The Valerie Project During last September's Fringe Festival, a group of musicians centered around the Philadelphia freak folk band Espers, including Greg Weeks and vocalist Fern Knight, performed a new score of music as live accompaniment to the 1970 Czech gothic fantasy sexual awakening horror flick Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. The movie is based on a 1935 novel by surrealist writer Vitezslav Nezval. (Say that three times fast.)
A cool idea. And after the ensemble took the show on the road to New York, savvy Englishman Jarvis Cocker (former leader of Pulp), picked the Project to open for him next week at London's Royal Festival Hall as part of the prestigious Meltdown Festival. Haven't yet seen it myself, but if it's good enough for JC, it's good enough for me. The Valerie Project makes one Philadelphia stop this year, at International House on Saturday night.
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