Saturday Oct 11 9PM = The Gothees + Midge Crickett + LoveLikeFire @ Bloomfield Bridge Tavern

[sugargothee at aol.com]

This Saturday, Hell Comes to Frogtown...I mean, Quirkpop comes to Bloomfield!

It's an unbelievable triple-thrill bill! Featuring the Amazing Miss Midge 
Crickett, Bubble-Goth Sensations The Gothees and headlining all the way from San 
Francisco...Love Like Fire!

Saturday, October 11 @ Bloomfield Bridge Tavern

Doors @ 9PM. $5

Here's some info:

LOVE LIKE FIRE
Ask any member of LoveLikeFire about why the band has become so strong, so 
quickly, and the answer will sound a bit like a confession: The music is a 
compulsion, they say. An inevitability. An obsession. In 2008, the four San 
Franciscans intend to pour that passion into a full-length debut disc. For now, 
though, LoveLikeFire is doing what it's always done: Playing shows wherever and 
whenever. Writing songs constantly. Clinging strongly to the idea that it's 
better to be good than lucky.
In 2007, the band self-booked and self-financed a nationwide tour, one that led 
from out-of-the-way towns to big-city music festivals and back again. Here's 
what audiences discovered: Vocalist/guitarist Ann Yu's voice is formidable and 
feminine, capable of punkish passion and dark rock drama; the rhythm section 
Dave Farrell and Robert Kissinger is exuberant, confident and well-schooled; and 
guitarist Ted Parker's riffs balance so many things -- accessibility and edge, 
clang and beauty, dexterity and spontaneity. And when there's a synth motif or a 
cello line in the mix, the execution is impeccable.

The media took notice, too:

"Local Newbie LoveLikeFire has already racked up acheivements that plenty of 
veteran scenesters would kill for..the generally positive buzz for the band is 
well earned by the thoughtfully arranged, dynamic and dramatic indie rock." - 
The Onion
"LoveLikeFire frontwoman Ann Yu's tremulous, haunting vocal style combines 
elements of CocoRosie, Karen O and Portishead's Beth Gibbons, while the 
delicately woven threads of synthesizer, piano and guitar form an orchestral 
dream-pop tapestry." - Spin.com

www.lovelikefire.com
www.myspace.com/lovelikefire

MIDGE CRICKETT
Midge Crickett is neither a midge nor a cricket. She is a human creature who 
writes silly/sad songs which she sings while accompanying herself on the Cello. 
She began playing the cello at age 7 when her violin teacher got fed up with her 
for always looking for a place to sit down, and to this day she considers 
"always having a place to sit down" to be one of the major perks of playing the 
cello.....and the fact that, in a crisis situation, the cello is an instrument 
big enough to hide behind. It does not, however, ummm...float.
www.myspace.com/midgecrickett

THE GOTHEES
The Gothees are an entertaining and eclectic mix of performers-cum-musicians who 
have a unique and often perverse way of slanting the dominant paradigm of 
rock/pop music or something along those lines. Their music may be best described 
as an unsettling mixture of '60s pop distilled with a hint of '80s influences 
topped with a slight pinch of the punk aesthetic. Imagine the bubblegum pop 
tunes of The Monkees and The Archies interpreted by The Velvet Underground with 
Ian Curtis of Joy Division as lead vocalist ... really.

Oh...and they like theremins. Alot!!!

www.myspace.com/thegothees


The Bloomfield Bridge Tavern
4412 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224