The original YouTube cover band, Portland based Rush-N-Disco re-appropriates media found on YouTube into an absurdly entertaining assault of the senses. Like a post-modern Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Greg Arden and Alicia McDaid commit fully to their invocations of failed pop stars, celebutante breakdowns, amateur pet videos and exercise gurus. Acting as oral historians of our information overloaded age, each vignette flows into the next creating an arc which takes the audience through an incantation, a birthing, a love story, a descent into betrayal and death, resurrection, therapy, insanity, religious zealotry and, finally, redemption- depending on the show.
Though material is mostly inspired by Youtube, Arden and McDaid create characters and situations that stand alone, regardless on one's familiarity with the Tube. While some audiences might recognize everything from "Talking Cats" to "Britney On Drugs", those who have not seen any of the source material are still consistently engaged and drawn into the performances. From the brink of cable access stardom to the edge of sanity, Rush-N-Disco are the carnies of this hilarious yet poignant roller coaster ride of song, dance and stairway to stardom castaways.