Krystal Fernandez, Helen Marnie, and Brenda Spencer
Give the people what they want.
Actually, I haven't said a lot about Krystal Fernandez since KLAC AM 570 pulled then-host Van Earl Wright off the air and replaced him with Mancow. However, I did happen to see Fernandez on TV last night, after Rita Moreno of Arte's Angels lost the AL Champsionship Series to the Chicago White Sox. Fernandez was conducted her usual hard-hitting interviews. Current hair color is black, by the way. (That's the hair color of Krystal Fernandez. I don't know the hair color of Rita Moreno of Arte.)
Regarding Marnie, I can't find anything, but the Independent Online features hard-hitting coverage of Helen Marne:
Ladytron's two female singers have grown their hair. This has the effect of making the Liverpool electro-pop quartet appear slightly less robotic on stage. Two years ago, their entire persona was built around an androgynous android look, in keeping with the bleeping repetitions and icy hooks of their material.
After an extended period of touring, they might just be hatching from their plastic shells. Helen Marne and Mira Aroyo are clad in costumes that come from an era somewhere between Flash Gordon and Ed Wood. Aroyo's elaborate collar suggests an extrovert nature that is about to emerge from its hiding place.
But what about the music?
On the album, this wall of sculpted noise is layered so that all of its elements are equal, but in the live arena Ladytron must struggle with an initial muddiness, before clarity arrives about five songs into the set....
The current single, "Destroy Everything You Touch", arrives surprisingly early. Marne and Aroyo are the Yin and Yang of the band. Marne's voice is encased in candy, representing pop sensibility. The band's strength is the schizophrenic presence of a wrenching analogue bass brutality, a sonic disruption that still leaves their commerciality unscathed. Aroyo handles a quarter of the lead vocals, but her delivery is darker, sneering with a menacing, punky edge. She's still a robot, but there is a glimmer of hope that her stilted dance twitches are putting her on the verge of losing control.
One of the best songs arrives shortly before the end, not easily identifiable from their albums. Aroyo intones over a pulsating repetition, building up a sinister, suffocating atmosphere. Then, for the encore, it has to be "Seventeen", heard in an abrasive incarnation, and another sign that Ladytron are toughening up, rather than blanding out.
Regarding Brenda Spencer, I found some news. But it's not the Brenda Spencer that you're looking for:
A Jackson County legislator said they will really have to work hard explaining to voters why they need to spend more money on the Truman Sports Complex....
[KMBC's Michael] Mahoney said the proposal is to spend $400 million for stadium repairs, which would be generated from a Jackson County sales tax increase. It is too much for some who call it welfare for millionaires, Mahoney said.
"Let the Chiefs players and owners pay for their home. If you come to my house, I don't want you to fix my place before you take a seat. I'll have it fixed before you show up. So I ask the Chiefs to do the same thing. You all have got a lot of nerve, man," a man said at a public hearing Tuesday.
Then again at the Kiwanis meeting, another voter said no.
"Simply because all the money goes to the teams and not to the city in any way," said Brenda Spencer, who is against the stadium tax....
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