kristin hersh
@kristinhersh
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musician, author @throwingmuses @50footwave
Joined April 2008
my two dads…my uncle and his husband, who took me in when my parents split. happy Pride Month 🤍
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Throwing Muses’ first bass player, the inimitable Leslie Langston, playing bass for the first time in 24 years ♥️
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the last sentence in Shirley Jackson’s journal: “laughter is possible, laughter is possible, laughter is possible”.
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Throwing Muses is not for everyone, and we never were, but we love making records…thank you, listener-supporters, for covering our recording costs .@throwingmuses .
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starting a new Throwing Muses record…thank you, Strangels .
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my son Doony and I are playing on the same bill at SXSW this year
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me, age 14, with the Equal Rights Amendment on my t-shirt…maybe someday this will be International Humans’ Day.#InternationalWomensDay
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Michael Stipe, who sang backing vocals from the audience last night: “This is all necessary. all of it.”
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I’m very, very shy, don’t like to attract attention or even be noticed; I’ve never had any ambition beyond making the next song what it should be and my music is not for everyone. the fact that someone like me can record is a miracle; thank you, Strange Angels
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For those asking about Throwing Muses, we never broke up; we’re still working. I traded my first solo record for our contractual freedom, not wanting to be part of an industry that objectifies women and sells product instead of music. TM live before releasing 2020’s “Sun Racket”.
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my on-the-spectrum son: “we are the people who won’t lie and can’t be lied to, who won’t sell and can’t be sold to…this world needs us”.
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I’d kill for this guitar sound.
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happy birthday, University…recorded here in New Orleans, it was Throwing Muses’ biggest album and our first national hit, “Bright Yellow Gun” (which was also our best blacklisted video *ever*)
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playing tourist with my beautiful kids…thank you, Australia, you’re beautiful too
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touring Ireland, UK, Australia and NZ this autumn…US and European dates in the spring.
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Enthusiastic Man in LAX: “You’re Kristin Hersh! From the nineties!” me: “I’m also a present day. person” him: “I LOVE THE NINETIES!”.
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taking a picture of my own books in a shop window…hashtag no shame whatsoever
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shooting a video…sad proof that I’m not actually invisible
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approx. 50 million years ago.
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helped a little neighbor girl round up her lost chickens. her: “I don’t know what your job is, Kris, but you’re really good at tricking chickens”.
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I wrote the introduction to this beautiful new book .
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my son on his cell phone: “no, my mom’s not gonna play your prom, stop asking”.
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Throwing Muses in the studio. lived most of my life with these two at my side
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happy new year from all three recording entities: 50 Foot Wave, Throwing Muses and KH 🤍
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my first bass player, Leslie, sent me this quote a while back, saying, “this is why we left. she saw the ugliness 30 years before we saw it, and now 30 years later, they still sell narcissism, exhibitionism and product. it’s way better in our world of music, humanity and love”
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my editor, on my new book: “this is easily one of the strangest books I’ve ever read”.me: “but it’s a memoir. that’s my life”.him: “this is my point”.
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me, doing another BBC morning show at bonkers o’clock California time and claiming to be “up”
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photographer, who just found out I’m fifty years old: “I thought you were thirty and hungover”.
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first single “Staring Into the Sun”from the new 50 Foot Wave album, Black Pearl, coming in Feb
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the BBC closed the reptile house at the London Zoo so we could do an interview inside with all the snakes…when I whine about touring, remind me that sometimes things like *this* happen
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left on tour 6 months ago, finally home…now I’m gonna bake 6 months’ worth of bread in one afternoon
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photographer: “can you make a *different* face? the objective of a photo shoot isn’t really to show how much the subject hates photo shoots”
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Rolling Stone writer: “If shy people like us have to learn extroversion—like me doing interviews and you playing shows—then maybe show-offs should also learn to be quiet sometimes”.
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my son Bo can catch birds out of the air; he’s done this since he was little…and I swear, the birds don’t seem to mind
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thanks to all who came out to Rough Trade East today, that was krayzee…and truly touching
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my son: “have you seen my bible? I’ve looked everywhere, don’t know what I did with it” .me: “your bible?”.him: “I can’t find it anywhere”.me: “I didn’t know you had a bible”.him: “yeah. kick drum slides all over the place without it”.
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I don’t feel emotionally prepared to meet my juice’s expectations of me this morning
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eleven years today. merry christmas, Vic, wherever you are
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“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven”. — Desmond Tutu.
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my son, pointing at the crackers, bananas and nuts in my grocery basket: “everything you’re buying means crazy”.
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had to take two “fucks” out of a song for radio, so I replaced the vocal line with a guitar played through these (really)
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this amazing, beautiful human, the original Thrown Muse…my friend and hero since I was a teenager
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my old bass player, Leslie, grew these beautiful flowers that look just like her. like some Greek myth where a mortal woman marries the god of big flowers and these are her children
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email from Billboard Magazine: your record is charting and we don’t know who you are. please advise (also, can we have one?)
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a friend who used to bring Birds of Paradise to the studio every morning passed away last night…today these flowers are everywhere I look .⭐️
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Michael Stipe: “Sometimes we just have to hide out for a while”. with me and @GrantLeeTweets last year
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another homeless friend now has a place to live; so happy, we’re both cryin…these two have been camping on the levee for years
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e mail from The Cure’s Robert Smith. this is gonna replace “in bed” as my fortune cookie addendum
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my son: “you’re a nice lady, I’m just scared your *arms* are gonna kill me”
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the digital download of Throwing Muses’ new “Sun Racket” will be available June 22
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walking and talking again…thank you for your kindness and patience .📷 50 Foot Moose
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in my head, I’m gentle and happy. on my face? I’m running for office and I’m going to kill you
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booking studio time for new Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave records…thank you, Strange Angels.
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