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Laura Lewis and The Tea Dance Orchestra

About Me


Laura Lewis and Her Amazing Tea Dance Orchestra
L’Histoires
Lolly Cum Violencia
5’4”
Smells like Vanilla
Likes Post Punk Opera
Plays ukulele, banjo, harp, angel guitar
“Because I’m small people think they can boss me around. Also they think I’ll be a bitch because I’ve had to deal with that all my life. I like to make people think I’m fulfilling their expectations then surprise them.”
Victoria Labia
5’9”
Smells like Raspberry Punch
Likes Low Country
Plays pianola, miserichord, harpsichord, clavichord
“Back home I broke horses. The boys liked to watch. I’d wear my best petticoats and they’d get all sweaty and dusty, sometimes a little bloody. Breaking horses is like good fucking – the deed isn’t done until everybody involved is half dead and happier than they’ve ever been in their whole fucking life before.”
Manchurian Spector
6’2”
Smells like opium
Likes Apocalyptic Hip Hop
Plays melodica, bone whistle, penny whistle, decks, spray cans
“Once I jumped off a building and never hit the ground, not that I noticed anyway. People think I’m walking but if you get down on the ground and stick your nose right up close to my trainer rubber you’ll see there’s a little space in there, like between the wee bodies in an atom. I’m flying all the time baby.”
Dusty Garota
5’6”
Smells like brownies and balloons
Likes Lullabies
Plays crystal glasses, typewriters, pearls with bells on the end
“People are always talking about love as if it’s some unicorn sitting in the corner of the room in a leather armchair smoking a Cuban cigar. Have you ever opened your legs on the top of a mountain and felt the sun come down and fuck you from above? Have you ever slid your hard cock into the earth and felt what it is really like to fertilise? I’m not talking some hippie bullshit here. I’m talking about tongues and blood and the stuff that comes out of you after you die, the stuff you sing with, the stuff you love with.”
none of us have ever met this laura lewis, but she says it was all her idea
laura lewis and her amazing tea dance orchestra slunk onto the performance art scene at SiLENCiO's first birthday in January 2004.the Tea Dance Orchestra has at various points been very lucky to have amongst its ranks: Susi Kedzierska, Nick Stewart, Tim from Big Hand, Adam Melvin AKA Melvitronica.The tea dance orchestra are currently writing and recording in a nuclear bunker somewhere in Leith.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/06/2006
Band Members: laura lewis - vox, silver star angel guitar, mumblings, dance moves, legs, lips, and fingers, harmonium, flute, tape loops

jenny lindsay - bus shelter, piano, vox, wine bottles

jennifer williams - wine glasses, typewriter, beads, hairbrushes, vox, bells, stapler

ben seal - saw, double bass, bows and ribands

kirsty whiten - paint, pencil, paper, wax, felt tips

Influences: p j harvey, sufjan stevens, kristin hersch, bjork, thomas truax, massive attack, the pixies, coco rosie,
Sounds Like: heartbreak towers of concrete and glass, four am fumbles with the desperately inappropriate, howling at the moon, breakdancing in cocktail dresses, brittle winter sun, swallowing love whole, looking so good in your pants that you seriously consider them as outerwear, fucking feeling and fighting, squeezing the last breath out of it all

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Lyrics - Tennis in a River

(for Robert Valencia of the Fakesters)We'll play tennis in a river, we'll bury treasure in the park,Sing songs in disused bunkers, pretend the whole world's gone dark,And we can say, no one's done tha...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:06:00 GMT

Lyrics - Standard Life

STANDARD LIFEShaking down My pinstripeShopping roundI catch your eyeYou turn around And look at me with myBoots Meal deal Yeah you think Ive got a standard life.Suit SmartBut I make ArtId like to show...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:01:00 GMT

Lyrics - THIS CITY

I can walk through these wallsthe buildings all undone and backlit just paper and cloth skin translucent around it this cityOnce I jumped off a buildingand never hit the ground, You might think I'm wa...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:16:00 GMT

THE TEA DANCE play NEUE LIEBE on Sunday!

NEUE LIEBE MASSIVE RELAUNCH PARTYStart Time: Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 8:30pmEnd Time: Monday, January 28, 2008 at 1:00amLocation: The Voodoo RoomsStreet: 19a West Register StCity/Town: Edinburgh V...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:29:00 GMT

these messages

my fingers brush the keyboard as i walk the ridge of your spine your muscles tense with a click i return your scattered kisses the touchpad licks the tips and i send to you all the ways of this love, ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:37:00 GMT

tesseract

On that side of the wall there's a version of here but the tables the other way around, its a mirror of this and next door its the same but the clockface is yellow not brown in the booth next to ours ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:55:00 GMT

languages you dont speak

the truthisnot a monumentthe truthis wrong and rightthe truthsa bloody war zoneisa song sung into the nightthe truth is deaf to protestsisthis red rag held highThe truthisbruised and nakedis broken fr...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:10:00 GMT

dream my lover

my love my love my lover died the day my love was borni didn't see you coming and was taken unprepared, when we looked beneath my bones and saw your name was written therewith just one night together ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:53:00 GMT

Lyrics - O MY HORSES

O My HorsesI look at the moon and I am not blinded.The horses whinny in the dark stable.They feel me walking toward them in the nightwith my whip in my hand and my ropes.The wooden door of the stable ...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:16:00 GMT

Lyrics - DRUMS AND BUGLES

There's a parade todayOh there's a parade todayCan hear it from miles awayOh there's a parade todayRa pa pa pa rapadabadaRapada da pa pa pa rapadapadaOh there's a parade todayPassing my window paneOh ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:51:00 GMT