Biography
T.D. Benton's
~White Collar Sideshow~
One part film, one part band….combined they create a provocative live performance that will haunt the soul.
“A movement if you will, a revolution of the heart”
The performance has often been titled and expressed in many different shapes and forms:
“Amazing and spectacular, strange but true, revolutionary, original, intense, honest, relevant, exciting, inspirational, passionate, beautiful, artistic, loving, forgiving, convicting, unbelievable, weird, haunting, unusual, extreme, mind-boggling, horrifying, insane, crazy, disgusting, garbage, offensive, distasteful, trashy, and even the devil!!”
Hailing from the city famous for it's gallows, Ft. Smith, AR…
White Collar Sideshow began as a series of dreams from the mind of an addict, TD Benton. Wanting to help people realize they were not alone, the dreams became the blueprint for putting together a very strange and unusual performance. After questioning their own minds, they sold everything that they owned to live on the road. They desired to become the change they wanted to see!
Becoming a band of gypsies living in an RV, their lives became full of passion and purpose, unknowing and learning. They burned their diesel on dirt roads, backroads, byways, highways, sideways and interstates all over the US! They have toured relentlessly, performing in many different venues on many different stages. Looking for anyone to connect with them on a personal level, we ended up performing for thousands, in many different towns, cities, and states with numerous local, regional and national acts.
Then, after traveling for 3 years straight, they ended their first performance with true unity, full of wonderful memories, friends, supporters, believers, fans, haters and lovers of what they do with a grand exclamation point!!
ENTER, ACT II
"The WitcHunt"
From the mind of T.D. Benton, alongside Travis Joiner (777 productions) and master producer/engineer Chris Baseford (Rob Zombie, Tommy Lee) a new chapter of their life begins with their first full-length recording, a new act if you will, titled “The WitcHunt.”
Diving deep into the heart of humanity, WCS picks up where the first performance left off.
Based on actual events, they take you on an innovative- thrilling and stimulating roller coaster ride through life & tragedy. A crash course through strange & unusual events that could occur at anyplace and time, if you allow it.
T.D. Benton (drums, vocals) brings back the creative and clever players;
…the brutal Herr Schwein (drums),
…the always creepy Leech (aux perc),
…and the lovely but mysterious Faceless Woman (bass).
Together these characters bring you a chilling and somewhat haunting performance on the soul.
Before we point our fingers at each other, what is it that consumes our hearts and minds? What are the vices that haunt and torture our lives?
Traveling the arterial highways full of passion and purpose! Looking for the amazing and spectacular, the loving and forgiving, searching for faith and the unknown.
Rebuilding their minds, and burning our fossil fuel trying to figure out how to exemplify true life,
their gypsy journey starts once again!
“Become transparent. Wear you heart on your sleeve.
Become the change you want to see”
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