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SoftBlackStar
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 Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: Baby Dee |
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How great that Baby Dee is touring, let's hope Glasgow is going to be included 
I have the EP 'Look What The Wind Blew In.'
Lovely
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orlando
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Good move softblackstars! A Baby Dee thread was long over due
Here's her bio from allmusic.com
Performance artist, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent ten years as music director and organist for a Catholic church in the Bronx before joining the circus as the bilateral hermaphrodite at Coney Island. This landed her a gig as the bandleader for performance art group the Bindlestiff Family Circus and a tour with the Kamikaze Freak Show in Europe. After moving back to New York City, she became a fixture in lower Manhattan with a street act on a high-rise tricycle with a concert harp. She recorded her first record, Little Window, on the Durtro label in 2000, a four-track EP in 2001, and her second full-length, the double-disc Love's Small Song, in 2002. Dee returned to Ohio during the latter record's recording, taking vows as a novitiate of the Little Sisters of Crabby Doom (a Cleveland-based order dedicated to the care of smelly old men), vows that she has since forsaken. |
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elise
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Location: Lille, France
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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I think that the live dates belong here now
Baby Dee Live Shows 2006
US and Canada
San Francisco Feb 18
Pheonix Feb 19 The Trunk Space http://www.thetrunkspace.com/
Austin Feb 21 with Wierd Weeds
Columbia Missouri Feb 23 24 & 25 www.truefalse.org www.ragtagfilm.com
Montreal March 9 support for Larsen
Boston March 11 support for Larsen
New York March 12 support for Larsen @ tonic http://www.tonicnyc.com/
New York March 17 @ Galapagos with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
New York March 19 @ Makor with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
New York March 24 @ Galapagos with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
New York March 26 Sxip's Hour of Charm http://www.livingroomny.com/
Europe
Nantes April 9 with Current 93 @ Le Lieu Unique http://www.lelieuunique.com/
Brighton April 13 with Pantaleimon (not confirmed)
Lancaster April 17 @ The Yorkshire House http://www.lawm.co.uk
Cardiff April 18 support for Akron Family www.weareforecast.com
Brystol April 19 The Cube Cinema http://microplex.cubecinema.com/
Cheltenhamn April 20 with Pantaleimon www.calmermusic.co.uk
London April 21 (not confirmed)
Manchester April 22 the Britons Protection
Newcastle or Glasgow April 23 (not confirmed)
Switzerland April 28 support for Larsen
Milano tba (not confirmed)
Rome tba (not confirmed)
Porto May 5 @ Famalicao
Lisbon May 6 @ ZDB
Paris May 8 @ Le Chantier
Copenhagen tba
Copenhagen tba
Ghent May 17 (not confirmed)
Antwerp May 18 (not confirmed)
Current 93 tour starting in Belgium May 19
ending in Athens June 4 (ten cities) Durtro.com:
Athens June 5 with six organs of admittance
someone stole her harp in Belgium !!!
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/maude/babydeelive.htm |
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Candy Darling
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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ordered Loves Small Song from www.hmv.co.uk yesterday (with free delivery  ) i've only heard sound clips from this album but i'm already falling deeply, deeply in love with her. Can't wait for the cd to arrive! |
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MK
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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In Nantes she'll be playing with Current 93, but she's won't have a solo show. And she's trying to get some concerts in Spain (some good news for me)
Girls and Boys: we could arrange a meeting of justonestarers at some of her concerts...
I've orderded love's small songs, made for love and a live recording from Torino, that's all I could find. Little window and Book of songs for anne marie will be reissued this summer by durtro |
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lyre_byrd
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Location: Prince Edward Island
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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SoftBlackStar, thanks for starting a thread for Baby Dee.
