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About Me

all extraordinary things come to an end. talk engine as it was is no longer recording or gigging (shit, you might have noticed, it's been a while).i've moved to new digs on my space -- please come visit and friend me at www.myspace.com/jackiesheeler - that's where new tracks are being uploaded, gigs are being listed, and art is being perpetrated. leaving the old bio up here for strictly sentimenal reasons!Talk Engine, an east coast band formed in 2003, is fronted by Jackie Sheeler, an award-winning songwriter and activist who has recently been named the Poet Laureate of Rikers Island due to her volunteer work with young prisoners in NYC. The band has one single and one full-length CD that you can still buy on CDbaby, iTunes, and Amazon.Jackie and the band have headlined at major east coast venues and performed live on national radio stations such as NPR and WBAI. The band was once characterized in this way: "if Lou Reed & Patti Smith had coupled, the result might be something like the rocking and raw Jackie Sheeler." We've also been compared to Cake, the Doors, and Marianne Faithfull.After a recent performance, NYC club impresario Bob Holman said Talk Engine cooks, burns and blistersa riot of words and music and sheer sound energy. If you ain't dancing by the end of a set, it's cause you're flying.

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Member Since: 5/6/2005
Band Website: talkengine.net
Band Members: Jackie Sheeler: vocals, lyrics | Landru von Dige: guitar, bass | occasional visiting artists
Influences: patti smith, busta rhymes, stevie ray vaughn, tom waits, rick james, the doors. cake. concrete blonde. the dresdon dolls. bettie serveert. tricky.
Sounds Like: somebody said we sound like Cake meets Frank Zappa. what do YOU think?
Record Label: we self-produce on our own Engineous label
Type of Label: None

My Blog

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Posted by Talk Engine on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:02:00 PST

new blog home! www.getangrywithme.com

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Posted by Talk Engine on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:11:00 PST

gigs. sigh.

you just never know. you get booked. you don't have time to check out the venue. the booker leaves you about 1,000 postcards to distribute 3 weeks before the event. but you barely have time to practic...
Posted by Talk Engine on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:30:00 PST

all this shit shouldn't be this hard

so i, which means we, got a full half-page with HUGE photo (thank god not a bad one) in the New York Times today. it may be our 15 minutes of antifame, since so much of it surrounds jackie's sordid pa...
Posted by Talk Engine on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:22:00 PST

am i the only one who finds this annoying?

so you spend a lot of time writing, editing, posting a blog. a worthy blog, something that seems to warrant a wider audience. but nobody without a MySpace login can see it. we did not realize this un...
Posted by Talk Engine on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:11:00 PST

some nice new reviews!

been lazy out. been quiet on the blog site as the band restructures itself while promoting the CD. making good progress on both sides, and we just got some really nice reviews -- one at music street j...
Posted by Talk Engine on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:21:00 PST

what's going on with us, sorta

it's like a cliche, record is finished, band breaks up. that's not exactly what happened, but almost. jaxx and landru are still here. everybody else (i.e., the rhythm section) gone. so? so. new band, ...
Posted by Talk Engine on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:24:00 PST

Karen Curious & The New Professionals @ CMJ

first, of all, karen is so gracious about being given such a sucky slot - first band on a menu of several bands being pushed up the CMJ stovepipe like so many columns of smoke... she turned it into a ...
Posted by Talk Engine on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:27:00 PST

geritol my ass!

our good friend karen gave jaxx a ticket to see the Stones at madison square garden as a birthday present. she's never seen them live, likes their music but wouldn't call herself a fan. made jokes abo...
Posted by Talk Engine on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:46:00 PST

we love the tribeca rock club!

imagine this -- a sound man who cares about the sound. imagine monitors all around the stage that actually sound good. imagine speakers booming through the club with a perfect mix, imagine being able ...
Posted by Talk Engine on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:38:00 PST