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---the Lab Rat Players---
(talented musicians who donated fingers and minds to "Causality Menagerie")
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Melodica-Basso, Various kitchen utensils, sequencing on "No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR"
by Lainey Shulbaum
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Cello on "No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR"
by Val Thompson
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Violin "No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR"
by Myq kaplan
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Violin and 2nd female vocals on "Viktagrapgh" by Heather kuhn
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"No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR"
Arranged produced recorded engineered and mixed by Lainey Shulbaum with extra sticky thanks to Scott Dakota for creative recording an mixing wisdom. "VIktagrapgh", "Carnal Carnivale" recorded and arranged by Walter Sickert
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Walter & Edrie
broken toys & you and me
our Giant Squid our Circus Bear
5 dead hookers & Mitre Square!!!
Influences
LIES,Jack the Ripper, William S. Burroughs, SAINT DALI, ocean, Antiques, Bjork, Abusive Childhoods, Alister Crowley, The Coconut Grove Fire, Rasputina, The Cure, Mono, SAINT LOSS, Tarot Cards, Taxidermy, fishing jiggers, Le Theatre de Grand Guignol, Portishead, Hellraiser 2, Titus, The Begotten, Jhonny Cash,The Divine Comedy, Paradise lost, SAINT POE, Mustache wax, Throbbing Gristle, Dolls, Hoop Skirts, SAINT DEATH, windups, Amsterdam, YeahYeahYeahs, Skinny Puppy, Diamanda Galas, VCR instructions, Anton LaVey, Alice in Wonderland, Clinic, the stop animation film "Alice", The Silver Smoke of Dreams.
Father?
!!!Casualty Menagerie the new EP from WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS
is AVAILABLE NOW just clicky click my dears and be eaten by giant plastic squids and sung to by escaped murdering Labrats!!!
-( FOR BOOKING requests EMAIL management at info@armyoftoys.com
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WALTER SICKERT: vox ,accordion, programming, guitar, bass, keys, samples, violin, broken cello, bells, toy drums
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EDRIE (One of the Broken Toys)
Drums, Vox, Guitar, Bass, violin, toy Piano, harp, squeeze box, anything you can beat with a stick etc.
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The band Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys formed, members Walter Sickert and Edrie say, from the "turmoil and loss" that came after their spouses took a road trip together and never returned. Both Sickert and Edrie have been active in the New England scene for several years, performing in various Electronic, Goth, Metal and Experimental bands.
Comparing their music to the melodies of Rasputina with the performances of Marilyn Manson and the presence of Johnny Cash, Walter Sickert's shows can range from loud with theatrical visuals to stripped-down acoustic sets. Framing the "violent forests" of their songs around love, betrayal and heartbreak, the band says their music is for anyone who has ever been broken.
Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys are touring throughout the world. Their music has appeared on international and American radio as well as in independent films and on television.
"We take the listener on a journey through the horrible, through mountains of noise and seas of emotion we take them to see the WIRETOOTH creatures that live in the forests of love, betrayal, longing and hate and the audience can relate every step of the way"-W.S
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"Holy Damn this is so good...if Jim Morrison is walking the afterworld, he surely must audition for this band. And I shall be the one to tell him to!"
(Mike Loce) The Noise -OCT,2006-issue 265
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"Walter Sickert the Army of Broken Toys is about performance art as much as it is music"
"Something like Nine Inch Nails, horror movie soundtracks, and two radio stations that have their frequencies crossed."
(BOSTON GLOBE) january-9th-2007
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"Their performance confounds the mind as much as it delights the senses."
(Nancy Neon) THE NOISE 2007
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"Even the dreamy ambient numbers like "Sacrilege" dip into more nightmarish territory as Sickert's vocals, which are nearly always distorted, ebb and flow under the beauty." Ham radio static, reverb drenched piano, sinister synth line and Sickert's sidekick Edrie's creepy vocals make for a kind of Goth folk ride."
(Jon Nolan) THE WIRE 11 October 2006
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"Turn and face the strange. Sickert has a real gift as a multi-instrumentalist and singer and he journeys into dark and eclectic material on his debut disc."
-Maneating Lemur
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"Taken as a whole, the 13 track CD is epic poetry exploring the black pit of human despair."
"the sweet cooing of Edrie is the perfect haunting echo to Walter's murdererous howl. Soul-crushing heartbreak never sounded so good."
(Lexi Kahn) Low Budget Super Hero 2007
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"the duo behind the din manage to create a soundscape that could pass for Lewis Carol's nightmares or an opium-soaked daydream."
