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TOM SWIRLY's PSYCH-O-DELIC CIRCUS in NYC
TOM SWIRLY's
PSYCH-O-DELIC CIRCUS

A microRave!

Every Monday Night at Cave Canem
24 First Ave @ 8pm
Admission $5.00

www.myspace.com/TomSwirly

New York,NY- ( March 21,2008) Turn on the microRave! Tom Swirly's Psych-o-delic Circus is live with avant-garde music, dance, and performance in New York's East Village, every Monday night.

The Circus begins in the dark. Tom Swirly takes the stage, tattered lab coat trailing, coaxing slow the music is foreboding and disorienting. The lights start to flash and glow, Jeremy Weirdos joins in and triggers samples from the Three Stooges. Then the powerful voice of Tom Swirly's Electro-Acoustical Wind Instrument hammers out a driving beat; he grabs a loop, sings over it with layers of angelic and demonic voices. This is the dancers' cue: they emerge from the corners, slowly feeling for the rhythm, getting more wired till they climb all over the stage. More acts; some noisy, some beautiful, some energetic. The dancers adapt, gain strength, form arabesques. The lights rise to a climax: a strobe! the audience goes wild. The show continues till one of the trans-sexual bartenders throws us out late-night.

The Psych-o-delic Circus has been going since the fall of 2007 and showcases its residents, including: beatboxing pioneer and hiphop legend Kid Lucky, the Illusionary Dancers, and Welsh guitar wizard Dan Jones.

Special guests have included: Gibby Haynes from the Butthole Surfers, Tristan Perich's One-bit Music, Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland, and The Tom Blatt Project.

Tom Swirly has been playing the electronic wind instrument for almost twenty years. He's played all over the world, including an hour-long show on Sydney's Bondi Radio, a performance at the 2004 Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, a recent show at the KEK Gallery in Budapest and of course countless performances all over the New York City area. He's written music for theatre, dance and video performances. As a long-time member of the avant-garde performance group Verge, he's participated in all of their major productions, including "Return to Oz" and "The Space Show".

He's also an accomplished actor and magician, having performed with various New York-area companies including Faux-Real Theatre Company, where he had the title role in their first production of "William Shakespeare's Haunted House" (which went on to almost ten years in repertory), and Gorilla Rep (where he performed numerous comic roles as part of their production of Henry IV parts I and II). In 2007, a play about his life was written by New York's Youngblood Playwright's group and had an extended run in Brooklyn's Brick Theatre; this led to a controversial and allegedly inaccurate New York Times article about Mr. Swirly, complete with color photo. His photographs have appeared all over the net and in Time Out New York; his extreme NY mailing list has been a staple of the New York underground scene for over 8 years; and he's a familiar figure at parties and events all over the city.

Professionally, Mr Swirly has earned a living writing computer programs since the last 70s. In 1987, he was sitting at a trading desk in the late lamented Drexel Burnham Lambert writing option models during the century's largest drop in the Dow Jones. In 1988 he wrote he operating system for an innovative but failed pocket computer. Snce 2004, Mr Swirly has been an engineer with Google in New York City.

Jeremy X. Halpern (Jeremy Weirdos) is the Ringleader of the Psych-o-delic Circus. He founded the multimedia performance group Verge in 1987; they will be performing their 20th Anniversary concert this summer. As the sole proprietor of 1-800-Weirdos (http://www.weirdos.com) he creates music from the random callers to the 800 number, as well as maintaining an Internet radio station and Weirdos podcast, which is available free through the iTunes Music Store. As an actor he has performed on stage and in films and video including acclaimed Iranian director Amir Naderi's "Sound Barrier". As a director he has masterminded such bizarre epics as "Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret)" and "Battle of the Dead Celebs". As a composer, he has invented soundtracks for Verge as well as having scored many short films. As a Weirdo, he is proud to represent all the freaks out there. Stamp out normality in our lifetime!

Press reservations or interview inquiries with Tom Swirly or Jeremy X. Halpern, please call Michael Martinez at 212-712-7362.

Promotional performance DVD's avaialble upon request.

Location:

Cave Canem
24 First Avenue ( under Lucky Cheng's)
between First & Second Streets

Subway: F,V to Lower East Side-Second Avenue

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