Author: Amber
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Live at The Viper Room
I got my greedy little hands on some awesome photos from our first ever show! Thanks so much to Ray Lundrigan from PhotoLinguist. The Violet Lights perform at The Viper Room…Billy McIntyre of The Violet Lights performing at The Viper Room…
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WE ARE THE VIOLET LIGHTS
The sound guy at The Viper Room as we finish our set and the curtains just close, “I hope you guys know that you fucking rocked.” The Violet Lights played their first show on Tuesday, and although only some fifty people were there to witness it, the show was nothing short of a huge milestone.…
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Silverlake Squalor
Okay…squalor might be too strong of a word, but having moved in a rush less than two weeks ago, holding three late-night band rehearsals a week, going out and drinking more than we probably should, being broke, and just plain not being able to grasp whether things are going really well or horribly wrong, can…
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THE LOCKOUT
This week we got our very own 24/7 lockout!! So now we can finally spend a lot less time hauling equipment around and setting up and a lot more time getting awesome. Right now the lockout is just a plain white room with some dirty carpet and an old abandoned couch, but we’ve been working…
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Sell it all, baby
It’s not unusual for Joel and I to start selling our possessions when trying to finish a project. For years we’ve had a revolving door through which guitars, amplifiers, cameras, lenses, lights, computers, and innumerable other memorable and not-so-memorable items come and go, depending on whether they are worth more to us as tools or…
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I have been placed under a Voodoo hex…
Orson Welles once claimed that the reason he became increasingly unable to finish any films as his career progressed was a Voodoo curse placed on him by a witch doctor while he filmed a documentary in Brazil. Lately Joel, too, has been fond of muttering in a low, theatrically serious tone “I have been placed…
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Third time’s the charm…?
There are already two attempts in the books at getting Sex & Sound EP mixed in a high-quality and timely fashion, and we are now trying for a third, and we hope, last time, to bring this recording one step away from completion. The tracks have been sent to a producer/mixer/engineer in Austin, Texas and…
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Vampires, sequins, & some new photos
Today I put the final touches on two new photos of Joel and I for Sex & Sound. From the beginning I knew that sequins were going to be a big part of the equation, but our vampire-like qualities took me a bit by surprise. Are you a little scared that Joel might try to…
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STRIPE CLUB
With the EP nearly finished, Joel and I got out the tripod, our wedding photography-worn camera, and some hot pink H&M tights for some work on a couple of press photos for Sex & Sound. Check out the two finished photos below. Hooray for cheap legwear, mini-blinds and a completed project!