About this project
KILL THE BAND is a NYC based punk performance art, shock - mock - rock comedy band and we are ready to record our first full length album and shoot a blockbuster mockrockdocumentary! We aim to make a one-of-a-kind album experience for the listener that mocks, rocks AND is a fully visualized comedy concept album (Bright Side Of The Moon?). This is not your mom's musical comedy album!
This album will include our greatest hits:
"Don't Attack Me With Your Happiness" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gViejtkJRrw
"Girl Balls" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMVGEy0ZAKo
"Clone U" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ekx_H9Ik0
"See Something, Say Something" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GnEJ_cWWrk"
and Famous Baby...Plus B sides ("Space Invader"), rarities ("Mock Bottom"), deep tracks "(I Turned You Gay") sketchy songs ("Timing Is Everything"), Short songs ("Long Story Short") Surprises (??) AND a cover of Bad Teenage Moustache's "Ben Kingsley" will be recorded by KTB for the first time at Leopard Studio (http://www.leopardstudio.com) with a professional sound engineer (Jimmy!) and state of the art equipment. KILL THE BAND will spend 5 marathon days laying it down in the studio (and 6 nights on the couches in the studio listening to Mike snore, Joe fart and Killy cry), in a completely immersive recording atmosphere ALL to encourage the creative production of a fully conceptualized, one of a kind album (that you can laugh to)!
AND WAIT THERE IS MORE!!!!!
Tridango Productions (www.thecrabmovie.com & www.dielucasdiemovie.com) is shooting a "making of the album" documentary to be released in early 2012. In fact, the documentary is already in production and will include private rehearsal footage and memorable parts of the planning process, recording studio highlights, never before seen live performances, behind the scenes drama, interviews, a "studio confessional" where members can speak candidly about the process and of course all the breakdowns and breakthroughs of the experience itself. It's like a reality TV show but better because it's real! Think Spinal Tap meets TV's Survivor ...If everything happens the way it shouldn't (and it will), Killy will literally KILL THE BAND and all that will remain will be this AMAZING album and the show-all, tell-all mockrockdocumentary of how it all went wrong. Or right? It could go right, right? Either way it's gonna be intense and funny and embarrassing and weird and exciting and unique.
KILL THE BAND's album and mocrockdocumentary is also the ultimate in global audience participation - that's where YOU come in! Please make a donation to "Please KILL THE BAND". Help us bring you this unpredictable, unforgettable, hilarious, balls to the wall musical experience.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 27, 2011.
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1 Free entrance to our monthly show Alter Ego - Vaudeville Surreal @ Fontana's Bar, NYC and a group hug from the band. (hug and show can be video emailed if outside of NYC) Alter Ego show admission is a $5 value. Hug from the band is priceless
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All the rewards from above PLUS... A copy of our first full length album "MOCK BOTTOM" (working title)
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All the rewards from above PLUS... Bonus free admission to Alter Ego (That's 2 for you! So bring a date. Bring your grandmother. Just don't bring them at the same time...weird.) A limited first edition DVD of our "making of the album" documentary.
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All the rewards from above PLUS... A personal thank you in the liner notes of the CD A copy of our original DEMO album "Famous Baby"
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All the rewards from above PLUS... A FREE download of Joe Yoga's album "Life Out East" A copy of Mike Milazzo's New Album "The Show" A "KILL THE BAND" T-shirt
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All the rewards from above PLUS... SPECIAL*** KTB will send you a video of a song written just for YOU - IT WILL INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND BE BASED ON A SUGGESTION FROM YOU!! Anything you want!!!
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All the rewards from above PLUS...WOW*** KTB will play a show at your event/party/bar/ bar mitzvah/parents backyard (NYC and surrounding area only) AND sing your song to you in person!!
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KILL THE BAND is a NYC based shock-mock-rock and comedy band. Combining satire and slapstick, theatrics and costumes, and music from almost every genre, KTB is accessible avant garde and punk cabaret performance art with soul. KTB played the mainstage at Figment (The world's largest interactive arts festival) won the Audience Choice Award for their 2010 Frigid Festival show, headlines the NYC's #1 monthly alternative variety show "Alter Ego - Vaudeville Surreal", Headlined the Happiest Medium NY Anniversary Show, and plays consistently throughout the NYC area at venues like Fontanas, Pianos, Galapagos, The Delancey and National Underground.
Reviews:
St. Mark's Theater rocked with laughter" New York Press
"The spirit is one that celebrates uniqueness and captures the best parts of the New York fringe music and art scene" Broadway World
"A tiny blonde powerhouse…had the audience in full-body laughter!" Village Voice
"Killy Dwyer (does) an incredible job of balancing smart with funny with catchy" The Happiest Medium
"The spirit is one that celebrates uniqueness and captures the best parts of the New York fringe music and art scene" Broadway World
"Fun times for all. It has the essence of punk cabaret performance art and it's easy to get into. It's packed with quirky songs and lots of laughs from out of nowhere." NYTheater.com
"Leading the whole is Killer Killy Dwyer, comedian, performance artist, and all around rock star. If you could tap into a fraction of her energy you could powerVegas for a week." NYTheater.com
"A fun fringe show with sharp satire and a healthy dose of goofiness." TheaterIsEasy.com
"They're [Kill The Band] like Zappa on acid." Frank Wood
"Kill the Band has something that few acts I’ve seen in today’s music or comedy scene possesses: A classic, almost vaudevillian quality which lets you know that after the lights have gone down and the laughs died to chuckles, you’ve seen something special—no kidding.” (The Examiner)
