my heart burns wildly in his eyes.
I got to the venue earlier than I ever would've needed to because I was hoping to catch Melissa before she went inside.
However, the tour bus was already there, and I could hear her soundchecking.
Nice weather, eh? A girl from the merch booth came out of the bus with her hands full, so I opened the door for her - and since it was open I went inside.
An elderly man in a Hawaiian shirt came, but he told me to stay inside or I'd catch something, so that was nice.
The sound check sounded great - I even considered sneaking in, but the sound was so great that I didn't need to. Around 5PM a guy came out and asked me if I was already there for the show -
we started talking, and he looked familiar to me, so I wasn't too surprised when he introduced himself as the guy who supports her :P
We talked about music in general and Melissa's time in Hole... he said that Eric is such a nice guy, and how crazy Courtney is, haha.
He stayed there and talked to me for over an hour... just after 6 he went back inside because he was supposed to sound check.
I checked Twitter after Troy had gone back in. I had tweeted her asking if the show was still on because when I woke up it was snowing really heavily, and it kept snowing all day, and I knew that they were in Warsaw the day before, and that's a long drive away - she'd replied with "SNOW DOESN'T STOP MUSIC!" :) I tweeted that I was waiting and listening to the sound check and how great it sounded.
Pretty soon another guy came in, the second person there, haha. He was really nice, and we talked about music too, haha. He's a huge Tori Amos fan who follows her around on tour - we exchanged Facebook contacts, and he asked me not to be shocked when seeing his birthyear. I didn't think much of it, thought that he would probably be around 27 or so, but it later turned out that he was actually 36. Haha... I'm horrible at guessing someone's age, I suppose.
They opened doors at 7, and we were the first ones inside - they usually never open the doors to the actual stage area until later on and everyone's inside... I guess they hope for people to go to the bar first.
Anyway, Dawid, that was the guy's name, tried the door and it was unlocked, so we went inside anyway.
After a while the sound technician came in and started pulling the courtain to the side, and just stared at us for a second, so I asked if we were even allowed to be inside yet, and he said "No... but I don't care".
Even after the doors were opened no one came... we were in there on our own forever. At some point Troy came and asked me what my name was again.
At 7:30 they showed the Out Of Our Minds movie. It's 30 minutes long, and I'm not going to lie, I'm not sure I completely caught the hidden message... it's pretty similar to the music video.
Melissa is driving a car up a road in the woods, stopping to take pictures of stuff, and then a truck with a tree trunk on the back crashes into her as she's driving.
Then it cuts to two vikings running in the woods... one of them has an arrow in his back. Melissa is some weird witch lady in a long black robe living in a cabin in the middle of the woods, and she heals the one viking - it later turns out that he's actually a woman, and you later see Melissa washing her, as the other viking comes and steals some... kind of big jute sack and runs off with it.
And then Melissa somehow materializes behind him and cuts his throat, then takes his heart out and puts it in said sack.
Then it cuts to a different scene again, and you can see a whole bunch of lumberjacks cutting down trees. And the trees start bleeding and they keep cutting them and get drenched in blood...
and then you see a tree trunk with a heart beating inside of it, and Melissa gets out of her crashed car and that was pretty much it.
Yeah... this is what it says on the website:
Three time periods, one connection: Blood. The central characters are a woman and her car. The 28-minute film follows her in a strange ritual that climaxes in a collision between past and future, crashing through the gateway to parallel worlds in the same forest. A fantasy world where a Viking heart, a car crash and a bleeding forest connect. Using music rather than dialogue, the film tells a universal tale in striking optics.
Borrowed from mythology, the Hunt for the Heart is the eternal quest envisioned in OOOM. Conceived by musician Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole / Smashing Pumpkins) and birthed by Filmmaker Tony Stone (Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America) this mini epic is proudly self-produced and shot in HD fuelled by solar power.
You can watch the trailer here. It was selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, so...
Anyway, after the movie Troy von Balthazar came on. His music is... weird. But I really really liked it. He was by himself and he used loop-effects, something I haven't seen anyone do in years.
