Lift Your Head Up
Last year Nate and Barbara celebrated New Year’s Eve with merriment and music, and a video for their song Bright Lights. They decided to make this a tradition, and this year the lyrics are on screen. Bright Lights is a journey of love and change, reconciling our natural selves in the modern world, and leaping into your life even when you cannot see.
Happy New Year Friends. Thank you for being here.
The Repressions are grateful to have played so many live shows in 2019, including the NYC Veggie Pride Parade in Union Square and Kingston Animalia Concert at BSP Kingston! Thank you to these terrific New York venues and events: The Local, Espresso 77, East Village Social, Irish Whiskey Bar, Union Square Park, Make Music New York, Jack Jones, Dolphin Bookshop & Cafe, Belvedere, LIC Bar, Kumon Awards Ceremony, Athens Square Park, RaR Bar, Shore Fest, Uke Hut, BSP Kingston, The Way Station, The Quays, Shillelagh Tavern, The Mad Donkey, and Marine Terrace. Special thanks to photographer Patrick Merino (he took the fine professional images here,) John Cavaliere and Zack Dash for filming, photographing and always being there, Ben Olson, The AR Community and Astoria Music Collective, our neighborhood musical family! There is much more to come in the new year!
Music: Thank You Charlotte Bronte (Extended Intro) by The Repressions
Merry Merry Everybody!
Human. Nature.
Do our instincts work against our growth? Why do we act out in wildness while we further ourselves from the natural world?
Tonight on Youtube we have a lyric video for the song “What’s To Be Expected of the Wild,” performed unplugged at Repressions’ Castle.
The Repressions are excited to be a part of this first Virtual Open Mic, hosted by Josh of the band MEDALS IN THE CHUTE. This will feature artists from all over the country, each performing one song in one video… We look forward to hearing new sounds and reaching new musical communities!
Youtube Premiere – 12/7/19
Featuring:
Ghost Bomb Survival — Forest — https://ghostbombsurvival.bandcamp.com/
Stephen Liu — Underwater — https://soundcloud.com/iamstephenliu
The Repressions — Starlight Golfcourse — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBu…
Joseph Omeluk — Any Moment — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCytA…
Sundown Lane — Half Your Heart [prod. Whoami] — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgng…
Medals in the Chute — Sometimes I feel — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzD5…
Reflectivity — You Can’t Even Get Lost In This Town Anymore — https://soundcloud.com/reflectivitymusic
Dunderu — Instant Gratification — https://soundcloud.com/dundrik97
David the Second — Peace in the Willows — https://davidthesecond.bandcamp.com
Dena Monticone — See The Sun — https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mkd4…
Joshua Clemens (from Strange Heart) — The Captain —https://Strangeheartmusic.com
The Burning Machine — Night Song — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9He…
Colton Boening — Angel (cover of the Jack Johnson song) — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKET…
Sarah Donkin — Changing my Mind — https://twitter.com/sarahdonkin13
Sometimes it is okay to wish to be hazy and dreamy, instead of sad. Our imaginations can take us to beautiful, perhaps healing places.
How cool and fine it was to play the new and dreamier and softer songs, the forest music of The Repressions… How lovely cool it was to meet new friends and hear new music from Gary D and Chloe’s Touch… Thank you to everyone who came out!
The Repressions are always working on new songs, and want to use this showcase to share some new, some newer, some softer and dreamier songs such as Starpool, From The Blue Green Sea, Quiet Solitude and Starlight Golfcourse. The showcase is hosted by the talented Jimmy Artache and promises to feature other cool local artists. No cover charge, just wild and soft music right near the 30th Avenue Subway stop in glorious Astoria. Hope to see you there!
Thank you to Astoria Music Collective and everyone who cam out for the Turning Leaves Festival!
No we don’t stop actually. And we are so glad of it! The Repressions are playing The Mad Donkey: 32-07 36th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106 on Saturday November 16 as part of the Turning Leaves Festival!
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