“Spew”
By Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt
Written and performed by Neil Fridd; recorded and mixed by Joel Wadell; additional vocals by Joel Wadell and Louise Doyle. Copyright ©2011 Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt
Neil Fridd began Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt as a performance project while he was a student at the State University of New York at Purchase. In 2010, the group released its debut, I Love You! I Love You! I Love You and I’m in Love with You! Have an Awesome Day! Have the Best Day of Your Life!, on David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label.
Esopus 17 (Fall 2011)
Esopus CD #17: Fear Itself
After our readers submitted their most intense irrational fears for our fifth subscriber invitational, we invited 13 musicians to select one fear to use as inspiration for a new song for this issue’s CD. Some of the tracks convey these phobias with absolute gravity: For instance, Edinburgh-based band Meursault delivers a haunting and heartbreaking take on Wendy Cohen’s anxiety about dropping dead on the street and leaving loved ones behind (“No Knock at the Door”). But there are lighter approaches, too, like Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt’s “Spew,” a raucous number inspired by Dave Miranda’s fear of vomiting in public. Whether serious or comic, sad or buoyant, all of these wonderful songs prove that fear is as rich and potent a source of musical inspiration as any other human emotion.