--- - |- Well, they really pulled out the stops at the Roundhouse. For their "Colour Your Summer" season, the impressively modern, if slightly sterile Chalk Farm venue has been transformed into something more akin to a high-class Parisien jazz club- thick red curtains draped around an enclosed, intimate circle of candlelit tables, disco balls reflecting the light of a velvet black backdrop sp...
I was coming home from a long day at work the first time I encountered the music of Nina Nastasia. At the time I was living in Chicago and working for a non profit that contracted me out to different sites all over Chicago-Land (the local name for the Greater Chicago area) so I practically lived in my car. It was Winter and dark and I was exhausted. Luckily for me, and everyone else in Chica...
Went to see Nina Nastasia at the Scala a few weeks ago. Was amazed at how good the gig was, given it was a fairly last-minute thing to go. She's not a natural raconteur, but came across much like she did in her sessions with john peel - nervous, giggly and slightly more in control than she immediately appears. Anyhow, a four-piece behind her put out a lot more volume than her sparser songs migh...
I love this new album my Nina Nastasia and Jim White. Beautiful, dark, and affecting...just a really gorgeous 10 song set. I don't do reviews very well, I will just tell you that I love it and let you hear it for yourself...
I recently had the privilege of seeing Nina Nastasia & Jim White perform at a very small, very cozy venue (that's my charming way of describing the smoke-filled, dilapidated, sweltering, shoulder-to-shoulder packed college dorm basement I frequent on weekends). Stark lighting and Nina's all-black attire brought out the sadness in the music, which was a wonderful change from the bands that usual...
Went to see Nina Nastasia at the Scala a few weeks ago. Was amazed at how good the gig was, given it was a fairly last-minute thing to go. She's not a natural raconteur, but came across much like she did in her sessions with john peel - nervous, giggly and slightly more in control than she immediately appears. Anyhow, a four-piece behind her put out a lot more volume than her sparser songs migh...
I was coming home from a long day at work the first time I encountered the music of Nina Nastasia. At the time I was living in Chicago and working for a non profit that contracted me out to different sites all over Chicago-Land (the local name for the Greater Chicago area) so I practically lived in my car. It was Winter and dark and I was exhausted. Luckily for me, and everyone else in Chica...
--- - |- Well, they really pulled out the stops at the Roundhouse. For their "Colour Your Summer" season, the impressively modern, if slightly sterile Chalk Farm venue has been transformed into something more akin to a high-class Parisien jazz club- thick red curtains draped around an enclosed, intimate circle of candlelit tables, disco balls reflecting the light of a velvet black backdrop sp...