And his vocals are... haunting. That's the perfect word for them. He was really sweet and kind to the audience.
"This is a song about dogs. It's called Dogs."
"This is a song for my future girlfriend."
Towards the end of his set he said that unfortunately his piano didn't fit in his luggage, so he had to be creative... and he sat down on the stage and played a recording of himself playing the piano on a little radio. xD
Then, right before his last song, he said "This song is for Tanya." AWWWWWWWWW.
I loved that they played Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos during the set change.
The venue had really filled up by then, I was actually surprised... I didn't think she'd be this well-known. It's a small venue, but still.
Melissa Auf der Maur's set started at 9:15PM sharp.
She's so beautiful... I'm just gonna put this here. She's such a natural beauty... and she doesn't look like she's made of plastic like someone else *coughCourtcough*
Favorite, because she was looking straight at me.
Her top was really fascinating, okay.
The crowd interaction was nice, she talked between most songs... said what a disgrace it is that she doesn't speak German, and actually replied to everyone in the audience who said anything at all.
Oh, I remember that after "Out Of Our Minds" she was like "Those two back there - they made out for half the song. That's what I am talking about, keep it up!"
She broke a string at some point. Father's Grave was really beautiful and heartbreaking... completely acapella and she was crying by the end of it.
Setlist:
Isis Speaks
Lightning Is My Girl
Real A Lie
Lead Horse
Taste You
My Foggy Notion
I Need I Want I Will
Out Of Our Minds
Father's Grave
Meet Me On The Dark Side
22 Below
Paranoid (Black Sabbath Cover)
Followed The Waves
Skin Receiver
When The Music's Over (The Doors Cover)
I don't have much to add, really. The setlist was amazing and she is flawless.
When it was over me and Dawid got something to drink at the bar in the hopes that most people would leave after a while, and that we could go and get our stuff signed.
We were waiting when Troy came up to us and we chatted some more.
He told me to "facebook him", haha.
Then we got in line at the merch table to meet Melissa. When it was my turn Troy went over to her and told her that I was the girl who'd gotten there so early, and she was like "Oh! You're the one who tweeted that you were listening to the soundcheck?" and I was like "Yeah... I was also the one who asked if the show was still on..." and she was like "...and I replied to that, did you see it?!?!" xD
She was soooo adorable! I told her how I saw Hole twice this year, and she asked me how it was with kind of a smirk. She seemed pretty happy when I told her that it just wasn't the same without her anymore :P
She gave me a button because I was the first one there and because I'm so cute, apparently. One of her merch guys gave me a guitar pick for the same reason xD
She took a picture with me and signed my album - even wrote my name in it, which she didn't in everyone else's :D
I went back over to Troy then and bought his album, and had him sign it.
He wrote "It was very nice to talk with you" :)
Dawid left around 11:45PM, I stayed since I'd missed the train and the next and last one wasn't going to come by for another 45 minutes. So I talked to Troy for another 30 minutes.
He told me that he toured with fricken Nirvana. So I asked him to tell me about it, and he did.
He said that he was backstage once and saw a woman with an infant in her arm screaming bloody murder at the security guy who wouldn't let her get backstage. He later realized that it was Courtney.
Then he said that Kurt once came up to him and asked him why he never came to hang out with him backstage, and when Troy told him that he didn't want to bother him he said that Kurt looked him in the eyes and said
"Please come. Sometimes I just get so lonely." :(
He also told me that he was invited to his house once, and that he had the little astronaut MTV award thing on the bathroom floor, to keep the door open.
"He just didn't care about any of it... he was such a genuine, simple guy. Gosh, he was such a nice guy. A beautiful soul, truly."
Most people had left by then (the venue's curfew is actually midnight, oops), so I got another, better, picture with Melissa, since she wasn't sitting on the counter anymore.
Then I got basically kicked out by security... I mean, they locked the door behind me. Haha.
