Heart of Chambers

This Sunday, I will be singing at World Bar's new Sunday evening showcase, Chamber Music.
The poster says it all! Oh, except that it will be Easter Sunday, so you should all come to the show and eat easter eggs with me. The whole thing shall be delicious.
x

Getting Low & getting high

dearly beloved,
many thanks to everyone who came and "got Low" last night. It was just like a dream come true, playing to such a lovely crowd, in that beautiful bar. It also marked the very first time I was ever 1. heckled 2. begged for an encore and 3. brought someone to tears (all by the same darling...)

Thank you also to Luke Bacon for accompanying me on piano and making the night so special. Luke and I have been colloborating on and off for almost a year, but last night was the first time we finally got our act together to play in front of an audience. We played were an old song of mine, called "Hell & High Water" (which I wrote when I was 17, on a banjo, and then forgot how to play) and our version of "Winter Skin". With any luck, I will get some recordings of these versions soon, for those who missed out.

Into the Flames

For the first time in months, I have a new little demo, recorded in a bedroom, for your listening pleasure. "Into the flames" can be heard at www.myspace.com/madelainelucas

Fire metaphors for all. x

I fell for you

Into the flames

Now I feel the fire

In my veins

There can be no cure now

so here I'll stay

though I may burn

I still will linger

Caught in the light

you tend and tame

Now I'm at the mercy

of fire and flame

Still that ol' fear

coming 'round again

I'm haunted still

with wild ways

I fell for you

Into the flames

Now I feel the fire

Of love

in my veins

Here by the hearth

I will hang

my heart.

The Basement was a garden of strange delights.

Thank you to all who made it along to the Basement on Friday night - it was a pleasure to sing to all of you. Congratulations to Desire the Horse who launched their Ep "The River" - it was a beautiful evening, the room was filled with fans and flowers (and posters of old blues musicians) as far as the eye could see. The evidence can be found below:

("Advantages of a Bandroom" by a special friend of J & the Owls)

("Looks Just Like the Sun" by a special friend of Desire the Horse)


The following photos were taken by Nigel Dawes (http://www.pixelpimp.com.au © Copyright 2010)

In the Autumn.

Remember those winter days last year, and through the spring, where A Casual End Mile appeared at little shows around Sydney on an almost-weekly basis?
Come April, I am going to mildly relive these glory days and do a bunch of shows. Each one will be special.

Dates for April:

4th Radio Social @ World Bar
8th Headline show at Oxford Arts Gallery Bar
10th Surry Hills Festival

They are all free! And don't forget the 28th of March at Low 302.
The days may be getting colder, but I am all too ready to warm your hearts again. The winter days will be yours & mine.
x

Get Low

Low 302
March 28th
8 pm
Free entry!

As I promised a few weeks ago, we can now FINALLY all sip incredible cocktails in that red-curtained room and pretend we are in a David Lynch film. So come all ye femme fatales and mysterious men, and let me serende you on a Sunday evening.
Low 302 is a bar like no other.

PAVEMENT

About a year ago I was on a road trip, playing that game where you go through all the bands living/dead/disbanded that you would wish to travel through time to see.
Top on my list was Pavement in the '90s. I was always so jealous that my big brother saw them in their prime, 1995, on the Crooked Rain tour. I was five years old at this time.

HOWEVER
the magical dream I never expected to happen is about to come true! It may not be the '90s anymore.. but I can still dress like Johnny Depp-era Wynona Ryder and stomp down to the Enmore theatre tonight to see Pavement live in the flesh! Yeah!