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The Suicide Kings
12+ albums
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There are 2 bands named "The Suicide Kings". One of the bands was originated in Tempe, Arizona led by guitarist/singer/songwriter Bruce Connole, The Revenants "Billy Clone & The Same", The Jetzons, The Strand and Busted Hearts. Band members include Connole, Brad Buxer, keyboards (The Jetzons, Matthew Wilder, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson). The Suicide Kings are a spoken word powerhouse comprised of three award-winning Poetry Slam Champions out of Oakland, CA. On one pivotal night in 2000, Rupert Estanislao, Geoff Trenchard and Jamie Kennedy crossed paths. All of them had notebooks in their back pockets crammed full of confessional verse. They formed a pact: to bring a new hardcore sensibility to the world of poetry. The Suicide Kings were born into the world of poetry slams--a competitive barroom battle of wits and rapid monologues that has become an underground phenomenon over the last ten years. The Kings have been described by a college newspaper as the "freaks and wild children of the slam poetry world...Inviting the Suicide Kings to perform is almost like taking the bearded lady, an organ grinders monkey and a drunk to a funeral, you know something's going to happen but it's just too damn funny to stop it.". Contra Costa Times said, "The profane yet sometimes profound group entertains with a helter-skelter mix of shock theater, oddball comedy, vaudevillian antics, on-stage debauchery, a bit of self-help therapy, and yes, even poetry." The trio began to travel t
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