Fetish Alive

The Mission Creeps

Dynamic horror surf spy music complemented by unique instrumentation including congas, harmonica, and accordion. Rich velvety vocals cascade on danceable hooks in some songs yet create impenetrable atmospheric textures in others. The future of music is scary.

James, Arrr - Vocals, Guitar, Theremin, Sampler

Miss Frankie Stein - Bass, Accordion

Bryn, Mr. Furious - Drums

Goya the Ditchrider - Congas, Percussion

Katarina and Oksana - The Double Agent Go Go Dancers

Petah - Projectionist

Visit The Mission Creeps on the web www.missioncreeps.com and at www.myspace.com/themissioncreeps.

"Like a toned-down version of the Cramps by way of Deadbolt, the twangy, reverb-heavy guitar, Arrr's genuinely sexy bellowing croon (à la Bauhaus' Peter Murphy) and the band's grinding rhythms all add up to something more than your standard clad-in-black, death-obsessed affair." — Stephen Seigel, Tucson Weekly

"In recent months, the five-piece band-- has made its name with its dynamic, theatrical live shows, in all their faux-gothic, campy, B-movie horror-flick glory." — Stephen Seigel, Tucson Weekly

"It's an open door to some orgasmic music, music that was made in the way Tarantino makes movies, millions of gimmicks put together reminding of what we love in music.. The Mission Creeps . . . are from Tucson Arizona . . . concert halls are not by millions, neither are bands, just a few remaining warriors objective enough not to forget their first loves, watching Bill Murray's movies while listening to The Stray Cats."  — Little Johnny Jet, Gonzai French Music Magazine

"The union between horror movies and rock music has always been fecund, often producing unholy offspring of surpassing quality. Despite the 1983 dissolution of genre titans the Misfits, there's still a rabid audience for cartoon ghouls and songs about reanimated corpses, and bands like Arizona's Mission Creeps still ply their horror-rock trade with necromantic alacrity."

— Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"The lead singer, James Arrr, has the perfect voice for this genre of music — a little Elvis mixed with some Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. The band manages to stand out from the growing crowd of gothabilly and surf rock bands with their use of a multitude of instruments: accordion, theremin, harmonica and percussion, as well as a live show that includes gyrating go-go dancers and B-movie inspired theatrics.

It looks like somebody's got a case of the zombies! "

— Deanna Uutela, Eugene Weekly

". . . the tour de force (The Mission Creeps) . . . had the crowd at Surly Wench toasting to necrophilia and singing along to their unofficial theme song, Creepy."

— Annie Holub, Tucson Weekly