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• Official Site

http://www.thejesuscleaver.com/

• Artist Biography

"The Jesus Cleaver is about a journey through life", explains founding singer/songwriter, Bishop Price. And this is a journey that is only just beginning. For Price, the introspection-fuelled vessel that has become The Jesus Cleaver has at times been a singular raison d'κtre, in the hope that "one shard of emotion could be somehow captured and controlled to make the pain bearable".

Whether this hope would some day be shared or not was irrelevant, it only seemed important to contain and then replay in private over and over those fractures of existence which had been absorbed and somehow expressed into words. And those words, fashioned and forged into lyrical form, are now cast within rhythm and music. What hope of enlightenment can be distilled from this? Is it ever possible to explain human emotion, when so many influences govern behaviour? Will betrayal bring eventual damnation? Will the gift of love be taken, and taken, and taken, until there is "nothing more to give"?

The Jesus Cleaver is the perfectly-polished mirror into which we peer steadfastly, as if our own thoughts, and the thoughts of others, can somehow be willed to appear before us, interpreted and explained.

Based in Brisbane, Australia, The Jesus Cleaver is the creative vehicle of singer/songwriter Bishop Price. The forthcoming debut album features special guests including "[3]" on bass guitar, and backing vocalists Angie Draper and Tanya Quinlan. The band have combined vivid and emotive lyrics with a lush, beautifully disturbing atmosphere to confound easy genrification. Employing electronic and classical elements in their music, The Jesus Cleaver maintain a definitive musical edge with driving percussion and infectious bass lines. This concentration of moods is the expression of a dark alternative band decidedly out of place in the sub-tropical climes of "the Sunshine State".

Growing up in Queensland, Price has been an active writer and composer for many years. Emerging from the studio and developing a deeper hands-on involvement with the local music scene, Price has become a respected live sound engineer who has worked with many local and visiting interstate acts. The desire to step in front of the microphone eventually took hold, and the band has its performance origins around July 2001 when bassist [3] entered the picture, thanks to a local musicians' networking group. Price had won a remix competition organised by the group, and was impressed with [3]'s entry. The two got together and commenced rehearsals in January 2002, with a live show following in April.

"We wanted to make sure the songs would work in a live sense", Price explained, before the band began recording. In the same month, The Jesus Cleaver were signed to independent record label, Extrinia.

With studio production of the debut album complete, the first chapter in the story of The Jesus Cleaver is ready to told in song. From fast-paced, bass-heavy tracks to quirky and irreverent, to devastating emotionalism, The Jesus Cleaver explore a broad range of sounds and styles, with a dark romantic theme underscoring the ten original tracks on the debut album.

For Price, The Jesus Cleaver is also a new beginning, with the propagation of each song serving to intersect and refract against the life experiences of his most important catalyst in this human experiment, fans of music with a purpose.


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• Fact Sheet

Genre:		Dark Alternative
Latest Release:		Debut album TBA
Members:		Bishop Price (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards + programming) plus special guests, "[3]" (bass guitar), Angie Draper (backing vocals), Tanya Quinlan (backing vocals)
Record Label:		Extrinia
City of Origin:		Brisbane (Queensland, Australia)
Formed:		July 2001
Official Website:		http://www.thejesuscleaver.com/
Points of Note:		Music reflects a diversity of alternative styles however their songs are underscored by dark romantic themes. All songs have their creative origins with their lyrics, to which bass and percussion parts are typically added to form the foundation of the song. The forthcoming debut album will feature ten original tracks, written, engineered and produced by Bishop Price. The album will also feature exotic location recordings including the changing of the guard at Prague Castle (Czech Republic) and a flock of bats recorded inside the Capricorn Caves (Rockhampton, Australia). A promotional campaign to independent media (print, web, radio and television) and clubs in the US, UK, Europe and Australia is currently being planned for the album's launch.
Additional Data:		The debut album and digital singles will be available exclusively via the band's official website with shopping available in five major currencies and shipping to 35 countries. The Jesus Cleaver have earned the nickname "The Jesus Cleavage" as the band's promotional material often contains original digital artwork of female nudes by Bishop Price.
Contact:		Lucinda Nightingale Marketing Manager Extrinia lucinda@extrinia.com

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• Lyric Sheet

From the forthcoming debut album. Words and music: Bishop Price


Please Replia
Like birds in a puddle
I bathe in your sickness
And the water falls down
And covers me in the thought of you
And I'm waiting to cry
I climb up higher
Always the wrong way
So I fall into nothing
And hope I can stay
 
The rain flows out of me
Killing the ants on me
I drown them in blood lost down to the floor
And the water falls down
And covers me in the memory of you
I call to your heart
Calling to nobody
Alone in the air
Your voice is brought to me
Oh please
Please, oh please
Please Replia
Please Replia
Please Replia
I cannot escape you
Please Replia
 
 
Vulnerable To Falling
It looks so well on you
But I'm not a well boy
Knew it so perfectly
That deepest memory
That keeps me cold beneath my skin
Touch me and whisper
At last I hear your voice
In the final silent breath
And stay like this forever
Forever
Forever
Time has changed your skin
But nothing has changed my heart
I'm vulnerable to falling
And the hand in hand
I pray for sedation
And nothing is within
I'm vulnerable to falling
 
 
Luscious
My heart, an hourglass
Kiss for an empty table
Kiss for the masquerade
The lost time
The last words ever spoken
Were yours
Your luscious broken eyes
 
The last time
But it never ends
Your voice, my blood and I
Fall like a city on melting ice
Into your...
 
To the end
One more kiss
Now words are an enemy
My whole army's now disarmed
The cold things feel the same
And all the words mean nothing
The only place to hide
Your luscious broken eyes
Into your...
 
Leave you with nothing
I have nothing more to give
(Twist like sin
I lost something
I lost myself)
Into your
 
 
Oh Darling
Oh darling
Oh darling
Oh darling
I've seen
The end
That must come

 
Idol
(Instrumental)
 
 
Rend
For the fruit of the tree she came
To gather the fallen ones
And as she cried for victory
The dead lay all around
And in her arms the chosen lay
In her arms the chosen stayed
"We'll waste no time"
She breathed,
"We'll never weep for them
"But let them rest
"And we will meet again"
 
"We'll never sleep
"We'll never weep
"We'll never breathe again
"But let them rest
"And we will meet again"
 
January and winter passed
All this time alone
To never hear that sound again
To never see you lost again
To never be so close again
I would sell the world to misery
And give them even more
 
 
Antecedents
You wouldn't come out
So I had to tear you
And you make the strangest shapes
Of blood upon my pillow
And I held your pieces in my hand
I waited for you to tell everything
The only time that scent is noticed
Is when you get it on my skin
And is this alright to wear today?
I knew I would like you
If you had to get entangled
So get down into your water
You burn like a strawberry
Just like that in my mouth
And skin so white and clear
And the door was closed
But everything was there
Your clothes have disappeared
Into the floor, into the room
And we kiss to stay alive
 
"How does that feel?"
 
Your clothes have disappeared
Into the floor, into the room
And we breathe to stay alive
 
"How does that feel?"
 
 
Ascension
You were in my water
A needle through my skin
A towel and a telephone
But we were not alone
And things were nearer
When you were clearer
And moonlight faces
Remember swinging places
In this encyclopaedia of you
 
The silence shared
I watch you sleep
From above your bed
Your precious beauty left unbled
And things were clearer
When you were nearer
And the doors were open
The slowly broken
In this encyclopaedia of you
 
The words unspoken
The passion lost
For the things I fought
Left with you my only thought
The last things left quite pleasantly
Ending always more fatally
So promise things that never end
Leave me with presents I'll never send
 
 
Still Life Swimming
Still life swimming
Heart movement dimming
Fear is floating
Through the rivers of my mind
Some unknown pressure
Is squeezing it through
And the one thing on my mind tonight
Is what remembers you
Like a hundred hundred cups of tea
You were swirling
You were dreaming
Through what was then called me
 
And I was living
When I was on your mind
And I was diving into life
Instead of dying
 
 
Do Something For Me
And we get old
And you get old
Wither and die
You will wither and die
With nothing delivered
With nothing achieved
Do something for me
Do something for me
Burn all the stars
Boil every sea
For a certain remembrance
Will never leave me
Do something for me
Do something for me
Into the sea of my arms she will fall
Into the sea of my arms she will fall
For her ship will be lost
Into the sea of my world
Do something for me
Do something for me
 
© Copyright 2002 Extrinia. All rights reserved. Lyrics may not be used for any purpose without written permission from Extrinia.


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• Logos

To include a logo for The Jesus Cleaver on your site, please use the following HTML:



<a href="http://www.thejesuscleaver.com" title="The Jesus Cleaver OFFICIAL SITE"><img src="http://www.thejesuscleaver.com/the_jesus_cleaver_logo.jpg" width="250" height="50" border="0"></a>




<a href="http://www.thejesuscleaver.com" title="The Jesus Cleaver OFFICIAL SITE"><img src="http://www.thejesuscleaver.com/the_jesus_cleaver_logo_white.jpg" width="250" height="50" border="0"></a>

If you require a custom logo for a review or feature, please contact Lucinda Nightingale, Marketing Manager via lucinda@extrinia.com

• Photos

Bishop Price - singer, songwriter.

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• Releases

Debut album coming 2004.