(Jack at www.liarsociety.com) 0ct-10-07
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-------------------Optic Rose - Self Titled CD - 2003------------------------------------
-------------------Optic Rose - Whitechapel - 2005-------------------------------------
-------------------Optic Rose - 28 days inside the squid(double disc) - 2006------------
++++++++++++(all O.R records written & recorded by Walter Sickert)++++++++++
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---------------BLack KEy WHite KEy (double disc limited) march 07
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Beirut: Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) Nathan Wade & the Dark Pioneers: Long Black Lillies Erin Jordan & the Whiskey Romance: Jane The Dad Horse Experience: Lord Must Fix my Soul Nina Nastasia: We Never Talked Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Green Shirt THe ARmy of BRoken TOys experiment shelf: Sleep Schizophrenic Sheriff Against Me!: Cliche Guevara Crooks and Nannies: Burning Down the House The Doors: My Wild Love Voltaire: Stakes & Torches Zydepunks: Satan Dance You Fucker Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire Defiance, Ohio: The Things We Won't Settle But Let Set The Men That Will Not be Blamed for Nothing: A Traditional Victorian Gentleman's Boasting Song Melora Creager: Girl Lunar Explorer Unwoman: Envy Magnetic Fields: Underwear
HUMANWINE: Fighting Naked Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Escape & Lacerations Defiance, Ohio: The Things We Won't Let Settle but Let Set Wisteriax: Doves Never Sleep Grey DeLisle: Joanna PJ Harvey: Daddy Dandelion Junk Queens: Das Lied Von Der Moldou Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning Piñataland: Velocity Peculiar Pretzelmen: Gypsy Chant Sophe Lux: Sophia Song Hail Seizures: Cellar Matteah B.. Bird of Prey Leonard Cohen: Last Year's Man Starhead: Solomon Song Dex Romweber Duo: Polish Wedding Song Hunter Robertson: Ol' Virginee Abandon Ship!: Limestone Spirits
Esmerelda Strange: Ask the Two Headed Cow Unwoman: Witch-Wife Dandelion Junk Queens: Growing Up is Givig Up Blackbird Raum: Shot Coplifting Bakelite 78: Katie Dear Neko Case: Magpie in the Morning Combustible Edison: Seduction Vermillion Lies: Miss Orleans Zoe Boekbinder - Vermillion: Stitches Sharon Van Etten: Tornado HUMANWINE: 1st Amendment Birdeatsbaby: Shiver Up the Spine Bellmer Dolls: The Diva Midnight Serenaders: He's a Curbstone Cutie Hail Seizures: Stranger in the House Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Train to Chimney Zen Hussies: The Whiplash Waltz Wisteriax: Doves Never Sleep Peculiar Pretzelmen: Hypocrite Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: Joe's Phonograph Skeletonbreath: Machinists Larkin Grimm: My Justine Abandon Ship!: A Criminal Intimacy Defiance, Ohio: The List Suzanne Vega: Bad Wisdom
hello. it was wonderful seeing you guys on saturday. and your performance(s) were fantastic...even if walter was dead. be in touch. with love, christopher
keep me posted on the June 13 show, once you have the details, i'd like to go. Too bad the May 21 Langdon/Montpelier show is on a Thursday 'cause i'd love to check it out. That's a cool place to play.
HUMANWINE: Our Devolution is Televised Erin Jordan & the Whiskey Romance: Jane Hellblinki Sextet: You Wake Me Up Peculiar Pretzelmen: Absinthe Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Black Hair Baby Gramps & the Back Swamp Potioners: Magnolia Blossoms in the Breeze Serendipity Musik: Bliss of Home Sharon Van Etten: For You Birdeatsbaby: Miserable Johnny Cash: Were you There (when They Crucified My Lord) Yellowcard: Finish Line Sharon Crumrine: February Dukes of Stratosphear: No One at Home (Vanishing Girl) Jaggery: Scorpio Kathrine Heilesen: The Tide Came When Your Eyes were Wide Open Dresden Dolls: Pretty in Pink Quinn Scharber and the...: Take It Back Aepril Schaile and the Judgement: Mary Lucifer Dropkick Murphys: Walk Away Waves Under Water: Winter Garden Neko Case: Star Witness What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?: Hanging in a Tree Skeletonbreath: Silk City Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: The Changeling
Agent Ribbons: The Wolf Serendipity Musik: Wind Song Tiger Lillies: Cancer Sophe Lux: Sophia Song Kate Bush: Cloudbusting HUMANWINE: Rivolta Silenziosa Squeeze-bot: So Sue Me Beirut: La Banlieue Skeletonbreath: Llarimo DeVotchKa: The Last Beat of My Heart Mark Sinnis: A Southern Tale Nathan Wade & the Dark Pioneers: Long Black Lilies Midnight Serenaders: Baby (Darlin') Baby Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Revolver Birdeatsbaby: Letter to Charlie Butthole Sufers: Ballad of Naked Man White Stripes & Holly Golightly: Well It's True that we Love One Another Waves Under Water: Nothing More Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: March of the Hoohahs Veronique Chevalier: Kakajaka Polka Vermillion Lies: Bonnie & Clyde Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph
