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My Tiny Circus

You had me at 'Sweaty Gimp'

About Me


It's a very fine line between control and chaos and those who can consistently operate close to or on the line are considered geniuses whatever their discipline. Those who rush at the line or cross it are considered at best idiots and at worst, dangerous.
My Tiny Circus is no stranger to the line, we flirt with the line and then, when the line is suitably smitten, we slyly carress it. Sometimes the line responds and sometimes our affections are spurned. It is a fickle line and we are inexperienced lovers. If sometimes we cross the line, it's only because we want to see what it looks like from the other side and are prepared for the consequences of our curiosity. Are we idiots or geniuses ? Neither...or possibly both.
My Tiny Circus, The idiot savants of Ottawa's Anarcho-LoungeCore scene (Possibly we are Ottawa's Anarcho-LoungeCore scene...if you know different please tell us - Perhaps we can double date), use the finest musicians available cheaply and at short notice to perform original songs about Satan, sin, sex, stalking and alliteration in a breezy lounge-pop style. We're such a large band because, when you're working this close to the line, from whichever side, there's safety in numbers.
When you get bored with the songs on this site (I know it's unlikely but indulge me), please visit My Tidy Circus at www.myspace.com/mytidycircus for live tracks, radio interviews and other MTC related musical detritus.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/16/2006
Band Website: mytinycircus.com
Band Members: If you come and see us live, you will see several and possibly all of the following band members:

Sacha Gabriel - Vocals
DJ Stevie Steve - Piano
MC Mary Mack - Drums
Jonny O - Percussion
DJ Darkside - Bass
B-Boy Badweather - Guitar
Ice-D - Saxophones
The Notorious KiD - Trombone
RaTaTa - Flute

The following exiled former band members are currently forbidden to come within 200 feet of My Tiny Circus under the conditions of their respective restraining orders because of "the unpleasantness". Their names are only mentioned here as an example to others:

MixMaster Meiko - Flugelhorn
D-Rush - Trumpet

Influences:
The Divine Comedy, Cake, Ben Folds, The Bad Plus, Bernard Herrmann, Danny Elfman, John Barry, The Beautiful South, Leonard Bernstein, Joe Meek, The Turtles, Gary Numan, Elliott Smith, Philip Glass, Bach, Wendy Carlos, Fad Gadget, Leon Theremin, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Parliament Funkadelic, The Beatles, Steely Dan, Dusty Springfield, The Four Tops, Burt Bacharach, Handel, The BBC Radiophonics Workshop, Tori Amos, Ian Dury, Propellerheads, Fatboy Slim, Madness, The Temptations, Squeeze, Michael Nyman, Roxy Music, The Carpenters, The Mamas and the Papas, The Dandy Warhols, Sly and the Family Stone, Placebo, Keith Emerson, CAN, DAF, KLF, The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu, Kraftwerk, Nirvana, Fountains of Wayne, Primus, They Might Be Giants, The Beach Boys, Prince, Kate Bush, Scarlatti, The Barenaked Ladies, Stevie Wonder, Thomas Dolby, The Human League, Raymond Scott, Half Man Half Biscuit, Frank Zappa and anybody else who just wants to play their music without being hassled by "The Man"

Sounds Like: The band that the Ottawa Citizen called "The sound of sweet subversion" and of whom Upfront Ottawa magazine advised you to "Set your ass to sway" - My Tiny Circus sounds like the bastard love child of Gilberto Gil and Insane Clown Posse mewling and puking into a strong headwind.

You, dear MySpace readers, have already proven yourselves smart and creative enough to ....

A) Operate a computer and navigate the web
B) Come up with an amusing MySpace account name e.g. "Dave" (Yes I mean you Dave Halabisky)
C) Leave amusing messages, e.g. "UR HOT !!!", "U SUK !!!", "U ROK !!!" "Your references to Proustian involuntary memory in Tom Perdu are poorly thought out and badly executed !!!" etc.

...and are surely imaginative enough to know what the outcome of that bizarre coupling would be and so for us to further explain would be pointless.

If you really want to know what we sound like then come and see us live IF YOU DARE !!! .....and if you happen to live conveniently close to Ottawa, have nothing better to do on a Saturday night and have five bucks burning a hole in your pocket. It'll be the best evening of Anarcho-LoungeCore you'll ever attend.

As the lovely Alan Neal said of us on the CBC Radio 1 program Bandwidth, "A band that can only be described as off the wall" and we don't think he was referring to the Michael Jackson album....or was he ?

Type of Label: None

My Blog

We're back and we're angry !!!

After a somewhat longer than planned hiatus due to babies, home renovations, day jobs and alien abductions (not sure about that last one), My Tiny Circus is back and this time it's personal. At y...
Posted by My Tiny Circus on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:37:00 PST

OCD top 16 friends

I've decided to pander to my Obsessive Compulsive side and have arranged My Tiny Circus' top 16 friends in photo height order. Anybody got a problem with that ? Possibly short, wide people. Sacha is t...
Posted by My Tiny Circus on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:51:00 PST

Fear Of Norwich

As we edge ever nearer to completion of the CD A la recherche de Tom Perdu (release date November 5th....possibly) I'm posting rough mixes as they occur hence Fear Of Norwich. Musicians on this track ...
Posted by My Tiny Circus on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:52:00 PST

MTC CD release imminent !

Well, Imminent might be pushing it a bit but I have set a release date in the hope that I'll be galvanised into action by the impending deadline. Ever the optimist.... A la recherche de Tom Perdu will...
Posted by My Tiny Circus on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:23:00 PST

My Tiny Circus summer hiatus

My Tiny Circus are all pregnant and will be taking a month or two off for maternity leave after our gig at Avant Garde on 21st July. So that our enormous fan base can get enough live Circus to sustain...
Posted by My Tiny Circus on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:25:00 PST

I've posted Tom Perdu for your listening pleasure

I've posted a rough mix of Tom Perdu for your listening pleasure. I shall do a much improved version for the CD which may even get called A la recherche de Tom Perdu. Who knows ? Certainly not me - I'...
Posted by My Tiny Circus on Mon, 29 May 2006 06:37:00 PST