Bawdy Festival

From here, we can feel the burning breath of the fire-eaters, the clamor of the crowd, troubled by the frightening faces of the clowns with their carnivorous smiles. With a dose of hysteria, they beat out a hard-core metal that seems to have sprung from the mating of hip-hop and horror-movie theme music. Ladies and gentlemen ! Step right up, step right up ! The Bawdy Festival is in town ! Formed in 2003 in the Paris area with Teddy.DKC ( vocals), The Nub' ( guitar), N.DMC ( keyboard), Stupid ( bass guitar) and Combo ( drums), the music of BAWDY FESTIVAL is distinctive of melodies from county fair side shows, a brutal sound and a stage perfomance nothing short of bloodcurdling. We perceive the influence of I.C.P., Cypress Hill, Babylon Pression, Dagoba and Sepultura in this violent "CLOWN CORE". The clowns, accompanied by their monstrous troupe, parade like a maddened horde : mutilated, cjained monsters, mistreating fairy tale and storybook characters in a sinister, macabre waltz. The unwholesome, disturbing atmosphere of freak shows, and that of Tim Burton, strange and morbid, are in total osmosis in this sordid and decadent show. These freak show marvels have shared the French metal stage with bands like Eths, The A.R.R.S., Inhatred, Gameness and Es LA Guérilla. Their performance is an authentic show, to be discovered or re-discovered on stage qith rne release of their maxi CD "Back In Da Wood" ( 4 titles and a video clip). The nightmare has only just begun... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.