I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: September 12, 2023] The Spirit of the Beehive / Mary Jane Dunphe

I saw The Spirit of the Beehive six years ago and they were outstanding live.  I’d never heard of them before that show but they blew me away with their set which was a great mix of shoegaze and noise.  I said then that I’d like to see them headline a show.

Well, here they are.  But it’s the same night that we have tickets to see Beck and Phoenix.  So, sorry SOTB.

It turns out that the show has sold out, so they didn’t me anyway.

Mary Jane Dunphe is a poet and musician who tells stories–not through direct narrative but through embodied presence and performance, through cinematic and fragmented memory, the wild transmission of feeling. Her versatile songwriting has garnered critical acclaim in past projects such as the visceral punk of Vexx and Gen Pop, the minimal dream pop of CCFX and CC Dust, and the lonesome country-rock of The County Liners–and now Dunphe’s debut solo album, Stage of Love, is the start of a captivating new chapter.

I listened to a couple of her songs and I like the big fat synth sounds she uses but I don’t really like her voice.  I feel like I wouldn’t enjoy her set.