Sara Ajiri
Our Lady of Bass, Mary Anne Hobbs, returns with another entry to add to her already impeccable Road Warrior tour diary. Passing through the lovely NOLA as well as Miami and of course, playing out at the iconic Low End Theory night in Lincoln Heights…on 4/20. Check out all the details after the jump.
MARY ANNE HOBBS
ROAD WARRIOR Tour Diary for URB
PART 3
This time last year, I was refugeed in America for over a month after the volcano in Iceland erupted, and my agent Sara’s family took such great care of me. It’s important to me to make the time to see them again.
Her mother Sofia cooks up a sweet, dense Turkish coffee, and she reads your fortune in the residue at the bottom of your cup. She will always say to me “Mary Anne… you’re in a jungle…”
The last few days have been punishing and glorious in equal measure.
Traveling with Gonja Sufi and Lorn is like riding with your own private Priest and Undertaker. Their raw and primal onstage personas are tempered by such amazing grace in real life.
Low End Theory in LA is absolutely crazy.
We arrive at around 8:30pm for soundcheck, and there are already 1000 people outside queuing around the block.
It’s 4/20 (the national weed smoker’s holiday in America, named after the Police Code for marijuana). Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs, Matthewdavid, Jon Wayne and the residents destroy Lincoln Heights. It’s my 5th time playing here, and it remains my favourite club on earth. I always see and hear something I’ve never come across before in this life at Low End Theory, which is what keeps it so fresh and thrilling for me. Tonight Daddy Kev shows me some new Controller software he’s running on an iPad that looks like a micro-solar-system!
3 hours sleep.
Return to LAX.
The Long Term Carpark bus takes about 6 years to show up.
A three-legged donkey would have been quicker.
We miss the flight.
It hurts.
Still, New Orleans is beautiful.
We fuel up on Moonshine at a spot called The Green Goddess with GLK. He was actually the best man at the promoters PJ & Whittney’s wedding, that’s why you’ve seen him on Facebook in a tuxedo. He serenades the Hookah lounge in a blur of curls and chaos tonight.
4 hours sleep.
Miami bound.
The last time I passed through was to play the WMC SMOG show in 2010 with Skream, 12th Planet, Virus Syndicate & Drop The Lime, and this town is “Pimpin’” (as we say in the UK).
The Road Warrior experience up at the Vagabond is absolutely wild. Skumbag Tony from Crime and TAKE jamming a brand new Game Boy set they tried out for the first time at soundcheck, Gonja Sufi breaking hearts jumping up in the sweltering heat of the moment to sing with Lorn… and me almost breaking my neck falling off the back of the stage in a fit of frenzy. I need a few new bruises for my current collection.
Next we’re heading North to Together Festival in Boston, then it’s on to Francois K’s Deep Space in NYC, and King Britt’s club in Philly Saturn Never Sleeps.
Check back soon…
m/a.. x
Mary Anne Hobbs @ VAGABOND, Miami
by Robby Campbell
You look oddly like a less gollum-armed Madonna in that top pic.
The photos of Mary Anne Hobbs in this post were taken by Robby Campbell for http://www.beachedmiami.com. Please do the professional thing and credit them with a link.