JIMMY 'The Pickpocket'---accordion, organ, melodica, lead vocals***
STEPHANIE 'Funi La Fantastica'--- lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion***
BEAU 'Stanislov the Gypsy'--- guitar, mandolin***
MILES 'Captain Panto'--- banjo, dobro***
AUSTIN 'Mad Wilcox'--- contra bass, sousaphone, saw, backing vocals***
STEVEN "Lord Kamke'--- percussion***
Interview conducted in April 2009 at Bad Things Headquarters in Georgetown by Asshole Amanda. Features a live acoustic performance of "Just Four Weeks"
The Bad Things perform "Kill Yourself" at Nectar in Seattle - September 18, 2008.
"Georgia Lee Is Dead" video produced by Tiffanny Clendenin and Austin Quist for the 2007 Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival.
Rainbow of The Can Can's Castaway's performing with The Bad Things in "The Breaking" at The Can Can - 2008.
The Bad Things live at Lottie's Lounge - New Years Eve 2007
The Bad Things live at the Makeout Room in San Francisco - September 2006
Check out some photos that folks took of us on FLICKR with shots of us LIVE on KEXP, opening for Balkan Beat Box and Slim Cessna's Autoclub, some shots of The Breaking at the Can Can and with the Rat City Rollergirls or HERE for some shots of us Live at our CD Release Party, at The Can Can, at The Georgetown Music Fest, at 2008's Folklife Festival, and more!
Bubbling forth like a mossy belch of polka filth from the greasy, jet fuel-contaminated wetlands of the Northwest, comes The Bad Things. With junkyard waltzes and shameless shanties, The Bad Things are hellbent on providing traditional music for the post-apocalyptic era.
"In their press sheet, Seattle "junkyard cabaret" outfit The Bad Things dubs their brand of punked-up klezmer boogie "the music of the Post-Apocalyptic Depression Era." A cursory perusal of any news source indicates that we've reached that milestone, so we might as well embrace the soundtrack. The Bad Things crank out a mad, spiraling gypsy swing that will appeal to anyone who loves DeVotchKa, Gogol Bordello, the Circus Contraption band or life itself..." The Spellout.com
From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: SeattleNoise: The Bad Things
WHAT: Known to some as Seattle's premier "junkyard cabaret" band, this sextet is a carnival on wheels.
QUOTE: "If you listen to our songs," Berg explains, "you'll see that many of them are about people doing bad things, i.e. killing their lovers (or in a couple of songs, an entire town), drinking too much, drugging too much, killing themselves, etc. I always thought of the band as a sort of gang that celebrated the darker sides of life. Our gigs feel like celebrations, but the subject matter is pretty dark a lot of the time -- creating an interesting dichotomy. The idea becomes, 'Drink up now because bad things happen every day, and we're all gonna die someday no matter what.' And, yes, people should do bad things to our songs or at least think about doing them."
CAREER DEBUT: July 22, 2002, as part of a Pirate Radio benefit at Freeway Park, although for several months prior the group had been busking as a three-piece at Pike Place Market.
SOUND: As if a bunch of Gypsy marauders were performing macabre circus sideshow songs around a campfire in the middle of an abandoned cabaret that serves wine in a jug and mead on tap.
RELEASES: Their 2003 demo, "The Bad Things," came with a handmade cover but is now out of print; 2004's "The Bad Things" is considered their proper debut; the band also had a song ("Angel's Disguise") featured on the 2006 compilation "Girlfriends and She-Devils: A Tribute to the Femme Fatale," followed by "Vaudeville Show" and next week's release, "It'll All Be Over Soon."
INFLUENCES: "Lyrically, I was inspired by the train-hopping gutter punks that I kept company with as a young man. While I never hopped trains, I loved the stories told while drinking under bridges and around campfires, and I think we all had a deep love for folk and old-timey music."
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Howdy! Long time no talk! Yup. Just givin' ya a heads up that I is employin' them fair usage laws fer edercational purposes an' am usin' "Angel's Disguise" as the music prompt fer them 11th Grade American Literature students tomorrow mornin'. They's gonner lissen ter it an' lookit them lyrics an' git all analytical 'bout it. Yup. Yeehaww!
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FIREWATER - LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS! Last shows until October!
Jun 26 : Larz, GERMANY : Fusion Festival Jun 27 : Audincourt, FRANCE : Rencontres & Racines Jun 28 : Istanbul, TURKEY : Balkan Soundz Festival July 02 : Dornbirn, AUSTRIA : Speilboden July 03 : Bulle, SWITZERLAND : Gibloux Festival July 04 : Jena, GERMANY : JG Stadtmitte July 05 : Hradec Kralove, CZECH R.: Rock For People July 06 : Vienna, AUSTRIA : Szene Wein July 08 : Linz, AUSTRIA : Posthof July 10 : Steyr, AUSTRIA : Röda July 11 : Bologna, ITALY : Mondiali Antirazzisti July 12 : Milano, ITALY : Magnolia Festival July 13 : Colmar, FRANCE : Hiero July 15 : Paris, FRANCE : Batofar July 17 : Pozega, CROATIA : Dirty Old Empire Festival July 18 : Veszprem, HUNGARY : Utcazene Fesztivál July 24 : Riberac, FRANCE : Le Grand Souk Festival July 25 : Gdynia, POLAND : Globaltica Festival July 31 : Namur, BELGIUM : Esperanzha Festival Aug 01 : Habere-Poche, FRANCE : Rock'n'Poche Festival Aug 02 : Bladel, NETHERLANDS : Bladelse Zomerfeesten
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