February 2001

Dear Wild ones,

The band have been taking advantage of their down time from being off the road to work on a few outside projects...

Angela is in Paris, France guesting on the band "Telepop's" new album!

Back in Hollywood, Shark has done the Music/Sound Design for a new play "Two-Headed" that has been getting great reviews.

Webnews...

FREE "Spark" LIVE audio download from www.HOB.com recorded at one of last years Wild Colonials House of Blues shows.

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1) Angela/Paris recording sessions
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Angela is in Paris, France recording guest vocals on the band "Telepop's" new album!

Apparently the band Telepop either was at one of the New York Wild Colonials shows or opened for them at one of their “Angela's Big Night Out” salon nights.

Angela has been writing lyrics with the band via Fax over the last month. Paul has gone as her interpreter. Paul had grown up in Paris as a child, hence his love of Velvet and Silk!

We will let you know when the Telepop album is released.
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2) Shark/Two-Headed Play
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	In 19th century Utah, men claimed divine inspiration when they married multiple wives. Men took desperate revenge when massacred the outsiders who threatened them. Men found solace in the sacred priesthood they held. Women only had each other.
two-headed by Julie Jensen "Julie Jensen's lovely new play...has a gentle, poetic allure." The New York Times

Shark has done the Music/Sound Design for a new play "Two-Headed" that has been getting great reviews in LA.

"Two-Headed"
Julie Jensen's play tracing the lives of two frontier Mormon woman after the massacre of Missourian pioneers by a renegade Mormon militia, has it's Los Angeles premiere at the John Anson Ford Theatre. Starring Colette Kilroy and Mary Mara Directed by Veronica Brady

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The play does not feature any original music but, source music such as some land recordings from the early 20th Century.

Here is Shark to explain...

"Given that the play takes place before recordings were even made (1857-1897) I had gathered together some early field recordings of old folk tunes and stumbled across all of the "Moby" samples, you know, "Why does my heart feel so bad" and "Trouble So Hard" from the "Play" album. Everything old is new again, it's all been done before darling!?!.

Also featured is a mix of some instrumental music I found at a Mormon gift shop, plus some hymns from a Hee Haw Gospel album!"

Here are some quote/notes from today's (2/15/01) review/article from the LA Weekly...

THEATER * REVIEW
Desert Saints and Sinners The ghosts of Utah's Mountain Meadows Massacre
by Steven Leigh Morris

Growing up haunted
Playwright Julie Jensen's play, Two-Headed, now in a hypnotic West Coast debut at (Inside) the Ford, after having premiered in New York last year at the Women's Project Theater...

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Two-Headed focuses on a pair of Mormon women over a span of 40 years; a decade separates each of the play's five scenes, which sound designer Shark segues with haunting Western motifs, often rendered with lush and ironically romantic orchestrations.

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Playwright Jensen layers verbal images, demonstrating herself to be a dramatic poet of the first rank. Still, she owes a debt to Veronica Brady’s keenly sensitive direction and to the acting duet, whose transformations and range of emotions convey an almost magical sweep, from childish petulance, to feisty belligerence, to stoic acceptance.
LA Weekly 2/15/01

For the full length and very informative article... Click Here

LAST TWO WEEKS! Call venue for tickets and times...

The John Anson Ford Theatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East (across the 101 Fwy from the Hollywood Bowl)
Hollywood, CA
(323) 461-3673

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3) "Spark" LIVE audio download
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FREE Wild Colonials audio download from www.HOB.com

"Spark" was recorded at the House of Blues on Sunset Strip at one of the bands shows there last year. Click Here or Click Here to listen.

March 2001

Dear Wild ones:

Springtime is here!

Wild Colonials appear on a new all acoustic compilation.

WYEP Live + Direct: Volume 2

The album is a collection of all acoustic performances from radio station WYEP.
It includes an acoustic version of the Wild Colonials' #1, "Friend".
This album is not available in any stores outside of Pittsburgh, PA.
Other artists on the CD include, among others...
David Gray, Sonia Dada, Jill Sobule and Matthew Sweet. (full track listing below)

This WildNotes includes...

1) WYEP all acoustic CD
2) Archived webcast from Baltimore
3) Angela at The Knitting Factory NYC

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1) WYEP all acoustic CD
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Wild Colonials appear on a new all acoustic compilation courtesy of WYEP in Pittsburgh.

WYEP Live + Direct: Volume 2

The album is a collection of all acoustic performances from radio station WYEP. It includes an acoustic version of Wild Colonial #1, "Friend". This album is not available in any stores outside of Pittsburgh, PA.

Other artists on the CD include, among others...
Sonia Dada, Jill Sobule, David Gray, and Matthew Sweet.

This is from the WYEP website...
Every year a steady stream of some of the best singers and songwriters working today visit the studios on Pittsburgh's historic South Side for a mini-concert. Until recently their on-air performances went over the airwaves, into your radio, and then were lost forever. Technological advances at the station have allowed us to better capture these performances. We re-broadcast many of them on the Acoustic Omelet and Below the Surface programming on WYEP. We also hope you'll enjoy these captured moments on this volume of Live & Direct. Here you have 17 spectacular live performances.

WYEP Live + Direct: Volume 2
Artist/Song
1) SONIA DADA / "Lester's Methadone Clinic"
2) JILL SOBULE / "Heroes"
3) WOOD / "Stay You"
4) DAVID GRAY / "Babylon"
5) HEATHER KROPF/ "Cholera"
6) TOSHI REAGON / "Happy and Satisfied"
7) TOM PAXTON / "Ramblin' Boy"
8) NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS / "K. C. Jones (On The Road Again)"
9) MATTHEW SWEET / "What Matters"
10) TERRY CALLIER / "When The Music Is Gone"
11) SLAID CLEAVES / "Broke Down"
12) BILLY PRICE / "Indefinitely"
13) MARAH / "My Heart Is The Bums On The Street"
14) LUKA BLOOM / "Don't Be So Hard On Yourself"
15) JABALI AFRIKA / "Jenny"
16) RICHARD SHINDELL / "Transit"
17) WILD COLONIALS / "Friend"

Enjoy!

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3) Angela at The Knitting Factory (NYC)
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Angela will be Craig Wedren's special guest at The Knitting Factory (NYC) this Friday, March 30th.

Angela will be performing "Day Ditty" with Craig Wedren (Shudder To Think).
Craig wrote the song for the film "First Love, Last Rites", the track also appears on the Wild Colonials album "Reel Life vol. #1".

Craig Wedren, Jack Drag
Friday, March 30, 2001
TICKETS $8.00
11:00 PM  

The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street  
New York City

CLICK HERE to visit The Knitting Factory

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