Cube member #11979

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Date: Sep 21 2006 10:53 Flag spam/abuse [ ? ]
Subject: Hello Lady Lucy…
Body: Hello from David Curry, Cambridge, Massachusetts…

Cube member #11979 – by your hand in 2001 when i was there with Boxhead Ensemble.

all the best – hope to return someday in some way.

– David

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I Love Liam

A Grindhouse Romance

Now you may remember I once said I Love Theo, well that Love hath ended and Now I Love Liam. Don’t worry gang for I have alot of Love that I am more then willing to spread around.

Grindhouse Romance

But I digress, the reason I love Liam is many fold, but basically Liam says he wants to be the new Russ Meyer and he wrote and directed a great Burlesque film

which starred yours truly (as myself) and a small part for The Cube Orchestra who also did the . . .

score

You can hear most of what we did HERE

This was alot of unwholesome fun

<img src="http://www.orchestra.cubecinema.com/img/blog/august06/Aug06small/august%20017.jpg"sofiaConcentrateUnwholesome

As you can see our concentration was admirable.

You should be able to see the whole film sometime soon with the Original score attached. That’s it. No More.

THE END

Feel my power, Richie Paradise Richie Paradise

ps for those who bother to follow the links I haven’t really………..

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Don’t Do Tricks Party


Some pics…we like playing with cameras
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Beeroes

Friday 1st saw the Cube host the Greatness of the Magnificence Bowie Night, in which I played a fleeting part as a member of the Orchestra Cube. I actually spent most of the evening serving behind the bar, allowing me to indulge in my hobby of observing the drinking habits of the British public, well the Cube clientele. According to Zuleika , the size of the bar take can be extrapolated from the number of Absinthe shots sold. When the bar was cashed up at the end of the evening, we discovered we had taken some 800 quid.

With 77 paying punters, plus perhaps another 23 assorted volunteers, band members, groupies and liggers, that’s around 100 people in the building, giving an average spend per punter of £8. Eight quid gets you three bottles of beer or lager, which on the face of it doesn’t sound too unreasonable during the course of the evening’s entertainment.

What is possibly more interesting to contemplate is the standard deviation, or spread of this average. As some people may be limiting themselves to a single drink, it follows that some people must be drinking the equivalent of 5 or 6 bottles. Still, this is a society where alcohol consumption and excessive alcohol consumption is the social norm.

I’ll get my coat.

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Cube Birthday Decor Ideas

We seem to have gone a bit goth…but it is for halloween. Well the idea was Miss Havisham gets gilted, hearts bleed, she gets a boat to venice, drinks Absinthe with a Dark Count, puts on her ball gown and heads to our masked ball…..

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join us on a trip down no tricks lane

DON’T MISS OUR LAUNCH **TONIGHT** ! ! !

Join us on a trip down no tricks alley.
Super Group Extreme are playing. Skating stories from the mindscape of Hannah G
It is gonna be a kind of end of summer party !
All everybody welcome: It’s free !!!


SK8 4 EVAH !! Don’t Do Tricks website

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The Vanity Of King Richie

Wife beater

Well after the highs of Ashton Court the further, yes further, highs of The Cube Orchestra as this time we took a popular play item, the common garden football football and used it to dictate what or who would play. At first i think I did keepey upeys in at attempt to inspire The Orch, but let’s face it, most of them we’re the last to be picked at anything at skool, so sporting prowess was never going to impress them (probably bought back a few bed wetting bad memories for a few) so instead we kicked the ball to each other whenever we wanted that person to lead the music in another way. Easy for some Simone not so easy for others Saskia and it actually worked quite well. Saskia there also gave us an idea about individually playing for a certain count and then starting again. All at different tempos too. Believe it or not it worked rather well. As you can see Baz and Saskia Barry enjoyed himself. Personally I was inspired to strap on the geetar, yeah baby leave those drums behind and strum Play That Guiter Richie Paradise, play great fun. Josh Rouse look out (i’m not sure what for but look out).