And here it is, the night's treasure :)
Melissa's button is missing because I'd already put it on my bag.
However, the tour bus was already there, and I could hear her soundchecking.
Nice weather, eh? A girl from the merch booth came out of the bus with her hands full, so I opened the door for her - and since it was open I went inside.
An elderly man in a Hawaiian shirt came, but he told me to stay inside or I'd catch something, so that was nice.
The sound check sounded great - I even considered sneaking in, but the sound was so great that I didn't need to. Around 5PM a guy came out and asked me if I was already there for the show -
we started talking, and he looked familiar to me, so I wasn't too surprised when he introduced himself as the guy who supports her :P
We talked about music in general and Melissa's time in Hole... he said that Eric is such a nice guy, and how crazy Courtney is, haha.
He stayed there and talked to me for over an hour... just after 6 he went back inside because he was supposed to sound check.
I checked Twitter after Troy had gone back in. I had tweeted her asking if the show was still on because when I woke up it was snowing really heavily, and it kept snowing all day, and I knew that they were in Warsaw the day before, and that's a long drive away - she'd replied with "SNOW DOESN'T STOP MUSIC!" :) I tweeted that I was waiting and listening to the sound check and how great it sounded.
Pretty soon another guy came in, the second person there, haha. He was really nice, and we talked about music too, haha. He's a huge Tori Amos fan who follows her around on tour - we exchanged Facebook contacts, and he asked me not to be shocked when seeing his birthyear. I didn't think much of it, thought that he would probably be around 27 or so, but it later turned out that he was actually 36. Haha... I'm horrible at guessing someone's age, I suppose.
They opened doors at 7, and we were the first ones inside - they usually never open the doors to the actual stage area until later on and everyone's inside... I guess they hope for people to go to the bar first.
Anyway, Dawid, that was the guy's name, tried the door and it was unlocked, so we went inside anyway.
After a while the sound technician came in and started pulling the courtain to the side, and just stared at us for a second, so I asked if we were even allowed to be inside yet, and he said "No... but I don't care".
Even after the doors were opened no one came... we were in there on our own forever. At some point Troy came and asked me what my name was again.
At 7:30 they showed the Out Of Our Minds movie. It's 30 minutes long, and I'm not going to lie, I'm not sure I completely caught the hidden message... it's pretty similar to the music video.
Melissa is driving a car up a road in the woods, stopping to take pictures of stuff, and then a truck with a tree trunk on the back crashes into her as she's driving.
Then it cuts to two vikings running in the woods... one of them has an arrow in his back. Melissa is some weird witch lady in a long black robe living in a cabin in the middle of the woods, and she heals the one viking - it later turns out that he's actually a woman, and you later see Melissa washing her, as the other viking comes and steals some... kind of big jute sack and runs off with it.
And then Melissa somehow materializes behind him and cuts his throat, then takes his heart out and puts it in said sack.
Then it cuts to a different scene again, and you can see a whole bunch of lumberjacks cutting down trees. And the trees start bleeding and they keep cutting them and get drenched in blood...
and then you see a tree trunk with a heart beating inside of it, and Melissa gets out of her crashed car and that was pretty much it.
Yeah... this is what it says on the website:
Three time periods, one connection: Blood. The central characters are a woman and her car. The 28-minute film follows her in a strange ritual that climaxes in a collision between past and future, crashing through the gateway to parallel worlds in the same forest. A fantasy world where a Viking heart, a car crash and a bleeding forest connect. Using music rather than dialogue, the film tells a universal tale in striking optics.
Borrowed from mythology, the Hunt for the Heart is the eternal quest envisioned in OOOM. Conceived by musician Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole / Smashing Pumpkins) and birthed by Filmmaker Tony Stone (Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America) this mini epic is proudly self-produced and shot in HD fuelled by solar power.
You can watch the trailer here. It was selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, so...
Anyway, after the movie Troy von Balthazar came on. His music is... weird. But I really really liked it. He was by himself and he used loop-effects, something I haven't seen anyone do in years.
