Lauren made a very, very interesting suggestion recently, which is starting to gain traction and which is actually starting to… become a thing. A live cabaret performance, next Halloween (2019), featuring Lauren and number of other performers from the albums. Oliver Marsh has said yes. Courtney Ellis (Jackie) is in. There’s another well known person or two who has given a possible, tentative yes… Perhaps i can even get Joni-Rae Anderson to design a doll (Lloyd/Jasper) or two (slenderman?).
Since we’re all poor musicians and performers, we can’t do big spectacle, but we CAN do cute, intimate and fun. Sure, we can pump in some full music for some bits, but i think the best bits could be intimate moments where i play piano while, for instance, Courtney sings Best Of Times. Raven could MC. We could easily pull of the entire 1st act of Dolls. Selections from any of the albums. Oliver singing Daddy Left, Green Room Pale, Samuel… hell if Lauren, Oliver and myself are in one room with a puppet we could actually do The Hunt from Slenderman live. Live, like, 5 feet from you. (Picture one of us actually under a giant slenderman puppet while Lauren suggests we… rub…)
Depending who we can get to say yes would obviously affect certain songs we could choose. You want to see Lauren sing Annabel, Rachael, Constance, Zoe… Helen? Lauren sings Helen’s Lament while i play piano? Come on, that’s not the worst way to spend a Halloween. Raven performing See Our Show live while Lauren actually stands there on stage horrified? John O’Brien performed right there in front of you. Raven and Loyd bickering because we’d actually have a “doll” right there. A lot of songs would be chosen based on factors like who’s performing, who wants to sing what, what would actually work best live in that particular setting, but i would a have a few numbers set aside for fan vote.
It would be one night only, October 2019. We’re just talking right now. We haven’t worked out any details, but it would definitely be in the UK, general London area (which could be a whole bunch of places). We haven’t talked details, although i’ve never done a Kickstarter and i’ve been saving that for some special thing when i might one day need to hit folks up for money to pull something off.. If we raised enough money we could even hire someone to film it so anyone who couldn’t attend could still have a video to watch. But for now just putting out feelers is all. Just putting out feelers.
