PRESS RELEASE

Artist: RASP THORNE & THE BRIARS

Title: Debutante Warnings

Release Date: 18th April 2011

Track Titles: 1. Operator Taunt 2. Pornstar/ Shotgun 3. Cruella DeVille 4. Debutante Warnings 5. 15 Dead Stallions 6. Dystopian Wonders

Label: Chagrin Records - distributed by Genepool via Universal

Format: Digital download

 

‘Debutante Warnings’ is an unruly mixture of carnival dirges, gothic country and punk from Montana-born performance artist, poet and musician Rasp Thorne and his band the Briars.

 

Formed at the tail end of 2008 when Thorne and Duncan DeMorgan (bass) met by chance at a G.G Elvis gig, Rasp Thorne & the Briars really started taking shape when Pete Moriarty showed up with his upside down left handed electric guitar and was completed by Hugh Zog (Lapsteel) and Joni Nastoya on drums.

 

Songs of cryptic crocodiles, shotgun-sucking porn stars and dystopian wax cults began to form and Rasp Thorne & the Briars unleashed their mix of suave crooning, chaotic punk and transgressive love laments onto London’s flamboyant club scene. Nights such as Gypsy Hotel, Torture Garden and Stranger Than Paradise embraced the band’s decadently deranged live performances and the band successfully curated their own night at Shunt amidst the structure of the theatrical show ‘Money’.

 

With strong connections to the theatre and performance art world, Rasp Thorne & the Briars were commissioned to write the music and perform in the run of Carnesky Productions’ ‘Dystopian Wonders’ a live-art theatre and circus show at The Roundhouse (Camden) which went on to tour to The Lowry (Manchester) and The Crucible (Sheffield).

 

Rasp Thorne & the Briars are currently working on their debut album scheduled for release in Autumn 2011. Their debut EP ‘Debutante Warnings’ is available for download on 18th April 2011 on Chagrin Records.

 

 

Management & PR Contact:

Julia Hannan at Peculiar | julia@peculiar.me.uk | 07939 580560 | www.peculiar.me.uk

Debutante Warnings Press Release Feb 23 2011.pdf