I'm moving some comments from other threads over to this one.
| Jakob wrote: | Oh, and Baby Dee should appeal in some way to a great percentage of the core of the Antony fan-base. I can't decide which one of her records is the best, but Little Window is a great record. Love's Small Song and A Book Of Songs for Anne Marie as well. If you aren't already familiar with her work, you better hurry up. Baby Dee is unique. She plays some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, and lyrically she's way ahead of Antony. Oh, maybe i should mention that she is a former member of The Johnsons, so i suspect most of you already know her music.
The Robin's Tiny Throat
I woke up one morning heard a robin's song.
I asked that robin "Why do you sing?"
"It was a voice whose rhymes are worlds
That made my song for me
How could I not sing?"
I woke up on morning heard a robins song
I asked that robin "Who made your throat?"
"That same hand that flies a million dawns
Made my tiny throat and wrote my songs
How could I not sing?"
I built an arbor and I asked the vine
"How come you grow so tall?"
"If I can make it above the wall
That same hand that holds out hope for all
Will gild me in the morning sky
And though I cannot sing
That hand a gentle wind will bring
And make a rustling lullaby
For milky sleeping babes
How could I not grow?"
I woke up one morning and I asked the sky
"How can you bear such emptiness?"
"For that bright eye that looks out and smiles
And makes my night her day
What would I not bear?"
I woke up one morning and I heard her voice
She called me by my name
What would I not give
To be called her child
What would I not give
To be called her friend
I'm gonna wake up one morning I'm gonna see her face
Smiling down on me
That robin's song and that morning sky
Are all the hope I need
I don't know how and I don't know why
But I'm gonna wake up one morning and I'll see her face
Smiling Down on me
I'm gonna wake up one morning |
| lyre_byrd wrote: |
I love Baby Dee. I have 'Love's Small Song.' 
Saw her live during a three day festival in Toronto with Antony and Current 93 this past June.
I'd describe her as vaudevillean or tin pan alley, Gilbert and Sullivan go burlesque, or Tiny Tim meets Ivor Novello at an Edwardian dinner party. 
Two songs I passionately love are 'So Bad' and 'When I Get Home.'
Her lyrics are sometimes a little raw, "Jesus got my mom in there and beat her up so bad," or whimsical, "So love could float her rosy little boat and the moon and the morning star could be such good friends," or maybe she's nature's poet: "From withered grass and broken branches you made my heart a robin's nest."
She has a penchant for robins and recorded a CD of them singing in her mom's back garden! |
Regarding Dee's harp:
| rose wrote: | | Did Baby Dee get her harp back? It got stolen, I remember reading somewhere. |
| voskat wrote: | I don't think she has it back yet. Very sad.  |
Does anyone know if the harp was found?
I think one can order Baby Dee's albums from our very own bber (jnana) here too. |
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lyre_byrd
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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This thread could never be worthless, but here's one:
Who can find more? |
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eko
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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In a nutshell
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eko
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I'm getting obsessed here too...  Did you read this on the Durtro homepage?
Baby Dee on Baby Dee:
Baby Dee is a child of light • A circus freak and a happy whore • How many seas would she make for you • If there were even half a chance • That one of them might find you by its shore • To cool your toes and make you laugh
She'd smile a sky from East to West • So wide that both horizons crack • And if some distant nations fall • Well, Isn't that just too bad! • For love has made her just like God • And God and Baby Dee are both quite mad
Baby Dee is in love • That's all there is to say about Baby Dee |
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victoria
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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she looks just like one of my aunties (whom i adore) here |
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febgirl
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Those pictures remind me of the artist who won Britain's Turner prize a few years back, whose name escapes me, but who likes to wear dresses like that, |
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rose
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| febgirl wrote: | | Those pictures remind me of the artist who won Britain's Turner prize a few years back, whose name escapes me |
Grayson Perry |
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febgirl
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for curing my senior moment |
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rose
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Ah yes. You're well past that first threshold now 
There was a big interview piece in one of the sunday papers just a few weeks ago which probably jogged my memory (six attempts to type memory correctly!!)
rose
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elise
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: |
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did you know that antony did the art cover of little window ?
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