Liz Clark

Rosie the Riveter

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:20:00 -0500

My life has been mostly taken up with our new car, Rosie O’Donnell, The Ford Taurus Wagon. She just has so much…character. She shows us new little quirks every day- like she revs her engine ferociously and acts like the transmission is going out, when we’re only 600 miles into our West Coast journey. And only after 6 days after buying her! She also likes to turn on her windshield wipers about every 9 seconds for no reason. I had a little talk with her to let her know we’re relying on her to take us to San Luis Obispo, San Fransisco, Sacramento, Fairfax, Palm Springs, LA, and San Clemente these next couple weeks

My new song Highways

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:35:20 -0400

My new song Highways

View from our front door

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:48:26 -0400

View from our front door

Tessa in her Chef Whites

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:39:18 -0400

Tessa in her Chef Whites

Time Off The Road...

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:35:00 -0400

Every summer for the last 4 years, I basically join the witness protection program. Except I haven’t witnessed anything brutal. So henceI don’t need much protection. BUT it feels like that when I come off the road after spending time in NYC and traveling the country meeting a million people and , bam!, come April, I travel all the way to the edge of the earth; Baltimore Ireland.

It’s freakishly small. It’s so rustic, I have to ask if I can get cell phone coverage out here. Or if wireless internet exists out here. (I can, and it does) It’s the farthest south and west you can go in Ireland where there are dramatic cliffs and yes, abslutely everything is green. Green and Grey. It rains (present tense).

Time Off The Road... Pt.2

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:34:57 -0400

Tessa takes off her cool scarfs and jackets that she wears at our gigs and trades them in for chef whites. Now she’s “Glebe-Gardens-and-Cafe-Tessa” and she cooks up lovely organic, homemade yummy things that are picked out of the garden or hatched out of the cute free-range chickens out back. I’m still the same Liz though, so when I’m not trying my hand at being a bad watiress, I spend my time taking walks and playing my guitar, writing songs-I’ve got a LOT of time on my hands. Which is more than most people can say so I’m trying to appreciate it! “Liz, you better eat all that time you have left on your plate! there are starving business people in Manhattan!”

I follow Tessa here for love, but also I think it’s a great way to get my head together after trying to be such a little mildly famous rock star all the time! If any of you are in Ireland, I have a bunch gigs here in the next couple months and I’ll be back stateside in July so I can do things like wear a bikini and swim without freezing my balls off (like happens in Ireland).

Tessa and I have a myspace page now! www.myspace.com/tessaandliz

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:30:59 -0500

Tessa and I have a myspace page now! www.myspace.com/tessaandliz

West Coast Wanderings

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:01:51 -0500

It’s almost been about 3 months since I gave up my little apartment in New York and hit the road full-time. Everything is going to plan, I feel like- although now that I’m home, my parents and my responsible older sister keep wondering, “yes, but Liz, what are your REAL plans?”. I guess I do seem a little touchy-feely in that regard, but I’m totally livin’ it up. On our last trip to the west coast I got to stay in a custom-built, adobe-style, jillion dollar home in Utah with some new friends, I got to see the Beatles Cirque De Soleil “Love” show in Vegas and basically cried because I miss those guys so much, I got to spend the elections in L.A. and watch Barack Obama win, I made new friends in Seattle and got to play a house concert in a freakin AWESOME loft where everything is, including the kitchen table, is on wheels, and I got to meet my sister-in-law’s new baby, Eddie in Vancouver.

I just had my birthday the day after Christmas and all I really wanna do is read books and knit and watch Lord of the Rings. Soon, this will all come to a close and Tessa and I will pack up my purple Jeep named Carla and head down to Texas to play more gigs and play with our old friends from Austin. I’ll keep you updated…

Song at 4 a.m. live in the studio

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:10:35 -0500

Song at 4 a.m. live in the studio

Request songs from my new album," Pursuit"!

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:36:54 -0400

Request songs from my new album," Pursuit"!:

Now you can request songs from my new cd Pursuit (and my older cds as well!) 24/7 at KGRL’s station website via a chat window - www.kgrl.fm .

These people are the sweetest in the world and play great music by female musicians. They’ve added my whole dang album to their playlist, so check it out if you haven’t heard it yet!

