 Elizabeth
Fiend = writer / host
Author, artist, musician; this (ir)regular
Renaissance woman has college credit in stone cutting, wood crafts, jewelry
making, ceramics & welding. She is a self-taught nutritionist & vegetarian
cook. She has had solo exhibits of her paintings. Her cartoons have appeared
in hundreds of underground magazines as well as R. Crumb's Weirdo & Screw
Magazine. She has been interviewed by publications as diverse as The New
York Times & Anarchy International. Elizabeth is the co-author of a
reference book on the thematical analysis of television, "Index to the
Annenberg Television Script Archive." She is also slide guitar player in the
psycho-trash band More Fiends, the only Philly band to ever record a Peel
Session for the BBC radio in London and has recorded 9 records/cds. For her
paying gig, she's the Bibliographic Specialist at the Wharton Library.
Elizabeth's Photo Gallery is here
email: elizabeth@bigteaparty.com
 Gretjen
Clausing = camera
An independent media programmer, publicist and activist. Part
of the Philly media scene for ten years she has worked at the Neighborhood
Film/Video Project, the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema and was the
coordinator of the Philadelphia Independent/Film Video Association. Gretjen
has made video projects with community groups through Scribe Video Center.
Currently she is part of the Philadelphia Coalition for Public Access
organizing to get Philly public access television. She comes from a long
line of crafters, is a self-embraced pack rat & works out stress by digging
in dirt.
Gretjen's Photo Gallery is here
email: gretjen@bigteaparty.com
 Valerie
Keller = editor
Film &
video editor since 1988, most notably she edited PBS's "The Dinosaurs!" &
Emmy nominee "Fever." She has worked on videos about such diverse topics as
homelessness; Puerto Rican identity; HIV-prevention vaccine trials; Philly's
textile industry; a biography of WEB DuBois & a French-Canadian heavy metal
band. She has worked with many local filmmakers & producers - such as pew
grant recipient Frances Negron-Muntaner, Emmy award winner Ron Kanter, and
the dynamic Glen Holsten of Channel 12 fame. She teaches editing workshops
for Scribe Video Center & produced a video for the Termite TV collective.
Valerie is also a crafty gal in her own right particularly in the realms of
collage & hot-glue art. She rides her bicycle to work & cuts her own hair.
Valerie's Photo Gallery is here
email: valerie@bigteaparty.com
Allen Fiend = bass
Allen's Photo Gallery is here
Elizabeth Fiend = slide guitar
Bob Fiend = guitar
Dave Fiend = drums
More
Fiends freebase an explosive mixture of hardcore and no wave-two primal
movements that've done so much to shape the course of the U.S. underground
punk scene. They have performed at the New Music Seminar, New York City; the
Berlin Independence Days Festival, Germany; the International Anarchist
Festival, San Francisco and have recorded 9 records/CDs including a Peel
Session for the BBC radio, England. |
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