Smith Island has grown up and pared down they say. Out the glitter, out the superfluous they say. Out the films, the smoke machines, winged angels being flown onstage to chase evil scantily-clad nurses. Don’t give in to disappointment because all of that loveliness will soon return, but the treat you’re in for this Friday is a slightly different animal What the grand scale extravaganza sometimes concealed, the intimate Crash Mansion nookiness will welcome and bring to light: the sheer quality of the music. The chiseled lyrics, dark and tender, humorous and savage. The heart-seizing melodies, giddily joyful at times, hauntingly tragic at others, like a violin’s bow on your fucking veins. And most importantly perhaps the vocal prowess of Gabrielle Stubbert.
Accompanied by the equally wizardy Aaron Berk, Gabrielle’s voice is a force to be reckoned with, a Patti Smith in disguise, a harem-full of distinct personalities. This Friday when she sings the life and times of her own paranoid schizophrenic mother sort of “unplugged”, without the veils and the bows and the whistles, I expect something quite shattering will happen. In a most exciting way. Welcoming the arrival of hauntingly gripping Cellist Rubin Khodeli (of Precious and True Blood fame), Paul McGilloway and David Aaron Berger will also have to shed one of their hard-rocking skins.
I can’t wait to hear what happens. See you there.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12TH 8:30 PM sharp.
Crash Mansion,199 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
ADMISSION $ 10.00
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