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Celebrating six years of TIG at Exile in {Imaginary} Girlville
Tennis Pro get Girlvilled. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Last night Three Imaginary Girls celebrated two momentous occasions -- our sixth birthday, and the re-release of one of our favorite albums of all times, Liz Phair's seminal debut Exile in Guyville -- with the best tribute to the fine record we could think of: nine of our favorite Northwest bands, covering the record from start to finish. We're still reeling from the sheer giddiness of the night. Chop Suey was packed with over 300 amazing people, reveling in the joy of finally getting to hear the album performed live by such amazing musicians.
The bands were stellar. Srsly. I had extremely high expectatation for the night, and they were all exceeded.
Thanks so much to all the amazing bands who played; thanks a zillion to Easy Street Records, KEXP, Seattle Sound Magazine for co-sponsoring the night and especially to David Schmader of the Stranger for co-emceeing it; and most of all, thanks to all of YOU, our readers for an insanely wonderful six years of Three Imaginary Girls.
Without further ado, here's the setlist as well as some fabu-photos from the night. We expect loads more pictures coming in the next few days; in fact, if you have some yourself, please post them to our TIG Sparkly Indie Pop Flickr group.
Lucy Bland "6'1""
Lucy Bland "Help Me Mary"
Star Anna "Glory"
Star Anna "Dance Of The Seven Veils"
Tennis Pro "Never Said"
Tennis Pro "Soap Star Joe"
M. Bison "Explain It To Me"
M. Bison "Canary"
Visqueen "Mesmerizing"
Rachel Flotard "Fuck And Run"
Lesli Wood "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
Lesli Wood "Divorce Song"
Team Gina "Shatter"
Team Gina "Flower"
Tea Cozies "Johnny Sunshine"
Tea Cozies "Gunshy"
Throw Me The Statue "Stratford-On-Guy"
Throw Me The Statue "Strange Loop"
Lucy Bland, standing six-feet-one instead of five-feet-two. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Who knew "Help Me Mary" needed a glockenspiel? Lucy Bland, that's who. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Star Anna bowled us over with her throaty, sparse interpretations of her songs. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Tennis Pro rocked "Never Said" in drag (and messy lipstick). Photo by Laura Musselman.
M. Bison killed "Canary." Photo by Laura Musselman.
M. Bison: They come when called. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Rachel Flotard of Visqueen was Mesmerrizing. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Letters and sodas and Visqueen. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Lesli Wood gets away with what the girls call murder. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Lesli is backed up by Cristina Bautista and the Team Ginas. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Anna Banana backup dances. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Gina Genius. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Gina Bling: Wants to be your blowjob queen? Photo by Jeanine Anderson.
Tea Cozies are "Gunshy." Photo by Laura Musselman.
Throw Me the Statue like to pretend they're in a Galaxie 500 video. Photo by Jeanine Anderson.
Throw Me the Statue. Photo by Jeanine Anderson.
Co-emcee David Schmader. Photo by Laura Musselman.
Photo by Laura Musselman.
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imaginary stella said on June 27, 2008:
Woot! I'm still reeling from all the excitement (and all the mandarain & crans).
This night was absolutely one of the most fun in a long time. Hanging with all the imaginaries -- for real, in person -- was an absolute blast. Loved ringing in the EIG re-release and blowing out the proverbial candles on TIG's cake. I, too, celebrated an anniversary last night -- it's been four years now that I've been writing here. Time sure does fly when you're having the most fun ever! And it makes me beam to know my words sit alongside such incredibly talented and incredibly fun people's work on TIG.
igDana, I echo your sentiments about finally hearing these Liz Phair tracks sung live...after all these years. And hearing them by some of our finest hometown artists was icing on the (birthday) cake. I'm not sure I'd even want to hear Liz try to hold a candle to Lesli Wood, Rachel Flotard, or Team Gina's renditions.
Stellar!
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Margot said on June 27, 2008:
I just wanted to point out that the picture of the girl playing "Gunshy" isn't actually Lucy Bland. It's really Tea Cozies, who did an amazing job on that song by the way!
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Kyle Johnson said on June 27, 2008:
photos look lovely!! glad it was a success. thanks for everything TIG! so bummed i didn't make it out. something important came up with a friend last minute =(
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Imaginary Kiku said on June 27, 2008:
Looks incredible!! I hope someone recorded some of that!
The guy from Tennis Pro looks like the Joker from the upcoming batman film!
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imaginary dana said on June 27, 2008:
@Margot -- der, I'm a typo idiot. It's fixed now. And you're right--Tea Cozies were amazing!!
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Gary said on June 28, 2008:
Could Rachel Flotard *be* anymore adorable? (checks over shoulder to see if wife sees me typing that....)
Anyhoo, CONGRATS ON SIX YEARS TIG!!!!! That's awesome.
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laura musselman said on June 28, 2008:
yay!! ladies, so much fun! i love TIG parties! they are filled with the best of seattle, and there's always so much damn love in the room. thanks for having me be a part of it. i love you guys!!
xoxoxo
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yelahneb said on June 30, 2008:
looks like it was a blast! so bummed i was out of town... yay for TIG!
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Amie said on June 26, 2008:
It was an AMAZING show! Congrats, you guys.
I took tons of photos and will post to the flickr group once I get them all sorted out and uploaded. :)