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Bella's Bartok
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Bella's Bartok performs live theatrical indie rock at Appleton's Mile of Music festival.
Six-piece indie rock group Bella's Bartok embraces the strange with a theatrical performance style. Here are three songs from their set at Rookie's Sport Bar and Grill during the 2024 Mile of Music festival in Appleton: "Aching Bones," featuring a life-sized skeleton puppet, "Love in The Age of Corona" and "Go Wilde."
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Bella's Bartok
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Six-piece indie rock group Bella's Bartok embraces the strange with a theatrical performance style. Here are three songs from their set at Rookie's Sport Bar and Grill during the 2024 Mile of Music festival in Appleton: "Aching Bones," featuring a life-sized skeleton puppet, "Love in The Age of Corona" and "Go Wilde."
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["Aching Bones" by Bella's Bartok] [high-energy alternative rock music] ♪ Don't be afraid to ask for more ♪ ♪ He's not around here like before ♪ ♪ Pushing or pull if it feels right ♪ ♪ I'm not gunning for this fight ♪ ♪ If you're walking in my shoes ♪ ♪ Just be prepared I sometimes lose ♪ ♪ As you follow in my steps ♪ ♪ Keep in mind these words I said ♪ ♪ One for the road ♪ ♪ We'll sleep when we're dead ♪ ♪ You're never alone ♪ ♪ When lost with your friends ♪ ♪ Lying beside you ♪ ♪ Or sleepless in bed ♪ ♪ How will you know ♪ ♪ If I leave it unsaid?
♪ ♪ Ooh, it's just how it goes ♪ ♪ Ooh, this life that we chose ♪ ♪ Oh, so on with the show ♪ [high-energy guitar and synthesizer music] ♪ All my life I've cared too much ♪ ♪ Now you're here it's just enough ♪ ♪ Please don't think too long because ♪ ♪ I find it calm, now lost in love ♪ ♪ Keep it safe and keep in touch ♪ ♪ I'm not scared though times are tough ♪ ♪ All that is and all that was ♪ ♪ It gives me hope it gives me pause ♪ ♪ One for the road ♪ ♪ We'll sleep when we're dead ♪ ♪ You're never alone ♪ ♪ When lost with your friends ♪ ♪ Lying beside you ♪ ♪ Or sleepless in bed ♪ ♪ How will you know ♪ ♪ If I leave it unsaid?
♪ [electric guitar solo] ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ One for the road ♪ ♪ We'll sleep when we're dead ♪ ♪ You're never alone ♪ ♪ When lost with your friends ♪ ♪ Lying beside you ♪ ♪ Or sleepless in bed ♪ ♪ How will you know ♪ ♪ If I leave it unsaid?
♪ ♪ Ooh, it's just how it goes ♪ ♪ Ooh, this life that we chose ♪ ♪ Oh, so on with the show ♪ [gentle electric piano music] [audience applauding and cheering] - Asher Putnam: We are Bella's Bartok.
We're on the weirder end of things, and still, people just embrace us.
You can, like, see kind of, like, you know, 40-year-old dads being like, "Yeah, this is great!"
To, like, young, like, queer punks just, like, going just as hard.
And then, like, kids, their parents, their grandparents bouncing around, singing along.
It's super cool.
You don't really get that everywhere.
["Love in the Time of Corona" by Bella's Bartok] ♪ 'Cause I've been working all day long ♪ ♪ I've done some right, I've done some wrong ♪ ♪ I'm a man outside of my means ♪ ♪ I'm living large, I'm not living lean ♪ ♪ So come on, let me in ♪ ♪ I've got a dose of a little sin ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Because I'm working hard, I'm making minimum wage ♪ ♪ Drinking just to pass those dreary old days ♪ ♪ I'm working hard, I'm making minimum wage ♪ ♪ Drinking just to pass those dreary old days ♪ ♪ I'm by myself, I sleep all day ♪ ♪ When there's bills and bills to pay ♪ ♪ I come off a little vain ♪ ♪ So I blame it on the ###damned plague ♪ ♪ So turn it up before we turn in ♪ ♪ Ah chalk it up to another win ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm working hard, I'm making minimum wage ♪ ♪ Drinking just to pass those dreary old days ♪ ♪ I'm working hard, I'm making minimum wage ♪ ♪ Drinking just to pass those dreary old days ♪ ♪ It's not enough, it's not enough ♪ ♪ It's not enough to live without you ♪ ♪ It's not enough, it's not enough ♪ ♪ It's not enough to live without you ♪ ♪ No, it's not enough, it's not enough ♪ ♪ It's not enough to live without you ♪ ♪ It's not enough, it's not enough ♪ ♪ It's not enough to live without you ♪ ♪ Woah ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ [rapid guitar strumming] [audience applauding and cheering] - Julia Posin: Thank you!
["Go Wilde" by Bella's Bartok] [gentle electric organ music] ♪ Picture this in a Victorian house ♪ ♪ All our clothes are strewn about ♪ ♪ Art and poetry are all I need ♪ ♪ A life with you, a flower to seed ♪ ♪ Must I whisper?
♪ ♪ Can't I shout?
♪ ♪ Imagine us ♪ [high-energy accordion and guitar music] ♪ When I first glimpsed your lovely face ♪ ♪ How I craved your warm embrace ♪ ♪ Draconian laws are such a drag ♪ ♪ All this fuss over a measly shag?
♪ ♪ To the mirth of many or a young lord's family ♪ ♪ Your printed words are most uncanny ♪ ♪ Imagine us in a Victorian house ♪ ♪ Lying naked upon your couch ♪ ♪ All my days are as wild as my nights ♪ ♪ Stars on high, heart fires alight ♪ ♪ All my days are as wild as my nights ♪ ♪ Hopes and dreams are taking flight ♪ ♪ Picture this in a Victorian house ♪ [high-energy accordion and guitar music] ♪ A game of cards ♪ ♪ Or cat and mouse ♪ [Julia meows] ♪ Renew your gaze, forget your doubts ♪ ♪ A life with you in this life unknown ♪ ♪ With open eyes my heart has flown ♪ ♪ If from me you've learned one thing ♪ ♪ It's that lust like love forever sings ♪ Oh!
♪ In my drawers ♪ ♪ In the drawing room ♪ ♪ On my paws ♪ ♪ In the parlor room ♪ ♪ By the sea ♪ ♪ In a shanty ♪ ♪ Make you wail ♪ ♪ Like a banshee ♪ ♪ In the garden ♪ ♪ During tea time ♪ ♪ Dolled up like a French mime ♪ ♪ I can't strike you from my mind!
♪ ♪ All my days are as wild as my nights ♪ ♪ Stars on high, heart fires alight ♪ ♪ All my days are as wild as my nights ♪ ♪ Hopes and dreams are taking flight ♪ [high-energy accordion and guitar music] ♪ Can you imagine us!
♪ ♪ Imagine us!
♪ ♪ Imagine us!
♪ ♪ Imagine us!
♪ ♪ Imagine us so wild and free ♪ ♪ Now they call it sodomy ♪ [audience applauding and cheering] - Thank you so very much.
That is one of two PG-13 songs, okay?
We're gonna be good, it's okay.
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