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History

Entertainment formed in 2002 in Athens, Georgia, influenced by

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. After the December 2003 release of their first single "Safe at One" on Atlanta label

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, the band was signed by now-defunct Luminal Records, who released their second single, "Patroness", in 2004. A split 12-inch EP release with Canadian band

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followed in 2006 on Simulacre Media/Adistant Sound. Entertainment's debut album, ''Gender'', was released in 2008 by Stickfigure, with a remastered vinyl version issued the following year on New York label Duchess Archive. It received extensive critical acclaim and was voted the 2008

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album of the year by Deathrock.com., who said, "Entertainment take hedark, post-punk, gothic concept back to the drawing board, removing the complication and dispensing with the miserable pop-sensibilities of the latest crop of 'post-punk' bandwagoners over the past half decade. What they achieve with surrealistic, visually descriptive lyrics, and the opium-den like pace is ultimately parallel to none other than '' Only Theatre of Pain'', oddly enough". In a 2009 live review for Shadowtime NYC, '' Big Takeover'' critic Kristin Sollee described Entertainment as: "A slow burn of anarchic pleasures moving between pounding, tribal vigor and creeping, Gothic slither, few bands can make music this cold and abyssal so fiery and enticing". In 2016, the band toured the United States as support for

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Members

* Trey Ehart -

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, keyboards,

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* Jennifer von Schlichten -

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* Henry Jack Buxbaum -

* Jim Groff -

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* Bari Donavan Watts -

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Former members

* Andrew Gleason - bass * Todd Caras - guitar, bass * Chisolm Thompson - guitar * Spencer McGhin - guitar * Kimberley Saint Thomas - bass

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Gender'' (2008,

/Adistant Sound; 2009, Duchess Archive)

Singles

*"Safe at One"/"The Queen's Beasts (Or Suffer Fools)" (2003, Stickfigure Records) *"Patroness"/"The Cold Fraction" (2005, Luminal Records)

EPs

*''A Spectre Is Haunting Europe/Entertainment'' split vinyl 12" with

(2006, Simulacre Media/Adistant Sound)

Compilations

* ''"A Matter of Gender" Outtakes and Demos'' (2008, Duchess Archive/Adistant Sound)

Compilation appearances

*"Shadow and Shadow" on ''Dots to Connect: The Music of

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'' (2009, Five03 Records) *"Distance" on ''SOM▲ – A Disaro Mixed Tape'' (2011, Disaro Records)

References

External links

Entertainment on BandcampEntertainment on FacebookStickfigure Records
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