sCare-oline
(Paul Hammill / VANCOUVER 2006)

Caroline "sCare-oline" Helmeczi claims she had to pawn her halo to buy her 3/4 upright and we don't think she'll ever get it back. There's real evil brewing behind those big brown eyes.

An electric bassist at 13 and a BJB convert to upright, she's since developed a unique gothabilly style of playing that began with a dark infatuation with Nick Cave, Bauhaus and Echo & the Bunnymen. These days the stylings of the more southern gothic sounds like Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots, Reverend Glasseye, 16 Horsepower and recently the Norweigian group Kaiser's Orchestra are among her favorites.

sCare-oline loves the big sound of Ampeg amplifiers and she gets the tones she needs with her Revolution Solo P/U - a pickup she swears by. She also handmakes the chainmail that she wears and belly-dances in, while banjo and concertina wait in the wings.

Tiger Beat Questions:

A Godly Band - 16 Horsepower
Favorite Drink - Gin & Tonic
A Perfect Song - In Shreds (The Chameleons)
Big Influences - Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Bauhaus, Echo and the Bunnymen, Austin (The Spectres)and every doghouse player I've talked shop with ...
Obsessions - finding out (the hard way) which garden plants cause nasty skin irritations
Current Ride - hooked on cool bicyles
Cool Authors - Glen Cook, Ursula K. Leguin, Patricia McKillip, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Tim Powers
Awesome Movies - Blade Runner, Angel Heart, Institute Benjamenta, Secretary

sCare-oline
(Tanya Plonka - LETHBRIDGE 2007)