jim rose circus

performance artists Media Quotes “The absolute must-see act is the Seattle-based Jim Rose Show” –Rolling Stone.............. “Freakmania is spreading unabated” –Newsweek................................................................ TOURS The Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus freak show with spoken word about human nature and how to protect ourselves from scams,fraud,rip offs and cons. Done in a hilarious story telling style with tricks and stunts happening everywhere. It was founded in Seattle by Jim Rose in the early 1990s. The circus came to prominence as at the 1992 Lollapalooza festival, then called the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. Rolling Stone magazine called it "the absolute must-see act" and USA Today termed Rose "Lollapalooza's word-of-mouth hit attraction". After Lollapalooza, in 1993 Jim Rose headlined seven world tours and released a self-titled video on Rick Rubin's American Recordings that quickly became a cult classic. In 1994 The Jim Rose Circus was chosen to tour with Nine Inch Nails and a then-unknown Marilyn Manson, and later with KoRn and Godsmack. 1998 saw another world tour featuring women sumo wrestling,mexican transvestite wrestling and chain saw football.The show landed Rose and troupe in Lubbock Texas Jail and later banned from New Zealand. Both of those issues were settled 4 months later."That was one of my highest grossing shows"Rose claimed.It reportedly netted over 4 million dollars. Jim Rose was also the top ticket of the Melbourne (Australia), New Zealand and Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe and Comedy Festivals. In 2009 Jim Rose joined with professional wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts for The Legends Collide Tour, a forty city campaign heralded as "Jake Roberts conquering his troubled past" amidst " pretty girls, wrestling, amazing circus stunts... and a fist fight"......................................................................................................MORE QUOTES. “The line in Salt Lake City stretched all the way to the Mormon Temple. They had to turn hundreds away” –Wall Street Journal................................................................................ “His delivery is brutally comic. He plays the highly-strung audience like a violin” -The Independent, London................................................................................................... “Amazingly, it is actually fun. It may not be everyone’s idea of entertainment, but then what is? It certainly does not deserve to be banned.” –The Times Magazine, London......................................................................................................................... “We all went home satisfied, entertained and suitably appalled to the depth of our being” –New Music Express, London........................................................................................ “I’ve seen a lot of things in my time. I must see 40 circuses a year, but this lot…They came on in their street clothes and then…They’re beyond anything I’ve ever seen. They shocked me” -Gerry Cottle (circus proprietor) in Sunday Telegraph, London “Jim Rose is a cult hero” –Tucker Carlson, CNN “Audience reaction in largely that kind of revolted amusement more commonly associated with tourists at a bullfight” –Melody Maker, London