band styles...for our band!

A Mr. H recently hipped me to a British avant garde band called the Tiger Lillies who possess an interesting visual style reminiscent of cabaret acts from Weimar Republic-era Germany. He suggested that the GSHA band (still nameless, at this point) could adopt (adapt) their look and feel, with makeup and old types of clothing and dress (bowlers and suspenders). On that, I suppose, I agree, although I would amend that look to include some women's clothing items, as well as buckets of goat blood that we could cover ourselves with during moments of intensified on-stage catharsis requiring the ultimate in violent dénouement.

However, as for their musical style, while I enjoy Brechtian operatic noodling, I fear that our collective musical abilities fall far short of those necessary to produce such cabaret / Decemberists-esque music. I think we are far more confrontational (at least in our heads) and we would, accordingly, need a more Iggy and the Stooges chugging style that just grabbed onto one heavy distorted, amphetamine-fueled riff that beat the audience over the head repeatedly...until it was time to cover ourselves in the goat's blood and make the crowd fall down screaming in an ecstatic orgy of introspection and horrorific apocalyptic visions! The genius of this...

And yet, if I had my druthers, I think I'd go for something like this Uncle Wiggly video. Just enough psyche-heavy riffs with wacked out imagery for me!