2009 VOODOO Experience: REDUX!

Ladies and Gentlemen, your friendly neighborhood Bingo! Show is still reeling. It's been over a week, and we're still trying to get our heads screwed back on straight. Audience, Cohorts, Compatriots and Colleagues - Thank you all for an amazing weekend. The third time truly was charmed.

HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING!

FROM GAMBIT'S BLOG OF NEW ORLEANS

And grisly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom…

Posted by: Alejandro de los Rios

There are bingo shows and then there’s the New Orleans Bingo! Show. I’ll take the latter every time. I’ve settled on a genre for them: Neo-Carney Circus Rock. I think that about sums up the insanity that goes up on stage. And off it, on occasion.

That is a trapeze artist risking her life for the enjoyment of the Bingo Parlour crowd. It was incredible, as most death-defying stunts are (so long as death is, indeed, defied). Other cities may have music festivals, but they sure as hell don’t have the Bingo Parlour, and that’s what makes New Orleans amazing...

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That was interesting…

Posted by: Alejandro de los Rios
KISS may have lit up the sky with their fireworks but the real history was made inside the Bingo Parlour where Morning 40 Federation played their first live show since Mardi Gras. Joined by Clint Maedgen of the New Orleans Bingo! Show, the Morning 40 boys rocked the tent for an hour-plus long set...

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FROM NOLA.COM:
Mates of State goes pop, Bingo! Show goes zombie
By Molly Reid
October 31, 2009, 4:12pm
While West Coast duo Mates of State served up snappy indie-rock/pop at the mainstage, Saturday's Voodoo festival-goers on the other side of City Park were treated to a much darker, but no less fun musical offering: local eccentricities The Bingo! Show, who amplified their usual goth-carnie vibe with a lot of decomposing flesh.

Fake decomposing flesh, that is.


It was the Bingo! Show who announced months ago that they would lead an effort to win the Guinness World Record for the biggest zombie gathering ever. The record currently stands just shy of 4,000, so the Bingo! boys and girls have been spreading the word feverishly in the weeks leading up to Voodoo Fest 2009. They even posted a video to remind people of the record attempt, and to provide a primer on zombie makeup application.

They seemed to be following their own advice Saturday afternoon at their show in the Bingo! Parlour. Lead singer Clint Maedgen looked downright hideous with strips of faux rotting, bloody skin on his cheeks and forehead. Everyone else in the band followed suit, including guest artist cellist Helen Gillett, who appeared to have vomited up some blood and guts and electrocuted herself before taking the stage. The ladies of the Fleur de Tease burlesque troupe ditched their usual strutting and shimmying in favor of zombie-like staggering. Instead of pasties and feathers, the ladies covered themselves in fake blood and white powder..."

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MORE TO COME!!!

We thought Ronnie was a Mac guy...?

2009 Bingo! Parlour Profile #22: MEAT PUPPETS [11/01]

Always recognized as an extremely dexterous and deft live act, the Meat Puppets used 2008 to continue to stretch out their new line up (with Ted Marcus now a full time replacement for founding drummer Derrick Bostrom). Signed in early 2008 to ultra-artist friendly Megaforce Records, the Puppets found themselves once again at work exploring the vast creative landscape that has defined the band since it burst forth with its majestic debut for SST, Meat Puppets. In between last year's tour outings, the Puppets wrote and recorded Sewn Together, the trio's second full-length album in little less than two years.

True to their nature, Sewn Together is a record that is brilliantly framed by the band's sometimes folksy, always fluid wanderings. It is what makes the Puppets musings so daunting to classify. They ambitiously dart the melodic spectrum between buoyant pop structure like album-opener "Sewn Together" and the grand sweep of "Clone," two of the precision-perfect gems that will come to represent this record as a keeper.

With the album released, the band now is looking ahead to extensive road work celebrating the new record, but as with every Puppets' tour, the show will be certain to range over the course of performance afforded it by the Puppets' endearingly adventurous career.

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“Shot prior to the release of their breakthrough “Too High To Die” LP at the Ventura Theater, in beautiful Ventura California in 1993. Contains the super-rare Cris Kirkwood original “David Beware (Film The Trolls)” overture. They also jam out “Attacked By Monsters” & “Sam”. Edited in camera, Mannequins and Trolls courtesy of the stores on California Ave.”

