The creative core of Silver Sircus is Lucinda Shaw (vocalist/performer/writer) & James Lees (drummer/composer). In the mid-late 1990’s they were key members of celebrated Brisbane band ISIS who released four CD’s, scored 6 positions in the 4ZZZ Hot 100, toured Australia and regularly packed venues in Brisbane with their highly visual shows and special events. Following ISIS, Lucinda continued her songwriting collaboration with guitarist Brett Collery under the name, Shugafix. As a writer & performer, Lucinda has produced a series of stage works for La Boite’s ‘Shock Of The New’, Metro Arts’ ‘Cab Sav’ and for the Magdelena Festival. As a musician, James has worked with many Brisbane bands (also including Chalk, Saturn South, Tylea & The Imaginary Music Score and Speed Of Purple) as well as producing many experimental cabaret & performance events (including ArtLoveJam and dreamGAS performance series). Together, they have produced performance & music work for ArtLoveJam and dreamGAS, Brisbane Pride Festival and Brisbane Cabaret Festival. In 2007, their latest collaboration, Silver Sircus, was conceived. Bringing together their shared theatrical & musical backgrounds, the project represents the best vantage point to enjoy their vision of all things dark & shadowy, blackly comic, carnivelesque, beautiful & grotesque. Placed somewhere between a stage performance and a straight-up ‘gig’, Silver Sircus shows are a hybrid of spoken word, soaring vocals, drums, electronics, double bass & piano. They have performed for Brisbane Cabaret Festival (2007), supported indie darlings The Bluehouse (2008) and for the Love Poetry Hate Racism event for the QLD Poetry Festival. In June 2008, Silver Sircus release their debut CD, an EP entitled Sovereignty. Containing four tracks, the EP was produced with musical collaborator James Kliemt and one of Brisbane’s finest exports, producer Lachlan ‘Magoo’ Gould. The EP also features the work of Stewart Barry (double bass), Matt Murphy (piano), Danielle Bentley (cello) and violinist Sallie Campbell who also contributed string arrangements.

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