Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

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The Church of Stop Shopping is based in New York City. We are a 501(c) not for profit organization staffed almost entirely by volunteers. We can also be reached at www.revbilly.com

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Member Since: 3/28/2005
Band Website: revbilly.com
Band Members: Reverend Billy: Bill Talen
Director: savitri d
Communications Director: Michael O'Neil
Choir Director: James Solomon Benn
Musical Director: William Moses

Sopranos: Laura Newman, Mi Sun Choi, Monica Hunken, Barbara Robin Lee, Stefani Peikin, Judy Sky, Lizzie Steelheart, Samsera S, Susannah Pryce

Altos: Michele Smith, Adetola, Gina Figueroa, Amber Gray, Gwen Kash, Chantel Lucier, Anna-Sara Malmgren, Katrina Mann, Meredith Manna, Urania Mylonas, Sari Rubenstein

Tenors: John Quilty, Paul Allen, James Solomon Benn, Leah Farrell, Marianne Hodge, Valerie Kelley, Derrick McGinty, Andrew Pacho, Maraluna Rivas

Basses: William Moses, Ben Cerf, Ben Dubin-Thaler, Donald Gallagher, Jerry Goralnick, Mark "Splinter" Harder, Francisco Valera

Musicians: E. Katrina Lewis Band Leader Keys/Piano
Rick Ulfick Keys/Piano
Eric Johnson Drums
Nate Stevens Bass
Michele Smith Flute
Mark Tipton Trumpet
Rick Becker Trombone
Sasha Sumner Soprano Sax

Communications: Michael O'Neil
Webmistress: Shanti Durkee
Webmaster: Stephen Musgrave

Photography & Video:
Fred Askew, Rob Van Alkemade
Sound: Deshaun Washington

Influences: Lenny Bruce, The Clash, Emma Goldman, Dick Gregory, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Abbie Hoffman, Spalding Gray, Jane Jacobs
Sounds Like: Polyphonic Spree;Henry Rollins or Spalding Gray (Spoken Word)
Record Label: Tomato
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? Hits Theaters November 16th!

What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consume...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:03:00 PST

A Global Devil-opment

Six weeks ago, I was pulled to my feet and pushed against a wall by five security officials. This took place just before a performance at Hofstra University on Long Island. The privatized police had...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:37:00 PST

9/11 Is On Tuesday This Year

9/11 has won American Idol. 9/11 is the second coming of Elvis, and the 9/11 is the delicious End of The World.In other words, 9/11 is a drag queen standing on the dark off-ramp, and his fiery pose mu...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:34:00 PST

The State of Hot and Holy Makes Us Want to Holla!

..> The State of Hot and Holy...makes us throw up our Hands and Holla! Once we are free from the Hypnotizing bondage of retail Hell, mono-cultural Haircare and the mayor Hallucinating something real...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:09:00 PST

Rev Billy and the Choir on the TODAY Show!

Check out the clip from the TODAY show, June 1st: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18971720/ A pastor preaches about consumerismJune 1: NBC's Natalie Morales reports on Rev. Billy's vibrant a...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:57:00 PST

How Do We Measure the Results of Our Work?

From Reverend Billy: The history of our activist experiment, if you date the Reverend Billy project in its present form from the last efforts to save the Esperanza garden, around the time of the WTO ...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:48:00 PST

Stopping the Biggest Shopping of All

From Reverend Billy: The Stop Shopping singers got up at 5 AM to Peace-a-lujah! all day in the halls of congress and they got back into their beds 22 hours later, about 3 AM in most cases. This day...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:39:00 PST

Space-alujah!

Read Reverend Billy and the rest of the Church blog regularly at The Stop Shopping Monitor. We'll post basic announcements here, but all content will be considered apocryphal for the purposes of Churc...
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Media From Shopocalpyse Tour 2005 Available

For radio interviews, articles, and video from the recently completed Shopocalpyse 2005 Tour, go here. For tour diaries from the Choir, Savitri D and the Rev Himself, go here. That is all....
Posted by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST