Ravers & Reviews

Narrative & Festival Context

Festival Program Note

Lead Puppet Producer

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Track Dedication

Dedicated to the press corps—the reviewers, writers, photographers, videographers, bloggers, zine kids, stringers, and local reporters trying to document something that was designed to disappear at sunrise. You’re out there with a plastic badge and dead phone battery, scribbling notes under lasers, translating bass and fog into sentences that make sense to people who weren’t there. You catch the sets that never get recorded, the openers who stole the night, the little scenes that don’t have budgets but do have heart. In ten years, when the flyer is faded and the links are broken, your words and photos are what’s left.
And yeah—most of you don’t get the glamorous version of this job. You’re not always interviewing legends in a clean backstage lounge. You’re hauling gear through mud, trying to find a place to write where the Wi-Fi works, filing on deadline with your ears still ringing, and getting treated like background noise by people who want coverage but not critique. So this track is a nod to the 99% doing the unglamorous history work anyway—the ones who show up, pay attention, and tell the truth with care. Thanks for being the record keeper for everyone who couldn’t make it.
And to the 1%… if you save me a spot—I’ll carry your gear.

Lyrics – “Ravers & Reviews (Breaking News on the Dancefloor)”

Lyrics coming soon.