July Fourth Toilet-Tribute To Paul Williams

July 4th Toilet brings Paul Williams up on stage for a few words after their tribute to the great songwriter.
Kier-La Janisse brought Paul Williams to vancouver for the Big Smash festival and this was an official after party after showings of Phantom Of the Paradise and the Muppet Movie!
April, 2006, Vancouver, camera: Jay Johnson.
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• July Fourth Toilet may just be the most lucid yet visceral musical act in existence!
• Legendary long-time West Coast Canadian musical act July Fourth Toilet has been doing it their way since 1994.
• July Fourth Toilet have made it their mandate to never perform the same show twice. Show themes for this multi-piece, multi-instrumental co-ed bargain basement technicolour variety revue have included thirty second songs and medleys, as well as tributes to tea, candy, Davy Jones and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, "Their Satanic Majesties Request", September 11th, and legendary songwriter Paul Williams (with Paul Williams himself enjoying the show from ten feet away).
• July Fourth Toilet ritualistically combines and transcends pop songcraft, versatile musicianship, performance, non-musicians, and pure improvisation to create their unique and inimitable sound and persona.
• Named by Gregg Turkington and John Singer of the anarchic and confrontationally comedic experimental two piece Zip Code Rapists.
• Their first album, self released, was intended to make people feel warm inside with its sense of soft experimental psych-pop. Entitled Something For Everyone it received critical raves and was treasured by those who got a chance to hear it.
Second album is in the can and awaiting a label to release it.
"Something tells me that maybe something is going to happen with the kind of giant musical ensembles that were responsible for Hair. You've got the Polyphonic Spree, the Arcade Fire, and the Hidden Cameras. They all have this big-ensemble feel. The leader of this multimembered, costumed concept movement will be Vancouver's July 4th Toilet."
- the infamous Nardwuar the Human Serviette

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• Williams
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• Canada
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• pop

[regusted]

I just saw Phantom of the Paradise last week for the first time after having it in the back of my mind my whole life. Paul Williams was great in it!

[moustachedpainless]

Honoured guest of Big Smash, flown in for Big Smash Film Fest(see side bar notes to the right). The man is truly wonderful and inspiring BTW and helped me to change my life-Robert (J4T lead singer)

[startcooking]

how did you get him there?

[MrsWLeach]

WILD!!!! I thought it was another paul williams!!!! Odd name for a group. Makes 'The Juicy Fruits' look downright mundane. But thanks for the tribute, guys. Wild.