adrian hartley: News

Blue Man Group's How to be a Megastar 2.1 kicked off for 2 successful weeks in Seoul, Korea on June 10th. This short run marks the end of the tour for now; with the exception of a december break last Christmas, Adrian and the boys have been at it for a year and a half.

Check back in soon for fall and winter dates in Canada, Austria, Denmark, Germany and Holland. Holler.

Blue Man Group's How to be a Megastar 2.1 is headed for Europe in mid May and this is only the beginning. The tour shows no signs of letting up any time soon with a 2 week run in Paris, and an additional week on the run in France and neighboring countries.

Live from Dallas, TX!! The premier of Blue Man Group's HOW TO BE A MEGASTAR 2.1 tour is scheduled to air on Jan. 20th at 8:30 PM ET. PBS will soon follow in airing the show and the DVD is in the works. Stay tuned to hd.net for further details.

STAR ACADEMY is like AMERICAN IDOL only the contestants live together and have their daily lives filmed. Adrian will be appearing on the reality show with the blue men and band as a guest star. The taping is scheduled for Feb. 1, in Paris, and is to be be centered around MEGASTAR sensation "I Feel Love." STAR ACADEMY will be Adrian's second reality show appearance, her first being VH1's elusive BANDS ON THE RUN in 2001.

See if Blue Man Group's HOW TO BE A MEGASTAR version 2.1 is coming to your town. Check calendar dates for details...

After 3 months of being on call as Tracy Bonham's understudy for the HOW TO BE A MEGASTAR 2.0 Blue Man Group tour, Adrian was asked to join the blue men and their 9 piece band, and their 20 crew members for the second leg... as the lead female vocalist. With Seattle's Everett Events center 96% sold out, she is more than psyched. Say hello to the bus!

Yes, that's right, after months and months of harassment and sabotage it is actually happening: Josh and Adrian are playing the Bitter End, as a duo, on Wed. Oct. 25, at 7pm. This is a benefit show for underprivileged kids to go to camp. Tix are 25$ at the door. As long as Adrian doesn't get called out to do the Blue Man show in Iowa, she will be playing side by side with her very favorite musician and dear friend, Josh Effing Dodes.

Adrian has been offered the position of Tracy Bonham's understudy for the upcoming Blue Man Group arena tour, HOW TO BE A MEGASTAR 2.0. This is a rock show... not to be confused with the artistic stage production. There will be Blue Men, many ridiculously talented musicians and a silly amount of percussion. If Tracy is under the weather Adrian comes to her rescue and gets tomatoes thrown at her. And she couldn't be more psyched!

Fischerspooner, the float, will be floating down West Broadway Sept. 9th for Art Parade. Come out and Get Confused.

Fishcherspooner has been asked to play a benefit show at the Hammerstein Ballroom on March 20th. Artists will include Michael Stipe, Peaches, Chuck D, Bright Eyes, Devendra Banhart, Rufus Wainwright and more. Come out and support peace, yo.

Free jeans? They hope so. Rumor has it Fischerspooner is playing a private event for Calvin Klein in Florence on January 13th. More details to come...

ok i'm taking matters into my own hands and composing my own news. actually this one is more of a blog.. anyway, screw that other ho.

i'm home. detox never felt so good. was is worth it? nahhhh. kidding. santiago lies right at the foothills of the andes mountains which tower over everything. they're breathtaking, as was expected. we actually had a day to cruise around and check out the city. while there's not much "going on" in santiago, our jaunt along the mining dirt roads through the foothills was all i really wanted to do. empanada fuel is delicious, albeit filling. chilean wine is gorgeous.

the festival venue in santiago was a fairly ghetto stadium, the site of a student massacre which occurred, scarily, not too long ago. both santiago and buenos aires shows were played with the brazilian girls, morcheeba and dizzee rascal. morcheeba has a new lead vocalist, jody. she's got super positive energy. plays the saxophone too. i never saw skye (their original singer) live so i can't compare, but jody solidly held it down. i can't imagine it was easy for her filling skye's shoes. anhow, morcheeba... what happened to the trip hop? i was watching a pop show. This was not cool. i felt like an old school fischerspooner fan who had been done wrong by the new rock band! brazilian girls live was a treat. bought an album of theirs not too long ago (self titled) and love it. fusion-y electronic, super sexy beats with a great sense of humor. they were a great group of guys too. front woman, sabina sciubba is probably one of the hottest performers i have seen. her physical presence is completely captivating. i didn't know legs like that existed! italian, of course, and even better, smart, and funny. the whole package. but enough about her! i highly recommend this band, buy the albums, get to a live show.

buenos aires i didn't get to see much of, unfortunately. ahem. can't quite figure out if i'm getting too old for this kind of party, you know the one that lasts until 1 pm. what i did see reminded me too much of europe, which i'm sorry to say kinda disappointed me. i’m in south america, dammit! by the time i got on the plane that night (we played at 3am) i hadn't really slept. the flight was 10 hours long. we got into JFK at 6am and did a sold out gig that night at irving plaza in fluorescent unitards. the long awaited halloween extravaganza. one of the opening groups got kicked out for getting completely naked on stage. way too much free alcohol was provided at the after party. my dear friend josh dodes came out WITHOUT fav drummer, joe bonadio. and joe, i don’t care what your excuse was. see?? now i’m just depressed again……anyway it was josh’s first time seeing fischerspooner live. he loved it.

right now i am still recovering. eating cream of wheat. sulking bc i didn’t get to hang out with joe. the milk overflowed while i was boiling it. tastes like shit. DON'T OVER BOIL YOUR MILK, PEOPLE. mom's coming up from baltimore tonight. imma get back to sweeping.

so... i'm pretty sure we are doing a show in miami right after thanksgiving.... after that? i’m workin on it. stay tuned!

Crawling, lifting every rock, looking for what's next. Hence this website. Don't get her wrong... looking is good. But finding is even better. Please email her if you have (only really good) suggestions.

The summer consisted primarily of a weekly residence at the "world's greatest party," Manumission, held at the "world's biggest club," Privelege. Singing backups for Fischerspooner has had it's ups. This summer Adrian saw London, Paris, Zurich, Istanbul, Moscow, Oslo, a city in Belgium not remembered, Berlin, Amsterdam. The Barcelona airport was a second home. The beaches on Ibiza were breathtaking. The food kinda sucked.