REPLAY: Crissi Cochrane on Facebook Live, September 12, 2020
Crissi Cochrane
It’s Saturday night, and I am currently winding down from what was one of my very favourite ever live-stream performances! I felt like this one was so much fun, and there were so many novel aspects and things we did right (show & tell! wine! rihanna!) that I will be sure to bring back for future streams.
SET LIST:
11:59 - Something Like Bliss
16:35 - Can We Go Back
20:55 - Hungry Love
26:49 - And Still We Move
33:39 - Only You & Me
37:25 - (show & tell with my new harp!)
42:16 - Is This Love
49:08 - Brother She’s Gone
55:33 - Umbrella (Rihanna cover)
1:00:53 - The Truest Thing
1:05:01 - Bang Bang
I started off the set by playing almost the exact set list that I used in a virtual concert taping that happened on Tuesday this past week at GL Heritage Brewing, created for the local radio show Hear & Now hosted by Dan MacDonald.
Among my favourite tangents covered tonight were the backstory behind “And Still We Move” based on an interview from Carl Sagan’s widow on an episode of Radiolab, the (possible?) importance of taking nudes when you’re young and hot, and wondering why things are so gendered in the latin languages (a chair is feminine in French, *what’s that about?*).
Oh, and tonight’s special new-to-the-stream song was Umbrella, the 2008 hit from Rihanna. A friend of mine reached out to ask if I would consider covering it on stream, and it was very easy to say yes because I used to cover it back in my Halifax days. I only re-learned it last night (first time playing it in years) and I think it went super well! I love it! Keep the suggestions coming, friends!
And one thing that I did tonight that I think I will bring back in the future is show and tell, where I presented the harp that I got from Mike as a present for our fifth wedding anniversary, strummed an old chorus I wrote many years ago, and explained how I fell in love with the harp when I was living in Halifax.
One thing that I hope does not return to the stream is my cats getting into an epic battle, complete with foley-worthy sound-effects. They were INTENSE tonight. They are both OK now, but they were really worked up. (Fortunately, we have baby gates installed throughout the house for our toddler, and conveniently, our big combative cat can’t get over them, so the little cat has safe places to retreat to.) I then dedicated “Bang Bang” to them and had to resist the urge to laugh at the line “I wore black and he wore white” because my cats are literally actually black and white.
Oh, another thing that made the evening especially bearable was wine. No surprise there. We bought a half case of Pelee Island wines recently and it was a good choice. They also make really nice impromptu thank-you gifts (we gave a bottle to the neighbor who mowed our grass because we are hopelessly lax at basic lawn care, it turns out). Anyway, I think I need more wine on stream in the future.
And I’m still patting myself on the back for accomplishing a small goal of mine, which was to not talk about the pandemic or my hair on the stream because invariably those things lead to sadness/complaining and I could honestly bitch about my hair for way too long (because it is way too long and I can’t decide if I should embrace the Victorian hair-care regimen that it apparently now so requires, or hack it off with a blunt kitchen knife in a fit of heat-induced rage).
Well, there you have it! I had a great time and can’t wait to do it again soon! I’ll be back in action in two weeks, on Saturday, September 26. In the next weeks, I’ll be busy helping my fellow co-op artists finish up some grants, creating promo materials for a new artist that we’ll be announcing soon, and hopefully laying the groundwork (and hopefully even beginning to record) the custom love song album that I’d like to record this fall.
Okay, time to have a snack and watch my brother’s stream on Twitch! Love you! Thanks for the support! Hope you enjoy the replay, and stay tuned for the podcast episode featuring the audio, coming out on Tuesday!