World First! Nifigance Invisible Gig @SXSW, Tonite!

Vincent Nifigance plays invisible gig tonight, plots reformation of solo career, with himself as only original member.

Zap-Gasm magazine focuses on Vincent Nifigance's struggle to wrest his career back from the brink.

The same critics that had lauded his debut, were almost unanimous in immediately sounding the death-knell for his shorlived career. The SFSSP, which was to dispel any accusations of fluke engulfing his remarkable debut, was a spartan and tortuous road trip into the unknown. Based on a particularly portentous dream, the album was an alleged attempt to detail the journey from kismet love into an infuriatingly unjust death, for its two transient protagonists. The SFPEO had established Nifigance as a quirky acoustic singer songwriter, when in fact four of the album's ten tracks were predominantly instrumental. The SFSSP further built upon this trend with instrumentals intruding on 5 tracks, and seemed like more. Where the SFPEO though, had been lyrically abundant, the whispers that intermittently swept across this offering seemed far more sparse.

José Crayola gets under the skin of the reclusive crooner, in his last-ditch attempt to rescue his once good name from the annals of obscurity.

A botched dawn.

A dismal figure squats in a graveyard bush, attempting - in two ways - to fertilise consecrated ground.

Vincent Nifigance has hit rock bottom, and as if to metaphorically prove this point, his derriere is in close proximity to a tombstone, as he tries to simultaneously, well... this and that.

Staring into a flat grey sky. The very epitome of animosity.

"SFPEO was kismet, and SFSSP was death - I was trying to invoke what I believed was destined to happen me, therefore rendering myself master of my own destiny, unsurprised, un-f**ked. In charge. So what's beyond that? The Golden Nowhere. Which is where you find me on this record."

Which is surprising considering he has more cause to be concerned about his own personal safety now, than ever should have during the writing of The SFSSP. After having angered both white supremacist group - 'The Porcelain Allstars' and the allegedly nefarious 'Church of the Screaming Magnesium' in recent weeks. Rumour has it that Nifigance crashed a 'Porcelain Allstars' clambake incognito, and perhaps most audaciously, undertook a clerical internship at the COTSM, where he is rumoured to have embezzled funds abundant enough to complete the recording of The SFETA.

Friction between Nifigance and the Church emerged when his Catalogues Of The Secret Museum building was targeted by the Church's lawyers, unhappy at the identical acronym.

The SFETA finds him in Nirvana - free from the tortures of expectation, the earthly burdens. It has the same chimes of freedom that the SFPEO exhudes, while peppered (no pun intended) with the same gravitas of The SFSSP most emotionally burdensome murmerings.

Instead of trying to raise the dead, he's learned how to live his life.

"It's the end of an era for me.

I say that not only because I have reached a milestone in terms of my age, (Nifigance recently turned 30) but because this is the last record I will write as a single being. When I say single being, I'm not referring to my relationship status - I am very much betrothed, in a non-legal sense - but this is the last record I will write before having a child - Forever, and ever irrevocably changing my perspective on everything. Somehow that led me to thinking about the Chap-man's inexorable draw toward Lennon.

Imagine.

Someone has plotted a course for you. And somehow, unbeknownst to you, you were complicit in it." Vincent Nifigance

Tonight, Nifigance walks into Fort Rack Studios, to play SXSW - only his second ever show, to make history as he performs the world's first Schrodinger-Cast concert, begging the question -

'Who will walk out…

...if anyone?

REUTERS
Wed March 17, 2010 1:12pm GMT

Sources close to singer Vincent Nifigance have learned of a planned assassination plot against him, and have acted with all urgency to review all security arrangements prior to tonight's performance.

The story broke on controversial TV chat show 'Morgue Talk' forcing official announcement less than an hour later.

Details are at this point sketchy, but a representative from his press office announced that a credible threat on his life had been identified, and that as a result his current schedule was being overhauled in light of this evidence.

It isn't yet clear how these developments will affect the recording of his third and, it is rumoured, final album - currently underway at Fort Rack Studios, but word from close to the reclusive crooner reveals that Nifigance himself will make a statement to the press later today.


The sundown.

As the sun goes down on the Vincent Nifigance Trilogy, be sure to order your piece of history - a copy of The SFETA while stocks last. The SFETA is not available in any shops. Pre-Order yours today from Olive Juice Music.

The Seemingly
Final Extraneously Titled Album
VINCENT NIFIGANCE: YOUR ENDURING FORCE
FOR PURITY IN THIS INCREASINGLY HELL-ENVELOPED MESS

Side A

The JFK Radio Hour

1. Establishment
2. Truss-Hung, Nest-Trestled, Reborn Beyond The Synagogue
3. In My Heart, I Am Afraid
4. Udo
5. The Bomb-Diggity Bim Bom (Clandestine Manoeuvres)

INTERMISSION

Medley of Songs That Heretofore Have Not Appeared On The Album

6. a) The Theme From 'King Quay Waters'
b) Underground
c) Lovin' The 90s
d) Plastic Surgery Girl
e) The Coda From 'Baby War'
f) How Long Can You Keep Breathin' Thru The Heartache?
g) The Little Man Song
h) Trash (edit)

Side B

The Seminal Embezzlement Of The Church Of The Screaming Magnesium

7. British Indie Anthem '98
8. Bleuch
9. Someone, Please, Leave Me Alone.
10. Russell's Key