WomenRock Next Wednesday.

Next Wednesday, June 16, we’ll be performing at an event in San Francisco called Womenrock. As an organization, Womenrock highlights females in music and brings awareness to non-profits with similar pro-women goals. The event is sponsored by the National Organization for Women, among others, and promises to be a cool show involving music, spoken word and comedy sketches. We were asked by the organizer, Bernadette, to join the bill which will definitely not be your normal Wednesday night out in the city.

One of the highlights of the night looks like it will be Conspiracy of Venus, an ensemble chorus of around 40 women with a repertoire consisting of, among other things, Tom Waits and Bjork. I’m looking forward to checking that out.

Our set will be similar to the one we toured with – the distillation of our first year or so as a live band. It’s been quite a ride paring down to a quartet without any synths onstage. If you haven’t caught us live in the last few months, I hope you’ll come check it out.

Also, for those of you that have gotten into The Mystery Parade, the posters that he’s put together for this show are some of the nicest he’s done. These are printed on a thick, porous matte stock that really makes them satisfying to hold. There’s an accompanying card that is more practical in nature, but still nice to look at.

You can purchase tickets straight from us and avoid all the surcharges. Here’s the link again.

Footnote: This will be the first time Stripmall Architecture performs at The Independent – a venue that we really loved playing as Halou (and Invisible Ballet), even all the way back when it was called The Justice League. I remember having to leave Simon, our son (an infant at the time), at the hospital with pneumonia with his great grandmother one night so that we didn’t have to cancel our first show there back when Halou was just Rebecca and I. That was a tough day.

- Ryan