We'll be playing a couple of shows in the Denver area before our trip to the Pacific Northwest. Below is a complete listing of all upcoming shows with
the dates and times:
June 2 - Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut Street - Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 295-1868 (with Hamster Theatre)
June 15 - Mercury Cafe - 2199 California St. - Denver, CO 80205 (303) 294-9281
June 29 - The Olympia Experimental Music Festival - The Northern - 414 1/2 Legion Way, Olympia, WA 98501
June 30 - Seaprog Festival - Columbia City Theatre - 4916 Rainier Ave S - Seattle WA 98118
We hope to see you at some of these shows. Please tell your friends about them.
We had a successful performance on Sept 22nd, 2012 at the R.I.O. Fest in Carmaux, France.
Here are photos from the show (courtesy of the site ProgRockFoto)
We were honoured to be invited. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us.
Meanwhile, Thinking Plague (with sister band Hamster Theatre) completed a "mini-tour" in November 2011, which included successful shows at the Cuneifest in Baltimore and The Stone in New York
as well as a show and an interactive "living room" concert in Philadelphia.
Here's a review of Cuneifest by Rafaella Berry
Here's a review of our show at The Stone by JG Thirwell
A little while back, Bob Drake uncovered some gems from the vault. A bit of audio history...
Doppleganger
Bladder
Mudmen 1
Mudmen 2
Mudmen 3
Mudmen 4
Mudmen 5
Warheads (circa 1981)
In early 2009, Thinking Plague performed live at The Laughing Goat in Boulder, Colorado and also at the King Center Concert Hall in Denver, CO.
Photos from the King Center concert can be found here in the TP 2009 gallery.
And here are a few videos from the show as well:
Gudamy Le Mayagot
Dead Silence
Commentary (Piano Solo)
Maelstrom
Thinking Plague completed a successful mini-tour of Europe in March-April 2008, having performed at:
Le Triton - Les Lilas (Paris) France
Kulturhaus Cairo - Wurzburg, Germany
L'Usine, Geneva, Switzerland (with What's Wrong With Us)
Legend 54 Club , Milan, Italy (with Yugen)
Gouveia Art Rock Festival - Gouveia, Portugal
You Tube has a few brief videos from Le Triton, Wurzburg
and Gouveia, including this one and a number of others ...
And here are photos from Gouveia, featuring new co-vocalist Elaine DiFalco and regular vocalist Deborah Perry - as well as the "Bear
Dog"....
TP soundman and pal, Udi Koomran, recounts his experience of the
mini-tour on his excellent blog.
New Section- MUSINGS!
We've added a section called Musings (on the menu to the left). This section will feature interesting writings on
Plague history and other subjects.
The current musings are by Bob Drake, who talks about the recording of the very first Thinking Plague album.
You can also click here to read it.
Hamster Theatre News
The latest album The Public Execution of Mr. Personality and Quasi Day Room: Live at the Moore Theatre is now available from Cuneiform.
Click here to buy it.
You can also read more about Hamster Theatre here and here.
Here's a review of the album
Upon Both Your Houses (Thinking Plague live in concert at NEARFest 2000) is now available from NEARFest Records
"A stunning document of Rock-In-Opposition at its finest. Thinking Plague delivers a commanding set of highly technical and challenging, yet melodic compositions in a manner that must be heard to believe. The masterful musicianship displayed by this sextet is exquisite. They draw from obvious progressive rock sources, but refuse to merely relive the 70's as they push their unique brand of music forward."
NEARFest Records
A History of Madness, Thinking Plague's latest studio album, is currently available from Cuneiform Records
"If you thought prog rock and concept albums were a thing of the past, Thinking Plague is here to prove you wrong. And if you thought prog rock had to be terminally self-indulgent and concept albums a pretentious waste of time, they're here to prove you even more wrong. Sounding something like a Henry Cow for the digital age, on A History of Madness Thinking Plague lays down some of the most rhythmically complex, texturally inventive, and melodically challenging popular music of the last 30 years, and somehow makes it all sound easy and natural."
Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
Read other reviews of these albums
Listen to samples and/or purchase these albums