The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! Release First Single "Ride/Friendship"/ On US Tour
Founded in late 2007 as means for front man Neil Fridd to yell about his romantic mishaps, The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! has blossomed into a real juggernaut of epic dance floor revelation.
What do they sound like? It?s sorta dance-soul music, like synthed out Otis Redding covers on fast forward. Dance music with too many cooks in the kitchen, but in a good way, so not too many cooks, maybe just an above average amount of cooks. That is to say, there are sweet beats: your ass wants to shake, but there?s also like four vocals and two horn lines happening too, making for a unique, dense, dance floor throw down that?s suitable for both club rock outs and secluded headphone listening. But perhaps more than both of these, you?ll find yourself wanting to be listening to this music at a Halloween party with all your friends, because before TPDR were trying to make your head bob or your ass shake they were trying to make your heart feel something. Whether they?re singing about a new romance, old friends, or a magical thing that happens when the roads are too icy for professors to get to school, TPDR are singing about something that you?ve felt, and doing so with a humor and sincerity so often lacking in indie music. Scenes and events are set up so perfectly that on a late night, driving in your car in the middle of nowhere you feel every emotion they?re singing about deep down in your gut: you?ll be getting chills on the subway during your morning commute. These songs will make you long for every boy or girl you almost kissed in high school, chuckle to yourself about how stupid and great your friends are and make you want to go camping, stay up late, dance on your fire escape, have a potluck dinner, jump in piles of leaves, French kiss in the back of a movie theater and finally go out and cut down a real Christmas tree this year.
And if listening to this band on CD makes you feel alive, seeing them live will set you on fire. Terror Pigeon live is sometimes four people and sometimes forty, but it doesn?t matter, cause you won?t know who?s in the band anyways. Everyone dances, everyone gets a costume, everyone sings. And don?t worry, only half the people know any of the lyrics so you won?t feel left out: the sing alongs are easy and they?ll teach them to you. The show is happening on the stage and in the audience. There are people running around with big light up robots on their backs, others wearing disco ball hats, a hairy man dressed as a giant pumpkin, streamers, aliens, football players from the movie Mac n? Me on a TV dancing to the beat, a dude butoh dancing, it?s like Halloween and junior prom and new years and Christmas at once. There?s a lot of glitter and strobe lights and it?s entirely probable that at some point you?ll be handed a mic and told to go for it. And that?s the idea: that you go for it. Cool has been abolished: for 25 minutes you can?t fuck up. You can scream and sing and roll around on the floor and it?s okay. To quote them ?No one here looks more stupid then we do so don?t worry about it!? And you can totally just stand up against a wall and watch too if you want: there aren?t rules. It?s not, ?you have to go crazy,? it?s ?you can.? And that freedom leads to a real liberation, an all encompassing fuck everything dance party hailed as everything from kid playtime gone wrong to the least self conscious act at CMJ to a religious awakening.
And all this razzmatazz hasn?t gone unnoticed. In addition to getting a plaque once they?ve also been written about by a bunch of important magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, New York magazine, NME, Nylon and more. Perhaps most impressive, besides the plaque, was their winning the Diesel:U:Music World Tour competition last year. Selected from amongst thousands, Diesel flew them around the world to play in big stadiums in Japan and historic nightclubs in France. This rather surprising move, (wait, good, deserving bands can actually get giant handouts from monster corporations?!) catapulted them into the spotlight, giving them a much-deserved amount of exposure, a buzz that will that may very well explode as they release their debut album and continue to tour nonstop.
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! have an album coming out on Luaka Bop this spring. It?s great. It?s ten tracks of absolute power. They?re touring the US nonstop starting in February with a new backing band c alled The Shakes.
They?re now accepting summer barbeque invitations and really want to play someone?s senior prom like how the Spice Girls used to have competitions like that.
"It was mildly alarming when Neil Fridd, the leader of Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, a dance band-slash-performance art collective, took his shirt off late Tuesday afternoon. One worried about hypothermia: It was so cold inside the unheated warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he and others were preparing for their New Year?s Eve show that their breath hung in the air. Indeed, earlier in the day, the brush had simply dropped from the shaking hands of Jessica Sugerman, an artist and friend of Mr. Fridd?s who was painting a mural depicting Theseus slaying the Minotaur on one pocked wall.
