Flaming Fire

The Flaming Fire
The Flaming Fire
Origin	Lauren Weinstein; Theo Edmands; Kathleen Peistrup Hambrecht; Lou Underwood; Lisa Darrow Badavi; Banjo Pete; Camilla Ha; Jonathan Ackerman; John Mathias; Sheila Bosco; Danny Tunick; Brian Wilson; Leon Dewan; Brian Dewan; Zach Layton; Sarah Blust; JZ Barrell; Josh Aerosols; Rob Aerosols; Joe Armin Aerosol; Mark Wolberg; Natasha Lewin; Natalie Unicorn; John Keen; Dale W. Miller of Palomar (band); John drummer from Helios Creed; Joe McGinty; Chris Talsness; Polly Watson; Stirling Kusing; Amanda Sayle Rinzel; Anna Copa Cabanna; Gabriel Galvin; Nick Anderson; Justina Heckard; Trent Wolbe; Maria Levitsky; Sam Goldsmith; Chris Theise; Pamelia Kurstin; Jorge Antonius; Arthur Owens; Lennon Olivia
Website	flamingfire.com

Flaming Fire is an American

arts collective and experimental rock band from Brooklyn, New York, United States, which formed in 2000.^[1]

Other projects include live performance, film, comics and the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible^[2] (described as the largest illustrated Bible in the world).

The band is on

The Omaha World Herald, The Omaha Reader, The Lincoln Journal Star, Blastitude, Dead Angel, Mick Mercer's The Mick and Baltimore City Paper

.

The group features cartoonist

Southern Baptist from Papillion, Nebraska, moved to New York City in 1996.^[1] Their music has been described as a mix of psychedelic folk, noise music and pop music, similar to other New Weird America artists, but with a more aggressive, transgressive bent, akin to bands like Psychic TV. The group's prior incarnation, Rock Rock Chicken Pox, featured Dame Darcy and members of Laddio Bolocko

.

The band has three albums; Get Old and Die with Flaming Fire, Songs from the Shining Temple[1] and When the High Bell Rings. Their music has been featured on various compilations, including WFMU's Tunes From the Toxic Terrain and Psycho-O-Path Records' Space is No Place, NYC: Noise from the Underground.

In December 2009, the arts collective organized a holiday art show and performance space in Brooklyn entitled "The Flaming Fire Temple Presents: Eternal Christmas – A Yuletide Dreamland", sponsored by Atlantic Assets and Issue Project Room. The show featured visual art by Camilla Ha, Dame Darcy,

Vice Magazine and The New York Times

, and kept a website.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Proskocil, Niz (August 28, 2003). "Band asks concertgoers to make art of a Bible verse: Rocking the Bible", Omaha World-Herald, p. GO9.
^ Smietana, Bob (2003). "Drawing the Bible verse by verse", Religion News Service. Reprinted in Regina Leader-Post, December 6, 2003, p. G6.

Other sources

New Yorker Review: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2007/03/26/070326goni_GOAT_nightlife?currentPage=2
Vice Magazine Interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20090425093807/http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2007/01/new_york_flamin.html
New York Times Interview: https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E6DA153AF933A15757C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=
Vice Magazine article on Eternal Christmas: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2009/12/16/flaming-fire-presents-eternal-christmas-a-yuletide-dreamland/^{[permanent dead link]}
New York Times blog on Eternal Christmas: https://archive.today/20130104092609/http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/snow-drives-back-the-foot-thats-slow/

External links

Official website

[World-Herald-1] Proskocil, Niz (August 28, 2003). "Band asks concertgoers to make art of a Bible verse: Rocking the Bible", Omaha World-Herald, p. GO9.

[2] Smietana, Bob (2003). "Drawing the Bible verse by verse", Religion News Service. Reprinted in Regina Leader-Post, December 6, 2003, p. G6.

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