Been meaning to post this for a while... just got around to it... press release taken from www.mobilization.com

****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****
Start Date: Oct 1, 2002
Kill Date: November 17, 2002
Jason Schwartz
Mobilization Booking
Jason@mobilization.com

Aug 25, 2002: "SEMINAL" LOS ANGELES ART-PUNK BAND SAVAGE REPUBLIC CONFIRM RARE ONE WEEK REUNION APPEARANCES IN LA, SF, NYC, CHICAGO, and PORTLAND OR - NOVEMBER 13-17,2002

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR RARE REUNION EVENT
Fiercely "independent" tribal Arabic surf-art-punk band Savage Republic have confirmed a rare week of performances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, and Portland Oregon.

FIRST AND ONLY PERFORMANCE IN 13 LUCKY YEARS
This performance will be the bands first appearance in over 13 years, since their explosive Final Performance in Claremont, California on Feb. 25, 1989. A DVD and digital audio recording of that last performance, which included incidiary fire performances, is scheduled for release on MOBILIZATION RECORDINGS in 2003.

TOUR AGENDA:

Wed Nov 13, Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory. $15 Adv.
w/ MIKE WATT and the Secondmen, The Urinals (100 Flowers), The Human Hands. 80s post-punk DJ Brendan Mullen (author of "We Got The Neutron Bomb")
7021 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 209
Hollywood , CA 90028 323 463 0204

Thu Nov 14, Portland, OR @ Satyricon. $10 Adv, $12 Door.
125 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 503 243-2380

Fri Nov 15, San Francisco, CA @ "Beyond the Pale" DNA Club. $19 Adv.
w/ NEUROSIS, The Phantom Limbs, Pleasure Forever
375 Eleventh St, SF, CA 94103, 415 626-1409

Sat Nov 16, NYC (Park Slope, Brooklyn) @ South Paw. $12 Adv. $15 Door.
125 Fifth Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, 718-230-0236

Sun Nov 17, Chicago @ The Double Door. $10 Adv. $12 Door.
1572 N. Milwaukee Ave.,Chicago, IL 60622, 773.489.3160

Advanced tickets are available now at http://SavageRepublic.com

Many of these shows are expected to sell out quickly.

SAVAGE REPUBLIC REUNION A ONE TIME EVENT, TO PROMOTE
REISSUE OF COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS
A spokesperson for the band said, "This is a one time event. At this point the band has no plans to reform". The band agreed to do this one time reunion to promote the recent reissue on San Francisco label Mobilization Recordings of the bands entire studio works. This reissue features stunning hand letterpressed covers by Savage Republic member Bruce Licher of Independent Project Press.
This performance will be the bands first appearance in over 13 years, since their explosive Final Performance in Claremont, California on Feb. 25, 1989.

DVD OF FINAL PERFORMANCE DUE OUT IN OCTOBER, 2002
A DVD and digital audio recording of that last performance of Savage Republic is scheduled for release on Mobilization Recordings in 2003.

SIMILAR SOUND TO SONIC YOUTH and GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR. JANE'S ADDICTION, R.E.M FANS OF THE BAND.
Savage Republic were the west coast counter-parts to New York's SONIC YOUTH back in the early 80s, and in the 1990s JANE'S ADDICTION and Canada's GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR borrowed generously from the bands unique musical approach. REM and 54-40 are also big fans of the band. Members of Jane's Addiction borrowed from SAVAGE REPUBLIC's sound, and R.E.M. have also been long time fans of the bands unique sound.

SAVAGE REPUBLIC FEATURED IN "SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" SOUNDTRACK
The song "Real Men" from the bands classic debut LP "Tragic Figures" was featured in the feature film "Silence of the Lambs", playing inside the "pit" as the killer watched his effeminate image in the mirror.

SHOW FOLLOWS BAND MEMBERS NARROW ESCAPE FROM WTC ON 9/11
The reunion was agreed upon a few months after guitarist/percussionist Ethan Port escaped the WTC #3 on the morning of 9/11. He'd been staying in the Marriott WTC that morning. "I was just dressing for work when the first plane hit above my head. I ran out into the street immediately, leaving behind my shoes and glasses and all my other possession, including any ID or money. A few weeks later as SONIC YOUTH was completing their MURRAY STREET CD, Ethan Port's incinerated possessions were being excavated from "the Pit" that used to be the WTC.

Late Breaking news on the band's rare one time reunion can be found at

http://www.SavageRepublic.com

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Extra Information:

SUPPORTING ACTS AT THE LOS ANGELES REUNION ARE LONG TIME CONSPIRITORS
Bruce Licher, a founding member of SAVAGE REPUBLIC, performed with members of some of the other opening bands in the late 70s at UCLA, creating underground noise terrorism in the subterranean utility tunnels and parking garages, for a pure industrial "new wave" sound. Long time friend MIKE WATT will also perform with a new Bass, Organ and Drum trio "The Secondmen". MIKE WATT's former band THE MINUTEMEN often performed with these other acts at many Los Angeles alternative/art punk dives such as Al's Bar, the original Anti-Club and Brave Dog, Theoreticals, Desolation Center Mojave Desert shows, etc.

SUPPORTING ACTS FEATURED IN "Nerds in the Pit" SPECIAL: HISTORY OF L.A. ART PUNK The URINALS/100 FLOWERS and HUMAN HANDS were both interviewed last Mayhem 2002 in the "Nerds in the Pit" special, aired on KFJC, an essential community radio station in the San Francisco bay area. Copies of the broadcast are available for free download at: http://www.Mobilization.com
The special also includes interviews with members of the Weirdos, the
Controllers,
Interviews include:
Geza X
Pleasant Gehman
S.A. Griffin
Bob Moss
Jane Bainter
Gary Indiana
Members of:
The Weirdos
The Controllers
Nervous Gender / Vox Pop
The Urinals / 100 Flowers
The Screamers
The Dream Syndicate
Savage Republic

SAVAGE REPUBLIC WILL ALSO HEADLINE SAN FRANCISCO'S ESSENTIAL "BEYOND THE PALE" FESTIVAL
The band will also be playing in San Francisco on Friday November 15, 2002 at the Neurosis sponsored "Beyond the Pale" festival. Tickets will be available shortly at the DNA club. Other acts include Neurosis, The Phantom Limbs, and Pleasure Forever.