?I need my itchy, scratchy, drywall shirt,? said Mr. Fridd, a lanky 22-year-old art school graduate from Rochester, rooting around in a bag and extracting a rose-colored plaid button-down, which he topped with a cotton sweater knitted with the flags of the world. A pink watchman?s cap completed the look.
Mr. Fridd?s plans for his New Year?s party, a 10-hour event organized by Joe Ahearn, a Brooklyn performance art promoter, are both monumental and endearing. Mr. Fridd is known for wearing a suit made from well-worn stuffed animals at his shows, where he might throw a room-sized blanket stitched with Christmas lights over his audience. Participation is encouraged: there?s a communal costume box, and lyrics are simple enough for everyone to shout. In the nearly two years since his graduation from SUNY College at Purchase, he has performed everywhere from living rooms to fashion shows.
?I guess my main goal is to play something that really kind of enthralls, engages and invigorates the audience so much so that there is no audience,? Mr. Fridd said. ?The idea is to bring as much stuff as possible to make an ideal party.?
Mr. Fridd sketched out his concept for the evening: an epic romp through the history of the world from ancient times to, well, the future. (At sunrise, the party will head to the warehouse roof to be greeted by friendly aliens, followed by breakfast cooked on a griddle by Mr. Ahearn and Mr. Fridd.) Mr. Ahearn expects 200 to 500 people to show up; admission is $8 (information at Phentermine 30mg. The #1 Canadian Online Healthcare!).
There were bags and boxes everywhere, overflowing with Mr. Fridd?s batterie de cuisine: tinsel garlands, colored lights, a disco ball glued to a hard hat, children?s sheets printed with cartoon characters. Ms. Sugerman and Amy Zuchowski, a 21-year-old print maker, were in charge of murals. Ms. Zuchowski was sketching cave dwellers on a wall, taking breaks to warm up under the nest of afghans on a sofa.
Mr. Fridd unfurled a tangle of Hula Hoops lashed together with streamers and Christmas lights, then hopped up on a ladder. ?Do we have a stud finder?? he asked.
Zach Staggers, a member of the So So Glos, one of the bands playing New Year?s Eve here, said, ?What?s that??
?It?s how you find the manliest person in the room,? Ms. Sugerman suggested. ?How many do you need to find??
Mr. Fridd was rigging one of his choicest props: a knobby hive of lights and objects that spin and twinkle, hung from candy-colored wires. His notion, he said, was to surround the hive with a model of Earth. ?The Pangea,? he intoned, which will be whacked at midnight by a sparkling red asteroid on a stick. He mimed its transit across the room. ?Instead of a ball dropping, we?re doing an asteroid collides with the Earth.?
Since leaving college, Mr. Fridd has had no home base, though he turns wherever he is performing into a temporary home, he said.
He gestured at the chandelier, the half-finished murals and the tinsel and colored lights. ?We?ve only been here 24 hours, and look at it. When we?re done, it will be a wonder world. If and when I ever have my own venue, it will not be too dissimilar. It?s the idea of taking the space you?re in and making it super-appealing and comfy.?
The party has a sonorous title: New Fear?s Eve, derived from the subject line of e-mails Mr. Ahearn and Mr. Fridd sent each other while planning the evening.
While Mr. Fridd is known as a sower of cozy good cheer, Mr. Ahearn said the slightly menacing name was appropriate. ?There is a new decade, and we have to get new fears.?
A version of this article appeared in print on December 31, 2009, on page D2 of the New York edition."
