"Mother, mother, mother, why did you not bear a son?.."
- Mary Ocher stands in a corner, her powerful voice echoes through Terra Music Bar in Berlin.
It's a very intimate show. Candles give the only light, there is no stage, just Mary and her guitar, each song is followed by a quiet "Thank you." She's a wonderful sight with her big glasses and bright blonde hair and when she plays her last song we are sad it's over.
Two hours earlier in Mary Ocher's flat:
Her cat greets us. "He's not normally this friendly.", she tells us. "He's probably trying to say: I'm the one who broke that lamp you really really liked." Mary is very sweet and at first even a little quiet, despite her eccentric appearance. She makes us tea and we sit at a large kitchen table. I remember a black board on the wall with something nice written on it, now I wish I had a picture...or had at least written down what it said...
There are three main themes we want to talk to her about: Film, Travelling/Living in Berlin as an Artist and Music.
- This is Part I: FILM