It's not all about the show though.
Some people think the best part is getting ready.

Casanova

This was my 2nd NOTS, and I loved it. Chi Chi, you were beautiful on stage, and the audience treated you like a goddess. So many beautiful people, and the staff of Knitting Factory were wonderful too. So, where was Kitty? I missed her. Did she come later on?

Sweetie: Daddy please don't take my picture.

Daddy: C'mon Sweetie.

Sweetie: No, I'm not feeling it right now.

Daddy: But you look so good.

Sweetie: No.

Daddy: "click"

Sweetie backstage.
Now don't she look pretty?

No, she looks pissed off.

Can't stop talking about NOTS 15!

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Hello. This was our 5th NOTS this year and we think moving the venue to the Knitting Factory was a great move......Thank you!

One disappointment, and a pretty big one, was the dude you had spinning at the downstairs room. We got there at 9pm and sat through almost 4 hours of him playing the same two cd's. We heard the same songs 5 or 6 times each.

When we questioned him about it, he said that all he was doing was controlling the sound, and that he was only given 2 cd's and didn't even know the songs that were on them. Actually, I don't even think he knew who Stevie Nicks is. .....no Stand Back, no Edge of 17, no Gypsy, no Dreams, no Sara, there were only about a dozen songs and we heard them OVER and OVER again for almost 4 hours !

The quality of the sound system in the lower bar was MUCH better than last year, but that made the limited songs even more disappointing. It would have been great to hear more of her stuff on that great system.

Please give us more of a variety of Stevie music in the downstairs bar next year.....Oh, and they did not have her vids playing on mute on the TV's like they did in years past. We missed seeing those too.

Billy O was WONDERFUL as always ! We hope he does more songs next year ! He's a real crowd pleaser.

Thanks for everything, and PLEASE give us more Stevie music downstairs next year.

Peace,
Joel

Just to clear one thing up.
That guy you talked to was just the sound engineer from the club. (He probably doesn't know who Stevie Nicks is). We gave him 2 CDs to play for the beginning of the night until the DJ started.
Next year we will do more of a "Stevie DJ thing downstairs".
Ask and you shall recieve.

Thanks much for your quick response. And thanks for being so nice about the suggestion(s).

It would have made a huge difference in us "early birds" experience to have more of a variety for that 4 hour stretch.

And the mute vids would have been cool too like you had in years past. On Friday, they had a baseball game showing on the tv's.....didn't really go with the "mood" of the evening.

Thanks again,
Joel

Wow, wow, and wow.

My favorite thing about this year was the new performers and the creativity of it. It is great to see returning favorites like the Hohos and Belladonna and sweetie who always reinvent it and turn it out. I could do without some of the more "karaoke" performances in faver of the more unusual acts and new experimental acts. And a good lipsynch is so much better than an off key singer IMHO.

My posse loved Dirty Martini and Dean Johnson for example and was less taken with a few of the singers. This is a show thats gotten as big as Wigstock and fashion, costume and props have everything to do with it.

So, more great new performers and more reinvention, please. This was the best NOTS yet and i am already looking forwd to #16.

I agree Pretty.
I always love to see how creative people interpret Stevie. I've never really been a big fan of karaoke. I mean Dirty Martini's dance piece knocked me out.
This was definitely the biggest, most ambitious NOTS we've done. Four floors, Four long sets!!! I know I was slammed all night long running up and down all 4 floors making sure things were happening. I missed the baseball game though. They must have turned it off when they saw me coming. We really do appreciate the suggestions and believe me, we will take care of those things next year. Of course there will be new things I'm sure.

BTW Pretty, I'm glad you and your friends got in OK. It was quite the mad rush at the door when you walked in.

daddy wrote:
> I missed the baseball game though.

Yeah, the mets won 7 to 5; great play by Wright on the sixth. (just joking)

AFTER THE GOLD RUSH

Deepest thanks to the enormous cast, crew and supporting folk who made this edition of NOTS the best one in a long time. The creativity and theatricality of many of this year's acts has been commented on often, and we strive to continue that tradition in years to come. The bar is certainly set higher every year!

My personal thanks to:

Our extraordinary backstage/sound/light crew LORI,ABBY,TORIN,DANY and DIANA - without you there is no show!

LIX VELVET aka CATWALK DOMINATION, who labored so mightily on the gold brocade dress I wore for the second half of the show.

DEBBIE for being such a trouper and a "One Take Tessie" - we had time for only a brief talk-through and no rehearsal whatsoever for "Nightbird" - I don't know too many true stars who are that generous of spirit.

DEAN JOHNSON for coming back - it meant the world to have a NOTS 1 performer onstage at our 15th.

CONNIE GIRL for ruling the door, and DAVID DALRYMPLE for making her dress day of.

POISON EVE for twelve unforgettable years of NOTS, at least half behind the turntables.

And of course, DADDY, the secret hero of NOTS with the battle scars to prove it.

This was my very first NOTS and I loved it! I even went all out and dressed up. Granted I didn't stay for the whole thing (starting gradually...maybe next year I'll pull the all nighter) I either missed it or didn't hear Stand Back or Edge of 17 one time on any floor??? In fact, I didn't even hear Gold Dust Woman...which I thought I would have heard. Regardless...I'll be back again next year!!!

Hi Lissa, glad you enjoyed! Yes, I guess it is best to start slow, for it sure is a marathon.

As it turns out, 'Edge of Seventeen' was played quite a bit by the ruling late nite Main Floor DJ Craig Spencer-- in all of its permutations, including the songs by other artists which sample Waddy's guitar riff. 'Edge' is also the song always saved onstage for the final 'Battle,' which this year concluded at 3:48 AM, by my watch. What a journey! I did hear him play 'Stand Back' and 'Gold Dust' many times as well-- with Sherry Vine and the Ho Ho's peforming those songs as well-- but you may have left by then.

Producing any event (especially one possesing the 'wattage' of NOTS) is a very fluid thing-- a learning experience each year IMHO. And we do learn from our mistakes. So thanks everyone-- pretty and joelpa, especially-- for the input. It's much appreciated!

dear hatches and chi chi,

can't get over all the fresh young faces in the audience; can still remember standing near the stage and hearing the audience behind sing back as loud as they got from each act that sang; can't forget the hugs and kisses of recognition for long lost family; won't let go the love we felt that night. youse guys may have been too busy to notice, for the audience it was a once in a life time experience, and there is more to come?

yes thanks to everyone my guests from germany felt a spark of our old New York Night Life. much love and gratitude to the crew.

love,

merlin

each time merlin reads a suggestion, merlin hears the desire to be part of this special event not necessarily criticism, rather an intense interest in sharing.

It is so refreshing to communicate with people who are not insulted by suggestions.

Thanks again to all of you.

Joel in PA

I love Night Of A Thousand Stevies.
When is it this year?
Anyone know?

Messy it's coming only 300 something days later
One of the brightest highlights was Miss Sweetie

Messy I heard of a great show at the Knitting Factory tonight. NOTS.

I think the people who run the club are assholes. But the producers of NOTS are what you call 'good people'. Lots of hot trade and intoxicants. Meetcha there!

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Nobody does it like Sweetie.