Amy Rigby Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again
That's the question posed in vocal by American singer-songwriter Amy Rigby – a question which instantly became a coffee-store discussion topic coast to declension beyond the Us where she lives.
Married to UK musician Wreckless Eric, Amy plays Emsworth Sports & Social Lodge on Friday, November 24 at 8pm.
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Promoter Mark Ringwood said: "Amy's never been i to shirk controversy through her song lyrics and has enjoyed a fruitful career by tackling subjects which are often seemed as taboo inside UK audiences."
Amy Rigby has fabricated a life out of writing and singing about life. With bands Last Roundup and the Shams in eighties NYC Eastward Village to her solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife out of nineties Williamsburg; through a songwriting career in 2000s Nashville and during the past decade with duo partner Wreckless Eric, she's released records on visionary independent labels Rounder, Matador, Signature Sounds and reborn Potent Records likewise as her and Eric's own Southern Domestic Recordings. The Old Guys, her first solo album in a dozen years, measures the weight of heroes, home; family, friends and time. Philip Roth and Bob Dylan, CD/cassette players, touring, the wisdom of age and Walter White, groupies, Robert Altman, egg creams and mentors are paid tribute. Twelve songs written by Amy and recorded past Wreckless Eric in upstate New York, The Old Guys is the audio of a skillful girl grown up, never giving up.
When she was 30-seven, when most people think it'south about time to abound up and settle downward, Amy Rigby did the opposite and released her first solo anthology Diary Of A Modern Housewife. Subsequently playing in bands for years, she seriously entered the youth-obsessed pop music game well past the adequate age, but that was the bespeak of the record, an early on midlife boxing cry complete with manifesto that ended "not…ready…to requite in…even so."
Diary Of A Mod Housewife was a disquisitional smash and commercial success. It was voted #viii anthology in the 1996 Hamlet Voice Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll and landed Amy on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, noncommercial and college radio and in every major magazine and newspaper in the US. She's continued to record and perform for the last ii decades, appearing on Belatedly Dark With Conan O'Brien, Mountain Phase, World Cafe, Whad'Ya Know and PBS's Speaking Freely. She's been a panelist and performer at CMJ, Due south by Southwest, Bumbershoot, Lilith Fair, Rockrgrl, Folk Alliance and Southern Festival Of Books conferences, and has had her portrait drawn for the New Yorker. She was also a staff songwriter for Welk Music in Nashville and has had songs covered by They Might Exist Giants, Ronnie Spector, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Laura Cantrell and used in picture and TV.
Amy grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh listening to AM and FM radio, and moved to New York City in 1976 to attend Parsons Schoolhouse Of Design. She saw all the bands at CBGB, followed the Popular Group and Raincoats to London, and stumbled into lower Manhattan society Tier three with a grouping of friends, forming no wave ring Stare Kits with Angela Jaeger (Pigbag). She began writing songs, singing harmony and playing guitar in land band Last Roundup with her brother Michael McMahon, putting out 1 album on Rounder in 1987. Her side by side band the Shams, post-modern girl group honey by Richard Hell and Robert Quine, released 1 anthology (produced by Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye) on indie characterization Matador in 1991 and an EP in 1993. The Shams toured the US, opening for both the Indigo Girls and Urge Overkill (possibly the only grouping on world who can make that claim) and Amy began playing solo shows and sending out cassettes of an early version of Diary. She was signed to the Koch label and worked with producer/guitarist Elliot Easton of The Cars to complete what dean of stone writers Robert Christgau chosen 1996'south "concept album of the twelvemonth".
Over the past 2 decades, Ms. Rigby has toured North America, the Great britain and Europe and released several more than solo albums, and three albums with her hubby, British pop fable Wreckless Eric. Her record "Dancing With Joey Ramone" is a staple of Little Steven'southward Surreptitious Garage radio show and kitchen sink anthem "Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Once more?" is played in cafes and bars around the country by real life mod housewives and husbands.
Source: https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/arts-and-culture/will-we-ever-have-sex-again-singer-amy-rigby-wants-to-know-217021
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