Cirque Du Soleil GOES INSANE

Super Geek League brings unique style to Babylon
Posted at 09:55 AM on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010
By Mike Osegueda / The Fresno Bee
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The oddest -- and probably the wildest -- night of music Fresno will see this year is tonight at Babylon when Super Geek League comes to town.

The Seattle-based band is basically its own sci-fi musical circus, complete with facepaint, outlandish costumes and a variety of on-stage antics, many of which aren't exactly appropriate to describe in the newspaper.

Included in the show are an acrobat, dancers (one of whom is originally from Fresno, more on that later) and "half-dead zombie pirates."

It sort of sounds like Cirque du Soleil ... gone insane.

As for the music, it's an odd mix: "Slipknot meets Mannheim Steamroller" is how the band describes its sound. It's based in hard rock, certainly isn't afraid to get funky, and has no problem jumping from genre to genre. For example, Super Geek League's most popular song is a rocked-out cover of a song by the rapper T.I.

SPECIAL TO THE BEE The Seattle-based Super Geek League is its own sci-fi musical circus, complete with facepaint, outlandish costumes and a variety of on-stage antics.

It's all built on a bit of sci-fi lore about the group chasing aliens from city to city.

The band's trusty leader is a guy who calls himself Commander Tomorrow. We chatted with him to find out what Super Geek League is all about.

As you might expect by now, his answers were anything but ordinary.

Question: I've seen and heard a lot about your live show. What's the band's approach to a live performance?

Answer: Our approach is simple: To produce the most mind-blowing, awe-inspiring live rock experience ever imagined. We pride ourselves on kicking as much ass as possible and blowing as many minds in the process.

Finish this: My favorite moment in our show is when ...

Confetti is blasting into the audience and the mesa quads are exploding and the crowd is starting to lose their minds.

How did Super Geek League get started?

In the Earth Consciousness Control Offices (ECCO) as a means of controlling the widespread panic of the human alien machine.

Your music seems to be all over the place. When someone asks "What kind of music do you play?" what do you say?

Sci-Fi Punk meets eclectic epic surrealism with a twist.

How many people total are on stage? Musicians? Dancers? What else?

Twelve musicians/performers, two exotic dancers, aerialists, stilt stunt man, gnomes, fire mimes, and a host of SGL characters and performers, including but not limited to: audience-surfing superhero Jimmy Scratchemicock, an overdosing Elvis armed with a toilet paper cannon, sexy alien post-apocalyptic cannibal chick, an eight-armed belly dancer, leprechauns, Kung Fu masters and ninjas, half-dead zombie pirates and human cakes. Believe you me, we have done everything you can think of onstage and things you haven't even thought of, and we are just getting better and more inventive as we go.

I hear one of your dancers is from Fresno. Is that what brings you here?

We are touring through Central California, Oregon, Nevada etc., and we had to stop in Fresno 'cause we hear there's substantial alien seismic activity there. And yes, one of our very own Gale Force does in fact hail from there. Oh and we love performing off the beaten track in smaller cities and towns 'cause people have way more fun.

What is the proper beverage to consume during a SGL show?

Mind Eraser.

Signing off, Commander Tomorrow.

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