Trip Records: Onesheet: We Know Where You Live

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The Velvet Mafia
We Know Where You Live
Producers: Boffo Santana-Jones & The Velvet Mafia
Release 5/27/98
Available 5/1/98
* UPC # 797623-4277-2
CD w/ 6p full-colour cover
b/w interior booklet; lyrics; photos;
programme: 49.51 mins Cat. #
4277-2

The Freak Shows of days gone by may never return as we knew them, but the seven-member The Velvet Mafia weaves a circus side-show mystique that conjures flashbacks of Siamese twins, Bearded ladies and unicorns that look mysteriously like goats.

Refugee of the 80's Island Records act Dean and the Weenies, Dean Johnson plays ringmaster to his caustically catchy clan of degenerates and outcasts in a full frontal assault on 'normal' America, spewing stories of queer life in their own unique feisty and poignant trash-rock style - a Ritalin-free Dr. Seuss for adults.

As Head Mistress to his menagerie, Johnson is joined by parochial school escapee Little Mary Feaster on Bass and background vocals, guitarist in boy-drag Bruno Bettelheimer (aka Susanne Hassenstein), cellist from Hell Satan (aka Sandy Spreitz), Holy jazz-man and sexy-saxist Father Josh Atkins, percussionist and background vocalist Sailor McDrum (aka Tom McCrum), and the firm-handed Nurse Wanda Hill (aka Jean Walsh). A true cacophony of irreverence which creates a recipe for a twisted in-your-face queerer-than-thou delivery that slams your brain and leaves you flying well above the carnival world below, all anchors of comfort joyously tossed aside.

Trip producer Boffo Santana-Jones (Christian Johnson, Green & Checkers) joins The Velvet Mafia in presenting a three-ring array of tunes ranging from the fun and danceably quirky ode to DaVinci "Mona Lisa" to the hypnotically revealing and hard-hitting look into the mind of a junkie in "Poppies in Springtime." Among the other tracks making their way into the center ring are the scathing tribute to making it and name-dropping "The Velvet Mafia", and autobiographical looks at past loves in "Love Sucks", "Jersey Gigolo" and "Deli Boy."

Further scenes of carnivalesque madness and joy round out this long-awaited show of shows, and releases to the streets those things "model americans" would rather be kept under the big top.

TRACKS
title - writer

* Mona Lisa (Johnson)
* Fierce Ruling Diva (Johnson)
* The Velvet Mafia (Johnson)
* Buy You Me (Johnson)
* Deli Boy (Johnson)
* Baby Looked Good (Johnson)
* Love Sucks (Johnson)
* Jersey Gigolo (Johnson)
* Poppies in Springtime (Johnson, Lapkin & Klinger)
* Her Infinite Vanity (The Velvet Mafia)
* You Got It (Goin' On) (Johnson)
* Season of the Bitch (Johnson)
* Rock God (The Velvet Mafia)

PRINT
* Advertisements in selected national & regional music periodicals.
* Advertisements in selected Gay & Lesbian periodicals.
* Service to music periodicals and music industry trades.
* Service to national and regional Gay & Lesbian print media.
* Service to selected underground print media ('zines).
* Service to selected music-oriented periodicals.
* Announcements to Gay & Lesbian, underground, and alternative music periodicals.

CLUBS
* Service to selected dance clubs and record pools.

RETAIL
* CD copies to key Gay & Lesbian outlets and alternative/underground bookstores.

RADIO
* Service to selected college and major radio stations
* Service to selected NPR-syndicated programmes
* Service to selected Gay & Lesbian radio programmes

INTERNET
* Full support is provided on the Trip records website, which features track lists, bios, graphics as well as Streaming Audio Soundbytes.

Related Sites:
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