Your sideshow on the run, Ted Bowler and Jebediah Spoons share with the audience cheery tales of devastating disasters and maddening unknowable forces accompanied by accordion, ukulele, and a beaten-up toy piano! Described as a comedic folk-punk vaudeville duo, Bowler and Spoons have toured across the PNW playing at punk and cabaret shows, festivals, sidewalks, and as the hosts of The Salty Siblings’ vaudeville troupe.
Aside from that, all you need to know is:
- We WILL play your birthday party, wedding, or funeral for a formidable fee
- We WILL NOT aid and abet any acts of armed larceny, embezzlement, burglary, simply for the fact that we’re not good with our arms. We support most other criminal activity on ethical grounds.
- Yes, Ted does owe a large lump sum of cash to Jebediah, and so far their professional entertainment pursuits have only increased that amount
- While no donations of record have yet been made, Manager & Manager Management gaurantees that half of all revenue made from the sales of “Be Gay, Do Crime” branded merch and music will be donated to The Trevor Project (50%) and Food Not Bombs (50%)
- The Barnacle Angel continues to haunt our dreams and every waking moment. Please someone take her off of our hands before Ted takes the curse back
- If approached by any member of [redacted] or the Oceanus Society, anyone involved with research and development, or Salmon L’sac, Lilac Cordial, or Betty “Granny” Smith, you’ve fallen too far. Refuse to answer any of their questions and seek shelter with the 21 resistance. Despite proven criminal records, Lowery (last name unknown), Sporky the mime, Joe Xylophone, and any seaside knick-knack merchants are generally trustworthy
- Due to definitely not misplaced fear of reptiles and inspiration from the -what we can only assume was a very successful- “War on Drugs” campaign, we urge everyone to sign our change.org petition to urge Washington politicians to declare war on snakes
- While we aren’t based out of any one location (being on the run and all that), our travels have kept us bouncing between the greater Salish Sound area for the last several years. Particularly, using only our compass and going north->south->north seems to have us going in circles?
- In addition to our guiding principals of being gay (for anyone who MUST ask, we are strictly platonic associates) and doing crime, we stand by the following principles – Palestine must be free, trans youth need to be protected, black lives still matter, and cops are nothing but an arm of an oppressive state and should never be trusted or spoken to. If we ever learn that organizations or other performers we work with are willfully racist, sexist, homophobic, abusers, or the like, we will immediately cease any working relationship.
- While most everything else is, the puppets are not for sale!
If you wanna get to know us more though, shoot us an email at bowlerandspoons@gmail.com. we’d love to chat!!!
(that is, assuming you’re not in the [REDACTED])
Be warned however, it’s been tried before! Brace yourselves and see the results-
