Velocity Girl Reunion: How a New ‘Copacetic’ Mix Brought Them Back Together, What to Expect at This Week’s L.A. Show, and Is New Music Coming?
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large TV journo Jim Spellman says his past life as an indie rock star comes up in some unusual places.
A former CNN reporter who’s now a D.C. correspondent for CGTN America, Spellman was recently in New York covering the United Nations General Assembly when his previous life resurfaced via an unlikely interaction. “I was interviewing the foreign minister of Laos, and his press guy is like, ‘I love Velocity Girl!
I was Googling you and I can’t believe you’re in that band,’” says Spellman. “It’s completely bizarre when it does pop up.” It’s bound to arise even more often now that Velocity Girl has reunited to perform at a handful of shows, including one on Friday night at Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom (with opener Film School).
The group’s mini-reunion — which also includes a show in their native Washington, D.C., on Nov. 23 — has been sparked by the release of “UltraCopacetic,” a remixed and remastered version of their first album, 1993’s “Copacetic.” (The new “UltraCopacetic” mix — which also includes a collection of singles, B-sides and outtakes, as well as a recording of the band’s 1993 John Peel Sessions — was released in August.) For Friday night’s L.A.
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