Patrice Watch
Fairly or not, Patrice Pike has become a regular in Rockstar: Supernova‘s weekly bottom three but continues to hang on. She was back again last week, after her acoustic performance of the Police‘s “Message in a Bottle” didn’t quite click. The judges chided Pike for lacking intensity: “I know that a hell of a performer is right inside you, and that’s what I want to see every time,” said co-host Dave Navarro. Last Wednesday, Pike chose Hole‘s “Celebrity Skin” as her bacon-saver, and it worked. “We believe you have potential for Supernova,” drummer Tommy Lee told her. That should play in her favor as the contestants begin doing original material; Pike squeaked into the lucky seven as, finally, Supernova cut Dallas’ frightful Zayra. The winner will be crowned Sept. 13 on CBS, and Pike’s first post-Supernova gig comes at the Austin City Limits Festival, 4pm Sept. 17 on the Austin Ventures stage.
Livin’ Thing
• Paul Minor has resigned his everyday booking duties at the Hole in the Wall. “Maintaining the daily calendar and acting as middleman for all the bands was adversely affecting my health,” he says. Hole owner J.D. Torian says the split was entirely amicable and that Minor will periodically book shows at the club under his Minor Productions banner. The restaurant in the former Aztec Screen Printing building is now open, and a stage in the beer garden for acoustic-based earlier shows is under construction and should be ready in about a month. “Live music will remain a major part of the Hole as long as people continue to support it,” says Minor, who plays solo at Jovita’s 6pm Tuesday.
• North vs. South alums the Meat Purveyors will probably play one more Austin show after their Sept. 9 Hole in the Wall gig, says guitarist Bill Anderson. Stand-up bassist Cherilyn DiMond is departing to marry Sweatbox Studios owner Mike Vazquez, and the couple plans to search for a new Sweatbox location. As for the Purveyors, “The rest of us would rather just do something else than try to replace her,” Anderson says. “At least everyone still likes each other this time around, as opposed to our last breakup.”
• The White Ghost Shivers, who have secured the Austin Music Hall for their annual can’t-miss Halloween ball, get all classy Saturday for an 8pm concert at the Austin Lyric Opera‘s Ducloux Hall. Tickets are $10 or $30 for the special VIP afterparty. Alongside Guy Forsyth, the Texas Sapphires, and youngsters NewBoy, the Shivers do double duty at Sunday’s free Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival in Waterloo Park, for which all the bands have been taking first-aid classes to assist with all the heatstroke cases. Gates at 11am.
• Zilker bits: This year the ACL Music Festival’s shuttle location moves from Waterloo Park to Republic Square Park at Fourth and Guadalupe. And Stones tickets are still on sale.
• Break out the bell-bottoms and butterfly collars for Friday’s ELO tribute night at Antone’s. Human jukeboxes the K-Tel Hit Machine headline, with the Tosca quartet on hand to provide those silky Seventies strings. K-Tel members Darin Murphy and Johnny Goudie warm up, and longtime Dave Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds stops by for an early acoustic set 9pm tonight (Thursday).
This article appears in August 25 • 2006.