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Lavender Diamond, OCMA, July 19, 2007
Posted by Dave Segal in live review
July 20, 2007 12:57 PM
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Lavender Diamond demurely demand world peace forever.
First thing I hear out of Lavender Diamond singer Rebecca Stark's well-designed mouth—and uttered with not a trace of snarkiness—is something to the effect of “Let's hear it for peace on Earth.” The editor in me always wants to retort, “Like, where else—Saturn?” (This is why people tend to shun me at parties.)
Anyhow, Stark's little preamble at July's edition of Orange Crush wasn't unexpected by anybody who read Tom Child's fine Lavender Diamond piece in OC Weekly or by anyone who has seen the Los Angeles band in the flesh. She and pianist Steven Gregoropoulos, drummer Ron Rege, Jr. and guitarist Devon Williams seem to be unironically idealistic, for reals. How they remain immune to LA's cynicism is a mystery that may never be solved.
Dressed in a salmon or peach gown (hard to tell in