The Tuna Helpers
Originally uploaded by Carmen S.
New album, costumes, puppets, extensive cosmology, gothica: the Tuna Helpers, based in Austin, have an elaborate show. From their purply site, thetunahelpers.org, comes helpful explication:
"Two odd, yet delightful sisters and their odd, yet delightful long lost sister are eager to spread their tuna tales across the world and enlighten those who are in need of an oceanic fantasy revelation.
What is their recipe for fairytale nightmares? Cut out patches of your childhood terrors, the grandmother that soothed them, your first pair of teenage thigh-high stockings and the sound track that played in your head when you plotted the death of your first love...stitch them together with guitar strings and lace... stuff it with corn syrup blood and rotten fish guts and you've created a TunaHelpers doll of your own. This doll will sing to you with an operatic voice, will teach you to waltz to sparse drum beats, will dazzle you with its puppet shows and American Sign language.
Here you will discover a tapestry of gothic stylings weaving the doctrines of girly power, gross-out contests and sophisticated musical achievement that encompass The TunaHelpers. Let them be your favorite doll."
Last year they impressed the audience at minicine, 846 Texas. This year they play the Jackrabbit Lounge, aka Lil Joes, on Sat, Oct 14, 8 pm.
Opening the show are big-voiced Chris Alexander as well as the Peekers, a John Martin project. Singing with Brittney on the winsome "Wings vs. Fins" Martin shows us that the Peekers are watchers.
Hear more on myspace.com/thetunahelpers, myspace.com/chrisalexandermusic (check "You dropped a bomb on me") and myspace.com/thepeekers.
For its refulgent flyness, hanging at this show would have to be Moment of the Month in Shrevedog.
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