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Tegan and Augusten / Photo by Jackie Roman
Tegan Quin Plays Augusten Burroughs-Inspired Song for First Time in NYC
Watch her perform "His Love" with the Running With Scissors author seated beside her onstage.
By Peter Gaston 09.05.08 1:24 PM
Tegan and Augusten / Photo by Jackie Roman
Performing for just the third time ever without her sister, Sara, Tegan Quin shared the stage last night at New York's Housing Works Bookstore Café with author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors). During the sold-out charity event, Quin played "His Love," a song she wrote for the audiobook version of Burroughs' latest novel, A Wolf at the Table, for the first time in front of a live audience.
Quin and Burroughs bantered back and forth about the genesis of the song, the lyrics of which developed out of the letter she was writing to him. "What was amazing to me that it was to me," Burroughs said onstage about his reaction to receiving Tegan's song via email and playing it for the first time. "It was so profoundly empathetic. I lost it. It was beautiful. It was so incredibly generous of you." Then she performed a solo acoustic rendition of the track, the original version of which appears on both the audiobook and Burroughs' website.
The Quin-Burroughs pairing was part of SPIN.com's inaugural Liner Notes event -- a celebration of the intersection of music and literature -- and featured performances by Circa Survive's Colin Frangicetto, Elizabeth Seward, and Anberlin's Stephen Christian. The more than $8,000 raised from ticket and merchandise sales for the event benefited Housing Works, a non-profit that strives to ensure that homeless and low-income people living with HIV/AIDS and their families have adequate housing, food, social support, drug treatment, health care, and employment.
SPIN.com will be posting video of the entire show soon, but for right now, enjoy Tegan's "His Love."
Check out pictures of Tegan and Augusten on page 2.
Wow! This performance is great!! I hope they post it all! If they think it was "bad" just because there were some execution difficulties, they are so wrong. Fans of Tegan and Sara have come to love the "mess-ups" just like they love the "unconventional" banter that Tegan and Sara bring to their shows. I loved it I hope they post it all without a single edit! The musical snobs who can't handle something musically imperfect like a wrong note when a musician plays some are just boneheads! ---------------------------------------------- "Sometimes, I don't think I can love, but what the hell, maybe I can. I don't know if you should get your hopes up for me though...I mean I couldn't stand the thought of letting you down. Not that I'd ever try to let you down but you're too beautiful to be hurt by a thing like me...But I need to make a deep, meaningful connection...I need a strong, grounded and well-connected romantic/semi-romantic relationship in my life...this much is true...I need to hold someone and be held, at least once in a while, get a good snuggle in, to get so close and hold you there...to feel you hold me and not let go...I guess I just crave the kind of strong love and nurturing I needed from my mother but didn't get, or the strength and grounding I needed from my father and didn't get, and the solidity and unending quality parental love is supposed to have that I didn't get...I don't know, I just know that it hurts and I don't know how else to explain it...and I could probably never ask anyone to do that or be that for me...even if I really wanted it to be them...I'm just too fucked up for someone to love me....but I wish they would sometimes..."
who wrote this btw? ^^^^
the quote under my comment you mean??? I did... do you like it? I think a couple parts might not be quite clear yet so I might need to change the wording in a couple places but for the most part I like it...:-) ---------------------------------------------- "Sometimes, I don't think I can love, but what the hell, maybe I can. I don't know if you should get your hopes up for me though...I mean I couldn't stand the thought of letting you down. Not that I'd ever try to let you down but you're too beautiful to be hurt by a thing like me...But I need to make a deep, meaningful connection...I need a strong, grounded and well-connected romantic/semi-romantic relationship in my life...this much is true...I need to hold someone and be held, at least once in a while, get a good snuggle in, to get so close and hold you there...to feel you hold me and not let go...I guess I just crave the kind of strong love and nurturing I needed from my mother but didn't get, or the strength and grounding I needed from my father and didn't get, and the solidity and unending quality parental love is supposed to have that I didn't get...I don't know, I just know that it hurts and I don't know how else to explain it...and I could probably never ask anyone to do that or be that for me...even if I really wanted it to be them...I'm just too fucked up for someone to love me....but I wish they would sometimes..."
Critic, rock journalist or reporter? Publicist maybe?
awwhh, i thought Tegan did really good. I mean, yes she messed up, but I couldn't say anything about it because, just going up there in front of all of those people is a challenge so..
Excellent job Tegan!!
yep..She did do a good job defying her critics..Acai Berry
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