― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)
I've been hearing about them from some New Yorkers on a mailing list for years, didn't really understand what they were about until they started getting more press recently. apparently they've covered some Geraldine Fibbers songs, which is pretty cool.
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)
― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)
― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)
Tricia Romano did a nice feature on them for SW as well: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0425/040623_music_kikiandherb.php
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)
It wasn't till I saw a full show at Fez in New York in '99 that I 'got' them. Kiki launched into a traumatic story - apparently true - about an American couple who didn't feel their child was quite 'right', so their evangelical pastor suggested the child should literally be reborn. The wrapped the child inside a roll of carpet - 'Mummy, I can't breathe" - and pushed it through the long, airless tube, in the belief it would emerge a better person. The child died. Suffocated. "Ah well," said the pastor, "God obviously didn't want your child to live that way."
Kiki followed that up with This Woman's Work, or something, and I was wracked with sobs.
I've since seen them maybe five or six times, though I've never quite captured that same feeling. The best thing about them, for me, is Kiki's stories. Each new show brings a new instalment to her life story. We hear a little bit more about her kids, and get tantalising clues about just how her daughter Missy died.
But their recent shows seem to concentrate more on the songs - and the same bloody songs over and over. Fox in the snow, foxinthesnowfoxinthesnow....
I bought their first album, but - well - without the visuals, without the back-story, you're left with a drunken harridan butchering songs, accompanied by cocktail piano.
Whatever did happen to Missy, anyhow? That's what I want to know.
― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 11 March 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)
― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 11 March 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)
dude, that was totally the plot of an episode of CSI. except it was a psychiatrist, not a pastor, and she was suspected of having an affair with/molesting the kid before they figured out the circumstances of the death. or maybe that's just a common story/urban legend.
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)
What little I've heard of Kiki and Herb was...okay. Maybe I had to be there.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)
There was a show a while ago at which Coco appeared in a flashback, played by Kathleen Hanna. And I was present at a show where Monica Lewinsky was in the audience. Once Kiki spotted her, well, things got awfully entertaining.
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 11 March 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)
― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 11 March 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)
― peaches boy, Friday, 11 March 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)
Ditto. I was at the Carnegie Hall show, and since the album is only missing the sight of Kiki's flailing flapper jig -- and her lying passed out on the stage during Herb's British Sea Power cover -- it should be a fine reproduction of the experience.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)
― fanboy, Saturday, 12 March 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
---Yes. It is a little faggy. Their version of "I'm Not Waiting" beats S-K's, easy. Kinda makes the orig more fun to listen to.
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)
They fake it so real they are beyond fake, a performance of utter heartbreak and, if not redemption through, at least the simple comfort of, enduring love so utterly convincing that whether or not it's ironic is completely beside the point. That only makes it more genuinely moving.
Love the live set, but can't imagine what it would be like to only hear it without having the experience of their show to map it to.
Note: If you've been on the ILX po-pomo thread, they may offer a sufficient answer.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 10 June 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 10 June 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)
here's exit music (for a film): http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1HBNSXBC9ZLUN11PSZGI8O35KT
― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)
OMG OMG OMG New Year's Eve show in SF 12/31!!11!!1!
(I'm sorely tempted by the SF show, even if I'll be the only straight guy in the room.)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago)
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:44 (nineteen years ago)
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:44 (nineteen years ago)
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago)
I still treasure the story about how Kiki tried to be Noel Gallagher's groupie.. fucking best story told at a concert ever.
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 08:20 (nineteen years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago)
I played the live album's "Institutionalized" for a friend of mine who'd never heard them before, and didn't tip her off... and of course the setup is such that it just sounds like Kiki babbling about her familial relations at first, and then something about the general outline of what she's saying seems vaguely familiar, and before you know it, wham: "PUT ME IN AN INSTITUTION!" "INSTITUTIONALIZED!" My friend didn't stop laughing for about three minutes.
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:12 (nineteen years ago)
In contrast to gyps, I have the album but haven't even played the whole thing (maybe cuz I was at the show).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)
Among the new (to me) adds to the repertoire:
The Indelicates - "Waiting for Pete Doherty to Die"
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago)
Now I just have to figure out if it translates to record well...
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)
But I bet someday people are going to trade recordings of K&H live the way they do with Bill Hicks or Andy Kaufman recordings now.