US Tour Dates
3/30 - The Loft - La Jolla, CA
3/31 - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
4/23 Sneaky Dees Toronto, ON
4/1 - The Biko House - Isla Vista, CA
4/2 - Amnesia Bar - San Francisco, CA
4/5 - The Vera Project - Seattle, WA
4/6 - Visual Arts Collective - Garden City, ID
4/7 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
4/8 Rhinoceropolis Denver, CO
4/9 - Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE
4/10 Der Rathskeller Madison, WI
4/11 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
4/12 Firedbird St. Louis, MO
4/13 - Cafe Bourbon St - Columbus, OH
4/14 - Brillobox - Pittsburgh, PA
4/23 - Sneaky Dees, Toronto, ON
4/24 - The Friendship Cove - Montreal, QC
3/31 The Echo Los Angeles, CA
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Night Moves and Day Parties
What do they sound like? It?s sorta dance-soul music, like synthed out Otis Redding covers on fast forward. Dance music with too many cooks in the kitchen, but in a good way, so not too many cooks, maybe just an above average amount of cooks. That is to say, there are sweet beats: your ass wants to shake, but there?s also like four vocals and two horn lines happening too, making for a unique, dense, dance floor throw down that?s suitable for both club rock outs and secluded headphone listening. But perhaps more than both of these, you?ll find yourself wanting to be listening to this music at a Halloween party with all your friends, because before TPDR were trying to make your head bob or your ass shake they were trying to make your heart feel something. Whether they?re singing about a new romance, old friends, or a magical thing that happens when the roads are too icy for professors to get to school, TPDR are singing about something that you?ve felt, and doing so with a humor and sincerity so often lacking in indie music. Scenes and events are set up so perfectly that on a late night, driving in your car in the middle of nowhere you feel every emotion they?re singing about deep down in your gut: you?ll be getting chills on the subway during your morning commute. These songs will make you long for every boy or girl you almost kissed in high school, chuckle to yourself about how stupid and great your friends are and make you want to go camping, stay up late, dance on your fire escape, have a potluck dinner, jump in piles of leaves, French kiss in the back of a movie theater and finally go out and cut down a real Christmas tree this year.
And if listening to this band on CD makes you feel alive, seeing them live will set you on fire. Terror Pigeon live is sometimes four people and sometimes forty, but it doesn?t matter, cause you won?t know who?s in the band anyways. Everyone dances, everyone gets a costume, everyone sings. And don?t worry, only half the people know any of the lyrics so you won?t feel left out: the sing alongs are easy and they?ll teach them to you. The show is happening on the stage and in the audience. There are people running around with big light up robots on their backs, others wearing disco ball hats, a hairy man dressed as a giant pumpkin, streamers, aliens, football players from the movie Mac n? Me on a TV dancing to the beat, a dude butoh dancing, it?s like Halloween and junior prom and new years and Christmas at once. There?s a lot of glitter and strobe lights and it?s entirely probable that at some point you?ll be handed a mic and told to go for it. And that?s the idea: that you go for it. Cool has been abolished: for 25 minutes you can?t fuck up. You can scream and sing and roll around on the floor and it?s okay. To quote them ?No one here looks more stupid then we do so don?t worry about it!? And you can totally just stand up against a wall and watch too if you want: there aren?t rules. It?s not, ?you have to go crazy,? it?s ?you can.? And that freedom leads to a real liberation, an all encompassing fuck everything dance party hailed as everything from kid playtime gone wrong to the least self conscious act at CMJ to a religious awakening.
And all this razzmatazz hasn?t gone unnoticed. In addition to getting a plaque once they?ve also been written about by a bunch of important magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, New York magazine, NME, Nylon and more. Perhaps most impressive, besides the plaque, was their winning the Diesel:U:Music World Tour competition last year. Selected from amongst thousands, Diesel flew them around the world to play in big stadiums in Japan and historic nightclubs in France. This rather surprising move, (wait, good, deserving bands can actually get giant handouts from monster corporations?!) catapulted them into the spotlight, giving them a much-deserved amount of exposure, a buzz that will that may very well explode as they release their debut album and continue to tour nonstop.
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! have an album coming out on Luaka Bop this spring. It?s great. It?s ten tracks of absolute power. They?re touring the US nonstop starting in February with a new backing band c alled The Shakes.
They?re now accepting summer barbeque invitations and really want to play someone?s senior prom like how the Spice Girls used to have competitions like that.
The Story of Us, in One Long Night
Andrea Mohin/The New York Time
By PENELOPE GREEN
Published: December 30, 2009
Andrea Mohin/The New York Time
By PENELOPE GREEN
Published: December 30, 2009
"It was mildly alarming when Neil Fridd, the leader of Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, a dance band-slash-performance art collective, took his shirt off late Tuesday afternoon. One worried about hypothermia: It was so cold inside the unheated warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he and others were preparing for their New Year?s Eve show that their breath hung in the air. Indeed, earlier in the day, the brush had simply dropped from the shaking hands of Jessica Sugerman, an artist and friend of Mr. Fridd?s who was painting a mural depicting Theseus slaying the Minotaur on one pocked wall.
