Rockin the party in your pants and earholes 24/7 with flags drums and horns.
The Extra Action Marching Band is a collision of big band and ecstatic turmoil. Despite their name they rarely march, but rather shimmy, crawl, mob and charge. Trumpets pounce like eagles, tubas drip ass-bouncing blurps from fat fingers. Drums shudder under wild eyed, white knuckled drummers. Through it all winds the flag team,, glittering and sinuous creatures, who masterfully pulsate pom-poms in a hypnotic fantasy. The listener is hoodwinked, soaked, and savaged into giddy abandon. Powerful and empowering, the Extra Action Marching Band seduces the pre-civilized will. They are immediate and visceral. They are a parody of idioms with shattering volume - guerrilla theater with the rug rolled up. Extra Action has performed in back alleys, the countryside of Serbia, and at the Hollywood Bowl. They have played Black Sabbath in a synagogue for dancing octogenarians, - but the preferred venue is a small ,locked room with the heat turned up. As the sound boils into a spinning crossfire, sweat and flying hair tangle in a delicious knot. Audience and band submit together, to each other, to the whim and fancy, to satisfaction. Irresistible.
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Fan of the English ska bands The Selecter and Specials, she learned to play saxophone and moved to San Francisco when she was a teenager, forming the all girl punk quartet Subtonix. Shortly after, she experimented with singing and started The Vanishing. In 2004 she moved to Berlin where she formed the synthetic duet Autonervous with Bettina Koester of the German all girl dark wave band Malaria!
In 2009, her first solo album "Is it Fire ?" was be recorded in Mexico and co-produced by Pepe Mogt (Nortec Collective). This album feat. Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees) and long time drummer Toby Dammit (Iggy Pop).