Le Sabot Post-Moderne: Speeding Lisa!

janvier 29, 2005

Speeding Lisa!

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TulipGirl and I hit Art Club 44 tonight for the Speeding Lisa concert. It was madness. The crowd was half expat/half Ukrainian girl groupies. The music was great, though they've lost Jennifer, their former lead singer, to the lures of Canada.

They led off the concert tonight with the Orange Revolution anthem "Razom Nas Bahato."

Here's Nick and Mark. Ironically, the only Scot in the band is not one of the two be-kilted members.

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There's Ewan, the lead singer. The guy in the red shirt is actually Castor Borealis, whom you see in the comments section here at Le Sabot. An awesome guitarist, and all around cool frood. Not only does he know all the best pop culture references, both his French and his Russian are better than mine. He had good news tonight -- the band is adding the Dead Kennedy's "Holiday in Cambodia" to the repertoire.

This is a shot of them singing my favorite song in their lineup -- a spin on a Sex Pistols classic -- "Anarchy in the Ukraine." You end up with lines like, "Is this the KGB, or is this the SBU, or is this the CIA? I thought it was the Ukraine!"

Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 29, 2005 04:09 AM | TrackBack

Hi There,

Love your web site. Have been reading it for the last couple of months. Excellent job giving us a personal, inside look at what's happening in Kyiv. I lived in Kyiv from '96-2000. Just checked out your article about Speeding Lisa and saw Ewan in your pictures! We used to work together at Eastern Economist. Just wondering if there's any way of getting in touch with him via email. By the way, my brother has a cool web site on the band scene in Detroit -- nestorindetroit.com Check it out!

Ksenia

Posted by: ksenia at janvier 29, 2005 05:24 AM

Ksenia-

Thanks! Ewan is cool. I won't likely see him again until mid-April when they have their next concert. I can try to get his email through Castor (he joined the band after you left Kyiv).

Your brother's site is great! Somebody needs to do that for Ybor City (Tampa.) There are still some great venues there.

Robert-

Hi pal. . . I need to either grow longer arms or else start asking other people to take our picture for us. Til then, that's basically the only angle I can manage. :-)

Posted by: Discoshaman at janvier 29, 2005 01:48 PM

Hi Robert,

If you can get Ewan's email, that would be great. If it's a hassle, I can wait. Thanks. I'll tell Nestor you checked out his site. I gave him your web address too. I keep telling him to write a book about the Detroit music scene -- he got me into the Sex Pistols and Ramones when I was 13 years old! Hope things work out with your book about the Orange Revolution.

Posted by: ksenia at janvier 29, 2005 05:48 PM

Discoshaman,

Thanks for the review! I'm also very grateful for the picture, for which you were obviously using the special "thinning" lens.

It was a great pleasure to meet you and the utterly charming Duchess. I'm sure we'll be seeing a great deal more of each other from now on.

All the best,

Castor

Posted by: Castor Borealis at janvier 31, 2005 09:14 AM

Hi guys!
Thank you so much for these glorious pictures.
This means so much to me because that day it was my birthday and if you were there and heard Nick Morris singing HAppy Birthday, it was for me. =)
Awesome pictures!
Peace
Ira

Posted by: Ira at février 3, 2005 08:32 PM