Author
marco
A week before Martha's show in Milwaukee,
she was on Air America radio on the Laura
Flanders show. Here goes some of it with
some of my own commentary mixed in as well.
If you rebroadcast, you don't even have to
tell me. Copyleft AND public domain.
"Next Weekend we're in Milwaukee."
-- Martha Redbone
[audio...]
[voiceover...]
Old news, I know. But hey, sometimes it takes a
while to complete an audio edit, you know?
Martha played here in MKE at Potawatomie's Casino
on Feb 25th.
Oh my g-d! What a show. But I was only one of
about 120 people I would guess came and went
and heard her live there that night. So I'm
sharing her Laura Flanders gig here for you
to hear.
[audio...] Laura Flanders show.
http://www.airamericaradio.com/weblogs/lauraflanders
(Laura started the radio show Counterpunch before
jumping on the AirAmerica "bandwagon" last year
sometime. Yeah, I can't stand AARadio, but I love
three shows that got sucked up by it. Janeane
Garofalo, ChuckD, and Laura. Oh, a brand new one
I started loving is Steve Earle's weekend show
too, so I guess four.)
This is just snippets. Get the rest from AA archives
or something. They're commercial so I probably can't
get away with stuffing the entire thing in here.
:)
[voiceover...]
MKE doesn't treat NDN musicians very well, do we?
I'll give you just three examples and they each
effect Martha among other NDN artists.
First was the NAMMYS the one year it was here in MKE.
Local papers, radio, etc., corporate media was happy
to give the free ads leading up to the show. You know,
feature stories, glimpses, roundups. Everything. After
the humongous show at the Marcus Ampitheater?
F-ck...
If you read the local dailies and weeklies you'd think
it never happened!!! I saw journalists there. Did they
kill their own stories? But I digress.
Yes, Milwaukee shot themselves in the foot when they
fucked the NAMMYS. It will never happen here again. For
many reasons.
So Martha gets a gig at Shank Hall, advertised all over
the place as "NAMMY Award Winning Martha Redbone from
New York City." Well, she fulfilled her contract, collected
her gig money and went home. About 10 people went to that
show. Shank Hall? Fuck Shank Hall. Martha's not the only
one who's ever had a problem with Shank Hall.
OK. Martha's gig at Potawatomie went well by comparison.
But that ain't saying much, huh? My only two complaints
about that show, was that the theatre isn't really set
up well for getting up out of your booth and dancing
to her awesome R&B influences. And that not a lot of
people put down their 32 ounce cups of quarters to
rip themselves away from their slot machines and go
inside.
Well, we'd better start treating NDN artists well because
they rock.
And I'm not just saying that because of my own bias and
partiality. It comes honestly. No conflict of interest
here. I happen to like NDN music better than any other
genre out there.
OK. A couple Martha gigs to tell you about. Get the
rest off a' her webpage.
Apr 9th is her SKINTALK CD Release party.
7:30pm,Sat at the Sedona Creative Life Center..
in Sedona. That's AZ
And Apr 16th she'll have rushed home to play FRANK'S
Lounge in Brooklyn. Next time I'm on the east coast
I sure do hope she happens to be home gigging around
NYC. Cause I'm hoppin' on Amtrak and catching a couple
of her shows for sure.
[audio...]
http://www.martharedbone.com
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-nyc-print/2004-December/1207-j…
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/10589
http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati422.txt
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1031140411
http://www.counterpunch.org
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/28934