Thomas Dolby, creator of the 1980s hit “She Blinded Me With Science,” will perform Saturday night at EP’s Delta Kitchen and Bar. He’ll be joined by another DJ and world-renowned composer of electronic music, BT. Click here for more info
I haven’t kept up with Thomas Dolby for a while, but I do remember his name for a reason other than “She Blinded Me With Science” – back in 1996, when I was teaching Computer Literacy at the University of Memphis and first added an Internet component to the course, Thomas Dolby was one of the people I talked about. At the time he believed that the Internet would change the way people listen to music – rather than it being a passive experience where the artist creates and the public consumes what they are given, Dolby predicted that enjoying music would become an active experience on the part of the audience, and that the interplay between artist and audience would take the work to an entirely new level. To that end, he posted his latest tracks on his website, and invited his fans to download them, mix them, and send them back to be heard by the world. He also had message forums where his core fans could have a say in the direction he took with his career.
Not sure what happened to that project, because honestly, I haven’t heard much about him from 1996 up until this week. One thing’s for sure though, he’s a man of ideas and it would be interesting to find out where he has taken his music in the years since. I read on his bio that he was involved in the company that invented polyphonic cell phone ringtones.
Doors open at 9:30 and tickets are on sale at groovetickets.com ($20 + $2.96 “surcharge”). If you go, I highly recommend you wait until the late-night menu comes into effect at 11:00, and then try either the Not-Yo Crawfish (crawfish nachos with pepper jack and sweet potato chips) or the Lobster Pronto Pups.
Speaking of EP’s, every time I go there I hear how a local food critic has been doing a lot of “whining” to the staff there, because they allowed me, a humble blogger, to “scoop” her – to post the details of their menu and pics of their food before she got a chance to. Heh. That’s kind of funny. Anyone got connections at Sauces and/or Spindini (two more downtown restaurants scheduled to open soon)? Maybe I can scoop her on those too.
All right. Just returned from a shopping spree at Target, where I bought a new Santa hat after losing my old one a couple of years ago on a drunken Sunday afternoon. Think I’ll wear it to the Saucer in a few minutes, when I go to visit my waitresses and see what the “buy the beer, waste money on the glass” glass of the week is. Good night everybody!