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Kay Hanley

Hooray for floating in space.

About Me

My Mom named me Kathleen Marie when I was born. That was in Dorchester, Massachusetts in the waning moments of the 1960's. I spent my youth in that place, and dutifully trudged my way through the better part of 12 years while being trained to become a secretary by The Sisters Of Notre Dame. The universe intervened when I got saved by rock and roll music and toured the world for 10 years with my favorite mates in the band Letters To Cleo. My current life is in Los Angeles, where I have not so much raged against the machine, as I have become a slippery cog in it.I make records. Sometimes I help other people make records. My friend Michelle and I have a company called Art Is War that does what record companies used to do but do not anymore, which is to cultivate a community of producers, writers and artists where songs get written, music gets recorded and sweet, sweet love gets made all over the world.I like drinking alcohol but I hate cats. Go figure.Layout made by upcloseandpersonal at CreateBlog.com .
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Member Since: 6/8/2005
Band Website: kayhanley.com
Band Members: Kay - Guitar and Vocals;USA Mike - Guitar;Joe Klompus - Bass;Ryan McMillan - LA Drums;Pete Caldes - Boston Drums;Fred Eltringham - LA Drums;Peter Adams - Keys
Influences: in no particular order: the beatles. wilco. husker du/bob mould. elvis costello. barry manilow. rem. earth wind & fire. ozzy ozbourne. 38 special. the smiths. the alarm. cocteau twins. the gravel pit. nirvana. the muffs. hank williams. clancy brothers w/ tommy makem. the pogues. annie. run dmc. sloan. pavement. slick rick. weezer. dillon fence. sonic youth. jane's addiction. doug e. fresh. guided by voices. the pixies. hall & oates. the sos band. the posies. shalimar. dolly parton. prince. ray charles. the barnies. centro-matic. ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong duets. xtc. cheap trick. the zombies. the cars. uncle tupelo. elvis presley. *BIG STAR* of course.
Sounds Like: war of the sugar-plum faries.
Record Label: de guerre
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

KH website RIP (for now)

Hey Board Peeps - For those of you who care, I am sorry for the major confusion with the disappearing website. Aplus.net have been so fucking incompetent that Andrea has been unable to get me back onl...
Posted by Kay Hanley on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:01:00 PST

Not a blog, exactly, but an essay. Here's a story about an event that changed everything.

IN CLOUDSOn January 17th 2003 at around 11:00pm I found myself driving to Boston Children's Hospital on one of the coldest nights in memory with my 3 week old son, Henry Aaron strapped quietly in his ...
Posted by Kay Hanley on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:13:00 PST

JT & Me (how i fell for the 2nd best literary hoax of the year)

This is the first article that I have ever had published and I am so glad that the Boston Phoenix was on hand to bust my essay writing cherry in Feb 2006. The story is about my experience of briefly ...
Posted by Kay Hanley on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:43:00 PST