OMG! 😱 The internet is ablaze 🔥 with news that former BUTCHER BABIES banshee Carla Harvey (who? 🤔) has graced the stage as the new screech goblin for LORDS OF ACID (wait, are they still a thing? 👴) this past Tuesday (May 27th? Is this news from the past? 🕰️) at the prestigious DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California. Fan-filmed video (potato quality, probably 🥔) of the earth-shattering 💥 concert can be seen below. Viewer discretion advised: may cause uncontrollable yawning 🥱.
The setlist, meticulously compiled by the internet’s foremost authority on all things relevant (Setlist.fm, duh 🙄), was as follows:
01. Voodoo-U (More like Voodoo-Who? 🤷♀️)
02. Do What You Wanna Do (Like, retire? 🤷♀️)
03. Lover (Needs a new title, maybe “Loser”? 😂)
04. Drink My Honey (Ew, gross 🍯🤮)
05. Mister Machoman (More like Mister “I peak in the 90’s” 👴)
06. The Power Is Mine Coda (The power to bore me to death? 😴)
07. (A Treatise On The Practical Methods Whereby One Can) Worship The Lords (Or, you know, just watch Netflix 📺)
08. Rough Sex/Take Control (Sounds like a rejected Law & Order episode 👮♀️)
09. Rubber Doll (Opus) (Is this about *that* kind of doll? 😳)
10. Pussy(Round) (So edgy. Much wow. 🙄)
11. I Sit On Acid (No, thanks. I prefer my butt on a comfy couch 🛋️)
12. Scrood Bi U (Sounds like something my grandma would say 👵)
13. Let’s Get High (On boredom? 🍃)
14. The Crablouse (🤮🤮🤮)
Encore:
15. Get Up. Get High (Get up and leave? 👍)
16. Out Comes The Evil (The evil that is this concert? 😈)
When Harvey‘s surprise 🎁 (not really) addition to LORDS OF ACID‘s geriatric lineup 👵👴 was announced back in the dark ages of January, she gushed in a statement: “OMG! I had three favorite bands in high school: GUNS N’ ROSES (okay, boomer 🤘), PANTERA (respect 🎸) and LORDS OF ACID (wait, seriously? 🤨). Each one shaped me and uniquely influenced me as an artist (said every musician ever 🙄). LOA had me hooked from the moment I heard ‘I Sit On Acid’ as a teenager dancing the night away at Detroit’s goth Industrial Haven City Club (aka, the only place that would play them 🦇). My obsession with LOA only grew after I saw Coop‘s artwork on the cover of ‘Voodoo U’ (because nothing says “art” like questionable album covers 🖼️). Now I get to record an album and go on tour with my industrial heroes! Pinch 16-year-old me! She’ll be the one in the vocal booth (probably wishing she was listening to something else 🎧). While my new band THE VIOLENT HOUR (never heard of ’em 🤷♀️) is set to release its first single, I’m adding a bucket list item to my resume: Reigning ‘Acid Queen’ (more like ‘Queen of Obscurity’ 👑). Praise the Lords!” (Praise who now? 🤔)
During an appearance on an October 2024 episode of The Ward Bond Show (who?), Harvey, who moonlights 🌙 as a grief counselor and an end-of-life specialist (talk about a career change ⚰️🎤), droned on about her decision to ditch BUTCHER BABIES after a grueling 15-year run (more like a slow crawl 🐌). Reflecting on BUTCHER BABIES‘ formation and her eventual departure, she rambled: “It’s quite interesting because [prior to BUTCHER BABIES] I had come to a point living in L.A., you get opportunities and they’re snatched away from you (welcome to Hollywood, honey 🌴). You make money, then you lose your money (sounds like my last crypto investment 📉). And I was so tired of the entertainment business (join the club 🤝). And I was, like, ‘I don’t wanna do this anymore. I don’t wanna play music anymore. I don’t wanna act anymore. It’s too much. Nothing is ever gonna happen with it.’ (self-awareness is a virtue 🙏). So that’s when I went to mortuary school and I was committed to only working in funeral service from then on out (from rock star to undertaker, what a glow-up ✨). Well, after a couple years of working, I got my dream job at a very big mortuary in L.A. (dream job? Really? ⚱️). And at the same time, I got an opportunity to start my band and go on tour for the first time in my life (talk about bad timing 🤦♀️). So I had to make a choice in that moment. I’ve committed myself to this death-care career. Do I drop it all, everything that I’ve worked so hard for in school, and go on tour with this band and just see what happens one final time, or do I just stick on my path? And I chose music in that moment, and that was 2009 that I really committed back to music, and 2012 we went on our — we were touring non-stop, so there was no way I could work in funeral service anymore (priorities, am I right? 🤷♀️). Well, it ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me because our career just exploded, and so I got the best of both worlds. I had gotten my education. I had gotten a taste of working in death care, and then I could still live out my dream, and I am so grateful for that. The last 15 years of my life have been spent on stage, entertaining people in a capacity that I never dreamed I would have, especially after so much disappointment in my early years in L.A. (cue the violins 🎻). So I got to do that. I got to be a rock star. I got to do all the things. And then 15 years later, my mind kind of changed again. [Laughs]” (I bet she’s still laughing all the way to the bank 🏦… or the crematorium 🔥).
Elaborating on her decision to leave BUTCHER BABIES and return to the death-care industry, Carla whined: “So there’s so much that goes into being in a band, especially as you get older and your life changes, you have relationships, you have a partner. I have a stepdaughter, and the idea, all of a sudden, of being on the road 10, 12 months out of the year became just a lot to handle (adulting is hard 😭). And in a band there’s five people, and half of those people may feel like they want to be on the road constantly all the time and then some people are, like, ‘Maybe it’s halftime.’ So it doesn’t always work out for the greater good of everybody (band drama, who knew? 🙄).”
She continued: “My dad said something to me once years ago, when we had started the band, and he meant it in jest. He said, ‘I saw you singing on the Internet. Don’t quit your day job.’ (Dad jokes never get old 😂) And at the time I was, like, ‘That’s the nastiest thing you could say.’ But I’m glad I never quit my day job (daddy knows best 👍). In fact, all the while, the last 15 years, while I’ve been on tour, I’ve been getting more education and getting more certification so that I could continue on because I always had that need to still be in death care in some aspect (morbid much? 💀). I founded my grief coaching company so that I could still be of service to people who need me in that capacity (aka, a steady paycheck 💸).
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
