Laughingstock Killed

Well, it has been two days since the Laughingstock Riot, which was one of the most riotous times in the history of this week.  We promised you that the show would be fantastic, didn’t we?  And it was.  Thousands laughed!  FtH played the Double Door!  Also, Drummer Patrick Stonehouse played the Double Door for the third time with three different bands.  That's historic too!  If you are counting, Jagger has only played the Double Door with one band, like Foz.

FtH Followed Krystal the Pistol!

It goes without saying that Your Old Pals, Foz the Hook provided the requested tight and rockin’ set, so let’s just assume that all that was as expected.  What was particularly awesome, though, was the fantastic house gear (drums, and especially keyboard), that sounded brilliant and eliminated all the load-in and load-out headaches.  Thank you, Jeff Strickland of Nashville, for the use of that hot 88-key baby. 

There were too many amazing acts to list more than a few, so I will only describe the ones I took pictures of, since for some reason, I thought they were important.

FtH followed Krystal "The pistol" LaFianza Pitzen to the stage, after she delivered one of her better flooz-fest performances.  Look for this lady on FtH bills for a long time.

Abbaria Accusation!

I thought Abbaria would be good because of Maria Wojciechowski, a long time friend of this blog, but here is a picture of them slaughtering the downstairs room, as Maria plays toy xylophone and Abby Vatterott points accusingly at me.  Maria’s one-woman show, Almost a Genius, debuts at the The Playground Theater on September 3, so you should go to that.

Paul Thomas

Paul Thomas is a large man with a spine-cracking voice – a pillar of our previously mentioned friends Lola Balatro.  Here is Paul headlining the downstairs room.  Few people can really fill up a room as a solo acoustic act.  Few acoustic acts can headline a seven-hour, two-stage music festival.  Paul did.

Oh, and then there was my immediate and unstoppable new stage crush, my new world favorite (caped) performer, New York’s Killy Mockstar Dwyer.  Imagine a show where… no wait…  What if you crossed Laurie Anderson with… No, that’s no good either…  If Sinead O’Connor were less sad and less bald and less Irish… What if Lady Gaga was actually a feminist?… No, that isn’t going to get us anywhere.  Imagine a performer who looked like the woman in this picture, and who played songs like those on this album, including, but not limited to, a song called God Wants You to Cum.  Yeh, you would have a stage crush too.

Killy Mockstar Dwyer

Hooray for Laughingstock!  It was huge fun this year.  I can’t wait until next year.  Also, I hope that all sorts of music and comedy acts that didn’t know each other before get together and do amazing shows this year.