schedule for this friday night:
phillip 9:50--10:10
the lazarus heart 10:25--11:05
the black box 11:20--12
the vettes 12:15---1:10
zenbilly 1:25----2
The following was Taken from Phat Lip Media; orignal author unkown:
This Friday, December 15th, The Varsity Theatre will be presenting a benefit concert for families who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. All proceeds from the show will go directly to the NATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF FUND of the RED CROSS.
The line up includes some of the most exciting, entertaining original bands in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Opening the show will be Lafayette singer-songwriter Phillip Hawke. Hawke has garnered rave reviews around town for his strong vocal delivery and his solid country songwriting.
Next on the bill will be a new, innovative band from Baton Rouge----The Lazarus Heart, performing interwoven instrumental pieces which utilize polyrhythmic textures, chiming guitars and pounding bass. The band is also graced by lead singer Erin Frith's ethereal vocal delivery.
In the middle slot will be the highly regarded local, instrumental funk band TheBlackBox, led by trombonist Charles Estes. The soulful quintet performs extremely tight, well- paced original funk arrangements.
The Vettes, a musical rock family from New Orleans, will follow with a decidedly 80's, Blondie sounding rock vibe, led by lead singer Rachel Vette. Their songs are extremely catchy and delivered with the type of pop panache that is surely to have them in the national spotlight very soon.
Headlining the Katrina benefit will be Baton Rouge's favorite and only psychobilly, swing band zenbilly. The hopping trio puts on a non-stop high energy show packed catchy songs about living in the south.
Billy Callaway, guitarist for Zenbilly and Chris Lundgren organized the benefit in hopes that LSU students as well as all of Baton Rouge will come out in huge numbers to support the event. "We need to sell this show out. We need to all get together and bring some help now to the people who need it most, the folks trying to get their lives back on track, our friends who need some help just trying to rebuild. This is a great way for everybody to make a real difference and it's at the perfect time of the year---the season of giving. It's $10 but you get to hear 5 great local bands and the money goes to help rebuild our state, it's a win-win thing."
Tickets for the Katrina Benefit concert are $10 and are available at The Chimes on Highland or on line at the Varsity's own website: www.varsitytheatre.com
The Varsity
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Review in Tigerweekly
New local band will steal your heart
[Comment Below]By Samantha Morgan
This past Saturday, Nov. 5, the new local band (The) Lazarus Heart, took the stage at North Gate Tavern for their second performance and blew the crowd away.
Erin Frith, lead vocals for (The) Lazarus Heart. (Photo by Samantha Morgan)
(The)Lazarus Heart, which consists of Erin Frith (lead vocals), Jermaine Keith Butler (bass), John Tulley (guitar), Andrew Greene (drums) and John Daughdril(l) (guitar and synths), is Tulley's brainchild, and formed just four months ago.
"John Tulley found me on MySpace," Frith said. "We started talking on the phone and we met up and he ended up bringing in [the rest of the members]. That's where it started."
The band has an experimental sound that is as soothing as it is intoxicatingly upbeat. At one of their shows you feel as though you have the option to either hang back and relax, or sway while dancing to their solid beats.
Very few bands in Baton Rouge opt for a lead vocalist that is female, which is a shame in my opinion. Frith puts forth a talent that is as strong as local vocalists Ashlin Phillips (The Eames Era) and Melissa Eccles (We Landed on the Moon).
Just as interesting as the bands sound is their name.
On their MySpace page, Tulley fully explained the meaning behind the band's name, which originated from the lyrics of the Sting song of the same name, written in 1987.
"Conceptually, to me the imagery created by this has really been powerful … The ideas of rebirth and having new life breathed into dead things. I've been through a lot of 'soul-searching' and 'coming-to-grips-with' … interestingly, both Drew and Erin, have also sort of experienced a parallel experience; for the three of us it has been approximately a year's time since our respective bands met their demise. So, the name is, for me, quite fitting for its members personally; a new musical life beginning. The name also makes me think about how our hearts (emotionally) are constantly going through a death and rebirth process. We have to constantly go back to square one, go back to the source."
And truly, their sound is indicative that description.
Currently the band has four songs, and is working to have them posted on their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/lazarusheartband. However, until that is completed you will simply have to take my word that this is a band worth checking out, and make a point of attending one of their upcoming performances, which are listed on their MySpace website.
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Friday, October 27, 2006
What does "The Lazarus Heart" mean?
You may be asking yourself, "Whats with the name? What does it mean? What's a Lazarus?"(I'm hoping we all are familiar with the heart part) I'll try and explain this out a little bit, because honestly theres no direct answer, rather a kinda web of ideas that kinda just came together over time.
I'll preface this by saying ultimately it's not 100% this information :
( I may explain this in a tarantino sort of sequence but i think it may help the end result...)
The intial inspiration for the name was from a song:
Lazarus was a man who in the bible is raised from the dead. The name has since been used to not directly describe the man himself in all accounts but the concept of being raised from the dead. (many biblical characters have acheived this status;
for example: "a judas", the man who betrayed christ, is used to describe people who are back-stabbers."a doubting thomas" is used to describe someone who doesnt have faith or trust.
wikipedia has some info about the word. It explains it in much detail
here are the lryics:
I'll preface this by saying ultimately it's not 100% this information :
( I may explain this in a tarantino sort of sequence but i think it may help the end result...)
The intial inspiration for the name was from a song:
Lazarus was a man who in the bible is raised from the dead. The name has since been used to not directly describe the man himself in all accounts but the concept of being raised from the dead. (many biblical characters have acheived this status;
for example: "a judas", the man who betrayed christ, is used to describe people who are back-stabbers."a doubting thomas" is used to describe someone who doesnt have faith or trust.
wikipedia has some info about the word. It explains it in much detail
The title "The Lazarus Heart" was discovered by me in a Sting song by the same name. The style of this songs draws no parallel to the band in any way as you would find out if you listened to it, but the lyrics spawned the art concept.
here are the lryics:
"The Lazarus Heart"
copyright 1987 Sting
He looked beneath his shirt today
There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
He turned around to face his mother
To show her the wound in his breast
That burned like a brand
But the sword that cut him open
Was the sword in his mother's hand
Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Though the sword was his protection
The wound itself would give him power
The power to remake himself at the time of his darkest hour
She said the wound would give him courage and pain
The kind of pain that you can't hide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
I've no stones that chase them away
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
Will sit on my roof someday
They fly at the window, they fly at the door
Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore
She counts all her children as a shield against the rain
Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain
Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
On his site he goes into how he came up with the song.
Ok.....
so here is where is all comes together....i hope
Conceptually to me the imagery created by this has really been powerful for me this past year.The ideas of rebirth and having new life breathed into dead things. I've been through a lot of "soul-searching" and "coming-to-grips-with" with regards to the demise of a band that was my baby...some friendships on the rocks...you know that whole re-evaluate your life stuff. interestingly, both Drew and Erin, have also sort of experienced a parralleling experience; for the three of us it has been aproximately a year's time since our respective bands met their demise. so the name is for me quite fitting for its members personally; a new musical life begining. The name also makes me think about how our hearts(emotionally) are constantly going through a death and rebirth process. We have to constantly go back to square one, go back to the source. There is just a lot of power in this concept for me...
also I think it sounds pretty sweet.
If you made it all the way to here, well thank you. I'm glad you are joining us in this journey, this experiment
-Tulley
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