a justput
Goodfoot Lounge
presents Tripper
Dungan and other
artists through
July 24.
Healing Waters 8 Sacred Spaces presents An Evening of Angel
Music at Metropolitan Community Church of Portland. Donations
benefit the Rev. Kermie Wohlenhaus to cover her medical bills for
breast cancer treatment. (7-9 pm. 2400 NE Broadway.)
Queer/feminist rock band Swan Island performs with Australian
band Ninety-Nine at Sloan's Tavern. (8 pm. 36 N Russell St.)
Hey, what's your vice? Holocene presents Double Down, the fab
queer party where the player always wins, every fourth Saturday.
(8 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.)
Lesbian-owned Zaytoon presents the Drew Shoals
Collective, an eclectic quartet fusing evocative melodies and
deep grooves and demonstrating fluidity within the wide
spectrum of progressive jazz music. (9pm. 2236 NE Alberta St. $5.)
The Eagle presents Portland's dirtiest dance party, Jack, with DJs
Grant, Stormy and Jimme Jamma throwin' down ninja style! (9 pm-
2:30 am. 1300 W Burnside. $3.)
SUN • JULY 29
The Adventure Group takes a strenuous 10-mile uphill
hike to Nesmith Point, offering a variety of wildflowers and
a view of the Columbia River from the highest point on the
rim of the Oregon side of the gorge. Meet outside Starbucks at
Hollywood Fred Meyer. (8 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. John
503-310-8264.)
MON • JULY 30
Erasure performs July 24 at Seattle's Moore Theatre.
WED • AUG. 1
Elder Resource Alliance holds a business meeting at Friendly
House Community Center. Learn about projects, activities and
resources available for queer senior citizens, and be part of creat
ing social change. (2:30-3:30 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave.)
THU • AUG. 2
Beren deMotier reads from The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-
Sex Marriage during the Willamette Writers Faire in the Mount Hood
Room of the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel. (6-9 pm. 8235 NE
Airport Way.)
‘ FRI • AUG. 3
Out Dancing's intermediate salsa class starts tonight and contin
ues every Friday in August at Ankeny Street Studio. Beginning
country two-step class follows. (6:15-7:15 pm salsa ($40 for
month], 7:15-8:15 pm two-step ($30 for month]. Southeast Ninth
Avenue and Ankeny Street. 503-236-5129. www.outdancing.info.)
Aladdin Theater raises environmental awareness during
Mother Earth I featuring the clever songwriting and
storytelling of Myshkin's Ruby Warblers, folksinger Raina
Rose, singer/songwriter Beth Willis and Oregon Art Beat host KC
Cowan, who will read the Dr. Seuss story "The Lorax" between
music sets. (8 pm. 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. $15 from box office or
Ticket master.)
In Other Words presents the Spanish class Espahol Sin Frontoras!
(6:30-8 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $5-$10.)
Adrianne and Camille Bloom perform at Mississippi Studios.
(10 pm. 3939 N Mississippi Ave. $12 at the door, $10 in advance
from 503-288-3895.)
TUE • JULY 31
SAT • AUG. 4
Roseburg's Stewart Park presents a free performance by Pink
Martini during Music on the Half Shell. (7 pm.)
Urban cowboys and girls are in abundance during DJ Crystal's
country western dance at the Portland Metro Club (PPAA). (9pm-
1 am. 618 SE Alder St. $5.)
Dexter's Famous Spoken Mic gives writers "rock star status" by
bringing beginners and more established readers together for inspi
rational rants and performances every last Tuesday at In Other
Words. (7:30 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $5 donation.)
Blues musician Margo Tufo performs at the Portsmouth Club.
(9:30 pm-1 am. 5264 N Lombard St.)
Rufus Wainwright performs with Sean Lennon and A Fine Frenzy
at Crystal Ballroom. (9 pm. 1332 W Bumside St. $35 at the door,
$30 in advance from box office or Ticketmaster.)
SUN • AUG. 5
Get lucky during the Fox 8 Hounds' Monthly Charity Bingo.
(3:30 pm. 217 SW Second Ave.)
See the Light
A few years ago, back in the pre-iPod days, I made a three-disc chronological non
singles best-of Erasure for a fellow music dork. When 1 presented my equally geeky friend
with this veritable treasure trove of ecstatic electro-pop, he decided we should listen to
all three discs consecutively.
The first disc (1986-1988) found us singing along enthusiastically to songs forever
etched into our musical memories from countless lonely middle and high school week
ends spent listening to Erasure tapes when we should’ve been out on movie dates or
toilet-papering the houses of our friends and enemies.
The second disc (1989-1994) caused significantly less uncontrollable karaoke and
head-bobbing. By the third disc (1995-2003), we were near tears from being musically
beaten into submission by that which had always provided us with the necessary audio
wind beneath our wings.
I didn’t listen to Erasure for almost three years. My friend’s self-imposed Erasure
embargo continues to this day.
With my 240-minute mix-making mistake years behind me, I approach Light at the
End of the World (a much more manageable 10 songs in just 40 minutes) with fresh,
unbiased ears and find that not much has changed since 2OO5’s Nightbird, Erasure’s last
new material offering. (2006’s Union Street saw the duo taking an unplugged acoustic trip
down memory lane by revisiting lesser-known back catalog gems.) Andy Bell still emotes
pitch-perfectly, and Vince Clarke, whose keyboard trick well should be bone dry, still
provides the perfect musical backdrop for Bell’s impassioned vocalisms.
“Sunday Girl” is easily the most enjoyable, exuberant album opener since 199l’s
“Chorus," and “1 Could Fall in Love with You” follows breathlessly, the prototypical High
Energy Erasure Single. “Fly Away” and “Darlene” (the latter featuring my current favorite
depressing lyrics: “You got your religion, I got my addictions, we got dirty dishes in the
sink”) are a couple of other highlights on an album that would undoubtedly send me into
song selection fits were I creating a fourth disc in my ill-fated Erasure box set: It’s all good,
but none of it as overwhelmingly great as the early years, so what stays and what goes?
Light at the End of the World, and Erasure music in general, is a little like the landscape
I viewed on a recent drive to the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash.: ridiculously
gorgeous, mostly the same and totally worth the trip.
—Jim Thompson
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