"Nobody" (Official Music Video) by The Sideshow Tragedy
Many of the other tunes on The View From Nowhere thematically play with the meaning of time (“Lost Time”, “The Long Time Coming”) with “Time to Taste” taking the Sideshow lads into a funk-filled James-Brownesque groove. On the final and title track, Singleton’s mysterious protagonist seems to be walking to the meter of a death march, but with a fierce determination to somehow stay alive:
“I’m searching through memory
For something to tether myself to
Something to have and to hold and to feed and to clothe
And make me honest too
But it slips through my fingers and I’m frozen in time
Like a clock without any hands
So I’ll just try and not forget my lines
And remember I’ve still got a chance”
It’s safe to say with this new record The Sideshow Tragedy will remain “a thinking man’s rumpshake” (Austin Chronicle). Producer Kenny Siegal describes the ingredients for that rumpshake: “Blown up Fender amps, old dobros tuned like baritone guitars, caveman guy banging on the drums, and dark poetic lyrics sung over the top of it all by a well-read, true Texan punk... What’s not to love?"
BIO
Hailing from Austin, Texas, The Sideshow Tragedy is an indie blues-roots-rock duo.
Frontman Nathan Singleton grew up paining in blues clubs in East Texas a a teenager, where his dad was (and is) an acoustic blues fanatic and collector of vintage National resonator guitars. Nathan devoured old blues music, while at the same time, gravitated toward listening to rock, punk rock, new wave, and legendary songwriters and musicians.
Singleton first met his songwriting partner and collaborator, drummer Jeremy Harrell in 2001. Harrell cut his teeth in East Texas as well, a self-taught musician, buying his first (secondhand) drum kit with his last $100 bucks. Jeremy says from the moment they met, they had a “telepathic connection”.
Named after references in a Rimbaud poem called “Parade,” The Sideshow Tragedy has been captivating audiences with their “unadulterated energy” (KUT) and “distinctive, dark, and ultimately uplifting” (Austin Chronicle) songs and live shows across Texas and much of the U.S. for over a decade, sharing the stage with Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, Black Joe Lewis, and many others.
