Your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it

 A couple of months ago, we took a deep breath and booked tickets for a concert next spring.

Barring fresh horrors, Postmodern Jukebox is coming to Victoria, about the time of younger daughter's birthday, so we've splashed out and purchased tickets near the front this time.

Shortly after we did this, PMJ started making videos again.  Today, I was intrigued by their latest, in which they reimagine the Pixies' drug-addled "Where Is My Mind" (weren't all Pixie songs a bit spaced out?) as something Roy Orbison might have performed in the early sixties.  

Instead of a rather homely and nearsighted unlikely (and rather operatic) rock star, we get a Titian-haired young woman with creamy skin, singing the decidedly odd lyrics to a string quartet and a jazz quartet.

 

I actually rather like the Pixies, but this is not one of my favourites. As usual, PMJ makes the song engaging without losing any of the impact and downright weirdness.

Update:  Several Facebook followers of PMJ are commenting that this isn't like Roy Orbison at all.  I think the spooky other-worldliness is certainly in the Orbison camp, and this video reminds me of the video for  "She's a Mystery to Me", a song Bono of U2 penned for Orbison in the 1980s, which Orbison recorded shortly before his death in late 1988.