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 10 May 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)
― poortheatre, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)
gr8 seeing you forks! Did you have anything to do with our ticket snafu getting cleared up? I wasn't sure.
I didn't recall how elaborate K&H's version of "I Was a Maoist Intellectual" is ... the Chelsea boys were baffled.
Also, it's important to know that ass cancer trumps leukemia.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)
Hey dude, glad you made it out! Yeah, a thoroughly awesome evening... but LONG!
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)
but at least Ju8t1n was relatively s0b3r!
I think I saw them go 3 hours at least once at Fez.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)
Defeated for a Tony by a DUMMY!
That's too respectable for them anyway.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)
that shit was not right. I thought they were joking for a hot minute!
― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 14 June 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)
That was that bullshit.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 14 June 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)
Shoulda pull'd a wu-tang. kiki and herb is for the babies!
― rogermexico., Thursday, 14 June 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)
Get ready London:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/mjh8888/Kiki%20and%20Herb/SBE2front.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 September 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)
thought this was a thread about peaches & herb for a second
― deej, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)
Carnegie Hall again in December as well.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago)
live DVD available Jan. 2:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113510.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago)
Funny thing was I saw Kiki introduce Borts Minorts at a show in SF this past Saturday. Kiki was great, Borts Minorts was not.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago)
Variety review of Wed night @Carnegie Hall (I skipped):
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935649.html
"If there's a sniper in the audience, I ask only that you kill me now," pleaded Kiki. "Don't make me go through this whole show just to shoot me later."
wtf, identifying "If You Were Born Today" as a Jimmy Eat World song?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago)
Boy, I would've loved to have seen that.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 14 December 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago)
Alan Sparhawk somewhere goes NOOOOOO
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 December 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago)
I saw them at the Opera House in Sydney for so cheap (esp. considering the insane price of tickets for them in SF the last time around), but strangely the show was almost EXACTLY the same as the one I saw New Year's Eve two years ago.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 14 December 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago)
What little I've heard, I've liked. So where do I start if I want to hear more?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 05:41 (fifteen years ago)
profile in nymag - http://nymag.com/print/?/arts/popmusic/features/justin-bond-2011-5/
― just sayin, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)
just downloaded dendrophile, hadn't heard anything about it. it seems good. different thing than k&h, but good songs and s/he sounds great.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 02:09 (fourteen years ago)
Kiki'll be having some fun this weekend:
http://gawker.com/5875978/introducing-your-guest-golden-globes-tweeter-justin-vivian-bond
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2012 05:42 (thirteen years ago)
Justin is such a fucking rock star.I see Kenny perform at least once a month.
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 January 2012 13:45 (thirteen years ago)
going to see justin bond @ REDCAT tonight, first time ever! i'm excited
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:12 (thirteen years ago)
Justin Vivian Bond begins a yearlong 'retro' at Joe's Pub!
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/mx-justin-vivian-bond-returns-to-joes-pub-with-tranniversary-triumph-7585114
forks, when yer feelin better maybe we could go see the Julie London thing.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2015 04:23 (ten years ago)
spring reunion in NYC
http://m.playbill.com/mobile/news/article/kiki-and-herb-announce-spring-reunion-at-the-public-363221
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 September 2015 11:51 (nine years ago)
joe's pub is having a nightly lottery for the shows if yer desperate
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 April 2016 19:28 (nine years ago)
gonna catch one of these, pretty hyped
― ulysses, Friday, 8 April 2016 20:10 (nine years ago)
kenny lookin all moses
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/25/kiki-and-herb-reunite
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:43 (nine years ago)
Kiki sez
"The neoliberals vs. the neofascists—I'm just happy that I've lived to see this spectacular bipolar moment."
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 May 2016 23:24 (nine years ago)
a 2016 show free online for a few weeks
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/fall-2020/kiki--herb-seeking-asylum/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 September 2020 01:17 (four years ago)
Ah jeez, shoulda revived this thread earlier for their new tour! I think most of the shows have already most sold out on presale. (Got my SF tix just now, yay.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:49 (two years ago)
It's back!
https://kikiandherbwilldieforyou.bandcamp.com/album/do-you-hear-what-we-hear
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 November 2022 22:15 (two years ago)
And they're back!
https://linktr.ee/kikiherb
(The tour last year was a damn treat.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 18:01 (one year ago)
Kiki is now a MacArthur Genius:https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2024/justin-vivian-bond
― jaymc, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 16:29 (eleven months ago)