Mystical, Magical, Beautiful, Organic, Brilliant. This is a band you owe it to yourself to hear live. Don't miss out! -- Rick Blaine, Morocco Mirror
Smokin' Honkin' Rockin' Howlin' MAD GOOD TIME! -- Edward Hyde, The Bournemouth Express
Right from the very first note, OutFunked announces that they're taking the audience to places they've never been before. They project both an incredibly dense yet allusively minimal style that is neither yet both. Believe me, they'll make you scream. Masterful! -- Norm Bates, Psycho Today
OutFunked weaves a musical fable about automation, assembly lines, and the enslaving of man by machines. A musical tour-de-force of humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness. This is a band that knows how to use silence in a musically meaningful way. -- Charlot Chaplin, Modern Times Review
"There are those who always attach social significance to our work. It has none. We leave such subjects to the reviewers. To entertain is our first consideration." -- OutFunked's one and only public comment on the above review by Charlot Chaplin in Modern Times
Perhaps the most-daring avant-garde fusion/funk/jazz group on the circuit today. -- Name withheld to protect the band.
Smokin' Honkin' Rockin' Howlin' MAD GOOD TIME! -- Edward Hyde, The Bournemouth Express
Right from the very first note, OutFunked announces that they're taking the audience to places they've never been before. They project both an incredibly dense yet allusively minimal style that is neither yet both. Believe me, they'll make you scream. Masterful! -- Norm Bates, Psycho Today
OutFunked weaves a musical fable about automation, assembly lines, and the enslaving of man by machines. A musical tour-de-force of humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness. This is a band that knows how to use silence in a musically meaningful way. -- Charlot Chaplin, Modern Times Review
"There are those who always attach social significance to our work. It has none. We leave such subjects to the reviewers. To entertain is our first consideration." -- OutFunked's one and only public comment on the above review by Charlot Chaplin in Modern Times
Perhaps the most-daring avant-garde fusion/funk/jazz group on the circuit today. -- Name withheld to protect the band.
OutFunked Finds Love in Hamden: Concert Review
The band’s Fall World Tour kick-off show was aglow with sparkles and spectacle on the first night of their world tour.
10:23 PM EST 8/20/2013 by Lester Bangs
Vance Provey, wearing a black hat, white top, black shorts and sparkling, sequined ruby red shoes, appears onstage, smiling, wide-eyed and full of wonder.
"Oh, we're finally back in Hamden, aren't we?" he coos into his red bedazzled microphone, sending the crowd of into fits of high-pitched squeals.
Provey might look like Goldilocks, and the band very much like the 3 bears, but he's very much channeling Wizard of Oz's Dorothy in the early moments of the evening, the first of what looks to be a standing room only tour of numerous venues.
Of course, considering OutFunked’s multi-platinum success -- with four albums under their belt in only six years, they’ve landed a colossal 50 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 – so they’re clearly not in Kansas anymore, but the band’s amazement at seeing a room full of worshipers remains, even though they long ago sold out their first stadium. Indeed, OutFunked has been working professionally since they were still in diapers, yet they take the stage with the sort of open-mouthed awe that makes you feel they’re brand new at this. It's an endearing trait to present to the nearly 14,000 fans who packed The Outer Space in Hamden.
Provey peppers the show with stories about the band’s songs, explaining that their fourth studio album -- which was the second biggest-selling album of 2012 in the U.S. and has sold more than six million copies worldwide -- is called Polka-Dot because it's the color he associates with the emotions of those songs, full of intense zeitgeist and even more intense disambiguation.
The 90 minute show goes heavy on theatrical elements, much to the pleasure of the crowd, many dressed in signature OutFunked outfits and waving their sparkly wands in the air. During their very first song, "OutFunked," the ceiling over the stage explodes in a cascade of sparks. In fact, every number was its own mini-show, ranging from an Old Hollywood femme fatale story for "Provosphere" to Victorian costumes and masquerade dancers for "B.T.M." and a flying cage carrying flutist Robert Rabinowitz high over the audience as he played "Urban Groove."
