We made it to within 20 miles of New Haven after a 15 hour day on the road. The drive was mostly uneventful, which is just the way we like it. Our new guide Hortense saw us through just fine. After a night of much needed rest, we shall meet up with Shawn & I-Li and have a nice chilled day before our sound check at 4pm.
Now …. food and zzzzzzz
We’re off on the road this morning for the first time in ages (toward the Blacksun Festival). We plan to make the 12hr drive all in one day so we’re rested and human again tomorrow. We have an actual scheduled sound check from 4-5pm tomorrow, which is a huge luxury for a festival. This tells me the Blacksun folks have their stuff together … THANK YOU!
I’m hoping to chat with Stefan Herwig of Dependent Records about his call for file sharing debate. I know that we as Hungry Lucy have our own views on file sharing which differ from many in the music business.
Our performance is at 8pm on Friday at the main venue (Toads Place). If you’re out and about in New Haven, CT on Friday … come and check us out. If you’re already attending Blacksun and read this post … come and say hello.
What’s in a name? In this episode of Life with Hungry Lucy both War-N and Christa discuss the name of the band and it’s pros and cons.
We just finished our first rehearsal for the Blacksun Festival in March. It went quite well considering we haven’t done a live set since Sept. 2007. This is a really fun set … well sculpted with a nice dip in the middle for Alfred (the EP version) and a kick at the end with Blue Dress (as you’ve not heard before), To Kill a King and In the Circle. I’m really looking forward to our set at Blacksun as well as seeing everyone else … OPM for miles baby!
A thought. Christa and I discussed doing a live video webcast of a rehearsal leading up to Blacksun. Is anyone interested in seeing/hearing such a thing?
The 2nd in a series of short documentaries on life with the indie musical duo, Hungry Lucy. #002 focuses on vocalist Christa Belle s extracurricular interests.
Click the Outshouts logo on the above widget to go and hear the whole song. I didn’t realize the widget only plays 30 seconds of the song … annoying! :/
Carmen has assembled a beautiful video for our song “A Girl Alone” (from the “Before We Stand…” EP). I’m not sure of the source of all the imagery, but it’s really quite stunning.
Hungry Lucy was recently featured on the excellent “Coverville” podcast that focused on the New Order/Joy Division cover story (#407). Our 2001 cover of New Order’s “Love Vigilantes” was included. We originally produced this track for a New Order tribute CD called “True Faith: A Tribute to New Order”. The compilation was released by Synthphony Records in 2001 (Amazon/iTunes).
I always liked our cover of this song. We took it to the total opposite end of the mood spectrum (on purpose). Christa’s lush harmonies on this track are absolutely delicious and I’m convinced she was channeling Enya during the last half of the recording. Christa has always wanted to perform this track live, but for some reason we haven’t. Perhaps we’ll slip it into some live sets this year.
You can also hear our version of “Love Vigilantes” via The Covers Project.
In case you’re not familiar with the original track:
Many thanks to Brian Ibbott for including us on his excellent podcast! 
We’ve just posted TWHL #96 and as promised (during the episode) created some new podcast jingles for 2008. I only hope they sound as fun after the wine wears off! 
Tune in next week to judge for yourself.
Happy New Year EVERYONE! We love you all!!
We promise that 2008 will bring more HL goodies than 2007 did!
So, yes, we did a podcast this week. Slacker mode is over. Sorry we were gone so long!