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ANTIC CLAY LIVE at ADNA 2022 DOWNTOWN FESTIVAL & TOUR OF LOFTS

SUNDAY AT 2:40 PM – 3:40 PM

Underground Atlanta

ANTIC CLAY LIVE at ADNA 2022 DOWNTOWN FESTIVAL & TOUR OF LOFTS

Underground Atlanta

Fellow musicians will agree that there were always a few anomalous gigs that turned out to be very great. I expect that with this one. Antic Clay at Underground Atlanta on a Sunday afternoon in November. Who knows how we’ll be received? Come on out for something special that won’t take your whole day. Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/855768972271590

DOWNTOWN FESTIVAL AND TOUR OF LOFTS OVERVIEW
What: The Downtown Festival and Tour of Lofts is a neighborhood festival that has been on an over ten year hiatus! Needless to say, the Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association is thrilled to be bringing the festival back and again welcoming friends from all over Atlanta to our neighborhood!

When: Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, November 13, 2022.

Saturday: Tour of Lofts is 11am to 4:30pm. Festival begins at 11am.
Sunday: Tour of Lofts is 12pm to 3:30pm. Festival begins at 12pm.
Where: The Tour of Lofts will take visitors all around Downtown! Check in for the Tour of Lofts will be at the main Festival area at Underground Atlanta. Specific information to follow.

Why: The Downtown Festival and Tour of Lofts is a fundraiser for the Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association as well as an opportunity for Downtown residents and businesses to welcome Atlanta to our neighborhood!

Do I need a ticket? Attending Tour of Lofts requires purchasing a ticket. Attending the Downtown Festival at Underground Atlanta is free!

Other questions? Please don’t hesitate to email [email protected].

We hope you’ll join us!

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CASH BASH 2022 – Antic Clay (MB solo set)

Hmm. What shall I play for thee?
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ANTIC CLAY Live at Terrifest

ANTIC CLAY (full band) will participate in the first annual Terrifest to celebrate the life of our bass player David Kiesey’s sister Terri. Join us for a full day of live music, original theater and hearty discussion – Saturday, September 3rd at Waller’s Coffee Shop. Yes it’s a coffee shop, but much more, including a full stage. Advanced tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/terrifest-tickets-397080587727?fbclid=IwAR1zLXJLGUqvDMZW0MT_ClprjcqMW8Z5zQvpPjNLmHIADxpKbYD9eI8XJRE

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Watching Alice Nick Cave 2017 porch cover

I look appropriately sad and tired. But I clearly took the time to learn this one. So I like it.

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Hilarious Death Blues – both complete albums now on Bandcamp

Album 1: The Riderless Horse: https://anticclay.bandcamp.com/album/hilarious-death-blues-album-1-the-riderless-horse

Album 2: The Horseless Rider: https://anticclay.bandcamp.com/album/hilarious-death-blues-album-2-the-horseless-rider

Bonus tracks “Mechanically-Separated Blues” and “Human Sunlight” are also included with full album purchase.

“Hilarious Death Blues is a dark, smoldering journey into isolated Americana. It’s country music that’s silently aware of the impending apocalypse, and doesn’t pine over lost love and and the daily grind of an oppressive job. It’s a low and lonesome sound that holds a mirror to existential angst and rages against entropy, ennui, murk and miasma with flourishing, poetic beauty.” –Chad Radford

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Merchant of Souls (Antic Clay Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult) now on Bandcamp

Another previously unreleased track from The Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult “Mystagogue” sessions.

I did a basement goof-off lip-sync video in the basement with a great cat who was since murdered by a poodle in Colorado. That’s Wolfie you see at the end. Great cat who loved me.

Here’s the video: youtu.be/_CfIBgMESgs

MERCHANT OF SOULS by Antic Clay

Ye line your pockets with chaos
Ye wreathe my neck with an albatross
And that’s the popular payoff, merchant of souls!

Ye blindly buying redemption
Ye blandly flouting convention
See you just spreading dementia, merchant of souls!

Ye scalped our tickets to paradise
with one particular parasite
Nothing’s working but terror might, merchant of souls!

Merchant of souls

Merchant of misery
Got me tangled down, raw
Collapsed with a grimace on the visions I saw!

I saw the center collapsing
Upon the pinnacle axis
And asses betting on matchsticks, merchant of souls!

I saw the carnally minded
A god-dog mortally wounded
And my reflection was blinded, merchant of souls!

Ye profit off destruction
Ye prophet of distraction
And relative malefaction, merchant of souls!

Merchant of souls

Merchant of misery
Minister of woes
Collapsed with a grimace on the visions I saw!

I saw those butchered pilgrims
The loathsome vulture children
Woven in the cauldron, merchant of souls!

Merchant of souls

Merchant of misery
Got me tangled down raw
Collapsed with a grimace on the vision I saw

Reduced to corpus delicti
Ye use a noose for a necktie
Ye lard your language with alibi, merchant of souls

The dead are born and bred there
The social fabric threadbare
And many heads are shed there, merchant of souls!

My last request for the hangman!
I want to sing like birds again!
Never worry who listens! Merchant of souls!

Merchant of souls.

credits

released August 10, 2022
All words and music by Michael Bradley
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Laine Pierce
Copyright ©2007 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)

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Fire In Heaven (Antic Clay Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult) now on Bandcamp

Previously unreleased track from The Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult “Mystagogue” sessions.

Video: youtu.be/YMLcOla1pDo

lyrics

FIRE IN HEAVEN by ANTIC CLAY

There’s a fire in heaven
Summer in your soul
Holy days of majesty
Bestowed upon this fool

Arrive upon that shoreless sea
Breathe and be reborn
Woven that fragile tapestry
Lovely, fearful as a storm

A glimpse of unknown workings
And one uncounted star
Lit upon the waking world
Selah, selah, selah

The mourning moon should take a turn
And sing about the sun
Things redeemed and unredeemed
Days of ending have begun

I don’t see it, I believe it
In my unconscious choice
There’s a fire in heaven
A Christmas in your voice

Your heart just like a hummingbird
A love that was foretold
Can’t chronicle this miracle
Till winter wings will unfold

credits

released August 7, 2022
Words and music by Michael Bradley
Copyright ©2007 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)

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Why Power? (Antic Clay Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult) now on Bandcamp

“Why Power?” A conversation between two women on a mountain.

This is a previously unreleased track from the Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult album “Mystagogue.”

credits

released August 7, 2022
Featuring Laine Pierce on bowed upright bass.
All other music by Michael Bradley.
Copyright ©2013 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)

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This World is Mired in Lightless Fires (Antic Clay Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult) now on Bandcamp

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A deep cut from the double CD “Mystagogue” by The Sweet Meat Love and Holy Cult.
Video link: youtu.be/AabwUrubhx8
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This World is Mired in Lightless Fires by Antic Clay

This world is mired in lightless fires
and they all conspire to be one with you.

The holy rain falls slow, sustained
each drop takes pains to be one with you.

The coiling sun could come undone
because its serpents want to be one with you.

The maroon-rimmed moon sings blue cocoons
which bleed and bloom to be one with you.

The veins that spiral, surge and twine
emerge combined, to be one with you.

In mountain time, when all beasts are blind
you lie supine for all to view.

Copyright ©2013 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)
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released August 6, 2022
Words and music by Michael Bradley
except: Upright bass by Laine Pierce
Backing vocals by Robin Hensley Pierce
Hammer dulcimer by…?
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