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Harlequin Jones
Blues / Post punk / Melodramatic Popular Song

The silent film music for modern violent life



Slimy Valley, California
United States

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Last Login:  7/13/2009
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   Harlequin Jones: General Info
Member Since2/27/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.harlequinjones.com
Band Members

Amanda von Loon

-piano and pipes

Jesse Yishai Arcadio

-drums, guitar

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



Sounds Like
Worried Ugly Live

Watch more videos on YouTube here.



We've been told we resemble:

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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Record Label1st EP put out by OMS-B since then its been DIY


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   About Harlequin Jones

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.


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I pop my collar and the bitches holler.





Jul 10 2009 7:13 AM

your music is soooo amazing.

:)
Apple Crumble Zombie





Jul 8 2009 5:47 PM

Thanks for the add.

Oh, and sweaty hugs are the best!
ariesjrnyfan





Jul 8 2009 8:09 PM

a sweet hello for a short visit
i hope you are very fine
take care and have fun
till we meet again
[[[[[[hugs]]]]]]
JESSIE EVANS JULY 24TH





Jul 4 2009 1:29 PM

Hola!!!!
Photobucket
Joshua





Jun 22 2009 4:10 AM

Come back to San Diego!!!
ariesjrnyfan





Jun 25 2009 4:49 AM

just visiting and saying hello
i hope you have a lovely Thursday
showing some love
bless
[[[[[[hugs and kisses]]]]]]
£e Postman





May 31 2009 9:47 PM


Tip of the week:

(Don't) eat white flowers!




£P

______________________________
pierrot cadaver





May 26 2009 8:27 PM

laralalalalralalala....un saludo desde colombia,, i love harlequin jones ja ja ja brndis
The Demeter





May 24 2009 10:49 PM

Check it out.
Welcome to hell
Margaret





May 24 2009 9:34 AM

I created your fan Group in russian popular web site Vkontakte.ru (kind of sites like MySpace) a week ago =) Russian people MUST to know about you!
x
Margaret





May 23 2009 5:08 PM

Hello!!!!!!!

Cheers from Russia!

I love you... you're the best!

xx
Tragic Tantrum street Team





May 21 2009 1:54 AM

<33
Tragic Tantrum Cabaret





May 9 2009 6:35 PM

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.
The the





May 12 2009 12:06 AM

Been listening to your stuff constantly lately! -Mark
Mikke





May 6 2009 2:13 AM

hey!
i love your songs especially "Carve that Crap" and "Worried Ugly" the keyboards are great well keep with the nice music, cheers from Perú
Pía Tedesco & her Cabaret





May 7 2009 1:05 AM

I fell in love with your music... and the way you use your voice. It melts with your piano...
Loved it.

Regads.

Pía.

"CABARET FREAKS!" Nuevas Funciones: 9, 16 y 23 de Mayo a las 21.30.
Calle Pez, 2. Malasaña. Madrid.


.. ..

Pía Tedesco & her Cabaret
Ragamuffin





May 6 2009 1:27 AM

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.
Ragamuffin





May 6 2009 1:15 AM

Hello Lovelies :DD
I would love to see you preform with Tragic Tantrum <33
Lovely music you have :D
Casador





May 5 2009 11:09 AM

For now we see through a glass, darkly.
[Corinthians xiii. 12]






Jonathan





May 1 2009 8:55 PM

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*.
Ragamuffin





Apr 30 2009 12:46 AM

No problem love :DD
I heard you played with TTC
will you ever play with them again?
Hong Kong Debonaire





Apr 26 2009 8:42 PM

Thanks ..
I pop my collar and the bitches holler.





Apr 27 2009 9:53 PM

I really enjoy your music!

:)
thgiwd/dwight





Apr 26 2009 2:28 PM

your more than welcome :) i must say, i do llllove your music.
let me know if you guys ever come play in nashville
Hong Kong Debonaire





Apr 25 2009 9:04 PM

I love your music I can't stop coming back for more ..
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