FREAKS SHOW ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!! 13-14 JUILLET PLACE ROUGE NEUCHÂTEL

Freaks Show 4th Edition 14.06.13 till 11.08.13 (subject to changes, more infos comming soon , stay tuned) 14.06 : La Chaux-de-Fonds, Place des Marronniers /// CH 15.06 : La Chaux-de-Fonds, Place des Marronniers /// CH 17.06 : Lugano /// CH 18.06 : Lugano /// CH 21.06 : Bienne /// CH 22.06 : Bienne /// CH 27.06 MARAY FUEGO (USA) @ LES TILLEULS , LAUSANNE /// CH 28.06 ST-IMIER , ESPACE NOIR /// CH 29.06 NEUCHATEL , PIERRE-A-BOT /// CH 02.07 : Zurich /// CH 03.07 : Zurich /// CH 05.07 : Sierre /// CH 06.07 : Sierre /// CH 08.07 : Berne /// CH 09.07 : Berne /// CH 11.07 : Delémont /// CH 12.07 : Delémont /// CH 13.07 : Neuchâtel /// CH 14.07 : Neuchâtel /// CH 16.07 : Lausanne /// CH 17.07 : Lausanne /// CH 19.07 :Geneva /// CH 20.07 : Geneva /// CH 21.07 : TBA /// CH 23.07 : Fribourg /// CH 24.07 : Fribourg /// CH 26.07 : Belfort /// FR 27.07 : Belfort /// FR 30.07 : Liège /// BE 31.07 : Liège /// BE 02.08 : Bruxelles /// BE 03.08 : Bruxelles /// BE 06.08 : Amsterdam /// NL 07.08 : Amsterdam /// NL 09.08 : TBA /// NL 10.08 : TBA /// NL BANDS / PERFORMANCE / SIDESHOW FREAKS SHOW 2013 Breaksfast On A Battlefield / Math Rock / CH The band Breakfast on a Battlefield from Biel plays rock music on the border of the genre that can't be classified. Sometimes punk but also math-rock or noise, the band invents a sound universe that cleverly mixes his references. From the energetic musicians's play and the subtle compositions, B.O.A.B creates an explosive mix that transports the audience into a world where explosive riffs and improvisation meet and clash. The music of B.O.A.B is authentic and effective and promises an experience you won't come out unscathed. http://breakfastonabattlefield.ch Cie les Morveux / Humoristic Beer Brewers / BE Claude Anémone / Fortune Teller / FR Crossbone Shelling / Psyh Stoner / CH http://www.mx3.ch/artist/crossboneshelling Dee Diglers / Garage Punk / CH Formed in August 09, Dee Diglers brothers went on stage for their first time in the beginning of November 09, to start their first tour in switzerland and france. And this is just 3 months after Dee Diglers started!!! These guys are going to blow their amps with bloody sharp riffs!!! After playing all across Europe since 2009 Dee Diglers are about to electrify the crowds!!! Rock N'Roll Right On!!!. www.myspace.com/deediglers Edmond Jefferson & Sons Grand Guru / Garage Blues / FR Rock’n’roll is the only thing that drives le Grand Guru. He doesn’t have a speech, he just speaks about sex, love and consanguinity. From blues to hardcore, le Grand Guru just looks for fun, energy the beat the beat and the beat!!! http://grandguru.bandcamp.com KoQa / Human Beat Box / CH Born in La Chaux-de-fonds (CH) in a musicians family, KoQa develops his "Human Beatbox" skills self-taught, after exploring a few instruments. Very soon, he distinguishes himself among the greatests beatboxers of the country by participating in the swiss championships. In 2010, he builds up an original solo project, with the aim of confront his technical skills with a more spontaneous and festive demarche. All these things forming an amazing live-act, composed by sampled beatbox and rap. By his "free electron" status, he likes collaborating with other musicians, as a drummer and a trumpet player who follow him on a lot of gigs. KoQa also gives beatbox workshops, and teaches beatbox to young people. http://www.koqabeatbox.ch Love Cans / R n' R Garage / CH new born on Burning Sound Records, they just started a few months ago! Influenced by the gories, the reatards, the oblivians, etc... They play a fast and loud dirty R'n'R !!! Lux Interior / Clowns Not Dead / FRA Created and portrayed by Sigrid Perdulas, Alexandre Bordier and Pierre Robert-Tissot Convinced to be the missing building block of modern music, they invest the stage. But the instinctual drives connected to this music, will soon surpass them and transcend genre… Immediately we're worried. And we're right… Attempt story or concert? No need to look for the answer. A mad trio of gifted musicians will bring down the house with electric sounds of rock’n roll Clowns not dead! http://www.lebestiaire.org/spectacle-lux-interior/ Maray Fuego / Accordionista - Fire Manipulator / USA Maray fuego has been on the road for six years in the usa, traveling, playin accordion music and making art in many citys. She is one to light a fire and prove the unbelievable .She annually Tours with the side show Squidling Brother circus. Playing responsive accordion music and song to sideshow performance. She also tours with her solo act singing songs of freedom, good will,and good times. Throughout her life she has been a self sustained traveling musician playing from street corner to street pub to vaudillian shows in many towns. Her music brings thoughts of edith piaf in her street days mixed with billy holiday blues and an afterthought of tom waits rawness backed by minor gypsylike accordion. She works with many diffrent musicians and prefomers to create shows filled with excitment, wit and reality. http://marayfuego.com Méga Lâcher De Ballons / Free Noise / CH The Swiss band “Mega Releasing Balloons” (demystified translation) plays such a totally improvised free punk for head bangers! The plastic bubbles are ready to explode on stage in powerful noises. Hail of guitar riffs, space keyboards with toys and powerful drums produce a mix of dancing beats. Follow the balloons for a trip through the head of funny monsters. http://www.glaucal.com/?page_id=23 Michael Ronsky - Bodies of Light / Shibari / CH " Eroticism is the approval of the life to the death ", we cannot summarize better that Georges Bataille - surrealist if it is the world of Ronsky, at first with Happymaniacs then solo. Pastes and visual extravagance were put aside, Ronsky enters process of purge to keep only the sophistication deprived of the rope and the body, while working the sound and the movement. Shady zones where the life is expressed by unusual means, uncertain breath controlled by the learned game of ropes and interlaced members. Ronsky is also musical, when sulphurous stenches of the 80s go alongside to a disturbing humor. Protean Artist, Ronsky becomes famous as much in the photography as in the sophisticated shibari/kinbaku art of ropes, music and performance. And laid bare by the rite, the physical body, place of all fascinations. http://michaelronsky.wordpress.com/ Mr Feeble's Feeble Canevil Man Of Glass Show / Comedy & Vase Juggling Show / USA This show is more of a street show with an artistic eccentric twist to it. Combing vase juggling, mouth stick glass bottle manipulation and tricks,The show includes glass walking, side show stunts, clown antics and bouffon. Performing this show in San Francisco's burlesque variety shows and on the street at Fisherman's Wharf has helped develop its self into a uniquely ridiculous, funny and daring show. Pirato Ketchup / Surf / BE The band successed in mixing surf music along with yéyé, twist, ska, rockabilly and so on : just rock’n’roll and dance ! Now you understand why Pirato Ketchup is the best and only surf band in Liege ! They are always ready to make you scream during their live shows ! http://piratoketchup.wix.com/pirato-ketchup Princess Tweedle Needle / Human Pin Cushion Girl / NL Princess Tweedle Needle is Hollands one and only Human Pin Cushion Girl. She performs various classical fakir acts and mixes them with modern side show acts. Her charming, comical character will spin around in the heads of the audience when she performs. All her acts are real and she is not affraid to bleed for you! She travelled all around Europe and the Balkans joining The Squidling Brothers International Freak show, So let her take you along to a demension of pure bad crazyness and pleasure That you will long dream of after you've witnessed the spectacle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfH7ylHHReU Rayon Mortel / Garage Punk / CH http://www.myspace.com/rayonmortel Spooky Dolls Surgery / Frankenstein Freaks Show / CH ONCE OILED AND ADORNED , THE BODY CAN NOW BE "MUTILATED"TO BECOME OBJECT OF DESIGN AND DESIRE. PLASTIC SURGERY AND RESEARCH IN THE DOMAIN OF COSMETICS HAVE WIDENED THE OPPORTUNITIES OF CREATION ON THE BIOLOGICAL BODY. YOUTH , BEAUTY , EVEN IMAGINARY SCIENCE -FICTION TYPES OF SHAPES BELONG TO THE FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES. BUT WHAT COULD SUCH A TRANSFORMATION OF BODY IMAGE, ORIENTED TOWARDS PERFECTION , IMPLY WITHIN ONESELF AND WITHIN THE RELATION TO OTHERS ? TAKING FROM ANCIENT FUNFAIR TRADITIONS OF EXHIBITING MONSTERS AND USING OPTICAL ILLUSIONS , TYRANNY OF THE BONES IS A VISUAL RETROFUTURISTIC TALE FREELY INSPIRED FROM THE MYTH OF FRANKENSTEIN . IT INVENTS TRAGI-COMICAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONSEQUENCES TO AN IRREVERSIBLE "METAMORPHOSIS"WHERE THE BODY OF ONE S DREAM TURNS INTO THE NIGHTMARE OF