The Last Times is dead, long live The Hi-Speeds!!!!------------------------------------------------------------
The Last Times called it quits about a year ago, but singer Trym and drummer Troy formed a new band, surely bound to be the next big thing. Check out THE HI-SPEEDS in the top friends section.
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While in the US with his Norwegian punk bank, guitarist Trym Killi hooked up with an American temptress and subsequently found himself in Pittsburgh more often than in his native Oslo. Then, trolling the various pubs and clubs in Pittsburgh, Killi kept crossing paths with Ryan Moore. Moore recently returned to the city from Florida after a glamorous gig as a roller derby pro!
..........Fast forward a year and a half--Killi is permanently transplanted stateside and Moore convinces him to form a band.
..........After playing with several different people, Killi befriends Jack Watson during a short stint working at a local record company. In a stroke of good fortune, he's a bass player! He agrees to join the band.
..........The long-running search for a drummer ends when Killi and Moore meet, court, and win over respected skin-thumper, Troy Cramer. Part scary trucker, part Keith Moon, Cramer thumps the skins like there's no tomorrow.
And thus, The Last Times is complete...
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Come and party with Squonk Opera on Friday May 22nd at 8:00 pm at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room for the Galaxy Premiere of Astro-rama!
Astro-rama is a joyous large scale outdoor event that unifies an audience in creating humanity’s message for far-flung galaxies. The show features live music, dynamic video, 3 stories of scaffolding, a 40' radio telescope, cherry pickers, scissor lifts and a giant robot. Astro-rama was filmed over 2 chilly nights in October 2008 at Pittsburgh's Schenley Plaza.
Astro-rama premiere and party with the Squonkers. Friday, May 22, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. for $25 Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room 477 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Squonk Opera and the Lively Arts College of Fine Arts Performance Plus present Indiana County: The Opera.
Come celebrate Indiana County with a new installment in our ‘Hometown Series’, a show that has been called “noisy, colorful, funny, outrageous” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and “a quirky, playful, music- and image-driven piece of performance art “ by the Tribune Review.
Our show is not exactly ‘opera’, but a multi-media live concert that weaves music with video projections, props and puppets. To see more of what we do, check out our website at http://www. squonkopera. org.
Indiana County: The Opera includes amazing Indiana based dance and choral groups, and lots of video interviews with Indiana County residents.
Friday, January 30 at 8:00 pm Fisher Auditorium IUP Performing Arts Center
Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, at iuptickets. com, the door starting at 7:00 p.m. or call (724) 357-2547 for information
Come join us and say Hi! Hope to see you there! Squonk Opera
What people have been whispering about is TRUE! Strange sightings… Unexplained phenomena. . . scientific anomalies… Squonk Opera will be responding to the cover-ups with… ASTRO - RAMA!
With 3 stories of scaffolding and a 40 ft radio telescope, Squonk Opera will take you on a wild visual and musical celebration of the universe and our place in it.
Part symphony, part cacophony, Astro-Rama dares to go where no multi-media/theater/performance group has gone before.
Rising in scissor lift platforms and cherry pickers, Squonk will compose a proud message from our species, power up and transmit.
Stand with us, and the truth will be revealed.
Pittsburgh, PA at Schenley Plaza, Oakland October 15-18, 2008
Weather permitting, all broadcasts begin at 8:00 p.m., are outdoors and are FREE for all bipedal primates!
What do you give a city that has everything? Why not its own opera! Help kick off the 250th birthday year of the 'burgh with the return of Squonk Opera's roast/toast of the formerly smoky city in a little show we call Pittsburgh: The Opera! We debuted this show in June of 2006 and sold out the run, so we're bringing it back for 4 shows only, January 17-20 at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty (or Eastside as some people like to call it). Since the last run of Pittsburgh: The Opera, we’ve done operas for Baltimore, St Louis, Albany, College Park, Columbia, Chester County and South Orange as part of our touring series (put your hometown's name here): The Opera. But none of them compare to Pittsburgh. So redd up your room, grab your terrible towel and tap your inner yinzer for a rollicking good time with all of the other jagoffs. Yinz better be there!
Thursday, January 17 at 8 pm Friday, January 18 at 8 pm Saturday, January 19 at 8 pm Sunday, January 20 at 3 pm
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater 5941 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Tickets: $12 in advance $15 at door general admission $8 students, seniors $10 groups of 10 or more (all group sales must be in advance)
Available at the door or from ProArts Tickets via telephone at 412.394.3353 or secure website www.proartstickets.org
For more information about Squonk Opera or to see scenes from Pittsburgh: The Opera visit www.squonkopera.org
"In order to be really hip, you can’t have any notion of being hip. And that’s what Pittsburgh is. No one thinks this place is hip. So, it is the hippest place on earth!” -Rick Sebak from Pittsburgh: The Opera
----->THIS Friday March 16th
----->Rockabilly/Psychobilly Nite @ club EXILE w/ performances by the STAR DEVILS and BLACK CAT REBELLION!
----->Doors @ 8pm, shows begin @ 10pm
*If you are in Cincinnati, Nashville, or Indianpolis, Louisville is just a short drive away!!
club EXILE, 514 S 5th Street, Louisville, KY 40202 - near the corner of 5th and Muhammad Ali...walking distance from Louisville Gardens. (EXILE is on your LEFT as you head north on 5th Street, immediately before you reach Muhammad Ali).