# Flaming Fire > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flaming_Fire > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flaming_Fire.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Fire > Source revision: 1058537906 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Flaming Fire** is an American [arts collective](/source/Arts_collective) and [experimental rock](/source/Experimental_rock) band from [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)), United States, which formed in 2000.[1] Other projects include live performance, film, comics and the [Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible](/source/Flaming_Fire_Illustrated_Bible)[2] (described as the largest illustrated Bible in the world). The band is on [avant rock](/source/Avant_rock) label [Silly Bird Records](/source/Silly_Bird_Records), home to bands like [Autobody](/source/Autobody_(band)) and the [Irving Klaw Trio](/source/Irving_Klaw_Trio). Their projects and music have been featured in such news and music publications as *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, *[Arthur Magazine](/source/Arthur_Magazine)*, *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*, *[Vice Magazine](/source/Vice_Magazine)*, *[The Boston Globe](/source/The_Boston_Globe)*, *[Venus Magazine](/source/Venus_Magazine)*, *[The Omaha World Herald](/source/The_Omaha_World_Herald)*, *[The Omaha Reader](/source/The_Omaha_Reader)*, The *[Lincoln Journal Star](/source/Lincoln_Journal_Star)*, [Blastitude](/source/Blastitude), Dead Angel, [Mick Mercer](/source/Mick_Mercer)'s The Mick and *[Baltimore City Paper](/source/Baltimore_City_Paper)*. The group features cartoonist [Lauren Weinstein](/source/Lauren_Weinstein_(comic_book_artist)) on lead vocals with Patrick Hambrecht, the band songwriter. Hambrecht, a [Southern Baptist](/source/Southern_Baptist) from [Papillion, Nebraska](/source/Papillion,_Nebraska), moved to New York City in 1996.[1] Their music has been described as a mix of [psychedelic folk](/source/Psychedelic_folk), [noise music](/source/Noise_music) and [pop music](/source/Pop_music), similar to other [New Weird America](/source/New_Weird_America) artists, but with a more aggressive, [transgressive](/source/Transgressive_art) bent, akin to bands like [Psychic TV](/source/Psychic_TV). The group's prior incarnation, [Rock Rock Chicken Pox](/source/Rock_Rock_Chicken_Pox), featured [Dame Darcy](/source/Dame_Darcy) and members of [Laddio Bolocko](/source/Laddio_Bolocko). The band has three albums; *Get Old and Die with Flaming Fire,* *Songs from the Shining Temple*[1] and *When the High Bell Rings*. Their music has been featured on various compilations, including [WFMU](/source/WFMU)'s *Tunes From the Toxic Terrain* and Psycho-O-Path Records' *Space is No Place, NYC: Noise from the Underground*. In December 2009, the arts collective organized a holiday art show and performance space in Brooklyn entitled "The Flaming Fire Temple Presents: Eternal Christmas – A Yuletide Dreamland", sponsored by Atlantic Assets and Issue Project Room. The show featured visual art by Camilla Ha, Dame Darcy, [Dewanatron](/source/Dewanatron), Lauren Weinstein, Jared Whitham, Patrick Smith, Alyssa Taylor Wendt and Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz. It featured a live recording project from LYDSOD each night, and performances by many friends of the band, including Autodrone, Laura Ortman, [The Clean](/source/The_Clean)'s [Hamish Kilgour](/source/Hamish_Kilgour), [Martin Bisi](/source/Martin_Bisi), Joe McGinty's Circuit Parade, Gelatine and others. The installation was described in articles by *[Vice Magazine](/source/Vice_Magazine)* and *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, and kept a website. ## References 1. Proskocil, Niz (August 28, 2003). "Band asks concertgoers to make art of a Bible verse: Rocking the Bible", *[Omaha World-Herald](/source/Omaha_World-Herald)*, p. GO9. 1. Smietana, Bob (2003). "Drawing the Bible verse by verse", [Religion News Service](/source/Religion_News_Service). Reprinted in *[Regina Leader-Post](/source/Regina_Leader-Post)*, December 6, 2003, p. G6. **Other sources** - New Yorker Review: [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2007/03/26/070326goni_GOAT_nightlife?currentPage=2](http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2007/03/26/070326goni_GOAT_nightlife?currentPage=2) - Vice Magazine Interview: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425093807/http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2007/01/new_york_flamin.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20090425093807/http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2007/01/new_york_flamin.html) - New York Times Interview: [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E6DA153AF933A15757C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E6DA153AF933A15757C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=) - Vice Magazine article on Eternal Christmas: [http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2009/12/16/flaming-fire-presents-eternal-christmas-a-yuletide-dreamland/](http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2009/12/16/flaming-fire-presents-eternal-christmas-a-yuletide-dreamland/)[dead link] - New York Times blog on Eternal Christmas: [https://archive.today/20130104092609/http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/snow-drives-back-the-foot-thats-slow/](https://archive.today/20130104092609/http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/snow-drives-back-the-foot-thats-slow/) ## External links - [Official website](http://www.flamingfire.com) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Flaming Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Fire) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Fire?action=history)). 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