ITS CREATOR AND IT S CREATURE ALIKE. BOTH PROTAGONISTS ARE CAUGHT IN A DANCED JOURNEY THROUGH A LABORATORY OF PROTHESIS , METAL , SHADOWS AND LIGHTS. http://spookydollssurgery.wordpress.com/ The Black Explosion / Rock n' Soul / SWE After a long and successful career as a band leader for the retro rock & soul group Dollhouse. Chris Winter took his rock visions and started The Black Explosion. The musical style is rooted in rock & roll although it draws influences from ol school rock, space-rock, blues, and psych. http://theblackexplosion.org The Blues Against Youth / Rock n' Rolla One Man Band / ITA First inspired by Country tels like Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and David Allan Coe, The Blues Against Youth creats a blend of grooves going form the 70’s rock to Lynyrd and Zeppelin, to the roots of the Delta Blues fathers. The Blues Against Youth will bring us to something more durty ! www.thebluesagainstyouth.com The Budget Boozers / Garage Rock / CH The Chikitas / Rooooock !!! / CH The Chikitas is a rock duo band formed in Geneva, Switzerland in 2011 happening to be two girls: the crazy kick-ass drummer Saskia Fuertesand the machiavelic guitarist-singer Lynn Maring. Their sound is like a dirty creamy rock pie, cooked with grunge influences and punk roots. Come on let’s face it, girls can play rock! http://www.darksite.ch/chikitas The Dead Shamans / Psyh Stoner / CH The Old Ladies Bags / Desert Rock / CH Loud! They’re foot taping songs will turn you in a devilish dancer under a goddamn sun! Desert rock from le Noirmont small Suisse town were nobody lives and sometimes its summer that’s when they come to live and play, during winter make shure the concert venue gets to 40 degrees to enjoy that durty and heavy music. www.myspace.com/theoldladiesbags The Red County / Trash Country / CH Formed in 2009 in the country side of Switzerland, Red Number 1 and Red Number 2 wanted to play country music. But they decided to play TRASH-country, cause country music was too difficult. Their first EP "Venezia" was released in 2012. No Country music more, but Blues, Garage, and Rock'n'Roll. They don't really know what they want to do. Because of that, it's a mix of Garage 60's, stoner and punk. http://theredcounty.wordpress.com The Revox / Garage 60's / CH If we could put vintage rock, beer and vinyl’s in they’re baby feeding-bottle they would drink it till death. About to release a first album in autumn, they are now on the road with some dry tobacco and durty white shirts… But be careful! Your knees are gonna twist like never before! http://mx3.ch/artist/therevox The Scrap Dealers / R' n' R Garage / BE Formed in 2012, The Scrap Dealers is a garage/psych band based in Liège (BE). Influenced by old primitive punk sound from the 60's but also by some modern bands like The Brian Jonestown Massacre or Thee Oh Sees, they make an original kind of dirty rock'n'roll, which is raw and honest !!! But don't get too exited because it's mainly a scam to pick up your money or get a fuck with your sister !!! http://thescrapdealers.bandcamp.com/ The Watchmaking Metropolis Orchestra / Gipsy Blues Trash / CH After many expensive efforts the Watchmaking Metroplis Orchestra keep on working to make the Blues-Gipsy-Trash knnown since 1999. They played in Switzerland, France, Italy, passing by Berlin meeting new friends like Tav Falco, the incredible Possessed By Paul James, the Talented Delaney Davidson, the crazy Reverend Beat Man or Woven Hand http://www.watchmaking.ch Virgin Bitch / Welington Irish Black Warrior / Psyh -Noise / CH Obscure and sometimes feeling its unreal, Welington Irish Black Warrior takes different paths. WELINGTON IRISH BLACK WARRIOR IS AN HEAVY HYPNOTIC SUBAQUATIC TRAIN TREMOLO 60'S REVIVAL CAVERN ROCK ELECTRO LOW-LOW-FI 90'S SHOGEAZIN' POP WITH HOPE AND NOISE. Its becoming rare to see such freedom of expression and unusual way to perform live acts so get on it! www.myspace.com/welingtonirishblackwarrior Yogurt / Rock n' Roll / CH Playing together since December 2012, The Yogurt should be a punk-garage-surf band which turned to a mix of Link Wray, The Experimental Tropic Blues Band, Gravedigger V, Black Lips, The Monsters, and more. Almost hearable! Fucking great dude, you fucking motherfuckers ! Do you want a yogurt? Plus many old circus games and animations that will give you fun and make you feel in a real freak show from the 30’s, you’ll find a shooting stand, fortune tellers, the drunken clown falling in a pool ect…