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About Me

Buy Thackeray Crap!!! here: http://www.cafepress.com/thackeraysDoublecrossed by a crooked landowner named Rockafellow and a priest of the Esoteric Order of Dagon named Thackeray, The Happy Day March Band were robbed, beaten, killed, and left in the woods of Hogshead, New Jersey on Walpurgisnacht of the year 1919. But due to the brutal nature of their slaying and certain qualities of the ether that night, the band was brought back to life, fated to wander the earth seeking kindred souls and salvation through their songs. With a constantly rotating cast of backup players, two charismatic frontmen, an accordion, and a shovel, Thackeray's Victims (as they are now called) are out to sow the seeds of fear, doubt, lust, and joy in the hearts of all they encounter, and hopefully, find a way to that rest that is accorded all good people. Thackeray's Victimsare part-time collaborators with the Lost Carnival Sideshow Congress of Anomalies, and have performed with such auspicious talents as The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Reverend Glasseye, and Malakoi. Book them to play your favorite bar, basement, alleyway or place of higher learning. They love you. They'd love to play for you. They need the money. Honest. They're both perfectly average height, but Dr. Talos is a little taller. E-mail those rascals at [email protected]

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Member Since: 10/28/2005
Band Website: thackeraysvictims.tripod.com/
Band Members:

Doctor Eugene Polyphemus Talos: Accordion, Lead vocals.

Claudius Noman Bloodblister: Gut-bucket, Shovel, washboard, harmonica, also Lead vocals,Lieslotte Banevoeg: Flute, Violin, Girl vocals, part time LCSCA Member,

Virtuoso Ritardando Allegretto: Part-time Bass Vocals, Moral support,

Giovanni "Shoeshine" Criminalli: Drum kit, occasional guitar, no vocals, lead or otherwise,

Your Mother: the rest of the band.

Influences: Reverend Glasseye, Tom Waits, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, The Tiger Lillies, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Napoleon Bonaparte, Tin Hat Trio, Johnny Cash, Cab Calloway, Teddy Roosevelt, Pete Seeger, Peter McConnell, Ghostface Killah, Gorillaz, Honest Clem Sanity, The Great Gonzo.
Sounds Like: If after passing out, you woke to the ship's surgeon's needle sewing the last stitch in your bodybag before throwing you to the briny deep, Thackeray's Victims would be the sounds of the blood pumping in your ears as the ocean depths crushed you.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Indefinite Hiatus

Ahoy, friends!Thackeray's Victims regret to inform you that we are currently on indefinite hiatus. We're not currently playing, we don't know when we'll be playing again. Time changes ever...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

OPEN AUDITIONS!

We will soon be hosting open auditions for guitarists, banjo players, violins, horns, and bass insturments. If you play any of these things, please contact us at [email protected]. P...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:24:00 PST

After tour, no shows 'till Sept.

So I've done it, kids. I'm off and travelling with the sideshow again, pausing only long enough to do this tour of ours, and then Doctor Talos is off to promote the oldest traveling sideshow in ...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:57:00 PST

Summer Tour Dates

July 20th: New Brunswick @ The Chum Dumpster with Redbear and Caleb Jehu 21st: Somewhere in Rockland County, NY -- maybe with 5FI 22nd: Somewhere in Boston 23rd: Providence @ Summer Camp with either ...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Tue, 23 May 2006 11:44:00 PST

Perhaps a new Web Site

So, we all know by now that the official Thackeray's Victims web-hole is pretty deplorable. Well I got in touch with a guy, see, through some sneaky dealings, and he's agreed (under coersion) to...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Fri, 12 May 2006 06:41:00 PST

New Crap on the Website

Hey, Kids! Go check out the website. For serious. Tons of new pictures and some drunken goofy sounds on the music page. You wanted to see Shoeshine? Boom; he's there. E...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:03:00 PST

Remember that new music I mentioned?

Hey kids! We've been digging through the vaults and found a live recording of the Happy Day March of which we were previously unaware. It'll probably the be the one that ends up on our EP (we...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:35:00 PST

Big East-Coast Summer Tour

So, we're putting together a big ol' summer East-Coast style tour. Our Comrades de Guerre, Malakoi, are actually doing all the planning. Apparently I'm not supposed to do anything but writ...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:53:00 PST

New Members, No Shows

So, we've got some new names on the roster. Tubas and drums and reeds of all kinds shall be played from here on out. If we haven't played a show in a good, long while, it's because we've b...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:04:00 PST

EP Update, Track List

Hey Kids, Bust out yer glad rags and head on out to the nearest gin mill, have we got news worth celebrating! Now nothing's been set to vinyl just yet, but what we have is a pretty tentative li...
Posted by Thackeray's Victims on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:29:00 PST