Hungry Lucy

Hungry Lucy is very please to announce our appearance on a new tribute album for the work of author Neil Gaiman (Coraline, Sandman, MirrorMask). The album entitled “Where’s Neil When You Need Him?” was conceived by Patrick Rodgers and will be released by his Dancing Ferret label in mid-July, 2006. Other artists appearing on the tribute include Tori Amos, Rasputina, Lunascape, The Cruxshadows, Voltaire & Thoushaltnot.

From Billboard.com:

Rodgers, who is came up with the album’s concept and is acting as music supervisor, asked artists he knew were fans of the writer to compose material based on their favorite Gaiman character or story. Some fashioned songs after his more popular work, such as the comic book series “The Sandman,” while others took their inspiration from such rare pieces as his short story “The Goldfish Pool.”

The most high-profile contributor to the compilation is Tori Amos, a longtime friend of Gaiman’s who occasionally name-checks the writer in her lyrics. In fact, the album’s working title is a line taken from her song “Space Dog.” The track “Sister Named Desire,” which Amos originally recorded as a B-side for a European release, has been re-recorded for the album. “She was one of the first to come on board,” Rodgers says.

Hungry Lucy’s contribution is an exclusive song called, “We Won’t Go” written about the popular Gaiman book “The Wolves in the Walls“. HL will be performing this song as part of their new live set this year.

More details (including tracklist) will be posted soon … stay tuned.

Issue #1 of the PodcastUser Magazine features a glowing review of our very own “Tea with Hungry Lucy” podcast!

Many thanx to Grant from the “Three from Leith” podcast for this wonderful review.

Last night (Nov. 21, 2005) Hungry Lucy won the Cincinnati Entertainment Award in the Electronic/Experimental category. What a very cool event this was and a total reaffirmation of the strong musical community Cincinnati has. After the initial shock wore off we had a blast.

We have set up a new blog/podcast site for Hungry Lucy. It will be used to post all of our news, blog posts, and podcasts and (most importantly) give you an easy way to post comments. While it’s not terribly pretty right now, it will be integrated into a new website design over time.

On the note of podcasts, we now have a couple in the works. A standard audio podcast and a video podcast named “video to go”. Here we will post music videos, live performances and behind the scenes footage. The first and second “episodes” are available now via this site, or via iTunes.

So … stay tuned as this site will certainly fill out before too long. Be sure to give us feedback on what we’re doing right or wrong and what you’d like to see up here.

Without getting up on too much of a soapbox here, I urge everyone to check out the most recent podcast from Knightwise.com. Partly because it features quite a bit of Hungry Lucy… but (far more importantly) as it sheds some light on the current state of the music industry, and what we can all do to help change it.

Go … listen … NOW!

We are honored to be invited to perform with legendary, techno-industrial pioneers, FRONT 242 in Detroit, MI at the Majestic Theater on Nov. 16th, 2005. To mark the occasion, we are running an online VIP giveaway contest until Nov 11th. The winner will receive VIP entry to the show along with one guest of their choice as special guests of Hungry Lucy.

Get the full details of the show HERE.

With the release of the video iPod comes a new era for Hungry Lucy … video to go! Now those of you that own a video iPod or Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) can watch Hungry Lucy video on your travels. Our first injection to the masses (ooh err) is the music video “Softly”. If feedback is favorable we will release more videos over the coming months.

- Download “Softly” for iPod video [help]
- Download “Softly” for Playstation Portable [help]

Let us know if you like this stuff in the SHOUTOUT forum.

Two new compilations on which Hungry Lucy appears have been added to the website.
The first is “Primal River Valley” (2 CD set) released by Latex Records. This is a cool concept compilation melding the ancient past with the present by presenting the music of electronic artists that have an ancient, worldly feel to them. Hungry Lucy’s contribution is actually a collaboration between Hungry Lucy and the amazing Australian world/celtic artist Louisa John-Krol (and her producer Bret Taylor). The result is a wonderfully organic version of “In the Circle”. You can peruse the tracklist here and order it directly from our web store here for only $10.

The second compilation is the massive “State of Synthpop 2005” released by A Different Drum. Hot on the heels of their 2003 five-disc box set, the label has surpassed it with a HUGE 6 CD set! It goes without saying that this comp is a veritable smorgasbord of synthpop goodness. The tracklist is way too huge to list here … so head over to the CD detail page for the info. While we don’t have this one in stock, you can order it direct from A Different Drum here

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Hungry Lucy is proud to announce our nomination for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award. We are among 5 bands nominated in the experimental/electronic music category. The award show will be held on Nov 21 at the Taft Theater.

Who decides the winner? YOU DO!!
VOTE HERE

As some of you know, Hungry Lucy made our first appearance on TV this past week in the form of a local cable TV show called City Nights. Since most of you are outside of our local viewing area, we’ve made special arrangements to bring you the video, on demand! 3 of the songs (”Rainfall“, “Softly” and “You Are“) aired on the program and we’ve added a couple of bonuses (”Grave” and “In the Circle“) that were taped after the live show aired. Just subscribe to our mailing list to receive a link to the video page via email.

SUBSCRIBE HERE (be sure to check the “send me video” box)