biographical info
It's a very fine line between control and chaos and those who can
consistently operate close to or on the line are considered geniuses
whatever their discipline. Those who rush at the line or cross it are
considered at best idiots and at worst, dangerous.
My Tiny Circus is no stranger to the line, we flirt with the line and
then, when the line is suitably smitten, we slyly carress it. Sometimes
the line responds and sometimes our affections are spurned. It is a
fickle line and we are inexperienced lovers. If sometimes we cross the
line, it's only because we want to see what it looks like from the
other side and are prepared for the consequences of our curiosity. Are
we idiots or geniuses ? Neither...or possibly both.
My Tiny Circus, The idiot savants of Ottawa's LoungeCore scene
(Possibly we are Ottawa's LoungeCore scene...if you know different
please tell us - Perhaps we can double date), sing songs about Satan,
sin, sex, stalking and alliteration in a breezy lounge-pop style. We're
an eight piece band because, when you're working this close to the
line, from whichever side, there's safety in numbers.
The band that the Ottawa Citizen called "The sound of sweet subversion"
and of whom Upfront Ottawa magazine advised you to "Set your ass to
sway" - My Tiny Circus sounds like the bastard love child of Gilberto
Gil and Insane Clown Posse mewling and puking into a strong headwind.
You, dear New Music Canada subscriber, are surely imaginative enough to know what the outcome of that
bizarre coupling would be and so for us to further explain would be
pointless.
If you really want to know what we sound like then come and see us live
IF YOU DARE !!! .....and if you happen to live conveniently close to
Ottawa, have nothing better to do on a Saturday night and have five
bucks burning a hole in your pocket. It'll be the best evening of
Anarcho-LoungeCore you'll ever attend.
influences
The Divine Comedy
Ben Folds
Burt Bacharach
The Beautiful South
Cake
The Bad Plus
Frank Zappa