?I need my itchy, scratchy, drywall shirt,? said Mr. Fridd, a lanky 22-year-old art school graduate from Rochester, rooting around in a bag and extracting a rose-colored plaid button-down, which he topped with a cotton sweater knitted with the flags of the world. A pink watchman?s cap completed the look.
Mr. Fridd?s plans for his New Year?s party, a 10-hour event organized by Joe Ahearn, a Brooklyn performance art promoter, are both monumental and endearing. Mr. Fridd is known for wearing a suit made from well-worn stuffed animals at his shows, where he might throw a room-sized blanket stitched with Christmas lights over his audience. Participation is encouraged: there?s a communal costume box, and lyrics are simple enough for everyone to shout. In the nearly two years since his graduation from SUNY College at Purchase, he has performed everywhere from living rooms to fashion shows.
?I guess my main goal is to play something that really kind of enthralls, engages and invigorates the audience so much so that there is no audience,? Mr. Fridd said. ?The idea is to bring as much stuff as possible to make an ideal party.?
Mr. Fridd sketched out his concept for the evening: an epic romp through the history of the world from ancient times to, well, the future. (At sunrise, the party will head to the warehouse roof to be greeted by friendly aliens, followed by breakfast cooked on a griddle by Mr. Ahearn and Mr. Fridd.) Mr. Ahearn expects 200 to 500 people to show up; admission is $8 (information at Phentermine 30mg. The #1 Canadian Online Healthcare!).
There were bags and boxes everywhere, overflowing with Mr. Fridd?s batterie de cuisine: tinsel garlands, colored lights, a disco ball glued to a hard hat, children?s sheets printed with cartoon characters. Ms. Sugerman and Amy Zuchowski, a 21-year-old print maker, were in charge of murals. Ms. Zuchowski was sketching cave dwellers on a wall, taking breaks to warm up under the nest of afghans on a sofa.
Mr. Fridd unfurled a tangle of Hula Hoops lashed together with streamers and Christmas lights, then hopped up on a ladder. ?Do we have a stud finder?? he asked.
Zach Staggers, a member of the So So Glos, one of the bands playing New Year?s Eve here, said, ?What?s that??
?It?s how you find the manliest person in the room,? Ms. Sugerman suggested. ?How many do you need to find??
Mr. Fridd was rigging one of his choicest props: a knobby hive of lights and objects that spin and twinkle, hung from candy-colored wires. His notion, he said, was to surround the hive with a model of Earth. ?The Pangea,? he intoned, which will be whacked at midnight by a sparkling red asteroid on a stick. He mimed its transit across the room. ?Instead of a ball dropping, we?re doing an asteroid collides with the Earth.?
Since leaving college, Mr. Fridd has had no home base, though he turns wherever he is performing into a temporary home, he said.
He gestured at the chandelier, the half-finished murals and the tinsel and colored lights. ?We?ve only been here 24 hours, and look at it. When we?re done, it will be a wonder world. If and when I ever have my own venue, it will not be too dissimilar. It?s the idea of taking the space you?re in and making it super-appealing and comfy.?
The party has a sonorous title: New Fear?s Eve, derived from the subject line of e-mails Mr. Ahearn and Mr. Fridd sent each other while planning the evening.
While Mr. Fridd is known as a sower of cozy good cheer, Mr. Ahearn said the slightly menacing name was appropriate. ?There is a new decade, and we have to get new fears.?
A version of this article appeared in print on December 31, 2009, on page D2 of the New York edition."
US Tour Dates
3/30 - The Loft - La Jolla, CA
3/31 - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
4/23 Sneaky Dees Toronto, ON
4/1 - The Biko House - Isla Vista, CA
4/2 - Amnesia Bar - San Francisco, CA
4/5 - The Vera Project - Seattle, WA
4/6 - Visual Arts Collective - Garden City, ID
4/7 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
4/8 Rhinoceropolis Denver, CO
4/9 - Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE
4/10 Der Rathskeller Madison, WI
4/11 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
4/12 Firedbird St. Louis, MO
4/13 - Cafe Bourbon St - Columbus, OH
4/14 - Brillobox - Pittsburgh, PA
4/23 - Sneaky Dees, Toronto, ON
4/24 - The Friendship Cove - Montreal, QC
3/31 The Echo Los Angeles, CA
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Night Moves and Day Parties
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