Blake Mills is a fully paid up member of the every expanding LA Mafia of friends and former lovers, changing places and chasing dreams of a Mamas and The Papas of the 21st Century. Or maybe I mean Fleetwood Mac? Rilo Kiley?
Alyson Camus does a fairly thorough job of covering the scene for us from her perch at Largo and the same names crop up from time to tme.
For Blake Mills, whose only album is the fair to middling singer songwriterly Break Mirrors from 2010, but whose name, like a biarre game of seven separations which only takes one separation to reach, finds him tangled wth Simon dawes in an early band, Danielle Haim, who he used to date, Jenny Lewis and Belle Brigade’s Barbara Gruskade, whom he played with, Sky Ferraira, who he wrote a song for, Julian Casablancas, who moved to the Left Coast remember, and, finally, Fiona Apple. Who he just opened for.
And for whom he is sharing a bill with, which will be reaching Beacon Theatre on October 22nd, and I sware to you, if it was aT5 I’d have passed. But, and here we reach the whole point of course, Fiona Apple at the Beacon? A coupla blocks from where she was born and raised!!! Now that is a must see, even if Blake…
I am not sure about Blake, Break Mirrors has some good songs, both “Hey Lover” and “It’ll All Work Out” will do, but I think he migh be better off opening than sharing the stage. And I have long felt that there is something awful middle class jerks about the entire L.A. scene. It’s like they look cool, and they act cool, but they sound like bad Lindsay Buckingham
“We know it’ll be something special, and we aren’t being coy here — it’s just that we have about 26% of an idea of what the fuck we will be playing for you,” Apple and Mills said.
Last time I saw Fiona was at Gov’s ball 2012 and she was completely excellent. I will be there October 22nd.