Ana da Silva @ Starr Space

Ana da Silva's set was great! She put out an album on Chicks on Speed records a while back. You can hear some of the songs on her myspace.

This show happened at a nice venue called Starr Space in Bushwick. It reminded me a little bit of old Hall O' The Woods shows. It was founded by the artist Jules de Balincourt.

I missed the big Raincoats show at the Knitting Factory the night before, but this show was special. After Ana's set, Viv Albertine (Slits) and Anne Wood came up on stage. We had a sing-a-long of "Adventures Close to Home", and then they sang "Lola".

When they started "Lola" I could not resist pulling out my video camera. It was the first Raincoats song I ever heard, sometime in high school in the back of my friend Luke's car. Here is a little clip of it, Ana on the right, Viv in the middle, and Anne on the left.

There were maybe thirty or forty people sitting arced around the floor. It was so sweet & happy.

After, Hawnay Troof brought out the jams. Vice Cooler actually was tambourining in the above clip, and toured with the Raincoats as their drummer.

Also, the first act was Max Steele, who started with a Tracy + the Plastics cover, and continued in that fashion very successfully. and DJ Anthony Thornton played dark italo disco all nite.