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.
Let's connect! Here is where you can find me:
PLEASE PLEASE VIDEO IT CHANCES ARE I CAN’T ATTEND IN PERSON BUT I REALLY WANNA SEE THIS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
I hope there is still a plan to plan this! We would try like crazy to come from New Mexico to see it!
PLEASE DO THIS.
I would come in an instant! As would my friends. So many of our conversations focus on your eloquent world, and we would be so, so excited to be able to hear some of it live.
Aside from the albums themselves, this is the most amazing idea I’ve heard in forever. I’m in Canada, myself, but if something was confirmed I would definitely start saving my pennies or contribute money to get video footage.
I have no idea how you’d choose songs, but I’d love to see Possession, Gabriela Gadfly Suite, or Green Room Pale… or you know, dying at the idea of live action Slender job.
I live in Argentina, so it’s pretty hard to go there for me, but I’m totally willing to start saving up and going if you confirm this, it would be awesome.
I wouldn’t be able to get enough time off work to fly to the UK to see this, but I would absolutely donate some money to help for filming and then purchase of said film. This is such a neat idea!
Omg If this happens, please film it. I’d freakin buy a film of this with my Shopogopolis money
I want this to happen I would even help with the teching on the sound side of things.
I would hope he would tape it so people who couldn’t make it could see
It would be so fun if you could sing New Albion 7 and do all the voices?!
Even if I could not make it to the UK, I would definitely contribute in the Kickstarter campaign!
This sounds like an amazing idea to me. Although if I were you, I’d wait some time to see how thix Brexit stuff turns out, because it could affect the flight schedules/prices and difficulty to enter the UK from the EU, so I personally would not buy a ticket without knowing how much it would cost me to get to the UK next fall.
But other than that – supercool idea! I hope you can make it happen!
paulio plz do it i will sell my organs to get a plane ticket
Even though I don’t live in the UK, you should still totally do it! It would be so cool to hear about and maybe some highlights??? Just a suggestion! I hope you’ll at least consider the Cabaret. Lauren’s idea is fantastic!
Fuck yes! I will be there. I will fucking swim to London all the way from Las Fucking Cruces to see this.
Blood Red Dogs as audience participation piece.
I know I would usually bolt out “The Show No One Saw” whenever I’m particularly down in the dumps, knowing all the words by heart
Holy cow, that sounds awesome. Where do I sign?
I would attend without hesitation.
Well, I would certainly aim to be there! Earlier in October might be easier on my schedule, but whatever you folks can settle on, I’ll see what I can do. I’ve always wanted to see the UK, so this would be a great reason to finally make a trip out there and spend a couple weeks in the region.
And if for some reason I can’t make it, I would happily chip in some $ to help make a good video happen.
You better do it and also do the Hunt. Also, best idea is to do it Friday/Saturday/Sunday night and I will 100% go. It sounds like an amazing way to spend an October night.