Cloaca Melodia

Altar Bar, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... This was a WYEP Member Appreciation Show. Karl played solo acoustic. Earlier that day, I had interviewed him when he performed a session at WYEP. Me interviewing Karl, who look ridiculously tiny in this shot.     Here's me and Karl after the session.   

Brown Theater, Louisville, KY.....     sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

The Ritz, New York, NY.... Karl Wallinger is fascinating to watch on stage. He's a left-handed guitarist, but like Hendrix, he plays a right-hand guitar. So all of his chords are backwards. On top of that, he normally strummed with a pick but he used fingers only for solos. Each time he went into a solo, he had an eye-catching way of tossing aside his pick to the stage floor to play with his fingertips.   I was there with my friend Tim, and he bade me goodbye to catch a train back to Jersey during the encore break. Just as he was exiting the building, World Party returned to the stage with Sinead O'Connor in tow to lend her voice to a few numbers. World Party was originally scheduled to open for  her summer 1990 tour (including when I saw her at Jones Beach ), but World Party ended up not being the opening act. Instead, that gig went to Sinead's boyfriend Hugh Harris. (Harris was described in the press as "her new man" or "reported paramour.") It seeme...