"There have been four Helsing Junction Sleepover festivals in rural Thurston
County; we felt it was time to expand the performance aspect of the program
to include non-musical acts. The first artist that came to mind was
Rush-N-Disco. Their performance draws on the everyday lives of everyday
people in such a way that you realize how very unusual the everyday really
is. One person's "normal" is everyone else's "Huh?" So awkward, and
liberating and humiliating and inspiring, because if this is what the world
is really all about, then there is hope, real hope for us all. At the
Helsing Junction Sleep Over this past August they did not disappoint, wowing
the assembled mass of humanity with their risky floor show of abrupt non
sequiturs. Touching, really."
- Calvin Johnson, K Records Founder
"Like vaudeville for the YouTube generation, performance duo
Rush-N-Disco manage to take the best elements of celebrity grotesque,
bake them up into a series of pies, and proceed to hit each other, the
audience, and the whole wide world right in the face. It tastes
delicious, by the way. Their satire is hilarious and manic, and very
likely the most original thing you'll see happen on a stage in years."
-- GARETT STRICKLAND, host/curator of Phase One: Words + Music
TBA 'O8: Occurrence hosted by Reggie Watts
"Highlights included local performance group Rush-N-Disco. The duo --
half-siblings Greg Arden and Alicia McDaid, according to their MySpace
-- were the night's first live performers, and came out on stage
without an intro. Their initial face contorting and hissing was, well,
a little confusing at first, but they've got such a commitment to
their performance that they drew people in quickly, bouncing from skit
to skit. Their rendition of a song with an unprintable title was
especially effective. (This was the same song that Kenny Mellman and
Bridget Everett performed at the Someday Lounge earlier in the night,
the one about olfactory detection of a man's infidelity on his
genitals.) Look it up -- the original is by Riskay -- because I'm so
not posting the YouTube here."
-by Luciana Lopez, The Oregonian
Wednesday September 10, 2008