Live shows have featured a motley crue of guest members with talents of fiddle, washboard, and electrical guitar. We recently got a bass player! Her name is Jenn and she is pure awesome.
Influences
Les Clayool, Rasputina, Gogol Bordello, Hole, The Distillers, Bessie Smith, Fiona Apple, Two Ton Boa, The Kills, Danzig, The Black Heart Procession, Reverend Glasseye, Morphine, Danny Elfman, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Three Mile Pilot, Oingo Boingo, X, Bikini Kill, The Cramps, Madness, Nirvana, The Clash
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Jill Tracy, Katzenjammer Kabarett,
The Dresden Dolls, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, Diamanda Galas, Tom Waits, and The Creatures.
We've been informed this oddball music is called dark cabaret, punk cabaret, post-punk, neo-burlesque, experimental, sepiachord, goth, vaudeville, avant-garde...
Until we invent our own cute little brand name, just call it the blues.
Granted, some unconventional blues at that...
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The seething underdog. The blues siren. The vaudevillain. The jilted lover. The trash and the treasure. The many faces of Harlequin Jones set the stage for a post-punk, dark cabaret, blues concoction of music "suitably dramatic...to guide us through hell."
Harlequin Jones infuse elements of blue devils, unmade silent film scores, seedy circus life, and a rock n' roll influenced background to challenge the listener with originality of an art project gone terribly right. Amanda von Loon’s trashy elegance on piano, along with rich, nearly husky vocals compliment Yishai Arcadio’s part jazz-master part scrap-metal machine drumming to result in a synergy of moxie, chemistry, and talent.
Harlequin Jones became a fully functional weapon officially in 2005 in an antiquated bedroom in Simi Valley, CA. Ever since Von Loon and Arcadio found their compatibility to fit like lock and key, they continue to search and destroy in Hollywood, CA. The band is in process of recording a second self-produced EP.
When do you want to play our club? Pick a month. We have third Saturdays every month. :) We miss you! You should live here already. SERIOUSLY. You would do very well here.
Really? :o Gah, it must have been AWEOSME! Well i hope ya'll get out of it soon, cause i love the music <33 No problem, Dear :D Do let me know when you come ot San Diego, please.
I like it there myself hehe. Fairly close to all the happenings of the city. Although I do miss the lotuses that used to grow in the echo park lake, As of last year, something killed them off. And, you're welcome, I completely found your band by accident, but I absolutely adore what I've heard so far. I'll try to make the show I think you have coming up soon..*forgot the exact date*.
