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‘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 guitar) 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 six track EP ‘Debutante Warnings’ is available for download from 18th April 2011 on Chagrin Records and the band will be performing live as follows:

July 10th, Soho Festival  Rasp Solo Spoken Word gig. Wardour Street, Soho 4PM

July 23rd- Tin Pan Alley  Queen Street, Colchester, Essex, C01 2PG 10PM

September 3rd- Proud, Camden The Horse Hospital, Stables Market, Camden Town, NW1

September 10th- Bestival Festival Isle of Wight, Saturday Night, Continental Drifts Stage

September 24th -Young, Black, + Twisted at The Finsbury, London N4 1B 10PM

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