06:04 PM - Bling Kong

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Everybody knows that I love Bling Kong. I even invited them over to my house once for a barbecue/interview. I'd heard some talk of the idea before, but their concept for a Choose Your Own Adventure rock show is finally going to become a reality! Here's what Brad (the wild-eyed one in the middle in the robotinev above) had to say about it:

"The choose-your-own-adventure rock-opera is something we've been working on for over 2 years at this point (hopefully it is worth it). It is a series of tragic stories about a couple who get bored with their everything-is-fine-type relationship, end up cheating on each other and live out various scenarios that end in loneliness, death and/or robbery. Most rock-operas seem to be pretty abstract where ours shares more with musicals in the way that there are definite characters with voices and a linear story-line that takes place over one weekend.

We're going on the road in two weeks to test out ways to perform it live, but basically there are points in the story where the characters have to make decisions. We plan on letting the audience decide what happens and that will then determine what we perform next. (As Martin puts it: this makes it the audience's fault if our set sucks.)

The Wexner Center For the Arts - the modern art museum in Columbus, OH - is actually bringing us out there to perform this thing. We just decided to play a couple dates on the way out to practice.

So yeah, if everything goes well we'll be performing this thing on 11/2 for CMJ."

There you have it. Let's hope it does go well and the hometown crowd gets to see it on November 2nd at Fontana's. I'll be there. Click "more" for the Bling Kong II tour dates (note that in Kentucky they're playing with The Features - a weird match but an awesome show)! I really think Bling Kong should do some shows with DZUSA one of these days. There'd be a lot of cheering going.

Bling Kong - "Bling Kong girls"
Listen to Bling Kong on Myspace.

10.17.06 - Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber
10.18.06 - Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Church -w/ Nine Volt Haunted House
10.19.06 - Chicago, IL - The Note - w/ Jason Forrest, About and Division & Honore
10.20.06 - Lexington, KY - The Dame - w/ The Features
10.21.06 - Columbus, OH - Wexner Center For the Arts THE DEBUT OF BLING KONG II!!!

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