NEXT SHOWS:
To hear, stream, or buy our music:
To purchase limited-edition CDs from us directly:
FRI JAN 17
THE LOVE MARKETS at THE SWEDISH CLUB
Showtime: 7:00 PM
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COMING SOON:
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"Irresistible... Intoxicating...
A deliciously dark carnival."
- Seattle Magazine
"Ruffle-clad ruffians... Louise is a singer,
songwriter and actress with fearsome chops."
- City Arts Magazine
"A perfect inside look at our desires to re-model ourselves...
Louise and her bandmates are unique among talents."
- Seattle Gay Scene
"Sultry cabaret rhythms and a revolutionary's
hankering to take down the system."
- Jet Space Magazine
OUR MOTTO:
Life is beautiful. The stakes are high.
The future is still ours."
OUR INSPIRATION:
OUR COMMUNITY:
bringing their modern songs of love and revolution
to Seattle's most storied stages, venues and clubs;
performing on television and radio; collaborating
with some of the city's finest theatre companies,
circus artists, physical theatre troupes, cabaret
artists, burlesque artists, museums, and festivals;
and headlining all manner of marvelous galas for
comradely causes in the arts and LGBT worlds.
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The Love Markets, 730 Belmont Ave E. #5, Seattle WA 98102
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Additional photos: Dave Haskell;
Jeff Dunnicliff; Sue Corcoran; Paul Park
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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE LOVE MARKETS
The Love Markets make modern songs of love and revolution. Inspired by the artists of Weimar Berlin, these “ruffle-clad ruffians” have spent 14 years gracing/disgracing Seattle's finest stages with subversive wit, bite, and intoxicating soul.
The Love Markets' musical alchemy and unique sound come courtesy of frontwoman-songwriter Angie Louise's sultry, exuberant vocals; the shape-shifting accordion of Robertson Witmer; expressive trombone wizardry from David Marriott Jr.; Dave Pascal's funky bass; and Chris Monroe’s sinuous drums.
In 2013, The Love Markets released WORLD OF YOUR DREAMS, drawing praise for a debut album that managed to include both an elegy for the dead and a risqué ode to wiener schnitzel. The band's second release, BEAUTY FACTORY, investigates the machinery of modern life, armed with rollicking grooves and a seductively sinister opening lyric: "Step up, miss! Here in the factory, the gates are always open... Don’t resist! To be made whole again, you’ll first need to be broken...”
"We are all on the market. We are all damaged goods.
Berlin, 1929: Churning factories, glittering clubs. Decadence, cynically marketed; moral outrage, expertly manipulated. Fractured politics. Financial panic. And through it all, artists who used their fledgling freedoms to express new ideas of beauty, mock the powerful, and shine a light on the machine of modern society: frightening, fantastic, and gorgeously absurd.
The Love Markets have spent the last fifteen years