Rev Billy Rapture Interruptus Tour: Santa Cruz Revival! FRIDAY

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir return to Santa Cruz for a blistering revival show at the amazing Rio Theater: singing, dancing and fiery preaching will get you in the spirit!

Preaching hope and redemption, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir will travel to Santa Cruz on a holy crusade against Big Boxes, urging consumers to support their local proprietors and community economies by rejecting Wal-Mart and other mega-stores.

With sermons, songs and street spectacle, the San Francisco Stop Shopping tour will deliver sinners from the deepest American vice and wickedness: love of buying and accumulating unnecessary, sweatshop-produced goods.

Says Billy:

The fundamentalist plan – "The Rapture" – is now in progress. People are vanishing, yanked up into another world. These believers are disappearing into SUV's, idling between super malls. They believe, though, with the Playstations in their dashboards, that their Ford Expeditions are climbing straight up cliffs and jumping fjords and running with wolves. That's Heaven's final ad campaign: Consumers on pixilated interstates up Mount Everest. Those of us left behind will die in the Hell and rising Floods of the over-heating planet.

Children, welcome to the The Rapture Interruptus Revival - we shall hit the Rapture right where it hurts. We shall slam the Rapture into Reverse. We shall sing "Stop Shopping" between the consumer and the car – catching them in the Parking Lot Of No Return. We plan a new kind of performance art, a curving choreography designed for on-ramps. Exorcisms of Bad Traffic are now being taught in 24 hour all-night shifts at the Slow Consuming School of Divinity…

Saturday, April 29th 10:00am Westcoast Live Radio
April 29th, 6:00pm Walnut Park – Petaluma
Sunday, April 30th Victoria's Secret Action michael@revbilly.com for details
Sunday, April 30th 8:00pm Victoria Theater, San Francisco

On Monday, May 1st we'll be on the streets in San Francisco with the Great American Boycott.