Electric Six @ C2 On Mon 30th June 2003
Published 2nd Jun 2003 by Alison

Monday 30th June Electric Six. These cheeky schizoid-rockers with a mix of punk, new wave, disco and arena rock provides a total entertainment solution for the new breed of rock and roller. Guitars, drums, keyboards and synthesizers ? their leaping, twisting, mind-destroying live show is the stuff of legend + support + DJs Steve Chaos & Johnny Rocks. 8pm. ?10.

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Electric Six BIOG

"Electric Six is the rock equivalent of a duty-bound pack of Wild West outlaws who've spent the last 25 years on Mars and are now returning to
right the musical wrongs of us puny Earth creatures." The Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

As we enter the 21st Century, rock has become a whole new ball game. Yet not much has changed. The rock fan of the 21st Century will demand
something both new and traditional; something that inspires feelings of onsiderable discomfort. "It's got a good beat, and it fills me with anxiety."

Out of the Great Detroit Rock Hothouse and into the void flies Electric Six, previously known as The Wildbunch. Their bizarre genetic splicing of punk, new wave, disco and arena rock provides a total entertainment solution for the new breed of rock and roller. Guitar, bass - even drums - all find a home in the eclectic Electric Six stew. Certain songs go even further, boasting the inclusion of keyboards and synthesizers. The world is a dangerous and troubling place. When you enjoy Electric Six, you enjoy both the present and the future. Hear them for yourself, men and women. You'll find them available for live performance, deficiency projection and all-purpose psycho-emotional scapegoating.

The Electric Six Program involves the transmission of crucial supraliminal messages, some of which may be meant for you. This document can assist you in understanding The Electric Six Program and - quite possibly - your purpose within The Electric Six Plan.

None of them knew it, but throughout the 80s and 90s thousands of American youths were subjected to close and continuous observation. Imagine applying for a position in O Town without knowing you had done so. Imagine out of the blue one day receiving a phone call: "Congratulations - you're a member of O Town, now." How would you feel? Would you want to be in O Town?

The five men recruited into Electric Six were carefully selected based on their psychological profiles and individual capabilities. By sheer coincidence all of them hail from Detroit City.

Dick Valentine (vocals) fronts the band. He thought he knew what he was doing. He was wrong. As a child, Valentine's IQ scores marked high off the scale and he appears to be socially underdeveloped. Dick Valentine bears some symptoms of schizophrenia.

The Rock and Roll Indian (rhythm & lead guitar) may have been raised in the wild, and by monkeys. He displays an approximated affinity for the culinary arts, and also hair care. He is manic depressive.

Disco (bass guitar) is like an Olde English pub-dweller trapped in a Studio 54 world. He is a classic car enthusiast, and exhibits a high level of narcissism. He is a sharp dresser.

Surge Joebot (lead & rhythm guitar) is a man in the shadows on a never- ending mission of vengeance and pleasure. Either he possesses some form of telekinesis or he talks a vigorous line of shit. Surge suffers from generalized megalomania, and paranoia.

M enjoys using women's underwear as an outer garment. He is the drummer. He has been diagnosed with insomnia, narcolepsy and chronic dementia. Many consider him to be the operational nerve center of Electric Six.

The purpose of Electric Six is unclear. Its course is cloudy. Its cause is far from just. Yet, among the faithful there is total consensus:
Electric Six is successfully duplicating some of today's hottest guitar styles. Even now, they stand poised to extend the reach of their power to both ends of the Globe and beyond. Their leaping, twisting, mind-destroying live show is the stuff of legend. It elicits fear and love among all those who see it. No two words could ever summarize the schizoid rock aesthetic of Electric Six. However, if two words could
ever summarize the schizoid rock aesthetic of Electric Six, they would need to be fear and love.

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SINGLE PRESS RELEASE

Electric Six are
Dick Valentine (Vocalist)
Disco (Bassist)
Surge Joebot (Guitarist)
M (Drummer)
the Rock and Roll Indian (Another Guitarist)

If being hip means never meaning what you say, then there's nothing hip about Electric Six or their new single, Danger! High Voltage. This music believes in what it says, and what it says is timeless. Because beauty and truth will never go out of style, and neither will synthesizers or drum machines. Of course, this begs the question: why won't they? Answer being, of course: because they're fucking electronic.

Surprisingly, many rock bands still grapple with questions of credibility. On Danger! High Voltage, Electric Six shun such concerns; the band has no credibility, yet it is one hundred percent authentic. Its authenticity and the authenticity of its new single cannot be placed into question.

For Danger! High Voltage grew out of a time of extraordinary tumult and great argument. The five men who comprise Electric Six are willful, stubborn, close-minded individuals. Each is completely misguided in his own unique way.

Creative gridlock and near-constant counter-productivity is the hothouse that has produced certain things all throughout human history. One could hardly compare Mount Rushmore to the Eiffel Tower. Danger! High Voltage differs from both of these in that it's a song, not a landmark, but maybe one day its stature will in some way be (at least metaphorically) comparable to these other things, although this is
highly unlikely.

Danger! High Voltage ushers in a new era of sonic discipline. An element of punishment is overwhelmingly evident, but what we are also seeing is a warmer, more intimate, sort of let's-get-to-know-each-other-better brand of sonic discipline. With Danger! High Voltage, Electric Six positions itself as a leading provider of aural punishment. Electric Six's handlers are confident in stating that Danger! High
Voltage is the sexiest commodity experience currently on the market. Supporting Danger! High Voltage both thematically and physically, as it were, are two other songs which comprise Electric Six's Control Cycle. These songs are Remote Control and I Lost Control (of my Rock and Roll). While they've both been grouped together under the "Control Cycle" umbrella, these songs actually bear no relation to one another aside from the word "control". They're both rockers, though, and are ready to be enjoyed.

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