Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant). 

If you miss Stereolab and Mr. Bungle—and I think we all do—then you owe it to yourself to give a listen to “Disco Dog”, from Belgian threesome Joy as a Toy. The specters of those progressive pop geniuses loom over all three-and-a-half glorious minutes, from the angular start-stop rhythms, to the brassy freak-outs in the middle, to the vibraphones throughout which sound straight off Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato  Ketchup. 

Impressive and delirious, PoiL is lead by three musicians know not limitations and prohibitions.
PoiL flow, dance and dash between the energy of punk, the beauty of chamber music and the chaos of a factory on the brink of explosion.
The trio combines raw madness and virtuosity evoking thoughts of Frank Zappa, Frederic Chopin and Charlie Chaplin.
In the audience, the heads bang, the cries burst forth. Jubilant and stock!

Conceived through the art of improvisation, Topu Lyo plays electric cello, incorporating the use of live loops and a handful of electronics with no pre-recorded samples of any kind. Mike Thies plays drums and keyboards, often simultaneously. This duo's formula is unique songs structured in such a way that enables them to actually build loops without disaster, all while keeping the music’s integrity and allowing ample room for improvisation. It is Live Footage’s coherent complexity that inherently wow’s new ears away. Plain and simple, they are cinematic, experimental, yet still catchy and melodic. Live Footage is often described as some of the finest “surrealist soundtrack composers” in the making by scoring some of the most eclectic contemporary pieces in film, fashion, dance and in tune composing their own music. Respected companies and organizations like Van Cleef Apparel, UNICEF, Rag and Bone, VICE, and It Gets Better have actively sought out Live Footage's music. They have played a diverse collection of events, diverting from the standard "concert" traditional bands typically seek to play. Such include: Iceberg Men's fall/winter collection for Fachion Week Milan in 2012, Fantasia Film Fest in Montreal 2012, the TriBeCa Ball for NY Academy of the Arts, Rooftop Films, various Modern Dance performances and off broadway theatre pieces. In 2012 the TriBeCa Film fest debuted the critically acclaimed film "Graceland". The accompanying score was therein released by draft house and distributed world wide . Live Footage has toured in Europe, Korea, Canada and across the USA. They have performed with well respected bands like Emily Wells, Portland Cello Project, Pharoahe Monch, Robert Glasper, Dan the Automator, and Henry Wolff at prestigious rooms like the Bowery Ballroom and Le Poisson Rouge. Their first three records are available online, and the 4th ("Doyers") is due to release in Fall 2013. You can catch Live Footage in NYC appearing at Apotheke (9Doyers st Chinatown, NYC) on Sundays.