The band’s strongest performances were the up-tempo songs, which involved plenty of dancers, backup kazoo players and costume changes and focused heavily on the theatrical elements of the show.
Twin guitarists Martin Ear and Jeff Cedrone regaled the audience with bursts of sonic mayhem while walking through the audience on stilts right before Provey re-appeared on stage wearing a circus ringleader costume. Heart-shaped confetti exploded from the ceiling as the band attacked the final notes of some random jam that no one recognized but that everyone immediately knew would be hitting the top of the charts within days.
No matter how many hits make it into their set list, the greatest gift OutFunked has to offer might very well be one they never wrote themselves or ever even played, but it is the one their millions of fans sing to them every night, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” – a song that perhaps the band might never play, but we still hope to some day hear the sweet sounds of Provey’s trumpet, Rabinowitz’ soprano sax and bass, Ear & Cedrone’s effect’s laden pimped-out guitars soaring over that iconic melody.
The band’s Fall World Tour kick-off show was aglow with sparkles and spectacle on the first night of their world tour.
10:23 PM EST 8/20/2013 by Lester Bangs
Vance Provey, wearing a black hat, white top, black shorts and sparkling, sequined ruby red shoes, appears onstage, smiling, wide-eyed and full of wonder.
"Oh, we're finally back in Hamden, aren't we?" he coos into his red bedazzled microphone, sending the crowd of into fits of high-pitched squeals.
Provey might look like Goldilocks, and the band very much like the 3 bears, but he's very much channeling Wizard of Oz's Dorothy in the early moments of the evening, the first of what looks to be a standing room only tour of numerous venues.
Of course, considering OutFunked’s multi-platinum success -- with four albums under their belt in only six years, they’ve landed a colossal 50 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 – so they’re clearly not in Kansas anymore, but the band’s amazement at seeing a room full of worshipers remains, even though they long ago sold out their first stadium. Indeed, OutFunked has been working professionally since they were still in diapers, yet they take the stage with the sort of open-mouthed awe that makes you feel they’re brand new at this. It's an endearing trait to present to the nearly 14,000 fans who packed The Outer Space in Hamden.
Provey peppers the show with stories about the band’s songs, explaining that their fourth studio album -- which was the second biggest-selling album of 2012 in the U.S. and has sold more than six million copies worldwide -- is called Polka-Dot because it's the color he associates with the emotions of those songs, full of intense zeitgeist and even more intense disambiguation.
The 90 minute show goes heavy on theatrical elements, much to the pleasure of the crowd, many dressed in signature OutFunked outfits and waving their sparkly wands in the air. During their very first song, "OutFunked," the ceiling over the stage explodes in a cascade of sparks. In fact, every number was its own mini-show, ranging from an Old Hollywood femme fatale story for "Provosphere" to Victorian costumes and masquerade dancers for "B.T.M." and a flying cage carrying flutist Robert Rabinowitz high over the audience as he played "Urban Groove."
The band’s strongest performances were the up-tempo songs, which involved plenty of dancers, backup kazoo players and costume changes and focused heavily on the theatrical elements of the show.
Twin guitarists Martin Ear and Jeff Cedrone regaled the audience with bursts of sonic mayhem while walking through the audience on stilts right before Provey re-appeared on stage wearing a circus ringleader costume. Heart-shaped confetti exploded from the ceiling as the band attacked the final notes of some random jam that no one recognized but that everyone immediately knew would be hitting the top of the charts within days.
No matter how many hits make it into their set list, the greatest gift OutFunked has to offer might very well be one they never wrote themselves or ever even played, but it is the one their millions of fans sing to them every night, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” – a song that perhaps the band might never play, but we still hope to some day hear the sweet sounds of Provey’s trumpet, Rabinowitz’ soprano sax and bass, Ear & Cedrone’s effect’s laden pimped-out guitars soaring over that iconic melody.