Category Archives: Team Bios

Getting to Know the Kilted Farmer Team – Erica

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Next up in our series of Kilted Farmer Team bios is Erica, who is at the cutting edge of a ton of underground and generally under appreciated music. Previous team bios are here.

Name:
Erica

Role:
Street team member

Current Favorite Album:
Icon: Koru by SITD

Most anticipated album of 2012:
Letting Go by Stray

Favorite Recently Released Album (within the past year):
Nightglory by Kirlian Camera

Touring act you’ve seen live the most times:
it’s a tie between VNV Nation & Tori Amos (4x each)

Most memorable past live show
Unter Null at Ground Zero in 2010

What are you most excited about musically right now
Ashbury Heights is working on new music after a legal battle with its label Out of Line

Name one band you think deserves more recognition
Javelynn (featuring ex-Ashbury Heights singer Yasmine Uhlin)

Other music related activities
The Twin Cities Underground blog

Getting To Know the Kilted Farmer Team – Alice

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Kilted Farmer Koncerts logoName: Alice Gray Marks
Role: Street-team, fangirl

Current favorite album:
The Shins, Wincing the Night Away

Most anticipated album of 2012:
the next one from Dead Can Dance

Favorite recently released album (within the past year):
Tom Waits, Bad As Me

Most memorable past live show:
Einstürzende Neubauten at First Ave

Touring act you’ve seen live the most times:
Probably Assemblage 23 by now.

What are you excited about musically right now?
Going to Kinetik* in Montreal this spring after goth prom.

Name one band you think deserves more recognition:
The Bellwether Syndicate

Other music related activities:
Co-head of Goth Prom

*Yes, Kinetik 2012 is over. Alice sent in her answers before the festival, but your friendly Kilted Farmer webmaster was not so on top of things with this post!

Getting to Know the Kilted Farmer Team – Lauri

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Name: Lauri D
Role: street team, fan

Current Favorite Album:
The Hunger (band) – Leave Me Alone

Most anticipated album of 2012:
Depeche Mode

Favorite recently released album (within the past year):
Ministry – Relapse

Most memorable past live show:
Juliette Lewis @ Station 4

Touring act you’ve seen live the most times:
Depeche Mode 8x’s

What are you excited about musically right now?
Going to see Ministry in Chicago this June.

Name one band you think deserves more recognition:
Gabriel and The Apocalypse

Other music related activities:
TravLaur Productions

Of the Kilted Farmer shows you have helped promote or attended which has been your favorite?
Cruxshadows @ The Varsity

Getting to Know the Kilted Farmer Team – Henry

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And the team bios just keep coming. This time, it’s Henry’s turn. Check out previous bios here. We’ll be profiling more Kilted Farmer team members periodically, so stay tuned.

Name: Henry Ostby

Role: Gender Bender/Santa’s Little Helper

Current favorite album: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

Most anticipated album of 2012: Born Villan

Favorite recently released album (within the past year): Apoptygma Berzerk Black EP Vol 2

Most memorable past live show: Marilyn Manson @ The Myth 02-08-08 (That’s my vale!)

Touring act you’ve seen live the most times: Marilyn Manson X5 (Soon to be X6)

Of the Kilted Farmer shows you have helped promote or attended, which has been your favorite?
I would have to say…hmm. I remember Seabound being very good. I would have to say that my favorite would have to be that I have a wonderful time whenever De/Vision comes to Mpls. I like them and they seem to have grown so much over the years. Been to all 3 shows. : )

What are you excited about musically right now? Icon Of Coil tour.

Name one band you think deserves more recognition. Gabriel and the Apocalypse.

Other music related activities: Seeing Rammstein for the first time ever after waiting over ten years. Hot.

Getting to Know the Kilted Farmer Team – Renee

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I suppose I’ll go next in our series of introductions. If you missed the post on our Fearless Leader, Trace, check it out here. Check back for more introductions..or better yet, follow this blog, subscribe to our RSS feed, or follow/friend/like us via our social media pages.

Name: Renee (aztalanturf)

Role: Internet addict (Webmaster, Tweeter, Facebooker) and flyerer

Current favorite album:
Caution by Left Spine Down

Most anticipated album of 2012:
Not Your Kind of People by Garbage

Favorite recently released album (within the past year):
Gabriel and the Apocalypse, New World Disaster

Most memorable Kilted Farmer show:
I:Scintilla, Thought Thieves and Cwn Annwn at Ground Zero, March 30, 2012

Most memorable non-Kilted Farmer show:
Garbage at The El Rey in Los Angeles, April 10, 2012

Touring act you’ve seen live the most times:
Tie between VAST and The Dreaming (5 times each)

What are you excited about musically right now?
All the great bands in Minnesota like Gabriel and the Apocalypse, The Rope, Thought Thieves, Cwn Annwn, Gospel Gossip, Agora Forte, Thira, Screaming Mechanical Brain, As/Of, OBCT, Whithering the Tide, The Trapezoids, Mach Fox, Static Image, Funeral & the Twilight…The list goes on.

Name one band you think deserves more recognition:
Violet Winter from Chicago

Other music related activities:
Host of Aztalan Turf Podcast, concert photographer in training, and crazy Garbage fangirl

Get to Know the Kilted Farmer Team – Trace

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Kilted Farmer Koncerts is composed of a group of people who eat, sleep and breathe music, and in particular, live music. You’ll often see us at shows featuring local, national and international acts, at dance nights such as Chamber, Transmission, Hard Mondays or the various dance nights at Ground Zero, at the Elysium Society’s Gothic Coffee meetups, or Goth Prom planning meetings. You might also see us around the web blogging, podcasting, posting about music, or discussing music at Dark Twin Cities.

Some of you know us and some of you don’t, so we’ll be doing a series of “getting to know you” blog posts to give you an idea of who we are via some things that have caught our attention musically. First up is our fearless leader, Trace.

Name:
Trace (The Kilted Farmer)

Role:
Fearless leader

Current favorite album:
Journey – Eclipse

Most anticipated album of 2012:
Pet Shop Boys – Format

Favorite recently released album (within the past year):
Van Halen – A Different Kind of Truth

Most memorable past live show:
Journey at Moondance Jam 2009

Of the shows you’ve promoted, which has been the most memorable:
Information Society/Moulin Noir @ Varsity in 2009!!!

Touring act you’ve seen live the most times:
Poison – 4X

What are you excited about musically right now?:
The upcoming concert schedule that we are planning and that me and my wife are planning on attending!! (She won’t go to Rammstein with me though. Hates Them!!)

Name one band you think deserves more recognition:
Gabriel and the Apocalypse

Other music related activities:
Singing in the tractor!!