Mantis & The Prayer will celebrate the life of Vodou Queen Marie Laveau on 19 September at 8pm at Voodoo Love Child Speak Easy with a special night of transcendence, spirituality, magick and more. Please join them at the best neighbourhood Southern Gothic Speakeasy in Melbourne, serving cocktails and New Orleans Soul Food while the band mixes their powerful musical potion live.
This special show will also include gris-gris bags for the first 30 souls in attendance and everyone will go in the draw to win a $200 gift certificate from Muses of Mystery, our favourite haunt for spell working ingredients and ritual advice.
Mantis& The Prayer weave sacred themes into their tunes and this show will bring transcendence, spirituality and magick, lifting the veil that separates the world of the living from the Great Unknowable that lies beyond. This 4-piece rock band from Melbourne, released their first album ‘Butterflies and Demons’ in 2016 and have since gone onto place their music in the soundtrack for independent movie ‘Queen of Hollywood Blvd’. Characterised by delicate vocal harmonies and stinging guitars, Mantis and the Prayer will be playing songs from their back catalogue and new single The Whistle of the Gods.
Whistle of The Gods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQ3RTfoUe0
Go Too Far: https://youtu.be/1ijdfKJaQWk?si=izBxPNORbZJUKKJO
About Marie Laveau:Marie Laveau was born in 1801 in New Orleans where her legendary powers were feared, respected and celebrated by the masses. Her abilities included all forms of spell casting to bring luck, love, prosperity, healing and protection. She was also said to lay fearsome curses unto the unfaithful lover or those who gave bad legal advice under her eye. She was well known to all for visiting and ministering to prisoners, extending altruistic gifts to the poor and presiding over all manner of spiritual rites in her role as Voodou Queen of New Orleans.About Mantis & The Prayer:Ever since bluesman Robert Johnson struck a deal with the devil there’s been a link between esoterica and rock’n’roll. There was a revival of occultism in rock in the ’60s. Take the arcana around the Beatles for instance – rumour had it that Paul McCartney was dead and you could make out John Lennon singing “I buried Paul” if you played Strawberry Fields backwards. The ’70s had another crack: Bowie was at peak mysticism in his Starman days and Led Zepp took to quoting occultist Aleister Crowley. In 2013 Ben Lee took a trip and made a concept album about it (Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work) and now we’ve got Mantis and the Prayer, a four-piece Melbourne-based band, lifting the veil between our world and whatever the hell else is out there. – BEAT MAGAZINE
Mantis & The Prayer invite you to celebrate the life and legend of Marie Laveau:
Start Time: 8pm
Address: 143 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia, Victoria
Event link:
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