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the shaking ray levi society presents:
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
(SUN CITY GIRLS) WITH SUOMI AND THE NEW BINKLEY BROTHERS

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 9:00 PM
JJ'S BOHEMIA (231 MLK BLVD.), CHATTANOOGA, TN
$8

SIR RICHARD BISHOP, best known as a member of the incomparable SUN CITY GIRLS, combines his improv and compositional wizardry with an astounding technical mastery of
the guitar and diverse influences (Spanish gypsy and flamenco, Southeast Asian, North African, to name a few.) His lightning-fast picking and mind-bending melodies will make sure no jaws are left undropped.

Pitchfork review of Improvika: “…he moves with such frantic dexterity that it's difficult to imagine someone's mind operating that quickly, let alone their fingers. Rather than mere technical proficiency, however, it's Bishop's uncanny ability to translate and synthesize the many and varied tongues of his antecedents that makes Improvika so intoxicating.” — Matthew Murphy

QUOTES ABOUT THE SUN CITY GIRLS:
"The Sun City Girls are America's premier underground band. No qualifiers such as ‘arguably’ or ‘possibly’ are necessary.“ — Derek Monypeny, Popwatch

“If there's one band in the world it would be impossible to form a ‘tribute’/cover band for, here it is. The Sun City Girls' repertoire includes psychedelic pop fuzz, sardonic protest folk, creepy musique concrète, blindingly loud noise, bizarre free jazz, gorgeous Spanish lullabies, vibrating insect drones, spacetrucking jams, paranoid monologues, dusty cowboy ballads, crusty lounge music, perfectly rendered trad jazz, science-fiction sound effects, prank phone call recordings, and anthemic punk rock—not to mention myriad musical styles associated with the Far East, North Africa, South America, the Middle East, Haiti, and outer space.” — Mike McGonigal, Seattle Weekly