Four Shillings never short on variety
BY BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON
Quick. Say Aodh O’g O’Tuama five
times fast.
It’s not exactly your ordinary name,
and he’s not exactly your ordinary guy.
“You might have trouble getting a
hold of him,” singer Tom Martin said.
“He’s always on the road.”
The road is his home. Traveling and
entertaining is his life.
O’Tuama and his wife Christy Martin
are Four Shillings Short, a band which has
existed since 1985 but has seen many dif
ferent faces.
Now, the band is the couple’s baby.
Throughout a number of different
band members, O’Tuama has been the
one face that has stayed present in Four
Shillings Short since its start.
On Saturday, Tom Martin will open for
the band, which will perform a variety of
music at 7:30 p.m. at the 7th Street Loft.
The concert is presented by the
Lincoln Association For Traditional Arts.
“They’re completely different from
anything most people have heard, and
they add their own little brand of comedy
to the show,” LAFTA board member Kerry
Krause said.
The repertoire of Four Shillings Short
includes Celtic, British Isles and
American folk tunes, and French Flemish
songs, classical pieces and original
music.
Those who attend the concert will
hear instruments such as the mandolin,
sitar and Irish drum.
Christy Martin is especially gifted at
playing the sitar, and the duo shows off
her playing in several numbers, Martin
said.
Krause said Christy Martin’s talent is
refreshing.
“It's unusual to hear that sitar, espe
cially in Irish music, but she really does
an exceptional job with it,” Krause said.
The band is based out of Palo Alto,
Calif., where it gained hometown popu
larity, but for the most part the couple has
taken the show on the road since
O’Tuama and Christy Martin met in 1995.
‘It’s unusual to hear that
sitar, especially in Irish
. music, but (Christy Martin)
really does an exceptional
job with it/
Kerry Krause
LAFTA board member
“They travel nonstop and have really
had to stay organized and make their
business work on the road,” Tom Martin
said. ,
LAFTA is just happy to have Four
Shillings Short and their unusual style of
music in Lincoln for a night, said LAFTA
board member Rebecca Carr.
“Diversity is one of the main goals of
LAFTA,” Carr said. “We always want to
bring in a wide range of music.”
A wide range of music also brings in a
varied audience to the Loft.
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"We don't just want to bring in a man
and his guitar,” Krause said. "We strive for
variety. We have a totally different audi
ence for almost every show, and we hope
to bring them in on other styles of music.”
Orgy emits nothing new
on 'Vapor Transmissions'
BY ANDREW SHAW
Orgy. Sounds good, doesn’t
it?
But after they kicked their
way onto radio overplay with
their techno-goth cover of “Blue
Monday,” listeners chalked this
band of pretty boys up as one
hit wonders - and the listeners
may be right
On its sophomore album,
“Vapor Transmissions,” Orgy
stays with the old ideas and
instrumentation, not willing to
budge an inch and risk losing
the small cult-like following
they have won.
They sound like a barbed
wire fleece pullover: thick and
fuzzy guitars with a healthy
amount of bite.
While this fashion may work
on the runways of Paris, the pre
tension of thestaged art-tech
no-goth-rock makes it difficult
to find long-lasting enjoyment
in Orgy’s music.
Orgy members are obviously
putting on a show, painting their
faces and spiking their hair like
sexy androgynous space-rock
ers. The exhibit wears thin
quickly.
The first track of “Vapor
Transmission” is an extended
intro to the album, featuring
excessive ambient sounds and
voice-overs welcoming you to
the “Andrio System,” as if you
have just stepped off of your
intergalactic space-travel cap
sule into the world of Orgy.
Strangely enough, this world
features high-powered rock that
sounds dangerously similar to
Marilyn Manson. The vocals
whine, the drums pound out a
strict beat spiced with off-beat
hihat, and
the guitars
swell into
walls of dis
torted noise.
The
• sound is not
original, but
it finds a way
to hit you in
places that
make your
heart race
and energy
rise. That
may be the
whole point |
of Orgy: to
lose one’s
better senses
and let the B
moment
sweep you up into its flow.
“Vapor Transmissions”
attains this outcome, but it
becomes a rock opera with no
plot and no point except to
make noise for an hour.
After three songs of blind
ingly loud techno-rock, the
band starts to back off a bit and
offers "Fiction (Dreams in
Digital),” the track slated as the
first single from the new album.
At first the sound is quieter
and shows that Orgy has the
potential to try something dif
ferent but later the over-power
ing guitars and sensational
technologically inspired lyrics
take control. "Fiction” turns into
another strict techno-goth tune
filled with lackluster electronic
drums, fuzzed-out guitars and a
predictable song form.
Every song on "Vapor
Transmissions” fits this mold.
Nothing stands out as a depar
ture from Orgy's style on
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of 4 stars
“Candyass,” its first album.
Maybe Orgy is a more fitting
name than one first thinks. Sure,
it has its shock value, but Orgy
follows through on the theme in
its music. At first the experience
is exciting and energizing, and it
makes you feel like you are
encountering something poten
tially dangerous.
But its 15 minutes are over,
and it might be time to cuddle
and leave the Orgy behind.
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■The Chinese restaurant in
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BY JJ. HARDER
There’s something about a
food court that is an automatic
detraction from a meal.
