White Collar Sideshow

Artist Information

Biography

“A movement, if you will…a revolution of the heart”
………….fantasy or reality…
………obsession or addiction…
…………..pleasure or pain…
………………life & death…
…An intense theatrical music performance, using bass and drums, White Collar Sideshow marches us through the mind of an addict and takes us on a journey down the road to true freedom.
…Based on actual events, T.D. Benton, the ringleader challenges us with his story using video, symbolism, and characters, like the faceless woman, the mask, and the leech to create a truly remarkable message on hidden addiction.
…The challenge: to use…
…~HONESTY~ & ~INTEGRITY~…
…~PASSION~ & ~PURPOSE~…
…to shine through the gloom and to help us all realize we are not alone and we all make mistakes.
…Built on drive and determination, the “sideshow” brings enthusiasm & excitement to a theme that has been kept “secret” behind closed doors for so long. …What is the true significance behind White Collar Sideshow? To parade change, demonstrate our lives can be different and to exemplify TRUE LIFE!

White Collar Sideshow has been living on the road full time since November 2008. TD and Veronica left the American Dream to pursue life as gypsies. They left careers, sold their 4 bedroom house, 3 cars and live full time in their RV.

In December 2011, WCS was in the studio in Hollywood working on their second project titled, "The WitcHunt."
...The next installment of the traveling White Collar Sideshow series- ...Diving into film, media and live performance, dreamer and creator T.D. Benton(Crash Landing, LLC) alongside the "WCS" media mastermind film/editor Travis Joiner(777 Productions) are soon to bring you a film and live performance based on 7 hidden addictions, and the personal hell that goes through the mind of an addict as each individual's life slowly falls apart.
...Based on actual events, T.D. Benton challenges the audience, before going on needless, shameless witch hunts and destroying other people's lives, we should point the finger at our own hearts. We should confront what mask we are hiding behind when we deal with our own hidden addictions. Real human beings- ones that make mistakes, and ones who are honest about our mistakes!

Instrumentation

TD Benton - Vocals, Drums
The Faceless Woman - Bass
Herr Schwine - Drums
Leech - Auxiliary Percussion

Discography

The WitcHunt (release date 9/2012) Recorded in 12/11 with Chris Baseford (Rob Zombie, Tommy Lee, CeeLo Green)
-American Lies
-Go Eat Worms
-Monster Me
-This Is A Kill
-Moonshine
-Black Heart Hearse
-Try The Swine
-Light Up The Dead

White Collar Sideshow self titled 5 song EP (2007)
-Birdfed Thru IVs
-A Shameful Apprentice
-Parasite Matrimony
-Surreptitious Descent
-Pardon Thy Monster, Which has seen Radio Airplay

Links

• Facebook
• Last.fm
• MySpace
• Twitter
• YouTube
• WCS 2 - The WitcHunt

Audio

• Birdfed Thru IV's
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• Surreptitious Descent
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• The Parasite Matrimony
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• Pardon Thy Monster
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• Light Up The Dead
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• Try The Swine
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• Moonshine
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Video

WITCHUNT TEASER 2011.mov

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Press

• MarchN2Madness Tour [+ Show ]
  

  I can definitely say I wasn't aptly prepared for the following set. As we watched them set up on the...I can definitely say I wasn't aptly prepared for the following set. As we watched them set up on the tiny stage, we observed a man wearing a top hat, curly mustache, formal vest and sporting tattoo covering nearly every bit of exposed skin. He was carrying items like a unicycle, beer kegs, and a tree saw onto the stage. Meanwhile, a woman in a purple dress that exposed her tattoo-clad arms was setting up a small screen and projector that soon was displaying overwhelming statistics about the problem of porn running rampant in even the lives of Christian men and women today. It was only then that we realized this wasn't just an eccentric secular local act, but the first performance as part of the March N2 Madness Tour. Front man T.D. Benton soon introduced himself and his band of performers as White Collar Sideshow and began to share mysteriously about addictions and the masks that people wear in public, while we might do other ugly things behind closed doors. As they played their first song, we soon realized that the band merely consisted of two drummers and a bassist. No singer. No guitarist. The woman in the purple dress now donned a creepy white "faceless" mask, and the other member, whose eyes had black circles of makeup under them, was soon wearing a ghastly pig-face mask, sitting behind a drum set. As Benton and the other drummer performed simultaneously on their respective kits, and the "faceless woman" played bass, clips from old black and white horror films were projected onto the side screen (nothing gory or grotesque). Voices from different films and speakers were spliced together, while words flashed almost subliminally during the movie clips. Benton's drum kit featured a large buzz saw as one of his cymbals, and at different times during the band's set, he'd beat on the tree saw with a drum stick as he bent it for different pitches, or he'd spin the unicycle and smack its spokes. The Sideshow created a surreal and dreamlike experience, fabricating an often creepy feel, which served as an appropriate setting for Benton to share about being a recovered drug addict and porn addict. Phillip, the band's mask-wearing drummer, even took some of Benton's talking interludes as a chance to hop into the audience while wearing the unnerving pig face mask to intimidate members of the crowd. Phillip would then climb back on stage and behind his kit to resume playing. White Collar Sideshow closed their engaging and unique set, after several songs, with "Pardon Thy Monster," and left the stage for a set change. They're the kind of act that would have been an ideal match for Showbread (most likely right before their set, too), so I can easily see why they were billed for this tour.

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