Fall Update 2018

Mecca Normal playing at David Lester’s art opening in Vancouver, October 28, 2018

Jean Smith’s $100 USD paintings currently available

600 SOLD! Jean Smith’s $100 USD contemporary portrait paintings continue to fly off the shelf on FaceBook. Every month, any amount over Jean’s living expenses goes towards opening a Free Artist Residency for Progressive Social Change to be bequeathed to a cultural activist group for future generations. Gift Certificates for snail mail or email.

PORTFOLIO Jean’s favorite paintings!

NEW ALBUM! Mecca Normal LIVE in Montréal, 1996 (with Peter Jefferies on drums) is part of a series from the CBC’s seminal radio program Brave New Waves. LP, CD and Bandcamp in March, 2019.

ART SHOW! David Lester’s Inspired Agitators poster series and political cartoons for Magnet Magazine were exhibited at the InterUrban Gallery in Vancouver in October, along with his illustrations from the forthcoming book 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike and his work in progress – a graphic novel about Emma Goldman.

MILESTONE! We reached Vol. 500 (9+ years) in our Magnet Magazine collaboration featuring David Lester’s illustrations, Jean Smith’s writing with a Mecca Normal mp3.

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Footage from Fast Forward festival in Holland and the Covered Wagon in SF. Put together by Jean Smith for Normal History our weekly Magnet Magazine collaboration.

Are You Hungry Joe?
Fight For a Little
I Walk Alone
Orange Sunset
Beaten Down
Who Told You So?
Smile Baby
Don’t Shoot
Will He Change?
Trapped Against
Armchairs Fit Through Doorways
Strong White Male

Live in Montréal 1996

23 years after the fact!  The only live album! Mecca Normal with Peter Jefferies on drums! Unlike most of the other albums in the Brave New Waves series, our session was recorded at a show and not in the CBC studios.

Available in early 2019 on CD // LP (fewer tracks) // BandCamp (Artoffact Records)

CD

1. Water Cuts My Hands (5:09)
2. Prize Arm (1:41)
3. Don’t Shoot (3:23)
4. Tower Island (3:00)
5. Revival of Cruelty (2:12)
6. The Dogs (4:16)
7. Drive At / Peach-a-Vanilla (3:31)
8. Ribbon (5:28)
9. Man Thinks Woman / Strong White Male / I Walk Alone (7:00)
10. Armchairs Fit through Doorways (4:28)
11. Are You Hungry Joe? (4:04)
12. Crimson Dragnet (5:00)
13. Mecca Normal, Brave New Waves CBC interview, 1986 (1:25)
14. You’ll Never Know (3:09)
15. Black Star (2:03)
16. Hideous (4:15)
17. Alibi (3:39)

Tracks 1-12 recorded live at The Cabaret in Montréal, Québec, April 16, 1996 for broadcast on CBC Brave New Waves.

Track 13 recorded at the CBC in Montréal with Brave New Waves host Brent Bambury in 1986.

Tracks 14-17 recorded by Kevin Komoda at DNA Studios in Montréal for a Mecca Normal Brave New Waves session with Patti Schmidt on September 21, 1993.

Jean Smith’s $100 USD paintings (11 x 14″) on the LP insert and CD digipak interior

Rough mix. The song was originally released on a 7″ by K Records and then on the Jarred Up compilation, also on K Records.

Jean Smith – vocals
David Lester – guitar
Peter Jefferies – drums

500th Painting SOLD!

200+ $100 USD paintings currently available

Jean Smith painting website

 

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14 x 11″ acrylic on canvas panel. Music by Mecca Normal (Jean Smith vocals and David Lester guitar).

Currently Available $100 Paintings by Jean Smith

The Jealous Curator

“First, oh my word I love these portraits {acrylic on canvas panel} so, so, so much. Second, Canadian rocker turned painter Jean Smith sells these paintings on Facebook for $100 a pop. WHAT? Yes, true story. Are you wondering what you’re still doing here and why you’re not over there buying a whole bunch of these 11×14 beauties? Me too. Here you go… Jean’s Facebook page. You’re welcome.” – The Jealous Curator

$100 USD contemporary portrait paintings currently available

 

The Art of David Lester

Normal History: The Art of David Lester our weekly column, a collaboration for Magnet Magazine. Illustrations by David Lester with  captions that can turn into short stories by Jean Smith. Every week a  Mecca Normal song to hear or download.