And his vocals are... haunting. That's the perfect word for them. He was really sweet and kind to the audience.
"This is a song about dogs. It's called Dogs."
"This is a song for my future girlfriend."
Towards the end of his set he said that unfortunately his piano didn't fit in his luggage, so he had to be creative... and he sat down on the stage and played a recording of himself playing the piano on a little radio. xD
Then, right before his last song, he said "This song is for Tanya." AWWWWWWWWW.
I loved that they played Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos during the set change.
The venue had really filled up by then, I was actually surprised... I didn't think she'd be this well-known. It's a small venue, but still.
Melissa Auf der Maur's set started at 9:15PM sharp.
She's so beautiful... I'm just gonna put this here. She's such a natural beauty... and she doesn't look like she's made of plastic like someone else *coughCourtcough*
Favorite, because she was looking straight at me.
Her top was really fascinating, okay.
The crowd interaction was nice, she talked between most songs... said what a disgrace it is that she doesn't speak German, and actually replied to everyone in the audience who said anything at all.
Oh, I remember that after "Out Of Our Minds" she was like "Those two back there - they made out for half the song. That's what I am talking about, keep it up!"
She broke a string at some point. Father's Grave was really beautiful and heartbreaking... completely acapella and she was crying by the end of it.
Setlist:
Isis Speaks
Lightning Is My Girl
Real A Lie
Lead Horse
Taste You
My Foggy Notion
I Need I Want I Will
Out Of Our Minds
Father's Grave
Meet Me On The Dark Side
22 Below
Paranoid (Black Sabbath Cover)
Followed The Waves
Skin Receiver
When The Music's Over (The Doors Cover)
I don't have much to add, really. The setlist was amazing and she is flawless.
When it was over me and Dawid got something to drink at the bar in the hopes that most people would leave after a while, and that we could go and get our stuff signed.
We were waiting when Troy came up to us and we chatted some more.
He told me to "facebook him", haha.
Then we got in line at the merch table to meet Melissa. When it was my turn Troy went over to her and told her that I was the girl who'd gotten there so early, and she was like "Oh! You're the one who tweeted that you were listening to the soundcheck?" and I was like "Yeah... I was also the one who asked if the show was still on..." and she was like "...and I replied to that, did you see it?!?!" xD
She was soooo adorable! I told her how I saw Hole twice this year, and she asked me how it was with kind of a smirk. She seemed pretty happy when I told her that it just wasn't the same without her anymore :P
She gave me a button because I was the first one there and because I'm so cute, apparently. One of her merch guys gave me a guitar pick for the same reason xD
She took a picture with me and signed my album - even wrote my name in it, which she didn't in everyone else's :D
I went back over to Troy then and bought his album, and had him sign it.
He wrote "It was very nice to talk with you" :)
Dawid left around 11:45PM, I stayed since I'd missed the train and the next and last one wasn't going to come by for another 45 minutes. So I talked to Troy for another 30 minutes.
He told me that he toured with fricken Nirvana. So I asked him to tell me about it, and he did.
He said that he was backstage once and saw a woman with an infant in her arm screaming bloody murder at the security guy who wouldn't let her get backstage. He later realized that it was Courtney.
Then he said that Kurt once came up to him and asked him why he never came to hang out with him backstage, and when Troy told him that he didn't want to bother him he said that Kurt looked him in the eyes and said
"Please come. Sometimes I just get so lonely." :(
He also told me that he was invited to his house once, and that he had the little astronaut MTV award thing on the bathroom floor, to keep the door open.
"He just didn't care about any of it... he was such a genuine, simple guy. Gosh, he was such a nice guy. A beautiful soul, truly."
Most people had left by then (the venue's curfew is actually midnight, oops), so I got another, better, picture with Melissa, since she wasn't sitting on the counter anymore.
Then I got basically kicked out by security... I mean, they locked the door behind me. Haha.
And here it is, the night's treasure :)
Melissa's button is missing because I'd already put it on my bag.