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Posted in music | pictures on January 19, 2009
Jemina Pearl now in NYC w/ new band, recording (near Thurston), played Brooklyn (pics, setlist & a video)
photos by Nathan Miller
Pitchfork: Are you anxious about your first post-Be Your Own Pet show this weekend?Jemina Pearl and new solo band played that first show on Saturday night (1/17) at Music Hall of Williamsburg. She was opening for The Fluid. Thurston Moore was there, as you can see in one of the pictures below...Jemina Pearl: Oh no, I'm super excited. It's been so long since I've played a show. I've been compensating by doing karaoke and stealing the microphone from people. So it's probably good for all my friends that I'm getting back onstage.
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Pitchfork: Do you want to go into any more detail about the breakup?
JP: That's a loaded question, my friend. I probably shouldn't! I feel like it's been a scab that I keep picking at. It's just now starting to heal, so I need to leave it alone. I'll probably talk about it eventually, but right now it's too fresh.
Pitchfork: Fair enough. Let's move onto your new project, which includes BYOP drummer John Eatherly, right?
JP: Yeah, me and John started writing songs when BYOP was still a band. We'd write these kind of 60s girl group-sounding songs. Once the band broke up and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, John brought me some music that he'd written, but he was having a hard time coming up with lyrics and vocal parts. He moved into my house in Nashville and we would just stay up all night writing and it felt really natural.
We had both been wanting to move to Brooklyn, so we just left Nashville and took a Chinatown bus up to the city for like $40. It was kind of like, "Fuck it, there's no reason to be here." Nashville's an interesting city but it's one of those places that's better to visit. I'm sure everyone in Nashville's going to be like, "fuck you," but I'll say "fuck you" right back to them. It was really a spur-of-the-moment move. I brought two suitcases and my guitar; John brought one suitcase.
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Pitchfork: Have you started recording?
JP: We're actually about to go do our first real batch of demos in Northampton [Massachusetts], where Thurston [Moore] lives, after the show. We want to record the album in March. And I think we're going to try and start playing around New York and New Jersey pretty frequently.
Jemina Pearl - So Sick! @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 1/17/09
Jemina Pearl - MHOW setlist
Band On The Run
No Good
I Hate People
After Hours
Nashville Shores
So Sick!
Heart Beats
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Posted on January 19, 2009 10:24 AM
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Comments (17)
Glad she's moved to Brooklyn. She'll get along great with the Vivian Girls.
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 10:39 AM
This is like BYOP but without the chemistry and charisma. Not sure what she's talking about. Nashville is actually more of a place to live than a place to visit. I suppose it's more for real musicians though. Bless her heart, it must be hard to be around if you can't actually play. We're glad she left.
Posted by Adrien Saporiti | January 19, 2009 11:17 AM
i'd no longer hit it
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 12:18 PM
^^
I'm sure Thurston has...
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 12:40 PM
There were maybe 50 people in the space when she started. There were about 15 when she finished. It just wasn't very good.
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 2:54 PM
she seems like a bitch. i would never hit it. "it's the end of the road, and I can't let go"
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 5:10 PM
Yeah I heard it was really really bad.
Posted by como | January 19, 2009 5:19 PM
pitchfork still has a hard-on for her...which means her 15 has been extended to 30...
Posted by sloweducation | January 19, 2009 5:34 PM
Oh noes! I like to think music sprouts magically from Brooklyn, and not that established musicians relocate here. It makes me feel old and Brooklyn like a has-been city.
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 6:44 PM
jemina is great. let her do her thing, whatever it may be.
she is young, she has time to figure out how to please all of you musically inclined diplomats....
Posted by Anonymous | January 19, 2009 6:52 PM
NASHVILLE SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES! anyone from Nashville knows why this song is hilarious.
Posted by alexandria | January 20, 2009 8:53 AM
i like how progressively more williamsburg her clothes have gotten. must be good to have rich parents with music biz connex and play shitty punk retreads while contributing nothing to the state of music.
Posted by Anonymous | January 20, 2009 9:32 AM
Woo-ho!!! More shitty music!!1
Posted by Anonymous | January 20, 2009 9:39 AM
I like her. they were one of the top 3 or 4 bands at Coachella back in 2006. Theres no denying her stage presence when she wanted to be on.
Posted by Anonymous | January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
I miss Be your own pet :(, but i think she'll get better in a bit, just needs time to get used to the new stuff
Posted by ash | April 12, 2009 12:02 PM
useless shit
Posted by Anonymous | July 13, 2009 12:38 PM
Wow....YAY!!!!!! Jemina is amazazing and maybe some shows around Knoxville TN would be appreciated...... =o (I'll come to NY if need be)
Hellz Ya!
Posted by Annony | July 23, 2009 1:14 PM