Holly Golightly came to Denver yesterday. Her show was amazing. Her husband is the ex-Headcoats (ex-everything it seems if you get down to it) Bruce Brand who played drums which was a thrill in itself to have seen, but Holly was just something to behold.
It's really hard to explain what it's like to see her perform without getting melodramatic and cheesy, but she is just simply an honestly Real person. The Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's is known as the real-fake and it's a curiousity that the real Holly is named after her.
Holly came and performed without an encore, without any attitude, just the Love of music and a smile. She told me she'd play the show for free if they'd let her. Between one of her songs, she cried out to the crowd, "Any four of you can come up here and do this!", which I guess is really true - what's stops anyone from putting together a rock band? What stops anyone from doing anything?
It was somewhat interesting to me that playing in a rock band was more of a cultural thing to her, her husband and the rest of the band. It was just something they did and will continue to do. It's as if this form of music was their Folk or Country music. It's almost like, they won't get, "too old", for it. Am I making sense?
Holly told me that music was sort of her side thing, that she also works for social services, helping low income families make sure they pay their rent and such. "I also get to evict them."
Maybe it's odd to have such a person that means so much to me become demystified. I first learned of Holly from the Headcoatees, and then figured the deplorably obvious connection between the Headcoatees and the Headcoats and then stumbled upon Billy Childish and his Universe. She's just a regular person and that's what she wants to be I guess. I do wish their were more Holly Golightlys in the world.
She did assure me that they'd be back in Denver again sometime and that made me smile.
