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Reigning from Seattle, Titanium Sporkestra play marching band music like you’ve never heard it before. A typical Titanium Sporkestra performance involves booty shaking rhythms, heavy metal covers, flaming trombones and more. Titanium Sporkestra has performed all over the West Coast, won Burning Man last year, and are excited to continue banging and blowing into 2011.
www.TitaniumSporkesta.com
The surprise of the day came unannounced and brandishing trombones: Titanium Sporkestra, a heavy-metal marching band from Seattle, suddenly streamed through the main stage crowd and blasted, Sousa-style, 20-some minutes of Black Sabbath and Slayer covers. A dreadlocked drum major kept time and some of their horn players made it to an apartment balcony on the north side of Pike Street. The crowd in the immediate vicinity went berserk.
Canadian quartet Holy F! was sound-checking as the Sporkestra played "War Pigs," drummer Matt Schulz synching his drums on-stage with the marching band's in the crowd. It was an inspired, improvised moment of collaboration, one of the coolest moments of an already superlative day.
“There's a reason they're called band geeks: Around these parts, marching around in ridiculous hats like the first infantry doesn't exactly scream "hip." But Titanium Sporkestra, an eight-person drum band, takes the best aspects of marching bands...”
Sara Brickner - The Seattle Weekly
“In most bands, the drummer usually hangs out in the back, holding up a song without much fanfare, but these guys are all drums, all the time, and the results were decidedly favorable. If I see these guys on any bills in the future, I'll alert you.
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Sara Brickner - The Seattle Weekly
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Drum circles are passé. Titanium Sporkestra give you the drum octagon. Six drummers and two cymbal-clappers got down on the floor among the customers and brought a Burning Man meets marching band steez to the quarter-filled Neumos.
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The Stranger
