presents Liz Phair and David Mead at UC's Mandel Hall Apr. 17, 1999, 8pm

Ticket Info   This show opens with ... David Mead   Photos from the show click for larger image

Liz is a an indie-rock artist who has won much acclaim and has a huge following. She has been featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and was one of the performers at Lilith Fair.   "One of the brightest talents among the wave of strong-willed female songwriters who burst on the scene in the early '90s, Liz Phair figured prominently in creating an environment in which brazen upstarts like Alanis Morissette could flourish. Along with Polly Jean Harvey, Courtney Love, and (to a lesser extent) Tori Amos, Phair combined intelligence with raw sexuality to subvert the eye-batting coyness that had characterized most girl groups of the '80s. Adding to Phair's appeal was her way of couching explicitness not in punk ferocity, as one might expect, but rather in the sort of pop melodies that could often pass for children's songs, albeit delivered with a bit of an edge. All things considered, itŨs difficult to imagine that such grand-scale, female-oriented productions as the Lilith Fair tours could have occurred were it not for the trailblazing ways of Phair and her like-minded peers." -source forgotten   "While Phair is ingenious at restoring sex and other ceremonies of self-revelation to an ordinary, freshly affecting scale, she assembles her material with a genre- and structure-shifting knack that border on sorcery... therešs no doubt shešs led alternative rockšs postpunk 90s naturalism to a captivating new pinnacle." -Timothy White, Billboard