It was a lorra lorra fun. Give tanks and praises to Marcus, Saskia, Simone, Barry and Meself for being irie and dread.

Ciao, Richie Paradise Richie Paradise

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Blusherettes have A Rum Do!

Here’s me and Polly at A Rum Do where we blushed and puffed the young and beautiful (and not so young or beautiful, let’s be honest), saw flappers dancing, fan dancers revealing, villagers disco-ing (hey up the Village Disco, always save the night!), samba bums wobbling, security guards puffing, carpets kidding, swimming pools chilling, old-folk pilling, geishas fanning, preambulators strolling and the extraodinary Extraodinares rockin and a rollin!

All my trials lord, soon be over…ie. My trials of paint shop’s run out so I had to format the pics on Slide…here goes..

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Pictures from A Rum Do festival, with our new powder puff wands!

Got recognised from Girlesque; here’s to more Cabaret at the Cube some night soon!?

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Ashton Court WE Salute You

Well Max Blackout salutes Red Stripe
max blackout
But The Cube Orchestra salutes yew Ashton Court, Not ‘Arf
Barry toasts you Barry Parsons Bel and Ale send you love Belinda and Ale because you guys were great. Most Love of all to Blackout Arts for giving us the opportunity to play, we love you guys the mostest.
So it was a beautiful day, even the traffic wasn’t too bad getting there. Various band members Cube Orch
made there way to the tent for our pre match interviews and psych up sessions which I can only describe as being similar to that bit in Star Wars with that kind of Squid thing, anyhow here’s a spurious link.
Hunting Lodge played before and boy can those young fellas make some noise. Great stuff, kinda like The Jesus Lizard but with a whole new edge (ie a semi naked drummer). The Punters came streaming in when they heard we were about to play
Richie Paradise at Ashton courtashton court crowd
We played to several visual delights, first Liam’s Burlesque film A Grindhouse Romance which was great and i felt ever so proud when I told everyone Liam had made it (with help from his talented friends I add) and the crowd whooped louder, aw shucks I was made up for the young fella. Then there was some confusion as to if we were going to play along to Kyra’s dancing films (see last blog) or Mr. Hopkinson’s Cutting Up My Friends. Thankfully we managed both but not before Max Blackout gave me and everyone one around us a huge scare
Max and Liam
We finished by really giving it some Chutzpah to Kyra’s last dance clip (the Faithless video that I’ve blogged about before), really great fun and an excellent audience audience to Cube Orchestra who really made the gig what it was because they were enthusiastic and appreciative. Right on.
Thanks to Chiz and David Hopkinson for organising it.
Afterwards we really really buzzing, it’d had been a fantastic day.
It’s been a few years since I last played Ashton Court and it was nice to get that buzz back for the festival again. Hopefully if it can sort out some of the hijacking and pricing issues that have changed it into not effectively being a community festival.

Anyways, feel my love Richie Paradise Richie Paradise

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Officer, It Was All RED and then…

Open

First apologies to my many fans for not posting much recently. Sparror, The Cube’s Hal like master computer, has been messing me about.
before A Court
So this was the week of Ashton Court and various members of The Orchestra got together to play to the film of dances that Kyra had organised for us. For some this would be seen as rehearsing but seeing as we’d being playing different things on the day it was more a getting used to it thing I guess. Word.

So Marcus is a bloody good egg. He does masses for the Cube, and doesn’t mind accusations that he is The Orchestra’s answer to cheese. I’m sure even he’d admit he sometimes does it to wind us up. The next few pictures show (a) How apt the reference to 2001 was, and (b) the effects he can sometimes have on an Orchestra member:
fanviolinheadsshout like you mean it
Simone starting what involved us playing quite a normal (Cheesy) chord based song but with random people shouting at the top of the lungs. Kinda therapeutic (and trust me there’s all sorts of nuts in The Orchestra.
We were blessed with a Chellist who didn’t walk out after 20 minutes this time too (and she has returned too) and a good job Saskia did too Saskia

Well I have lots more to catch up on so I will bid you adeur mes amis,

Peace out, Richie Paradise Richie Paradise

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