The Heroine Sheiks

Whether taking the stage nude, genitalia lathered in shaving cream, howling in to the mike with mousetraps dangling from his ears, or doing headstands on the membership PA stack within a platinum blonde hairpiece or shower cover, Shannon Selberg’s profession with Minneapolis’ infamous Cows was not subtle. By the first to middle-’90s, Selberg acquired surfaced because the Crispin Glover from the sound rock community, referred to as very much for his quixotic character features and stage clothes as his freaked-out drawn-on body art and demented bugle playing. And during the period of almost twelve albums, the Cows demonstrated their Tourette’s rock and roll mettle through tour after tour. Once the music group finally known as it quits on the tail end of 1998, after almost 14 years within the trenches, Selberg discovered himself surviving in NEW YORK without a music group. Moreover, he was with out a forum for his twisted, unstable Vaudeville action. Enter the Heroine Sheiks. Founded in early 1999, the music group also features previous Swans and Foetus guitarist Norman Westberg. Cherry choosing the finest factors of both Westberg’s NY art/scum scene as well as the Cows lysergic punk, the Heroine Sheiks surfaced having a peculiar crossbreed of avant-noise and rock and roll abandon. After a short EP on previous Cows house Amphetamine Reptile Information later that yr, the music group released it’s debut recording, Rape within the Installment Strategy, via Baltimore’s Reptilian Information in 2001. Eric Capable took the area of keyboardist Scott Hill for a limited period, however when Hill retuned, Capable merely switched to bass. It had been this lineup that documented and released Siamese Tube in 2002.