Oh, Tranny?

As promised, here is Jay Brannan talking about a gang of trannies on 7th Avenue.



"Hold my bag! Hold my bag!" 

"There were about 100 trannies..."

After getting directions to "the ferry" from my TomTom, I drove for about 2 hours to "Staten Island".  The reason they are in quotes is because TomTom (which I am getting rid of ASAP) gave me directions to where the ferry lets off... in NYC.  The whole reason I was taking the ferry is because I cannot drive in the city, it is too frustrating.  So after about an hour of being lost in the city (oh, did I mention TomTom doesn't work in the city?  The buildings throw off the signal) we found a parking garage and ended up spending about 20 bucks, while the ferry would have been free.  My two friends and I spent about 2 hours wandering the city, getting some prime purchases at Canal Street, and then headed over to the Highline Ballroom.  We got in and were required to buy some food (10 dollar minimum, how nice of them) so we sat and waited.  Chris Pureka was the opening act.

She was pretty good (the lighting was so bad on her though, all of my pictures were too blurry) although I can never fully appreciate an opening band, since I get too impatient waiting for the main act.  Her one song "You Don't Know Me" was pretty good.  At least that is what I think it was called. Check her out.

www.myspace.com/chrispureka 

Jay Brannan!  He came on and told a bunch of jokes, stories, and sang a little of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This".  He was extremely entertaining.  One story had to do with all of 7th Ave filled with trannies that fought each other.  He "swore to god" it was true, an entire block full of trannies stopping traffic, yelling "Hold my bag, hold my bag!".  A video of that will be coming shortly.

He played all of my favorites, minus "Body's a Temple".  "Soda Shop" was probably the highlight, since it is his most known song.  The whole crowd was extremely receptive and he seemed like he had a great time.  He also played "Housewife", "At First Sight" (including him asking the audience to play percussion for him.  It sort of worked), and "Straight Outta Compton" (as requested by my friend).  For some of the songs, he had a cello player and a violinist, which he hadn't done before.

We stayed after and waited near the huge line (not in it of course) to meet him.  We were the last people he saw, and he didn't seem too happy to have that many people talk to him.  Regardless, he gave us all hugs, thanked us for coming, and chatted for a minute or two.  He was very nice, so I was happy about that.

Check out the video for "Soda Shop" that I filmed.  He started off with a different song, and goes "I tricked you guys!", so I got most of the song:

More videos will be on my youtube account later.

http://www.youtube.com/user/alorsvraiment

C'est chaud

Next week is concert week, so I should probably blog about that.


Jay Brannan (7/16/08 at Highline Ballroom in NYC)


I first saw him in John Cameron Mitchells "Shortbus" playing Ceth. I usually don't like too much acoustic music, but he is definately a wonderful singer. His lyrics are real, and he has something many people do not: talent. Not to mention he is easy on the eyes.

Jay Brannan - At First Sight

Chris Garneau (7/18/08 at Joe's Pub in NYC)





I am in love with this man. He is by far the saddest person I have ever heard. He is an openly gay singer who barely gets above a whisper on each song. I am so excited for this concert, the videos I have seen of him live are fantastic. Not to mention he speaks french which gives him a lot of points in my book.
Chris Garneau - Relief


Santogold (7/20/08 Central Park in NYC)



This is more my usual pace. Every blog in the internetz has talked about Santogold, so I am pretty late in the game. I first saw her at M.I.A.'s show in Philly last december, and she blew the crowd away. I have never seen an artist mix so many elements together. Her cd "Santogold" has about 9 different genres of music on it.  Her voice is real clashy and her beats will make you either want to dance A LOT or relax A LOT.  Her concert is free, and she is playing with DIPLO, another of my favorites.  Elle est un fille pour mon coeur. Yes yes yes.

Santogold - Creator  




Pictures of the concerts will be uploaded the day after each of them.  (as long as I am not dead, drunk, dizzy, working, lost, lazy, or any combination of those)