New Orleans Refugee Tour: A Particularly Vicious Rumor

Thu, Sep 15
9:00 p.m.
$10

Hello, I am writing this to ask for some help
promoting our shows in SF and Oakland. As I'm sure you've heard, New
Orleans, our home, has been destroyed by the hurricane, and to fit
more people in our vehicle we left everything including our musical
instruments at home. Despite this, or perhaps in spite of it, we're
still going on tour. We're sadly certain of the fact
that ourhomes and possessions, and possibly some of our
friends, won't be there when we get back. We've lost
everything except our music.

A kind man at Austin Keyboard Rental (Austin, TX)is helping us with
equipment (hopefully), and we've got one change of clothes and some
cds we fortunately brought out with us. Otherwise "A Particularly
Vicious Rumor" and "Crooks & Nannies" are ready to play our hearts out.

Much of our music and artwork (including our tour
posters, which i'll try to scan and put up on our
website) are about the power of water, the futility of
emotion and the sadness of dashed hopes, along with
the freedom and release of desperation. Maybe this is
why we love New Orleans so much. It promised a
disaster of this magnitude and we felt it, along with
so many others, but it never stopped our friends from
loving what they had, and i'm sure it won't now. We'll
go back when we can, and until then we'll just keep
booking shows and stay on the road. We've got nothing
but ourselves and the help we may recieve. We would
appreciate anything you can do to bring attention to our shows.

Sincerely,
Kid Twist
www.myspace.com/aparticularlyviciousrumor
www.myspace.com/crooksandnannies

**EDITOR'S NOTE**
-All promotional materials (Poster's flier's bio's etc.) were created
BEFORE Hurricane Katrina, and in the wake of the disaster, there is
not time to recreate these materials. Please understand that the
references to, and imagery of flooding and drowning were not intended
to be made in bad taste, but remain oddly prophetic. In short, we're
a lot more freaked out than you are.

Hailing from New Orleans, the members of “Crooks &
Nannies” and “A Particularly Vicious Rumor” share
more than just musicians. Living only backyards away from each other
in a city that reveres community and neighborhood, these bands,
different as they seem, share lives and corner stores, instruments
and audiences, jobs and house keys, and more! The easy life of the
dirty south gives them time to work on each other’s ideas, and
the enthusiasm of the New Orleans audiences rewards their sonic
experimentation (even when it makes you dance weird!).

While on tour, all three musicians are performing both on stage in
the evening and on the street during the day. In the past, members
of APVR and Crooks & Nannies have shared the stage with The Dresden
Dolls, Jim White (Dirty Three), Kid Congo Powers (Nick Cave and the
Bad Seeds, The Cramps), Annie Anxiety (Crass), Afrirampo, members of
Einsturzende Neubauten, The Centimeters, Veronica Lipgloss and the
Evil Eyes, the Yard Dogs Road Show, The Reverend Glass Eye,
performance artist Karen Finley, Mike West (Truckstop Honeymon), and
jazz innovator William Parker, among others.

Visit our websites at
www.myspace.com/aparticularlyviciousrumor
and
www.myspace.com/crooksandnannies

A Particularly Vicious Rumor

Miss O (piano and vocals) and Kid Twist (drums and vocals) have been
told they make music to drown children by. These New Orleans
residents are often compared to a two- piece Siouxsie and the
Banshees with a southern soul sound. Miss O’s rich voice and
strong left hand provide a hypnotic, percussive compliment to Kid
Twist’s melodic, danceable rhythms. Both are Texas born and
raised music school dropouts that now collaborate with ideas and
musicians of many and varied origins. Miss O is the student of
Erykah Badu’s former teacher Roger Boykin, and Kid Twist grew
up splitting his teenage time between the symphony and the punk
club. They both use their history of composition for theatrical work
in the development of their unique sound and performance. Allen
Young of Trifectagram said (of their recent New York shows), "songs
which could be characterized as noir cabaret except for the fact that
this guy/girl band really rocks" and "(APVR) has a reputation for
killer live shows: they had a standing-room crowd ecstatic and
dancing, to some very dark music. Damn impressive: this is
Williamsburg, after all, where nobody dares to break their uber-cool
facade." Their lyrics explore the elusive nature of intimacy versus
the desire for movement and change. In this way, the band is a two-
sided coin; two halves made whole.
Hear their music at www.myspace.com/aparticularlyviciousrumor


Crooks and Nannies

Crooks and Nannies is Walt Ever, writing the classics of a long-
awaited genre. Another New Orleans denizen with a long travel
history, Walt plays the banjo, accordion and violin, (plus much
more!) and sings. He shares the stage with whomever is at hand. In
this case, it’s Kid Twist on drums and Miss O on accordion. His
music is what punk rock pirates would write if they washed ashore in
the Appalachian mountains. Acoustic dance-punk bluegrass. Fatally-
optimistic pirate songs. He is an experienced street performer with
an undeniable charisma. His shows and his adventurous, grandiose
songs linger in your mind long after Walt’s left you behind.

Check out his songs at www.myspace.com/crooksandnannies

Venue:

Argus
3187 Mission (@ Valencia)
San Francisco
415.824.1447
http://www.arguslounge.com/

Additional Info:

415.824.1447