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Lia Rose of Built for the Sea
Free EP’s? Being a friend, not a fan? Oh, and really pretty cello filled music? All that and more are to be had Thursday night when local band Built for the Sea has their cd release party at Slim’s. They describe their music as a mix of Radiohead and Mazzy Star. We’d add there’s a strong dose of Coldplay as well. You can listen to them here. Basically it’s very chill and very pretty music— our money is on them being very big, very soon. Lia Rose, who fronts the band sat down for an SFist interview. Read on for some tales of daring rescues at art collectives and more.
The best fans are....
Like my dear friend Ryan Harvey says, "Friends not fans" http://critical-mass.info/
Best venue to play
Great American Music Hall
Favorite song to play these days
Pacific – the last song on our new EP
You should come see our show because...
You love the cello – you know you do. *And* you can get a free copy of our EP if you're one of the first 20 people in the door.
Name
Lia Rose
Introduce yourself in one sentence
hope firecracker.
Occupation
part time musician + part time webstream tech
Home Town
Long beach
How long have you lived in the Bay Area and Where
10 years – Berkeley, Oakland, Burlingame, Mission District of SF. Why? Well, I came up here to go to school many years ago and I just couldn't go back – I especially love the people here.
Favorite place to spend time online
Indymedia.org, Wikipedia, google, thesixtyone, myspace, amiestreet, youtube
Favorite local business
Seva Foundation
What I'm currently Reading
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers), The Audacity of Hope (Obama)
Best Deal in San Francisco
The Caltrans Bike Shuttle ($1!)
Favorite mode of transportation
Bike! / Bart
Best Band or Musician to come out of the Bay Area
Two Gallants
You've never lived in SF until
You've ridden in Critical Mass Bike Ride (last Friday of every month)
You can tell someone is a local here IF
They'll look you in the eye while passing you on the street.
SF would be soooo much better if only
Public transport were cheaper / free
Best Burrito
Hands down, Veggie Mix Burrito, Mariachi's on Valencia @ 16th
Best Restaurant
Cha Ya – gorgeous and delicious Japanese vegan restaurant (one in Berkeley and one in SF)
Favorite artist to come out of the bay area
John Mavroudis
Favorite author to come out of the bay area
Adam Davies (The Frog King, Goodbye Lemon)
Place you always tell visitors to check out
Dolores Park (& the view from there at night…)
I have found/sold/bought the following on craigslist
Yep, just about everything.
Tell us a San Francisco Story
The first time I ever really lived in SF proper, was when I lived in an artist/activist cooperative in the mission district. Awesome space, wonderful people, always some major excitement going on around that place. One day, we're workin' around the kitchen and the main living space and in comes a youngish guy with a beautiful dog. Turns out he came in to our place in order to escape from some people who were apparently running after him. We managed to calm him down (sort of) and finally we got this story out of him: "I was in the Dolores Park bathroom and a lady thought that I was trying to peep on her but I wasn't. And then all of a sudden there were all these men running after me. I can't go back out there. Please don't make me go back out there…" A couple of hours and near hyper-ventilation attacks later (we're pretty sure he was on some heavy drugs), we finally managed to devise a plan where this guy and his dog would exit our space through a different door than the one he entered; there, we had a taxi waiting for him and we told the taxi driver to take him far away from us!