A Message From Neil Fridd About I Love You…:
Hi, I’m Neil! I’m writing all this! We started in the fall of 2007 as a sort of dance theater project. I wrote a dance opera based loosely on Shakespeare’s Othello. Jesse and I performed this twice to generally favorable reviews. While I enjoyed this I wanted to do something better, something more interactive. I realized that the concerts I was having the most fun at were the ones where I felt directly involved, concerts I went to not to watch but to dance and sing along to. Sadly this was something that I found to be really uncommon in New York; it was really rare that I went to concert and felt like it was okay to move around and be myself. So I decided that I wanted to make a band that was a band that people went to concerts of not just because they had good songs or Pitchfork liked them, but because they knew that they would have a fucking blast at their show! A love for costuming, lights, inflatables and other spectacle soon all made their way into the epic hurricane of love mayhem that is The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! We’re less than two years old but we’ve grown in leaps and bounds. Our band has expanded to include members who operate huge lighting backpacks and chandeliers (think recreating the spectacle of Daft Punk with $16 at a flea market with some help from an oriental trading magazine and a lot of duck tape.) people in charge of leading sing alongs and choreographed dances, and Jesse, who does everything from strip to invite people to spar him in the corner of the venue.
I think the hardest aspect of the running this band is just trying to describe it to people. Basically we show up with a billion lights, bags and bags of costumes (enough for anyone who wants one), 60 or more light sabers and really good songs, grab some mics and say “look, this is your time; you chose to be here, you probably paid your hard earned money to be here: don’t you dare walk out that door without having the best night of your life! All these things are at your disposal, we’ll help! We’re going to throw an awesome dance party, run around and scream about how fucking cool it is to finally kiss that person you’ve been crushing on for months, how there is nothing better than partying until 5 in the morning when you have to be up for work at 7 and how your friends are so fucking great, and there’s no doubt that you’d be absolutely fucking dead if they weren’t in your life to clean you off when you get shit on. Tonight there is no such thing as uncool. If you really want to hug a wall that’s fine! But if you’ve got a dance in your feet and a song in your heart then you fucking go for it!”
And the best part is that it works. It happens. People come out of their shells and go nuts! We’ve had shows where we just hand the mics over to people in the crowd mid song cause the harmonies they’re singing are so beautiful. People bust out insane moves! People put together the most incredible outfits! And you have no idea how good sword fighters people are! At the end of it people always come up to me and ask me what the name of our band is and who’s in it, and every time I say “we’re the terror pigeon dance revolt! and every single person in this room is in it!”
US Tour Dates
2/27 – Terrace F Club – Princeton, NJ
2/28 – The Ox Warehouse – Philadelphia, PA
3/1 – Golden West Club – Baltimore, MD
3/2 – DC9 – Washington, DC
3/3 – The Pinhook – Durham, NC
3/4 – The Milestone – Charlotte, NC
3/5 – The Village Tavern – Mt Pleasant, SC
3/6 – Crowbar – Tampa, FL
3/7 – Backbooth – Orlando, FL
3/8 – The Engine Room – Tallahassee, FL
3/10 – 529 – Atlanta, GA
3/12 – The StarLight – Little Rock, AR
3/30 – The Loft – La Jolla, CA
4/1 – The Biko House – Isla Vista, CA
4/2 – Amnesia Bar – San Francisco, CA
4/5 – The Vera Project – Seattle, WA
4/6 – Visual Arts Collective – Garden City, ID
4/7 – Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
4/9 – Bourbon Theatre – Lincoln, NE
4/11 – Schubas Tavern – Chicago, IL
4/13 – Cafe Bourbon St – Columbus, OH
4/14 – Brillobox – Pittsburgh, PA
4/24 – The Friendship Cove – Montreal, QC