It may be the diversity of
gross fast-food smells that
induce nausea, the dirty plastic
trays reminiscent of the high
school cafeteria or possibly the
constant scream of rugrats
coming from the arcade.
In die case of the food court
at South Pointe Pavilion, there
are more high-class issues. The
food court isn’t a food court at
all; it’s more of a food island in
the archipelago of the “mall.”
And it's quite clean - more
detracting is the South Beach
color motif that is so wild you
need to wear sunglasses.
Until last week the food
island didn’t make much of an
impact on me. And then oriental
and occidental forces had a col
lision. East Meets West, a new
restaurant, opened.
For all intents and purposes,
East Meets West is the token
Chinese place in the food court.
Amigo’s and Valentino’s both
claim Lincoln as their home and
stronghold. Arby’s is a national
chain with a few other Lincoln
stores. The most natural choice
for the final spot would have
been Runza, but they chose to
be in another part of the 27th
Street & Pine Lake Road devel
opment.
So anyway, we get East
Meets West, which really is too
bad.
The worst part about this
place is that East doesn’t even
actually meet West. On the Food
Network cooking show, Asian
influences are fused with
Western traditions. But you
won’t find a sweet and sour com
dog at East Meets West (not that
you’d necessarily want to).
At EMW you’ll find standard
East Meets West)
—( Type: Chinese food
—C Where: 27th Street &
Pine Lake Road
—C Entree: $5-10
i of 4 stars,
Chinese fare - the kind that, if
someone asked you how it was,
would make you shrug your
shoulders and unconvincingly
say “OK.”
The Cashew Chicken wasn't
bad, but it wouldn’t make me go
back again. The portion was
adequate, but the meat was
slim. The Kung Poh Pork (which
I ordered extra spicy) was
decent but only because the
spices masked the blah flavor of
the dish.
The Crab Rangoon were
small and cold, and the restau
rant was out of egg rolls. (Out of
egg rolls? At a Chinese place!)
The Mongolian Beef was down
right bad.
The only redeeming value of
EMW was the nice old man
behind the counter. He was
inefficient and couldn’t figure
out how to run the cash register,
but he hurried his best, showing
he really cared about the cus
tomer. He even gave me some
free fortune cookies.
I hope that I just managed to
catch EMW on a bad day, and it’s
better than I had this time. The
old man’s friendliness really
makes me want to like it.
But with this dinner as my
experience, I would say go to the
food court, but go straight to
Amigo’s.
And if you’re hungry for
Chinese, visit the nearest Egg
Roll King. Better yet, don’t eat
lunch and go for a big meal at
the Great China Buffet on O
Street.
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for Lied Center patrons, Bethea
said.
“They are from the heart and
soul of Chinese culture,” he said.
“They come straight from history,
and we are privileged to have
them come here.”
The warriors will re-enact a
day at the famous ShaolinTemple
from sunrise to sunset, using a
choreographed theatrical pro
duction of their martial arts skills,
Bethea said.
“They will show what it is like
to spend hours meditating and
training,” Bethea said. “They put
a great deal of emphasis on not
only the physical aspect of mar
tial arts but the spiritual aspect,
too.”
Parks Coble, a UNL history
professor, said the hours the
Shaolin monks spend meditating
and practicing their martial arts
are meant to cultivate Qi, an ener
gy source believed to build up
superhuman powers.
The monks also train to show
their dedication to their religion,
Daoism, but Coble said the seri
ous undertones won’t take away
from the show.
“I don’t know what exactly
they will be doing on stage, but
whatever it is, it'll be an amazing
spectacle,” he said. “When it
comes to martial arts, they are the
cream of the crop.”
UNL lecturer to display quilts
Beginning tomorrow, quilt
lovers will be able to view the
works of a world-renowned quil
ter who is now a UNL faculty
member.
"Patterns of Thought Quilted
Constructions by Michael James,”
opens Friday and will be dis
played until Nov. 10 in the Robert
Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the
Home Economics Building on
East Campus, across from room
234.
James, credited with helping
to make quilts an art form in the
1970s, has works displayed in
such museums as the Renwick
Gallery of the National Museum
of American Art of the
Smithsonian Institution, the
American Craft Museum and the
Museum of the American
Queer's Society.
For the past three years, he
has been on the board of the
International Quilt Study Center
at UNL, the largest public collec
tion of quilts in the world. This
semester is his first as a senior lec
turer at the university.
“The patterns that you’ll see
in the quilts assembled in this
exhibition represent either direct
ly or indirectly, consciously or
subconsciously, my thinking
process,” James said in a press
release. "They are textile docu
ments that reflect my search for
order and for my place, as an
artist, in a frequently chaotic and
unpredictable world”
Joyo to hold film competition
The Joyo Theater, 6102
Havelock Ave., is holding a film
competition Sunday that may
make a filmmaker from the mid
dle of nowhere closer to a full
fledged career.
“The Middle of Nowhere
Short Film Competition" has 21
entries, each film being no longer
than two minutes, in a wide range
that includes animation and a
documentary on rodeos in
Nebraska.
The show starts at 7 p.m.,
though doors open at 6.
Admission is $2, and concessions
will be available.
The University Health
Center will be open
from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. on
Monday and Tuesday
of fall break.
