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Seattle Indie Music Examiner: Coffee, beer, and music: Ethan Freckleton w/ guest Wynne C Blue live at the Laughing Ladies Café

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After much back & forth, it has been decided that Troublefaker Barbie will NOT be raffled at the MS show. We'll be selling the PSC benefit compilation for $10 a disk in order to generate some funds for the Troublefaker recording project instead. The disk is (unfortunately) titled Rock 4 Life International v.4 and benefits research for a liver disease that currently can only be cured with a transplant. 22 tracks of some good independent music, and I'm the only female voice on the entire thing.

If you're attending, please bring a tenner to the show to buy one of these disks so we can put together a disk full of nothing but OUR songs.

MS building 31 cafe -- our set starts at 7. Event is open to MS employees, vendors, & contingent staff & their families (and possibly friends).

I managed to send an invitation to all 116 of my friends to a show I just booked because I created it through my personal profile instead of as "Wynne C Blue." This was hard enough before, but now they tell you to do it through a tab, that you probably don't already have on your artist page because they didn't give it to you, so you have to add it, and then -- only then -- does it make any sense. I deleted my first try and redid it. Ugh.

I have embarrassed myself via Facebook. At least it wasn't with an incriminating photo.

We'll have a lineup change for the night that may prove to liven up the set. I'm considering raffling off a couple of t-shirts with the flyer art on them to help pay for the sound guy -- it's a free show and we're all broke. We won't have CDs at this show, but we might at the one in March. I'm still working on getting a venue for the compilation disk release party.

Still very depressed. It shouldn't affect the show. Shows are the best part of my life right now, and I'm looking forward to all of them.

http://www.angelsdevilsghosts.com/

This was a lot of fun to do -- go check it out!

The booker for the High Dive gave us a mess of dates to choose from, and only two were feasible. The others were during my trip or too close to the show at the Rendezvous. We have put in a bid to play Feb 11. Hopefully he will see our email in time to get us that slot, otherwise we won't play there until March. I will confirm this date as soon as the High Dive does.

We're all very excited about playing the High Dive. It sucks that it's a Sunday, but oh well. I asked Ed to promote the show, and he gave me an excuse. Gosh, that didn't stop him from promoting the Tuesday show for his other band. I understand that he has spread himself thin these days and it's catching up with him, but now is not the time to go all cornflakes on me.

Discovered a headlight out on the truck. Yay! One more thing to repair.

I was hopeful about taxes this year, but since the paperwork originally filed with King County was not actually a legal separation, I'm not even legally separated. If we were that, both of us could file as single. I called and verified this with King County. No divorce on file, no separation on file. The next step is to call the IRS. Fun! Of course, I'm the only one investigating this, because I'm the one with a lot to lose. Garret doesn't care and never will. He's a brick.

I put together two songs for rehearsal tonight, and the guys didn't pick up on it like I'd hoped. They still sounded great, but not like I had them in my head. I will play around with my keyboard and guitar a little more, see if I can record a scratch.

I'm looking for people who will help me promote the show at the High Dive -- putting up flyers in their offices and around their neighborhoods, telling friends, posting on blogs, etc. I want to get this year off to a good start. I have to. In this economy, all I have is the band. I may be a sucky composer, but at least I enjoy what I do.

Six days until I leave for Tybee. I'm very excited! I need to call Allison and make arrangements. I've been cleaning like mad because she said she'd stay overnight with him a couple of times. He will be thrilled at that. At least I hope he will anyway...

Spend some of your Xmas money on this:



Only asking $80. Retails for $90-$125.

This week has been songwriting, recording, and more recording. Tomorrow I will be playing at a corporate picnic with Keith and a few other familiar faces.

Today's recording session with Conrad Uno over at Egg Studio's in Wedgewood went well. He's a good person to work with, and when I'm not actually singing there are plenty of things in the booth and around the studio to look at. Michael is writing lyrics and letting us figure out the rest on our own when presented with them and the accompanying music. I'm not a fan of this method, but it's getting him the results he had hoped for, and it's sounding really good. Samantha Rae, the first soprano, has an amazing voice -- which is saying a lot because I am rarely impressed by voices -- and I recorded some very low, rumbly backing vocals for her today.

Afterwards Michael took me to get something to eat and drove me home. I'm amazed at how tired I am. Shortly after I sat down at my computer Keith started to call me five times. He's all worked up over tomorrow's gig and wants to make sure I have all the information I need to get where I need to be in the morning PLUS remind me to dress "cowboy" AND don't forget my sunscreen. After asking me three times if I would forward the gig info to Stuart, he eventually asked me to forward the gig info to everyone. I did. The email was forwarded with the note "Keith has called me nine times this afternoon. Please let him know you received this or I will KILL HIM."

It's been a day. Tomorrow will be tough for me, as I am not looking forward to singing four hours of Americana/Standards/Country covers. For some reason I agreed to do it, but I can't remember how or why.