Lainey Schooltree is a musician, comedian, streamer, and former half of the musical comedy duo The Steamy Bohemians. She then formed the solo art rock project Schooltree.
When the pandemic hit, she began performing on Twitch and found that live-streaming offered the interdisciplinary playground she'd been after. What began as a temporary pivot became a long-term transformation and these days she captains a spaceship on Lainey Schooltree TV - a live show where she’s an “astro-streamer” assigned to deliver packages while improvising music with analog synthesizers, electronic drums, and layered vocals in a show that blends surreal comedy, retro-futurist visuals, and themes of corporate absurdity and creative resistance.
SONG 1: Kashmir by Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVJPgCn-Z8
SONG 2: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1993.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZ83BzCQNM
SONG 3: Hammer Horror by Kate Bush off her album Lionheart released in 1978.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR4KnfcgLm0
PARTING TUNE:
Cat Centipede by Schooltree from the album Heterotopia released in 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF14v_qeVu8