Vector images and album artwork by the lovely and talented Kat Cahill. She also plays guitar on "Why Aren't You Laughing?"
Previous members whom you will encounter when listening to Renfield music here and elsewhere include Brett Banducci on viola, Samantha Blake on alto and tenor saxaphone, Kat Cahill on electric guitar, Dorian Cheah on electric violin, Brian Collingsworth on electric guitar, Lisa Edelman on trumpet and Oliver May on bass trombone. Jeret Ochi aka ZUGAROBO has been our illustrator, designer, and webmaster for many years and continues to shock and amaze. Thank you, each and every one of you. We love you all.
Influences
Frank Zappa, Fishbone, Mr. Bungle, Rush, Primus, Cab Calloway, Tom Waits, (Mystic Knights of the) Oingo Boingo, Cramps, Gogol Bordello, System of a Down, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Dead Kennedys, John Zorn, Leigh Bowery, Bjork, The Police, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Fela Kuti, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Double D Nose, David Bowie, Gene Rayburn, Guy Smiley, Steranko, Tool, Thomas Dolby, A Perfect Circle, Blue Meanies, Prince, Ted Knight, Harry Houdini, Mike Caro, PT Barnum, Geoff Edwards, ancient Persian mathematicians, Lloyd Kaufman, Andy Kaufman, Batman
Renfield is an alliance of musical daredevils who have dedicated their art to your eventual entertainment. Operating in and around Los Angeles since 1995, Renfield has watched culture ossify as the stars go out one by one and only the jazzcore remain. A calcified underbelly has been cultured by one too many squirms through the dirt and now these fatal fantasists bear no weaknesses. Born of and for the stage, Renfield exhorts you to join us at a live performance as the digital medium can only carry a fraction of the frenzy that is manufactured to manipulate your soul.
For your viewing pleasure, the "Take it Away" video directed by Ezra Buzzington:
Come
see our first show as a trio this Saturday (9/5 - 11:00pm) at The Hive
Gallery. It's the September gallery opening, lot's of cool stuff
happening, here's a link to the flyer: click
Daer RENFIELD! It is a great honour to be friend with my Brothers-in-name! Never forget and never translate: "Die Peinlichkeit ist die Waffe in der Hand des Kulturrevolutionärs!"
Come and hang For and Evening with future rock legends Trick Pistol.
We will be playing 2 shows on Saturday July 25th.
Show 1:
Charity event $25
The Ninth Annual CrueFest Hollywood Skylar Neil Memorial Fund for cancer research. July 25th, 2009 Whisky A Go-Go Hollywood, CA
Trick Pistol stage time is 5:00pm.
Show 2:
07/25/2009 08:00 PM - The Knitting Factory -- Main Stage -- 7021 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, California US Cost:$10.00 pre-sale From the Band - $20 at the door. Contact us ASAP!
Opening for Bang Tango
Trick Pistol Stage time is 8:00pm
***BOTH SHOWS ARE ALL AGES***
Contact us back for tickets to either and/or both.
MASSIVE PRODUCTIONS presents the 2nd Annual Anger Management show featuring legendary singjay artist MR VEGAS! Limited amount of presale tix available for only $20 @
Reggae Taz Records 5080 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90019 (323)525-3101
Selecta 7311 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90046 (323) 934-2377
Also, online tickets are available, just click below FOR ALL OTHER INQUIRIES, PLZ CALL/TXT (310) 936-4738
