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****FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE****
Start Date: Oct 1, 2002
Kill Date:November 17, 2002
Jason Schwartz
Mobilization Booking
Jason@mobilization.com "SEMINA
Aug
25, 2002 : "SEMINAL"
LOS ANGELES ART-PUNK BAND SAVAGE REPUBLIC CONFIRM RARE ONE
WEEK REUNION APPEARANCES IN LA, SF, NYC, CHICAGO, and PORTLAND
OR - NOVEMMBER 13-17,2002
TICKETS
ONSALE NOW FOR RARE REUNION EVENT
Fiercely
"independent" tribal Arabic surf-art-punk band Savage
Republic
have confirmed a rare week of performances in Los Angeles, San Francisco,
New York City, Chicago, and Portland Oregon.
FIRST
AND ONLY PERFORMANCE IN 13 LUCKY YEARS
This performance will be the bands first appearance in over 13
years, since their explosive Final Performance in Claremont,
California on Feb. 25, 1989. A DVD and digital audio recording of
that last performance, which included incidiary fire performances,
is scheduled for release on MOBILIZATION
RECORDINGS in 2003.
TOUR
AGENDA:
Wen
Nov 13, Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory. $15 Adv.
w/ MIKE WATT and the Secondmen, The Urinals (100 Flowers),
The Human Hands. 80s post-punk DJ Brendan Mullen (author
of "We Got The Neutron Bomb")
7021 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 209
Hollywood , CA 90028 323 463 0204
Thu Nov 14, Portland, OR @ Satyricon. $10 Adv, $12
Door.
125 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 503 243-2380
Fri Nov 15, San Francisco, CA @ "Beyond the
Pale" DNA Club. $19 Adv.
w/ NEUROSIS, The Phantom Limbs, Pleasure Forever
375 Eleventh St, SF, CA 94103, 415 626-1409
Sat Nov 16, NYC (Park Slope, Brooklyn) @ South Paw. $12
Adv. $15 Door.
125 Fifth Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, 718-230-0236
Sun Nov 17, Chicago @ The Double Door. $10 Adv. $12 Door.
1572 N. Milwaukee Ave.,Chicago, IL 60622, 773.489.3160
Advanced
tickets are available now at http://SavageRepublic.com
Many
of these shows are expected to sell out quickly.
SAVAGE
REPUBLIC REUNION A ONE TIME EVENT, TO PROMOTE
REISSUE OF COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS
A spokesperson for the band said "This is a one time
event. At
this point the band has no plans to reform". The band
agreed to do
this one time reunion to promote the recent reissue on San
Francisco label Mobilization Recordings of the bands entire
studio
works. This reissue features stunning hand letterpressed covers
by
Savage Republic member Bruce Licher of Independent
Project Press.
This performance will be the bands first appearance in over 13
years, since their explosive Final Performance in Claremont,
California on Feb. 25, 1989.
DVD
OF FINAL PERFORMANCE DUE OUT IN OCTOBER, 2002
A DVD and digital audio recording of that last performance of
Savage Republic
is scheduled for release on Mobilization Recordings in 2003.
SIMILAR
SOUND TO SONIC YOUTH and GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR.
JANE'S ADDICTION, R.E.M FANS OF THE BAND.
Savage Republic were the west coast counter-parts to New York's
SONIC
YOUTH back in the early 80s, and in the 1990s JANE'S ADDICTION and
Canada's GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR borrowed generously from the
bands unique musical approach. REM and 54-40 are also big fans of
the
band. Members of Jane's Addiction borrowed from SAVAGE REPUBLIC's
sound, and R.E.M. have also been long time fans of the bands unique
sound.
SAVAGE
REPUBLIC FEATURED IN "SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" SOUNDTRACK
The song "Real Men" from the bands classic debut LP "Tragic
Figures"
was featured in the feature film "Silence of the Lambs",
playing
inside the "pit" as the killer watched his effeminate
image in the
mirror.
SHOW
FOLLOWS BAND MEMBERS NARROW ESCAPE FROM WTC ON 9/11
The reunion was agreed upon a few months after
guitarist/percussionist Ethan Port
escaped the WTC #3 on the morning of 9/11. He'd been staying in
the
Marriott WTC that morning. "I was just dressing for work when
the
first plane hit above my head. I ran out into the street immediately,
leaving behind my shoes and glasses and all my other possession,
including any ID or money. A few weeks later as SONIC YOUTH was
completing their MURRAY STREET CD, Ethan Port's incinerated
possessions were being excavated from "the Pit" that used
to be the
WTC.
Late
Breaking news on the
band's rare one time reunion can be found at
http://www.SavageRepublic.com
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Extra Information:
SUPPORTING ACTS AT THE LOS ANGELES REUNION
ARE LONG TIME CONSPIRITORS
Bruce Licher, a founding member of SAVAGE REPUBLIC, performed with
members of some of the other opening bands in the late 70s at UCLA,
creating underground noise terrorism in the subterranean utility
tunnels and parking garages, for a pure industrial "new wave"
sound.
Long time friend MIKE WATT will also perform with a new Bass, Organ
and Drum trio "The Secondmen". MIKE WATT's former band
THE MINUTEMEN often performed with these other acts at many Los
Angeles alternative/art punk dives
such as Al's Bar, the original Anti-Club and Brave Dog, Theoreticals,
Desolation Center Mojave Desert shows, etc.
SUPPORTING ACTS FEATURED IN "Nerds in
the Pit" SPECIAL: HISTORY OF
L.A. ART PUNK The URINALS/100 FLOWERS and HUMAN HANDS were both
interviewed last Mayhem 2002 in the "Nerds in the Pit"
special, aired on KFJC, an essential community radio station in
the San Francisco bay area. Copies of the broadcast are available
for free download at:
http://www.Mobilization.com
The special also includes interviews with members of the Weirdos,
the
Controllers,
Interviews include:
Geza X
Pleasant Gehman
S.A. Griffin
Bob Moss
Jane Bainter
Gary Indiana
Members of:
The Weirdos
The Controllers
Nervous Gender / Vox Pop
The Urinals / 100 Flowers
The Screamers
The Dream Syndicate
Savage Republic
SAVAGE REPUBLIC WILL ALSO HEADLINE SAN FRANCISCO'S ESSENTIAL "BEYOND
THE PALE" FESTIVAL
The band will also be playing in San Francisco on Friday November
15,
2002 at the Neurosis sponsored "Beyond the Pale" festival.
Tickets
will be available shortly at the DNA club. Other acts include
Neurosis, The Phantom Limbs, and Pleasure Forever.
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