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> Boy, are we glad DC native Mary Timony recently moved back here from Boston. Rumor has it that the multi-instrumentalist has been playing guitar on a lot of her newer stuff, with ever-talented Devin Ocampo (Medications, ex-Faraquet) playing drums. source: Black Cat website Mary is playing there tomorrow with Ted Leo/ Pharmacists and Washington Social Club. (If you're going to this concert and feel like sharing the details afterwards, email is @ up there :) |
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> Ignore her sweet baby-face pout and her hippie-fantasia lyrics. Timony is probably the smartest chick in rock and her complex songs and arrangements should earn her much greater success than she's gotten. Sometimes she sounds like a Sonic Youth by way of Suzanne Vega, sometimes she doesn't. Go see her and support the rare artist who isn't in it for the money or the pussy. source > golden dove article > helium - i'll get you i mean it (tab) |
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> 1994-12-16 Helium @ Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC avaliable on easytree.org. > 1998-05- Helium @ Studio2 CBC, Vancouver, BC avaliable on easytree.org. (registration and a BT client needed in order to access the files). thank you lillian for putting them up. :) |
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> 1995-05-11 Helium @ KCRW, Santa Monica, CA avaliable on easytree.org. > 1995-10-26 Helium @ Riviera, Chicago, IL avaliable on easytree.org. > 1997-10-31 Helium @ WNUR, Evanston, IL avaliable on easytree.org. > 2003-02-06 @ Vera Groningen Netherlands avaliable on easytree.org. (registration and a BT client needed in order to access the files). thank you lillian for putting them up. :) |
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> new tour date: 2004-12-10 @ Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY w/ Ted Leo + Pharmacists, The Seconds ( buy tickets ) source > What can we expect from the new songs? "They're a lot more rocking and guitar-oriented, a little more poppy and still kind of proggy," Timony says. "There's going to be a lot of guitar playing and experimentation with sound on the new record." source |
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> the wobs The wobs were crechers who nobody new. they wobs kill people. they lived in the wods. they wood come out at 12p.m. and went into the city and spray ther fier. Oneday they were bornene. (originally written on "No Guitars" CD with a child-like handwritting) > Helium live pages re-done and updated. 1994, 1995/1996, 1997 and 1998 > Green 4 page is up. (more info to be added soon. any help is welcome. email is the @ up there). |
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> "Lightning" complete lyrics now added to the b-sides page. (thanks Francesco for the help) > 1995-10-22 Helium @ Orpheum Theatre, Boston MA avaliable on easytree.org (registration and a BT client needed). |
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> 2004-10-15 @ Knitting Factory, New York, NY (CMJ showcase). (full credits: Natasha) do not use these pictures without permission   |
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> 2004-11-05 @ North Six, Brooklyn, NY. Pictures from yesterday (!). (full credits and a big thank you note: R. Barry) do not use these pictures without permission      > added to the (re-done) live page. |
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> Frontwoman Mary Timony leads the Boston trio on six tracks of dissonant, moody excellence on the band's first EP (oops, there's a one-minute 7th bonus track" of carnival-like instrumental strangeness at the end). Their enthralling sound is not soothing and poppish, but then that's not what they're after. Ex-Dumptruckers Brian Dunton (bass) and Shawn King Devlin (drums) lay down exploratory, fuzzed-out layers of rhythm that Timony rides on top of with her ominous guitar and Liz Phair-like voice. She conjures up an image of a sweet spoken girl with a knife behind her back that she's not afraid to use. Timony wrote the six main songs and sets the moods with her emotional, bold lyrics: "You wanna have me, / and watch me like TV, / you wanna hold me, / collect me like rubies, / talk about me like a movie. / You're so dirty". -from "XXX" Along with the captivating guitars, deep lyrics and Mary's foreboding voice is Helium's ability to stretch out instrumentally. None of the songs are rushed and each seems open to even longer improvisational live jamming. Their recent shows with Pavement must've been something to behold. Emotion, beauty, talent, moodiness, humor, sarcasm and cohesiveness help describe the awesome, one-of-a-king trio Helium. (Alan Sheckter) about Pirate Prude EP (source) > In D.C. I joined erase errata (who were playing with us) to create a band called "The Anxious Rats". Actually there were several names. Anyway we played five songs in about five minutes. The lovely Mary Timony and her band danced to a song called "Body Bag" that Jenny from Erase Errata had choreographed. It was hot... it rocked, it was the shit. We actually played the body bag song twice, but some of us (me) didn't realize it till it was half over. It was sweet. Thurston shot some 32 sec. films of it on the digital camera maybe we'll post on the site. It was the best band I was ever in. (except for free kitten and sy of course.) Only one ten minute rehersal. Okay that's all for now. xx kim (Gordon) (source) > ... Mary Timony was also fantastic. It was just her, playing guitar or keyboards, and singing. In some ways, it felt like a bit of a letdown after Unwed Sailors very lush set, but the sounds were great, and her voice compensates for the lack of instruments. She also had this German cartoon playing on the screen onstage....no sound, just the cartoon playing behind her. It was compelling in an arty sorta way.... about the 2003-03-20 @ Rex Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA concert w/ Unwed Sailor (source) > 2004-04-25 @ Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY (credits: R. Barry)   |
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> Honeycomb video screen caps. > Le Tigre/Mary Timony tour poster > +19 tour dates (jun-sept 2002) added under live page > 2002-09-01 Le Tigre/Mary Timony @ 9:30 club, Washington, DC pictures (credits: Steven Cochrane):  |
