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NEWS
10-6-2006

I am sure you have all heard about our all ages show at the farmers market on the 28th by now... but what you might not know is that TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW at CRAZY MIKES VIDEO on Lakeway next to Little Skeezers and Cost Cutter. The venue only has a few hundred person compacity, and there is a chance that it could sell out. So....... if you are really really really wanting to see us in our fucking element, you should buy your tickets ahead of time just in case. See you ALL there.

love,
BENt

10-2-2006

what the hell is bent doing?

we are drinkin' beer. lots of beer. and working on finishing up songs for the next album. what did you think we were doing? drinking vitamin water? actually, brad is.

bellingham, you are still the best one night stand we ever had, and, baby, we won't disappoint.

see ya on halloween.

5-14-2006

We came home from tour.

3-30-2006

TODAY we kicked off our SPRING TOUR! Hide your children or something. Scroll down or click HERE for dates.

3-23-2006

BLACK EYES & NECKTIES signed to CLICKPOP RECORDS this week. BLACK EYES & NECKTIES is very excited and you should be too. Clickpop will release our second album later this year.

1-20-2006

This winter as the snow and rain fell upon this sleepy (not so much) fishing town, we've been hard at work writing new songs in preparation for our second album. Bradley Horror wrote a song titled "Broken Teeth" and a little while later actually lost his incisor. Somebody call the doctor. Besides crafting new material, we are heading out on a six-week tour of the U.S. at the end of March. See ya in New Mexico, baby.

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SHOWS
Oct 21 2006 - Seattle, WA - The High Dive - w/ the Ruby Doe - 10:00p

Oct 28 2006 - Bellingham, WA - Farmer Depot Market Square - ALL AGES - 7:30

Oct 31 2006 - Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight - w/ Full Frontal Assault and BlackSparx - 10:00p

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BIO

In fall of 2002, housemates Ryan Cadaver, Bradley Horror, and "Dead Sexy" Ryan decided to put together a band to play some good old-fashioned, spooky punk rock for a one-off Halloween show house party. The group along with Davey Crypt began writing songs and christened themselves Black Eyes and Neckties (BENt). After blackening their eyes and dressing up in torn, bloodstained shirts the band set out on a mission Halloween night to rock, entertain, and scare the daylights out of the crowd. In addition to playing a set of swaggering, adrenaline-soaked, danceable punk rock to onlookers, they drenched everyone in fake blood and sweat. The show culminated in Bradley Horror throwing a knife from the stage over the heads of the audience with so much force it buried the blade into an old piano in the back of the room. Mission accomplished.

At the urging of friends, BENt decided to continue writing songs and performing. Soon thereafter, the original keyboardist left for Portland and was replaced by Brenda Grimm. The following Halloween found most of the band living at a ram-shackled, unheated Victorian house out in the woods. What else could they do but have a show? Housemates and friends joined in, and for weeks everyone furnished an abandoned barn on the property with smashed chairs, butcher knives, chainsaws, tiny birds (roadkill), mannequin heads, and candles. Broken windows, splashes of blood, and a bonfire completed the motif. On Halloween night more than a hundred gathered in the woods to watch bands play. Memories of coyotes howling and singers screaming well past the witching hour still haunt all who were present.

In the fall of 2004, a line-up change brought Benny Bloodbath (bass) and Josh Homicide (guitar) to the band, rounding out the current line-up of Cadaver (guitar), Horror (vocals), Crypt (drums), and Grimm (keyboards). The sextet recorded a full-length album and released it on - when else? - Halloween night.

In between epic Halloween shows, BENt toured the Western US, headlined Bellingham's biggest festival, RockFest, and shared the stage with bands such as The Makers, The Detroit Cobras, Big Business, Suffering and the Hideous Thieves, Zeke, the Black Halos, Akimbo, The Hollowpoints, Federation X and Schoolyard Heroes. Older and more confident, their sound has matured and is now less Ed Wood-meets-Misfits style punk and more Edgar Allen Poe-meets-frantic, wiry post-punk, beer-soaked rock. Something strange and wonderful was sparked that first Halloween night and the members of BENt became more than the sum of their parts, almost different people, truly possessed by a spirit of theatrical, maniacal rock and roll mayhem. The boys (and girl) still become harrowing, ghostly and sexed up images of their everyday selves each time they take the stage, performing with the passion of a one-night orgy of thundering rock.

