Pitchfork: Liz Phair Announces Chicago, San Fran Guyville Shows



Liz Phair Announces Chicago, San Fran Guyville Shows
Phair also playing a cartoon nurse on a kids' album (?!)




Finally, Liz Phair is bringing Exile in Guyville back to Guyville...almost. On June 24, Phair will perform her classic debut album in its entirety at Chicago's Vic Theatre. The Vic isn't exactly smack dab in the middle of Wicker Park (aka Guyville-- at least back in 1993), but hey, it's close enough. And there aren't really any venues in Wicker Park big enough to contain all the people who probably will want to see this show, anyway.


In addition to the Chicago show and two already sold out NYC performances, Phair has also added a San Francisco Guyville concert, at the Fillmore on June 23.


All of this is in support of ATO's deluxe reissue of Exile in Guyville, out the same day as the Chicago show, June 24.
In other Phair news, both NYLON magazine and The New York Times have reported that she's contributing to a children's album called The Body Rocks, all about the human body. As she told the Times, "I sang crazy 70s-style backup vocals, and for which I have become an animated character: rock nurse with guitar!"


Liz Phair Exile in Guyville shows:
06-23 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
06-24 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
06-25 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom
06-26 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom
Video: Liz Phair: Never Said [from the Exile in Guyville LP]

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Was this Guyville a gay cruise area?

I thought the title just referred to some sausage factory of a music scene Liz was on the fringe of and wasn't actually a real place.

But an area in the middle of some park tagged "Guyville" suggests fag on fag shenanigans. Does it refer to something else, or am I right to be confused about why she would name her record after a place like this?

ok i see, there's a neighorhood called wicker park, it's not just the park.

that makes sense, because every big city has an area where all the real assholes gravitate to.
i think part of my liz hate is rooted in the fact she reminds me of people who come from a similar neighborhood in my own city. a lot of them are bad artists too.

nah, it's not a place. it's a scene of indie rock guys who played in small indie rock bands, drank and talked shit. most of them lived in wicker park in the nineties. she borrowed the term from urge overkill or something.

jase, i bet you're going to both nyc and chi town....aren't you?

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