).
Regarding actually writing a song about a companion's departure: I guess we'd never rule it out, but now that Vixy's seen that scene actually play out twice now (Rose and Martha) it's probably not as big a deal to her now as it would have been then.