Albums: Stiletto (New Regard Media) - 2004

Compilations: Damage, Destruction, Terror and Mayhem (New Regard Media) - "Barnacles"; Dead Air, Um, Dead Air (Masa Records) - "Walk Like a Zombie"

Radio: Live in studio interview and performance - KUGS (Bellingham, WA) - Nov 2004 Live in studio interview KUGS (Bellingham, WA) - April 2005

Festivals: Rockfest (Bellingham, WA) - 2004 Totalfest (Missoula, MT) - 2005

Other Notables: What's Up! Award - Best Louder Than Rock band (2005), What's Up!- Best Live band (2005), What's Up! Award - Best Rock band (2006)


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PRESS
"Whoever said horror rock was dead hasn't been listening to Bellingham's bloody-talented Black Eyes and Neckties. Notorious for its live shows (where 'bloodbaths' aren't necessarily out of the question), Black Eyes and Neckties released its new 13-track album Stiletto last year on Halloween. Recommended for the music lover, but not for the light of heart, Stiletto is a fast-paced romp through musical murder, massacre and mayhem. Frontman Bradley Horror's shrill screams and imposing vocals resonate forcefully on almost every track. The guitars are murderously intelligent, and the drums wreak havoc on the soft pulp of the brain."

- Missoula Independent, February 2005

"Punched a wall recently? Here's what you should have been listening to at the time. Although nothing could hope to compare to Black Eyes and Neckties' frenetic and bruising live show, Stiletto sure goes about it like they truly couldn't care less. Sharp-edged guitars, propulsive drums, organ and voice are all they need to get inside your head and command you to move. With songs about zombies, werewolves, love, death and the intersections between, this is an album for when you want your anger tempered by humor and hooks. Buy the record and go see their show. You'll be glad you did."

- Bellingham Weekly, December 2004

"The songs on Stiletto are a combination of the distraught rock Murder City Devils made famous blended with Black Eyes' own balls-out, young and dangerous sound that is more wild than grief-stricken. The resulting thirteen songs on Stiletto are moody masterpieces, befitting for a soundtrack to a midnight train wreck. A pair of big, mean guitars tear along with a vengeance while the bass, drums and keyboard fuse together to crank out a reckless foundation. The hoarse vocals are called out desperately with a sincerity you can't fake, and generous shout-along choruses make the songs hellaciously catchy."

- What's Up! Magazine, November 2004

"Ultimately, BENt is a live-act; no recording could capture the experience of seeing the stage and audience explode in a cacophony of flailing bodies at the first note of the first song and stay in motion until the final chords are strummed. However, this record (Stiletto) stands on its own as a highly impressive debut from a young band full of energy."

- Bellingham Weekly - November 11-17, 2004

"When Bellingham's horror rock specialists Black Eyes and Neckties take the stage there are two things you can be certain of. The first thing is that the six members of the band, clad in their trademark torn ties and black eye make-up, are about to utterly massacre the crowd with a high-energy live show that will inevitably erupt in a bloodbath of howling wraith-rock and frenzied fans. The second thing? You should have brought along a change of clothes, I didn't call it a bloodbath for nothing."

- What's Up! Magazine - January 2005

"While Black Eyes wear their influences on their tattered shirtsleeves, they re-envision the [Murder City] Devils sound so well it's hard to be anything but compelled by their passion. On stage, Black Eyes were completely unhinged, one guitarist rabidly pacing the stage, biting the bassist's back during a particularly enthusiastic moment. It was just the dose of the raucous good ol' days I needed, and I look forward to seeing this (relatively) local band again soon."

- The Stranger - November 17-24, 2005

"I've written about these Bellingham kids before; they evoke the great spirit of beloved Sub Pop bygones like the Murder City Devils and the Catheters. Black Eyes are an energetic mix of gallows balladry and Misfits-haunted punk, all flying limbs and howling vocals live, with theatrically applied makeup and torn shirts adding to the back-from-the-grave-and-very-much-alive vibe."

- The Stranger - November 8-14, 2005


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PHOTOS

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photos by David Stone and Spooky Luke
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MUSIC



Tracks from the album "Stiletto"
$6 from New Regard Media

mp3 format - to download, right click and "save as"

|||||||| LYCANTHROPY WANNABE ||||||||

|||||||| TONIGHT DEATH SOARS ||||||||

|||||||| WALK LIKE A ZOMBIE ||||||||

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CONTACT
For booking, merch inquiries, love letters, death threats and other correspondence, contact Black Eyes & Neckties directly at blackeyesandneckties@yahoo.com or myspace.com/blackeyesandneckties

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LINKS
Black Eyes and Neckties' Myspace
Our new label. They'll release our second album later this year.
Our buddies' label. They released our first album, "Stiletto."
Buy "Stiletto" at Interpunk.com!



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