New Songs, New Life, No home at the moment

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:45:33 -0400

New Songs, New Life, No home at the moment

I’m here at my parent’s house right now in Parker Colorado in between touring and going back and forth to Ireland (it’s this whole other country!).
Nothing much to do here, the parent’s live in an adobe house surrounded by lots of horses and white people. I’ve resorted to watching GI Joe PSAs on youtube and Maria Bamford webisodes, when all the sudden a UPS truck pulled up wth 9 boxes of my new cd! So, i’ve been up to my ears sending out packages to all the nice people who pre-ordered my cd ahead of time.
For all you who didn’t, well you’ll just have to wait till October when the “official release” happens, which doesn’t actually mean much except you can’t get my new cd unless you come to one of my shows and get one there, or get your friend to illegally copy it from their ipod, or write to me and ask me if you can buy one- I’m basically a big slut for my new cd.
But I’m really excited about this one! It’s called “pursuit” and you can listen to the songs now on myspace.
Pursuit has big-time musical stars, such as Willie Breeding, Steve Waitt, Justin Craig and Robby Cosenza from the Scourge of the Sea, and the most famous of all- Tessa Perry the hip, new, Irish sensation that Ireland’s Hot Press calls “a voice worthy of attention”. It was produced by Duane Lundy, who I think looks curiously like Ryan Adams (but who doesn’t these days?), and happens to be extremely talented and amazing at what he does.

i miss new york…

mabonfils: The Michelle Bonfils Show - Ep. 2 Musical Guest Liz...

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:01:03 -0400

mabonfils:

The Michelle Bonfils Show - Ep. 2

Musical Guest Liz Clark

Feet Are on the Ground -produced by Duane Lundy. With musicians...

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:51:30 -0400

Feet Are on the Ground

-produced by Duane Lundy. With musicians Tessa Perry, Willie Breeding, Steve Waitt, Robbie Cosenza, Justin Craig, Jennifer Gandin Le

Set to a swirling soundtrack by Steve Waitt, this video features...

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:01:00 -0400

Set to a swirling soundtrack by Steve Waitt, this video features musician Liz Clark trapped in a monochrome house of not-much-fun. Directed and edited by Vu Gandin Le

Who’s Your Angel Re-Make. This is my youngest fan, Mae. ...

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:51:00 -0400

Who’s Your Angel Re-Make.

This is my youngest fan, Mae. I’ve taught her everything she knows…

Oh, Indie Sounds… What little darlings… Read the...

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:49:00 -0400

Oh, Indie Sounds… What little darlings…

Read the full interview

http://www.indiesoundsny.com/

I think this is what my cd artwork will look like…

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:52:00 -0400

I think this is what my cd artwork will look like…

Outside

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:20:00 -0400

Outside

Vu Gandin-Le edited this video and all the ones you see up here....

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:59:33 -0400

Vu Gandin-Le edited this video and all the ones you see up here. He’s our favorite, very talented. www.vumeter.tumblr.com

New York City Curds and Whey

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:42:00 -0400

Once you finally decide that your days are numbered in New York City, the city becomes infinitely less beautiful- Someone ran into my car and broke the tail light into a million pieces on 29th street and didn’t leave a note or anything, Target in the Atlantic Center makes me want to take out my eyeballs and soak them in acid, and WHY does the United States Postal Service not work around here? Are they hoarding my packages? Where the lastest book I just ordered off Amazon “RV’s- the guide to getting out and staying out”? So today, I rebel against all my lists of things to do and I’ve surprised myself with acting COMPLETELY out of character and cleaning the bathroom (a job given to me by the fed up wife) and listening to Chopin (a song I’m writing for a pre-order. a friend of mine who was thinking he wants his song to sound like a chopin prelude. Does he KNOW i dropped out of piano lessons at 13?). I feel like I’m waiting for something…*****But yesterday, the sun was out, and I sang back-up at my friend Steve Waitt’s gig last night at the Living Room. It was packed! Steve likes to stick me right up there, front and center, even though I’m just singing harmony. It forces you to perform a little, I can’t just be a doo-wop lady off to the side. After performing with Steve about 50 times, I’ve finally figured out how to not feel like an idiot up there with no instrument. The whole band rocks so much, and last night, I was Liz-Clark-The-Lounge-Singer, looking over the heads of all the beautiful, artsy, New York City-types. All this is what makes me stay here. It’s so very typical of New York to make me chose like this. If I like playing at the living room, I gotta live with the smashed tail light, and so on.