Killer Bagels!,
sailboats,
Fish and Bird,
Old man Luedecke,
Glen Rabina,
Doc Boggs,
the Sparrow Quartet,
CHLY,
Mr. Bungle,
Steinbeck,
palmistry,
Alice in Chains,
Persimmon Blackbridge,
marionettes,
Bijork,
Prink Insurgency!,
100 knot N.W. winds,
Isaac Asimov,
Shane Koyzcan,
Ivan E. Coyote,
Clark Ashton Smith,
Odditory Presence!,
Edred Thorsson,
Tessa Mythos,
long winters...
Tempest is an artistic maelstrom whose expression is as multifaceted as her origins.
Currently arising from the dripping shore of the notorious yet veiled Hornby Island, she brews a vociferous fervor which has swept her from coast to coast. Whether endowed with reanimated creatures, distorted guitar and voltaic voice, banjo or instrumental fusions, as a nine-foot or one-wheeled winged skeleton or stripped bare to words, she is a captivating force to be caught in wherever the Tempest is blown ashore.
"I love spooky banjo music and Tempest gives me the creeps !!" -David Gogo
"I dig your disc. PJ Harvey moments on the vocals while thoroughly unique. I like the art-bluegrass vibe" -Wax Mannequin
Born on Mt. Shasta, California, Tempest has been composing and decomposing since 1984. Her career as a performer began traveling with her parents
in the band
Killer Bagels who, thanks to their battery/solar powered equipment, played in
many obscure
locations such as the beaches of Oregon and California, the canyons
and deserts
of Arizona and Nevada and afloat off the gulf islands of BC.
In 2003 she spawned punk band Prink Insurgency. Tempest has opened for the like of DOA, No Means No, Ember Swift and CR Avery.
For the last couple of years she toured the festival circuit in BC, and Alberta with Odditory Presence, and the NMA: activist bbbBeat-boxing poet folk.
She was sighted naked on stage at Poetry in the Raw, and ate transcendental chocolate torte on ViaRail enroute to Halifax for the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word with the Victoria Poetry Slam Team.
Her multi-media creatures of metal, bone and whatnot have been featured at many galleries around Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Vancouver, and as far afield as Montreal.
Her life has been thick with circus- from the Vancouver Island Music Fest to the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and ArtsWells, Tempest and Anubis have been ushering unsuspecting souls through the veils of time and space on fire, stilts and unicycle.
When not hibernating on her sailboat playing banjo amidst her sculptured critters, Tempest has been heard tearing down the societal boundaries on public transit, on fracturing sidewalks and in nefarious cafes from hither to thither and yon again!
Hi TemPest! I've been loving your tunes on the myspace, but jonesing to hear "Dust Bowl Children." Please put up a recording (somewhere) and share it with the world!
Has just been accused of pocketing money from the folk show of the bookfair. I do a fuck lot of work, then get accused of this? when in reallity I am the only one not getting paid? greedy fucks, I paid out almost all the money and the rest was suppo...se to go to next years folk show... then find out other accusations are occuring bhind my back too.
there was aprox 110 people there, 10 were in bands, 4 were volunteers... if everyone else had paid, which many didn't, the min of the sliding scale $4, that would be about $380... however many people snuck in, or paid near to nothing. however others must have paid more that $4, because the door total came in at $380. Sabine was with me when I counted and I had her double count everything for me to ensure it was accurate.
I paid out as follows;
Ursula $25 Rough Sea $75 (travel expenses) Ange and Travis $25 Pest $75 (travel, and she ran sound) Jod
Has just been accused of pocketing money from the folk show of the bookfair. I do a fuck lot of work, then get accused of this? when in reallity I am the only one not getting paid? greedy fucks, I paid out almost all the money and the rest was suppo...se to go to next years folk show... then find out other accusations are occuring bhind my back too.Read More
You rock girl! Can we trade sometime when you come to town? I'll do cranial with you and you can teach me some breathing exercises? Sending love from the big bad city...
Oh , TemPeSt, we are very excited to come to your beautifull island in Feb!!
remember the Chocolate Factory near Vic? and the Chocolate Dumpster song?, it recorded!!
PS-- for all those reading this, TemPeSt helped creat the "Chocolate Dumpster" track
take a listen! visit the site if you like what you hear! (you may want to skip through, or listen, our other tracks if your just interested in the Chocolate Dumpster song...)
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PEST ya wacked out hippy gangstar warf rat mustache eating a deer with a beer! missing ya hear on the infinite...where are ya? ill come for a visit...fro Rizo -The backwards walking tripper
I'm fascinated. You express things so clearly in "All's Well" that I think I must be missing something. I probably am. But somehow on some level I feel refreshed. I'll have to ponder. ...? Thanx Mike
was aprox 110 people there, 10 were in bands, 4 were volunteers... if
everyone else had paid, which many didn't, the min of the sliding scale
$4, that would be about $380...
however many people snuck in, or
paid near to nothing. however others must have paid more that $4,
because the door total came in at $380. Sabine was with me when I
counted and I had her double count everything for me to ensure it was
accurate.
I paid out as follows;
Ursula $25
Rough Sea $75 (travel expenses)
Ange and Travis $25
Pest $75 (travel, and she ran sound)
Jod