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2009 Bingo! Parlour Profile #21: QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT [11.01]

Mr. QUINTRON is a very eccentric concert and nightclub organist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He plays "Swamp Tech" music on a custom made Hammond / Rhodes combo synthesizer / organ (which he's got built up to look like a car with real working headlights) backed by raw simple drum machine beats (think 808 boom chika boom through one BIG speaker with all the treble turned down) and his own patented invention THE DRUM BUDDY - a rotating, light-activated analog synthesizer which is played much in the same way that a DJ spins and scratches records. Celebrity Drum Buddy owners include LAURIE ANDERSON and NELS CLINE of Wilco. Quintron's permanent collaborator is none other than master puppeteer, MISS PUSSYCAT who plays maracas and sings backup as well as entertaining all age groups with her highly amusing technicolor puppet shows. The Quintron / Miss Pussycat experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, "Swamp-Tech" dance beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. You can see them perform regularly at the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans, Louisiana or on one of their many tours around the world. This act somehow has equal relevance in sleazy nightclubs, pizza restaurants, and university lecture halls.

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2009 Bingo! Parlour Profile #20: SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS [11/01]

The Squirrel Nut Zippers are credited as part of the brief swing music revival of the 1990s. The group incorporated a broad range of music including Harlem Hot Music, Delta Blues, klezmer and 1930s-era swing. While the band’s eclectic musical style made them hard to categorize during their rise to stardom, their quirky, highly danceable form of music found a niche in the late 1990s.

The band still rejoices at the difficulty people have in pigeonholing their unmistakable sound. A rich, hybrid-stew of Southern roots traditions, the Zippers have always flirted with a muse most concerned with ghosts, fever-dreams, love gone wrong and characters that seemed to have been torn from the pages of a long forgotten novel. Centered around the beguiling vocals of Katherine Whalen and the anachronistic windup toy that is Jimbo Mathus, the Zippers promise to both charm and confound.

And so, the band that brought the world Perennial Favorites, Hot, Bedlam Ballroom, and The Inevitable are on the road together again. Featuring original and founding members Katherine Whalen, Jimbo Mathus, Chris Phillips, Je Widenhouse and Stuart Cole - the Squirrel Nut Zippers perform selections from the entire catalog, plus new songs and the occasional cover.

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2009 Bingo! Parlour Profile #19: FLEUR DE TEASE [11/01]

Fleur de Tease is New Orleans’s most exciting live burlesque revue. Created by director/dancer Trixie Minx; the heart and soul of the show lives in its amazing a cast of professionally trained dancers (Madame Mystere, Natasha Fiore, Lily Summers, Bella Blue, Rory Wrey), host (Chris Lane), magician (Magic Mike), and aerialist (Sarah the Bobcat). This unique and dynamic ensemble blends vaudeville burlesque performance and contemporary music and dance to create an incredible show experience. In addition to touring around the U.S. Fleur de Tease performs monthly at One Eyed Jacks in the French Quarter.


Okay, y'all. We're gonna put down the official bio copy for half a minute. We gotta tell you: If you're not in the big-top for this one, you'll regret it all your days. Nobody packs a tent like these girls. I have personally seen grown men weep in their presence. Get there early, y'all! Nobody brings back the heart and soul of New Orleans Burlesque like the lovely ladies of Fleur De Tease!



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2009 Bingo! Parlour Profile #18: SUPLECS [11/01]

SUPLECS is raw, heavy rock from New Orleans. They blend the sounds of New Orleans with their own unique style of heavy metal. Their debut album wrestlin’ with my lady friend was released by renowned artist, Frank Kozik’s label, Mansruin Records in April of 2000. It received rave reviews and in 2002 Suplecs released their 2nd full length, sad songs…better days on Mansruin and later re-released on This Dark Reign/Devil Doll Records. This album has the same intensity as the first with much more diversity and better production. The songs are written with room for improvising for an extra treat for the audience. Dave Fortman of Ugly Kid Joe fame produced it. He also produced other New Orleans acts such as Super Joint Ritual, Clearlight, EHG, as well as all of the major label projects he is doing right now.

Suplecs consists of Durel Yates (guitars, vocals), Danny Nick (bass, vocals) and Andrew Preen (Drums). Durel and Danny have been playing in bands now for over 10 years and started Suplecs with Andrew in 1996. Each member was born and raised in the Crescent City.

Suplecs has done about 6 full U.S tours and toured throughout Canada. They’ve toured with acts such as Clutch, High on Fire, Eyehategod, ATP and many more. They’ve played the Warp Tour, the SXSW Festival 4 years in a row and the CMJ festival. The video for the song "Rock Bottom" is scheduled to play on the Headbangers Ball on MTV. Suplecs was also featured in High TImes Magazine and "sad songs... better days" was picked as one of the top 10 records of 2002, and six of their songs were play on Fox Sports Net for Blue Torch T.V.

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