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What Will The Corporation Do?
Sep. 5th, 2005 11:53 pmHow to describe the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players? Well, Ping described them as "they sound like exactly your sort of thing", in a tone of voice that suggested this might not be intended as unqualified praise, but I'll try to provide a more concrete description.
They go around buying up the vintage slide collections of total strangers, and then write songs to accompany the slides. Dad sings and plays keyboard and guitar, Mom sings and works the projector, and the teenage daughter plays the drums. The songs are extremely odd, and very funny; the highlight of the show was the six-song mini rock opera based on a McDonalds Corporation slide presentation from 1977. One reviewer described them as "the White Stripes crossed with the Krankies", if that helps at all.
Anyway, they're currently at the Soho Theatre, and will be touring with "Adventures in Middle America Volume II" until the end of October.
The bad news is that the acoustics in the Soho Theatre are horrible, meaning you're better off buying the CD if you want to hear the words. Also, the show on Saturday didn't quite seem to gel properly, but that may just have been the odd stage setup and random technical problems they seemed to be having. I'm considering going again when they move on to the Pleasance, later in September.
And, on the general theme of unusual musical experiences, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will be at the Riverside Studios from 15-26 November...
They go around buying up the vintage slide collections of total strangers, and then write songs to accompany the slides. Dad sings and plays keyboard and guitar, Mom sings and works the projector, and the teenage daughter plays the drums. The songs are extremely odd, and very funny; the highlight of the show was the six-song mini rock opera based on a McDonalds Corporation slide presentation from 1977. One reviewer described them as "the White Stripes crossed with the Krankies", if that helps at all.
Anyway, they're currently at the Soho Theatre, and will be touring with "Adventures in Middle America Volume II" until the end of October.
The bad news is that the acoustics in the Soho Theatre are horrible, meaning you're better off buying the CD if you want to hear the words. Also, the show on Saturday didn't quite seem to gel properly, but that may just have been the odd stage setup and random technical problems they seemed to be having. I'm considering going again when they move on to the Pleasance, later in September.
And, on the general theme of unusual musical experiences, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will be at the Riverside Studios from 15-26 November...
