Big Audio Dynamite Live at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia

Today’s Song of the Day is another Two Sisters and a Show clip, but this time around it was one sister, one brother-in-law, one nephew, and one brother-in-law’s brother and a show, three long time fans, and one born and raised on BAD (nephew). I was hard pressed to stop and take photos or video because that meant standing still (tall order), but I did manage to do it for this one, at encore #1. An incredible show, and seeing Mick Jones live again for the second time in just under a year is something I never thought would happen, ever. Mick Jones: king of kings. Photos from this show are forthcoming in a future post.

I asked my nephew to give me five words to describe how he felt about the show. His reply: amazing, cool, awesome, and surprising . . . and . . . loud.

Big Audio Dynamite “The Bottom Line” live at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia, August 4, 2011:

Two Sisters review posted on FrankiesGun website

In tandem with the photos I posted yesterday, here is my review (written under the name of Ady’s and my Two Sisters and a Show entity) of the Rochester, New York show for our friends over at Frankiesgun.com, a great site dedicated to The Felice Brothers. Check it out, it’s loaded with the photos and two videos I shot at the show, as well as the sole video to have popped up so far—taken by another audience member/fan,—of the epic “River Jordan,” aka the one where “the Guild was killed.” Thanks again to Sean, who is over there at the controls of Frankiesgun.com, for sharing my review on his site.

By the way, if you’re not yet familiar with The Felice Brothers, you should poke around the rest of Sean’s site, it’s a great way to get your feet wet with their music, loads of other videos, photos and information about the band. Then go catch them live, they’re currently adding dates in the US (including Cleveland and Philadelphia and points in between and down south) through early November and in the UK through December. You’ll thank me if you do you know . . . ’cause without a doubt it’s the greatest show on earth!

Two Sisters and a Tavern finished

Inspired by a walk we took through town while exploring on a recent trip to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on a Two Sisters sojourn to see The Felice Brothers (we now arrive toting Ady’s new camera and my sketchbook to document our trips together), this is the completed version of the drawing that I’ve been working on for the past several weeks. It’s a bit of a mash up of the architecture and building placement in town, so it is not geographically accurate. Nor did I see the ghost of Nomadi roaming the streets, but I did imagine it. The illustration started as a pencil drawing and moved to india ink pen for this final image.