Member Since: 17/03/2007
Band Website: http://www.monicanelsonmusic.com
Band Members: www.youtube.com/user/hoorayourteam
Influences:
As vocalist & lyricist for Portland Punk Rock legends The Obituaries, Monica Nelson was the most talented, visible and recognized female front person in the time just prior to the full-on Grunge explosion in the Northwest alternative music scene from 1986-1990. She has been cited as a major influence by later standard bearers like Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) and the late Mia Zapata (The Gits). Monica & The Obits shared bills with both Green River & Mother Love Bone (whose rosters included most of the members of the bands that would become known later as Pearl Jam & Mudhoney, the latter whom they played with as well), Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Alex Chilton (Big Star, The Box Tops), The Gits, Babes In Toyland, The Descendents, Dead Moon, & Soundgarden to name a few. Then there was that one band that opened for them that went on to be sort of popular....Nirvana!!
Monica has been performing with various musical collaborators and ensembles, including the reunited Obituaries in recent times, as well as showing her photographs and paintings as part of the Antagonist Art Movement (NYC) and the Siren Festival (Portland). She is currently working on self-publishing her first book of prose.
-BRANDON LIEBERMAN HOST OF KBOO 90.
7FM's 'DRINKING FROM PUDDLES'
Willamette Week says:
12/26/07
The Obituaries
*[BLUES PUNK] The Obituaries' frontwoman, Monica Nelson, has a ridiculous voice: It slips from rough-around-the-edges, froggy-throated rawk growls into sweet, honey-smooth croons with the greatest of ease, which is probably why Northwest legends the Obits are so damn hard to categorize. The music ranges from metal to swinging hard-bop to riff rock, but the soul embodied in Nelson's howl transcends genre—making the Tonic's end-of-year lineup (which also includes the Shiny Things, ex-Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis' new group) an appropriately timeless option for rocking in the new year (and one of the best in town). AMY MCCULLOUGH.
And again:
08/01/07
Monica Nelson is convinced that she's ugly and can't sing. At any show by her most recent (and recently defunct) punk-'n'-roll vehicle, Generation, she could be found with her bleached hair tucked under an antiquated hat and her eyes made up like an Egyptian, commenting between songs on how talentless she is.
Still, pretty much everyone in the Northwest (and beyond) is convinced Nelson's pipes are made of gold (and, heck, I'll vouch for the woman's good looks). Claudia Gehrke, onetime booker for Seattle's Vogue, recounts the first time the Obituaries—Nelson's best-loved and now reunited band—played Seattle in '86: "When [Nelson] took the stage, she was like a porcelain doll; you could feel the tension in the room. When she finally belted out, people were in awe. For such a small and fragile person, she had a huge voice. They were such a surprise.
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JASON SIMMS
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'PIG MUSIC'
Oct 27th 2007 at The Mt. Tabor Legacy Portland Oregon with Stephen Phyllop Clarke
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