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tion of lightweight and fraught with resonance.
Simple guitar parts underlie the vocals, which
can tend to a chant-like rhythm; other instru-
ments pick up noodling, suggestive tidbits of
melody reminiscent of certain fragments of
Led Zeppelin songs. Faun Fables could be a
strange second soundtrack to Lord of the Rings
— the dark and earthy songs of the ordinary
folk in an extraordinary world. Faun Fables and
Faun
Fables
Dum Dum play 7:30 pm Sunday, July 24 at
John Henry’s. $5. — Molly Templeton
No Kellys Here
Empowered females have been making
rock music for a long time, but The Kelly
Affair lead singer and guitarist Amanda
Christie says she still gets surprised reactions
from people when she tells them she’s in an all-
female rock band.
“People are still
always just amazed that I
think that girls can sort
of do something that’s
traditionally thought of
as like a masculine
thing,” Christie said.
“And even though I don’t
think its very strange or
outrageous or anything,
even people that I know
and respect think that
it’s a little bit crazy.”
Though the band is
called The Kelly Affair,
there aren’t any actual
Kellys in the group; The
Kelly Affair got their
name from “Beyond the
Valley of the Dolls,” a
Russ Meyer film about a
band of hot, small-town
female musicians who
set out to make it in the
sharktank
of
Los
Angeles. In the Russ
Meyer movie, The Kelly Affair gets into the big
time, but so far the real-life Kelly Affair is
unsigned and doing all of their own booking.
This is Christie’s first “real” band, but in not
much more than two years of existence,
Christie, bassist Rania Haditirto and drummer
Amanda Cantrell have made a name for them-
selves in New York City and are ready to
embark on their first tour ever.
“We wanted to [tour on] the west coast
because a lot of our favorite bands are from
Portland or from Olympia,” Christie said, citing
Sleater-Kinney, Team Dresch and The Thermals
as examples.
“At first we used to joke and call ourselves
a geography rock band, because we have a
The Kelly Affair
song about Hawaii, we have a song about
California, we have a song about Canada, then
we also have a lot of mean songs about boys,”
Christie said. “We like to call those our ‘disap-
pointment songs.’” Whatever the subject mat-
ter, it’s opinionated, bold and catchy, just like
the women in the band. And when they write
their emotionally charged lyrics, they’re not
wasting time worrying about what the public
reaction will be.
“We say what we want to say,” Christie said.
“We’re not nervous or embarrassed to say any-
thing in our songs.” The Kelly Affair plays with
Armored Frog and the Ginger Hustlers, 10pm,
Wednesday, July 27 at Luckey’s. $3-$5
— Sara Brickner
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