Eric Cavanaugh - guitar, vocals, programming.
Maria Zaccaro - bass guitar, screams, programming.
Influences
ERIC: Television, The Fall, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Guided By Voices, Swell Maps, The Stranglers, The Damned, Portishead, 999, Xray Spex, The Slits, The Pop Group, Throbbing Gristle, Alternative TV, The Beat, Birthday Party, Suicide, Lydia Lunch, Fatal Microbes, DNA, Wire, Raincoats, Spizz, Nurse With Wound, The Cravats, The Selecter, Desmond Dekker, Flipper, Black Flag, Specials, Japan, David Sylvian, David Byrne, David Bowie, Pylon, Killing Joke, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure, Curve, Echo & the Bunnymen, New Order, Mission of Burma, Iggy Pop, Pulp, Muse, Blur, Lee "Scratch" Perry,New York Dolls, Fela Kuti, Buzzcocks, Roky Erickson, Pere Ubu, The Ramones, Bauhaus, The Kinks, Patti Smith, MeatPuppets, Hüsker Dü, Roxy Music, The Minutemen, Devo, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Brian Eno, The Mekons, Gang of Four, Delta 5, Josef K, Half Japanese, Nick Cave, The Swans, Sebadoh, Cake, Violent Femmes, The Libertines, PiL, Magazine, 13th Floor Elevators, MC5, Dust Devils, Jesus and Mary Chain, Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave, 801, The Clash, Ian Dury, Talking Heads, Massive Attack, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Wolfgang Press, Sisters of Mercy, Xymox, Billy Bragg, Ian Dury, Gong, Velvet Underground, The Gits, Germs, Can, Cake, Go-Betweens, Boredoms, My Bloody Valentine, Superchunk, His Name Is Alive, The Jam. MARIA: Bugs Bunny, James Jamerson, Frank Sinatra.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) Music Menu TUESDAY, NOV. 20
ILLICITIZEN A Two piece featuring guitarist/singer Eric Cavanaugh (ex-The Blots) and bassist Maria Zaccaro, Illicitizen's demos for their upcoming full-length include promising touchstones from throughout the punk/post-punk era: the Jam's spiky beats, the Clash's agit-prop, early Elvis Costello snark, etc. Befitting the demo stage, the sound is a bit rough around the edges and should benefit from non-programmed beats. In other words, stay tuned. This is an item-donations Homeless Benefit, with Kimosabe and Holster also on the bill. Evening Muse ([Writer is John] Schacht).
Mog.com:
Our mog friend Doombilly from Illicitizen has posted up a latest demo that’s well worth a listen. I played it 3 times in a row, and it got better every time.
It’s hard to fit their music into a category and this song, “Monstr0”, has all the passion of the classic 60’s Folk protest song, beefed up, with an element of Indie pop sensibility that draws my attention to The Verve’s 90’s Britpop. In fact if one listens closely, Doombilly’s voice has a boyish Richard Ashcroft sound to it.
I like it a lot, particularly the lines, “I will steal your life, and come on to your wife,I disappeared your passport”. The vitriol isn’t haunting or threatening,it seems to represent a form of resignation to all the political, cultural and security mis-management that many of our friends across the pond feel right now.
Give it a listen, I’m sure you’ll like it, and give a fellow Mogger our support.
Here’s the link
http://mog.com/doombilly/blog_post/58738
Jeff
Originally a side project of musical arty-facts for Eric Cavanaugh to mess with in the studio (while his band flopped about). Illicitizen has become a full-time gig with bassist Maria Zaccaro. The band hopes to record some studio releases by the summer.
Illicitizen currently has a bunch of songs written for their debut full-length CD. We are demo-ing the preproduction versions herein. Victimized by our own success we seem to keep getting shows and have been unable to start recording the first LP yet. Strangely enough this has not kept us from starting to write the 2nd one...
Eric/Maria
Hey, many thanks for the add, it's great to be friends with you. If you get a minute or two it would be really great if you could have a quick listen to one or two of my songs and let me know what you think of them. Hope you're having a great weekend....keep it rocking......
Hey guys! 2nd Annual Anarchist Book Fair/Art show awesomeness at the MarVell in Durham on July 30th - Sacrificial Poets will be there again if you can make it out! Hope you're well!
(DiG! Eric & Maria the coolest 'ole school punks I know-my fav Richard Hell lyrics!!! ~Es)
Time and time again I knew what I was doing and Time and time again I just made things worse It seems you see the most of what is really true when You're stepping into your hearse
Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals
And when I want to write a song that says it all at once Like time sublimely silences the whys I know that if I try I'm going to take a fall at once And splatter there between my lies
We are made of it and if we give submission Among our chances there's a chance we can choose And if we take it, by uncertainty's permission Then it's impossible to lose
Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals
Hey Illicitizen, I just got an okay from the slightly deranged manager of The Cranes Are Flying (wait … that’s me :-) to give out a free download of the title track from the upcoming Banging My Head EP. I can’t leave the html link here, but if you’ll drop by my profile you’ll see a grey button link halfway down on the left for “free mp3s on Last.FM” … click that and when you arrive look on the top right for the Banging My Head free download link. I hope you enjoy it … any feedback is welcome. Best of luck with your music, and thanks for the friendship. - Trevor
“The elastic pulse of new single “Banging My Head” is exceptional” The State newspaper, 6/19/09, “Pick of the Week”
Cool...pictures...of us! Great show you two. I'll let you know as soon as we get an Asheville show lined up. It's gonna be awesome. A five star evening it will be.
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