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Miko Tolliver - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Keyboards/Synth, Drums, Drum Programming, Bass
Ian Hamill - Electric Guitar, Didgeridoo
Influences
Here for you are just a few of the artists that helped to bring you the sound of Kittie Perm. From these people we steal sounds, techniques, ideas, and anything else that gets us inspired.
The three years that Miko Tolliver and Ian Hamill have been playing music together has been the prime example of two bohemian music thieves on guitar jam override. From their initial meeting working as San Francisco music analysts in 2006 through their runs as local guitar teachers, the two have fused the approach of jazzy soul songwriting with earthy and warped guitar leads for a bewitching rhythm with all the perks of pirated love. Outlined and improvised, Kittie Perm is the Oakland based female-fronted addition to the Black Rock and guitar jam arenas, stressing the importance of colors, solos, and poetry. The trappings of two guitars and a soul rock singer are just the basics of Kittie Perm and the live performance is a twitch revival of brown sorts.
Creative Writing and Film Studies majors, respectively Miko and Ian have both mastered their musical techniques as well as expanded them to various other art mediums. With Ian’s background in Brazilian music and eccentric interests, such as the Didgeridoo, the duo is a constant multi-instrumentalist sample of genres, beats, and styles. Always led by the songwriting and musical ideas of Miko who has worked with the likes of Dawn Robinson from 4 Non Blondes, Rusty Allen from Sly and The Family Stone, and Dwayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Toné!
Working the independent scene of the San Francisco Bay Area, Kittie Perm has performed at countless local venues, including:
The Oakland Metro
The Rockit Room
Red House Live Studios
Retox
The Social Club
i gave up on the dream a long time ago my friend. thats why i'm so angry all the time.. didn't you wonder why I keep kicking random people in the head... at least i'm not waiting to exhale anymore.
The Monophonics @ The Great American Music Hall THIS SATURDAY. The show will be featured on TV in the next few weeks! TICKETS AVAILABLE @ www. gamhtickets. com
oh kittie perm.. i miss you too!!! i love my shoes and they have in fact been traveling around london with me. you should send me a cd! of kittie perm i mean.. hugs n
June is almost here ladies so get ready for SF Pride and the NectArena Women's Stage! Join us at "The Jump Off", Saturday May 31st and get your sneak peak of the 2008 stage line up. Come check-out performances by dance sensation New Style Motherlode, the burlesques beauties of Diamond Daggers; our old skool rappin studs the Mommas Boyz; hip hop lyricist Queen Deelah and your emcee Tommy Salami of the East Bay Kings Club. But that's not all! Place your bid in our silent auction for a chance to experience women focused activities, services and items such as massages, adult toys, pride weekend VIP club passes, gift certificates for hair stylists, restaurants, wine bars, beauty products and more. All proceeds benefiting the NectArena Women's Stage at SF Pride. Show your support for the talent in the women's community and the venues that bring it to you! El Rio, 3158 Mission St , 4pm - 8pm, (performances at 6pm), $10 - $20 sliding scale.
It's the I *heart* Audre Lorde Project Sunday Tea Lounge December 2, 2007, 3-6pm 555 10th St, Oakland, CA 94607
[btwn Jefferson & Clay Sts, 2 blocks fr 12th St BART]
RSVP to get the latest event updates: http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/lipatbahay@gmail.com/ALP
Come chill this December with us queer people of color and allies in the Bay Area who know and admire the Audre Lorde Project, one of the country's leading centers for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, and gender non-conforming people of color organizing, based out of Brooklyn, New York. Meet up with your friends and meet their friends -- widen your happy circle of progressive allies!
Come check out the growing national and international impact of ALP's programming, the vision for securing a new organizing space, and the $1 Million Capital Campaign to make it all happen. Together we'll hear personally from past Board Chair John Won, who will be joining us from New York City, and let's send lots of love and money back!
More on Audre Lorde Project (see http://www.alp.org/support/documents/CapitalCampaignNewsletter0707.pdf )
Join us, tell others, and bring your credit card or checkbook. This is the first of a series of events in the Bay Area (some intimate, some larger) over the next year, so that folks will have other opportunities to come together to support ALP energetically and financially. Other cities have already hosted house parties – let's make a strong showing from the Bay Area!
Hosted by: Kimberly Aceves, Raymond Costantino, Christine Lipat, John Manzon-Santos, Heba Nimr, Chris Punongbayan and Luna Yasui.
If you can't make it on December 2nd, GIVE TODAY. Visit http://www.alp.org/support/ and cli
...we represent abundance...your feel frill free opportunity to be a part of healing. we manifest love and true light. the soul of the world comes thru the door and leaves changed. let us get well...through this music.
join us...
to GIVE THANKS: A special night of uplifting, spiritual dance music.
VENUS FLY LOVE NOVEMBER 24th, 2007
Resident DJ's: Rimarkable and Uni
ELI'S MILE HIGH CLUB Oakland, CA 10pm to 2 am WE CHECK ID - 21 and over FREE B4 11pm
For those ladies and gentlemen that love house music, disco, rare funk grooves and each other.
Kittie Perm!!!! Had a blast sharing the stage w/ you at RedHouse over the weekend! We have GOT to do it again! Much love on all ya'll do, you got the touch!
