Having once early in his career played a show in a barn, in rural Nebraska for an 18 year-old kid's graduation from military school, Darren Keen, the creative genius behind The Show Is The Rainbow, found himself exactly one week later playing a sold out show in Minneapolis for 1,500 angry goth kids who were surprising un-angry at his surprisingly un-goth performance. Nothing is below or above this one man show. He'll perform on the floor in the middle of the crowd and everyone is welcome.
He raps. He screams. He produces. He makes videos. And in the end, it's really loud, a lot of stuff is going on and it's hard to figure out which is the best part because it all is so good.
Equipped with a big van The Show Is The Rainbow has toured quite a lot in recent years with such acts as Mindless Self Indulgence, Kill Hannah, Yip Yip, Cex, The Locust, Gravy Train!!!, Mates of State, and Neil Hamburger, to name just a few. His new record, Gymnasia, comes out April 3rd on SAF records, and we couldn't be more excited. Darren Keen and his show The Show Is the Rainbow is going to tour a lot this year, and he sure as hell is looking forward to it.
