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About Me

Calamity Menagerie hail from all over the garden state as well as Queens, NY and PA. We feature members from The Omatics, Full of Fancy, Tonight We Dance, and Morb. Former members include members of Fuzzy Navel, The Opposites, and The Ergs.
" They are a musical entourage that is no stranger to the New Jersey music scene. Their music mixes the usual guitar, bass, drum lineup with xylophone, violin, synth, and accordion, making their sound anything but usual. They have an EP out on Danimal Records called "Tom Devil's New Year", which features songs from a full length movie that the band made with Devil Duck Productions that is also available on DVD. ."
We would like some horn players. Are you a horn player? Then we want you!
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Get the Tom Devil's New Year DVD!!!
Reviews of us: "a unique, bouncy sound emanating from such instruments as a xylophone, flute, and a violin."
- Asbury Park Press.

"Equal parts Phantom of the Opera, Danny Elfman, late-90's rock, and that grandmother who always pinches your cheeks raw in nightmares"
-Gorby's Corner Of Indifference The name dropping list: yo we've played with Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Jason Webley, Kevin Devine, Kiss Kiss, Corn Mo, The Burden Brothers, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Voltaire, Against All Authority, Suburban Legends, Patent Pending, The Feverfew, Shira Girl, Julz-A, Outsmarting Simon, Hidden in Plain View, Houston Calls, A Hero From A Thousand Paces, The Modern Day Saint, Days Like These, The Junior Varsity, and a bunch more emo bands

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/13/2004
Band Website: calamitymenagerie.cjb.net
Band Members: A Revolving Line Up Including or Excluding:
Tom DEVIL- guitar, vocals, keys
Mike Z- bass, accordion, vocals
Stefanie- xylophone, bass, keyboards, glockenspiel, vocals, kazoo, weird percussion stuff
Mark- drums
Erin- violin, vocals, bass, tamborine
Allison- keyboards, xylophone, tamborine, vocals
Matt- trumpet, sunglasses
Jason-trumpet, melaphone, more weird stuff
Chris-bass
Scruff-tamborine, vocals (for Supermarket Platypus Tour/other dates)

past Menageries have included:
Joey- drums (for Supermarket Platypus Tour)
Jaclyn- violin
Dave- keyboard, ukelele, saw
Jon- synth, pedal steel guitar, bass, vocals, guitar
Regan- tamborine, violin, keyboard, vocals
Diana- flute, keyboards, vocals
Jeff- drums, guitar, bass, synth, vocals
Influences: Oingo Boingo, Devo, Flaming Lips, They Might Be Giants, Talking Heads, Tears For Fears, Circus Contraption, Danny Elfman, Toadies, Flogging Molly
Sounds Like: A platypus with Rabies.
Record Label: Danimal Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Nominated for Parklife Productions’ Band of The Month

We've been nominated by Park Life Productions as a nominee for the "Band of the Month". It's an honor just to be nominated, but we need you to vote! Go to http://www. myspace. com/parklifep...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

demo up!

Yeah man, we have a demo... We recorded 25 songs for a demo in "the studio" (a new studio we’re working at) to determine which songs will make it to (gasp) the ALBUM! Uploaded is a new ver...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

Calamity Park Press

Yes, once again we’re in the Asbury Park Press! The story which is about Jamie, Calamity, and The O>matics appeared in Friday’s Asbury Park Press and can be read online at www.app.com
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:40:00 PST

"Feel No Pain" video on Vidrock.com!

Check out out live video of "Feel No Pain" recorded for Vidrock.com! http://www.vidrock.com/Videos/calamity%20menagerie_feel%20no %20pain.htm...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:11:00 PST

80’s Song on "Get Heard Volume 7"

You can hear the first ever Calamity Menagerie song "80's Song" on Danimal Records' compilation "Get Heard Volume 7" alongside bands like Suicide City, A Hero From A Thousand Paces, Ropetree, and more...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:22:00 PST

Calamity nominated for the 2007 Asbury Music Awards

We've been nominated for the 2nd year for "Top Avant Garde Act" for the 15th Annual Asbury Music Awards. The winners will be announced November 17th @ The Stone Pony. &...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:09:00 PST

end of the Supermarket Platypus Tour

We got back in one piece and it was a blast! We met some really awesome bands, people, and animals! Thanks a million times to everybody who set up a show, let us crash at their house, fed us, bathed u...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:58:00 PST

Calamity in Asbury Park Press/The Islander

Mr. Stephen Bove wrote a swell article about us here: http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709070320
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:29:00 PST

Calamity mentioned in Asbury Park Press

Here's an article about our show that happened on 1/12 http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701120307
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:40:00 PST

CM on Get Heard Volume 5 @ Asbury Music Awards

Well we lost the Asbury Music Awards category for best Avante Garde, but nobody else gave out their song for free to everybody at the awards show! Calamity as well as bands like Lourds, Ropetree,...
Posted by Calamity Menagerie on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:03:00 PST