Felix Obelix

I (that is, Wendy Spitzer) am having a visual art show at ROOM 100 Gallery in Golden Belt, Durham, NC from April 16-May 16.  The opening was from 6-9pm on April 16, and featured a Felix Obelix listening party, and audience/patron participation.  Thanks to everyone who came out.  For more information on the show, which features a lot of the themes I explore lyrically in Felix Obelix, visit here: http://www.goldenbeltarts.com/newsEvents_Details.php?event_id=87

Thanks for everyone who came to the CD release show!  It was said the Nightlight had never been so packed. Thank you thank you thank you.  Now here’s some press for the album:

A really nice write-up in The Independent Weekly.

Interview with the Daily Tar Heel.

Blog writer that gets it! http://cholling.org/hplm/?p=55 “this album shows that actually knowing some music theory can do wonders for your songwriting abilities.”

Americana UK – blog from across the pond that gets it!

Shuffle Magazine –  ”Twenty-Ten has just begun, but this is my favorite 35 minutes of the new decade thus far.” (!)

Dusted Magazine – “interested in being confrontationally quirky, if that’s possible”

Read the Beat Magazine – “ambitious…well-thought out and defies categorizing”

Airplay on WXDU (Durham, NC), KSCL (Shreveport, LA), WUOG (Athens, GA), KXLU (Los Angeles, CA), WPRK (Winter Park, FL), CIUT (Toronto, Ontario), KDVS (Davis, CA), CFRU (Guelph, Ontario), CFBX (Kamloops, British Columbia), Sandboxradio.com

Radio interview with Adam Kincaid on WKNC (Raleigh)

Visit the Pox World Empire Store to get a copy of Felix Obelix’s full-length album, The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest.  Set to release in February 2010, you can get a copy early in the mail, along with a free ticket to the CD release show, February 27, 2010 at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill. It’s $10 including shipping!

Yes indeed.  Durham, NC’s great label Pox World Empire is putting out the Felix Obelix debut CD!  The CD release show is set for February 27, 2010, at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill.  The full-length album, The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest will be available for sale online at http://www.poxworldempire.org/ and in NC record stores.

Opening will be The Strugglers, in an unusual version of just Randy Bickford backed up by a string section, playing the Chris Eubank string arrangements from his new record.

$8 gets you in the show AND a copy of the CD AND a letter to your future self:

Yes, there will be an interactive project called “Letters to Your Future Self”. All attendees of the night will get, with admission, some stationery and a self-addressed stamped envelope. Attendees are invited to write a letter to him or herself, put it in the envelope and seal it up. I will hold onto the letters for 8 months and mail them in October 2010. So if you come to this show, in addition to the Felix Obelix record, you’ll get a letter from your past self, eight months from now.

 Here’s what the CD cover looks like:

The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest

Hey you with the face:

Hey there, children of the netherworld!

Two items of interest are these:

1) I am touring with the Physics of Meaning to South by Southwest.  I’ll be playing bass and some oboe and wearing sailor pants. I hope to see you so you can meet these sailor pants.

best of all, I have handmade a micro-run of 50 watercolored Felix Obelix EPs, featuring other people’s prized family photographs, purchased on Ebay.  I hope to have some posted here soon so you can drool appropriately.  YOU CAN ONLY GET ONE OF THESE IF YOU BUY A PHYSICS OF MEANING MERCHANDISE ITEM ON THIS TOUR. how’s that fer marketing?  how’s that for awesome?  sailor pants!

These are the shows:

2) I’m still on the warpath for a drummer.  keep your ears pricked.  I’ll offer you a $50 headhunting bonus if I wind up using the drummer you found for me.  How’s that fer marketing?  how’s that for a big fat lie!  sailor pants!

thank you for reading,

Wendy