Chicago, IL (Top40 Charts/ Western Publicity) - The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! Chosen from Legions of Bands to join the Diesel: U:Music Global Tour - 12 Hot Venues Across the
Globe Tour Kicks off July 3rd in Berlin Vice and VBS TV Covering Worldwide.
Every year, Diesel U:Music gathers a panel of respected music industry hotshots together at their U:Music Radio studios in London to battle it out over dozens of new bands, ultimately choosing just two for their Diesel: U: Music Global Tour. This year Luaka Bop artists The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! was chosen over competition like The Noisettes, Modernaire and Sean Bones to receive a coveted invite to join the tour, along with HeartsRevolution. The tour launches in Berlin July 3rd then lands in New York July 30th before hitting Tokyo, Helsinki, Oslo, Paris, Madrid, London, Beijing, Vienna, Sydney and Miami. Peaches will headline the launch date in Berlin, a plethora of hot DJs and recording artists will be on board for the rest of the globe trot. Music fanatics/industry professionals like Chris Douridas of KCRW in Los Angeles, recording artist MIA and Ellen Carpenter of SPIN debated for hours before settling on these two bands - watch the process here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUGKZy6Fjs
The entire tour will be covered by Vice Magazine and filmed by VBS TV, with a documentary of the tour to follow. Previous winners of the Diesel: U:Music Tour include Diplo, The Fiery Furnaces and the Cool Kids among others.
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! is a never ending romp of a dance party; looped pianos and saxes race on top of crappy synths and ill beats and something like twenty vocal takes (like seriously rivaling Broken Social Scene-status) are mixed in there somewhere. What makes The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! so special are severely catchy, dance-y pop songs that actually have lyrical content. These are songs about friends, romance and everything else that rules in life, presented in a comic, yet somehow deathly serious, way.
Live, The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! become a whole new beast altogether. Neil is relentless, running through crowds, scaling things, doing acrobatics, all this while wearing a giant Ultimate Protection Suit, consisting of 100 stuffed animals sewn to a jumpsuit, turning him into some kind of childhood head of the bed gone wrong. His instrument: lights. While singing and dancing, Neil is hard at work orchestrating an elaborate light show. Old lamps, giant inflatable storks and cats turn on and off. Strobes, disco balls and every other kitschy item any college student has ever had in their dorm are flashing: think Daft Punk with a $16 budget. Meanwhile, the Grrrrl Police, an elite force of enthusiastic singers and dancers (the same blessed souls who lend their voices to The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! recordings) parade around dressed as giant pizzas, Christmas trees, houses and every other thing that might make humans feel warm. Together, Neil, the Grrrrl Police and the audience = create something rare and spectacular: a really genuinely fun concert. There is no such thing as not singing, there is no such thing as not dancing, those things exist in a world where there is such a thing as "cool" and "not cool." This is the Terror Pigeon's world: there is only "awesome."
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! released a mini-disc as part of Luaka Bop's 3 Inches of Music series, they'll have a new album in 2010. Here them here: https://www.myspace.com/theterrorpigeondancerevolt
DIESEL:U:MUSIC 2009
Berlin - July 3
New York - July 30
Tokyo - August 7
Helsinki - August 14
Oslo - September 11
Paris - September 19
Madrid - September 26
London - October 1
Beijing - October 3
Vienna - October '09
Sydney - November '09
Miami - December '09
