Dream House

   Rani asked the crowd how many Siouxsie fans, crowd sorta responds, and she says hmm, "that's a quarter of you". That one got laughs. I wanted to make it to both shows, first Dream House and off and run and catch this other show with Stargazer Lillys at Burlington. You make the sequence of events play with a cool narrative voice.....I like Steve Coogan's to be honest. I've never been to this place in Berwyn, and that was part of the novelty. What's a Berwyn audience like? The Berwyn venue is nice, its like the space of three Whistlers. I sat at a small table in front. And wow, Rani really sounds like Siouxsie. I mean its scary, and impressive to have that in her arsenal.  Now having seen this its something to anticipate. Imagine this backwards. Having heard this would you not want to hear Rani's original work?
  Its never occurred to me with her previous band. Out of all the voices that I've said that about. "She sounds like Siouxsie", I've  never thought that with Rani. And here she's belting out "Switch", and she sounds spot on. Switch really isolates the voice. You either sound like her or fuck off.   It keeps the Siouxsie I've known since high school vibrant and now. There's a lot that you miss as you hear casually over the years.
  Briefly but still significant for me, I did go to Burlington and managed to talk to Sarah and Philly Peroxide. Its a drive north I don't regret when I get to bullshit around with them as well. I missed all bands but I was ok. One of the band members of Population was there and I had to show that I had on their shirt. I think he was as late as I.  I think I did ask him about how the show went. He is always a reliable witness and source, as with Sarah. It's looking like A Wonderful Spontaneous Halloween Charlie Brown, actually it turns out to be just like that.
  I did go and see everyone at Burlington but first I got to hang out with Dream House after in the green room. They are the coolest. Actually, I haven't seen them in quite some time. In seeing Dream House I see friends and their other original projects. I know Rani first on the cool dark noir Girl Detective and she's an artist. Sorry, I'm starting to sound like Chris Farley. That voice takes a while to tweek out.....Ami I know from Solemn Meant Walks.  I still want a SMW shirt. I love their video they recorded in Willow Springs! Hmmm, that last one even sounded better in that Steve Coogan voice. These friends of mine I am fortunate to call. All of them.
  You see one thing at a time and at the moment they are finished performing Siouxsie songs ....in the cycle of projects they got going. I took pictures of Rani and Ami. The one I took with them looks like I photo bombed my own picture. I thought I was smiling, seriously. I'm so fucking Victorian, I look as comfortable as Avril Lavigne at her own meet and greet. But I was having an excellent time. The conversation drifted into the band Population. The voice sounds to me like Sisters .....of Mercy only....I don't think I ever got around to saying that to Ami. I think that's who I was going on about Population and all. Then we talked about Selena....hmmm, I don't know how we drifted there, but we did.
Zig