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Exclusive Communion Interview: Dirty Dollhouse

Philly's Dirty Dollhouse take the Underground Arts Communion stage on Thursday!  Here's some lovely words we had with frontwoman Chelsea Mitchell.

-Why did you want to play a Communion show? 

Because Communion always puts together awesome line-ups! You get to see the cream of the local crop AND a national act or two. Plus, when Carolyn Lederach is involved, you know it's gonna be good.

-What are you most looking forward to with playing a Communion Club Night?

I'm really excited to watch the other bands - I've heard such great things but I've never shared a bill with any of them before! And that also means that we'll probably be playing for a bunch of people who've never seen us, so it's a perfect opportunity to make new connections.

-What's your favorite thing about the Philly music scene? While the Philly music scene is actually several different scenes, we still gather under the same happy umbrella. The whole artistic community here is very supportive. I've made friends across many musical genres and love to collaborate with all of them. -What's something you feel stands out about your live shows? We try to make our harmonies as lush and atmospheric as possible. It's usually just me playing a single instrument between the three of us, so it takes people aback sometimes that we can fill a room with so much sound. -Do you have anything exciting going on now (or soon) that everyone should know about? Dirty Dollhouse is releasing a studio EP this fall with the help of Brian Strouse and Josh Friedman from The Lawsuits! We also enlisted fine Philly folks like Brad Hinton and Kate Bernhardt to round out the sound. -Describe yourself in one quick sentence: Should I do it like a newspaper headline? "Formerly shy nerd takes the stage, becomes regular nerd."

-Favorite food of Philly?: Just about anything from Reading Terminal, but particularly Termini Bros. and their delicious confections.

-What is one of your favorite places in Philly? I love Fergie's Pub. I feel like you can stop in at any time, on any day, and you'll always find a friend. Plus, Ali Wadsworth will make you a drink and then serenade you. What could be better? -Favorite album? My answer to this question and most other questions is Joni Mitchell's Blue. -Favorite concert you've ever been to? The Shins at Tower Theater with my dad. He was dancing the whole time. -What are you listening to now? Lots of Hurray For The Riff Raff.  Do yourself a favor and see them! ____________________

Follow Dirty Dollhouse here:

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/dirtydollhouse Instagram: @DirtyDollhouseMusic Twitter: @DirtyDollhouse_

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Exclusive Chat #2 with Cub Sport in Preparation for Communion Philly TOMORROW!!

Here's our second chat with Cub Sport about what they're looking forward to when coming back to Philly and playing the Communion shows...  See them at Underground Arts TOMORROW NIGHT!!

-Why did you want to play a Communion show? We played at a Communion show in London last year and it was awesome, so we were keen to do some in the US. -What are you most looking forward to with playing a Communion Club Night? This is our first US tour, so we're just really excited to be playing a live show in Philadelphia for the first time! -What's your favorite thing about the music scene in Philly? I don't know much about the live music scene in Philly, but I know that WXPN is a really awesome radio station. I think that having a great local radio station definitely helps develop a healthy music scene. -What's something you feel stands out about your live shows? I think our vocal style and use of harmony are pretty unique for our style of music, so that probably stands out a bit in our live shows. -Do you have anything exciting going on now (or soon) that everyone should know about? After we play this Communion Club night, we're heading up to Canada to play some shows there, then we're doing some west coast shows. It's our first tour in these regions - we're excited!  -Describe yourself in one quick sentence:

Dog person and cat person at the same time

-What is one of your favorite places in Philadelphia? Last time we were in Philadelphia we got a pizza that was a few feet wide, so our favorite place is probably that pizza shop. -Favorite album and/or Favorite concert you've ever been to? The album I've been listening to heaps lately is Dream Cave by Cloud Control. I got to see them play live a couple of times over the last week which has made me love the album even more.

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Joey Sweeney chats with Communion before Philly Show on Thursday!

Joey Sweeney is a writer, performer and all around interesting person.  Learn more about him here and then come see him and his long hair arkestra on Thursday at Communion Philly at Underground Arts!

-Why did you want to play a Communion show?  I attended the first edition of Communion in Philly and what I really liked about it was the "indoor festival" feel of the event. There's a lot going on, and you're free to wander. I also like that it's a curated lineup, and your brain tries to make you find the common threads. -What are you most looking forward to with playing a Communion Club Night? I've yet to play Underground Arts with my big band, the Long Hair Arkestra, yet. We're ten pieces (horns, strings, etc.) and the UA stage might be one of the only small club stages in town that we'd fit on. So mostly what I am looking forward to is being able to move my arms.  -What's your favorite thing about the Philly music scene? That, in recent years, live music has completely trounced the once-dominant DJ culture here; that wasn't always the case -- in fact, I can never remember it being the case ever before. And I've got nothing against going out and dancing (far from it), but the reversal of fortunes over the last few years has been remarkable.  -What's something you feel stands out about your live shows? Well, the size of the band is one thing, but I also feel like this family vibe comes across with us. We put a lot into those shows, emotionally, so that at our best, there's a level of warmth coming off that almost un-band-like. I always describe what our band sounds like live as the end of a particularly crazy episode of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. There is lots of saxophone and even more feelings. -Do you have anything exciting going on now (or soon) that everyone should know about? We're starting to work on the next record, called Ladies Man, which will be a covers record of all songs penned by women.  -Describe yourself in one quick sentence: A slightly younger version of the Bill Nighy character in Love, Actually. -Favorite food of Philly? Double cooked fish at Han Dynasty. -What is one of your favorite places in Philly?   Port Richmond Books, a giant used bookstore that takes up the entire property, which used to be a silent movie theater in the 1920s. -Favorite album and/or Favorite concert you've ever been to? Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson at the Camden Riversharks Stadium.

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