Madigan Shive
Encyclopedia
Madigan Rachel Ruth Shive is an American
composer, performing artist, community organizer and international touring musician based in San Francisco. She is a cellist
, singer and guitar
ist, formerly of the band Tattle Tale
and currently fronting her own ensemble, Bonfire Madigan.
" people; her mother called her Running Pony until she was about six years old, and regularly changed her name. Shive eventually chose one of them, Madigan, as her permanent name when she was a teenager. The family lived in a teepee in Washington for about two years when she was a child, and moved often. At the age of seventeen, she formed the Seattle based duo Tattle Tale
with Jen Wood
. The band broke up in 1995. She formed Bonfire Madigan with contrabass
ist Sheri Ozeki, guitarist Shelley Doty, and percussionist Tomas. Also in 1995 Shive formed her own artist run music label, Moonpuss Music. Shive's songs have appeared in numerous films including But I'm a Cheerleader
, Better Luck Tomorrow
, Chain Camera
, Don't Need You: the Herstory of Riot Grrrl, D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
. In 2001, Shive made news while raising money to fight tenant eviction
and trying to raise awareness of tenant's and poor people's rights.
In 2003 Shive became a founding collective member of The Icarus Project
alongside Sascha Scatter, Jacks Ashley McNamara and Will Hall
. In 2008 Shive was a contributing author to the anthology Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction on Seven Stories Press.
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composer, performing artist, community organizer and international touring musician based in San Francisco. She is a cellist
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
, singer and guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist, formerly of the band Tattle Tale
Tattle Tale
Tattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
and currently fronting her own ensemble, Bonfire Madigan.
Biography
Shive's parents were "intentional future communityIntentional community
An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle. They...
" people; her mother called her Running Pony until she was about six years old, and regularly changed her name. Shive eventually chose one of them, Madigan, as her permanent name when she was a teenager. The family lived in a teepee in Washington for about two years when she was a child, and moved often. At the age of seventeen, she formed the Seattle based duo Tattle Tale
Tattle Tale
Tattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
with Jen Wood
Jen Wood
Jen Wood is an American indie rock musician based in Seattle, Washington. She was a member of alternative rock band Tattle Tale and is the lead artist of the Jen Wood Trio.-Biography:...
. The band broke up in 1995. She formed Bonfire Madigan with contrabass
Contrabass
Contrabass refers to a musical instrument of very low pitch; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register...
ist Sheri Ozeki, guitarist Shelley Doty, and percussionist Tomas. Also in 1995 Shive formed her own artist run music label, Moonpuss Music. Shive's songs have appeared in numerous films including But I'm a Cheerleader
But I'm a Cheerleader
But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader...
, Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Luck Tomorrow is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess...
, Chain Camera
Chain Camera (film)
Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students. It premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.-Summary:...
, Don't Need You: the Herstory of Riot Grrrl, D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist is a low-budget documentary film released by Music Video Distributors in 2002. The film is a "celebration of the underdog" and deals with why artists do what they do, regardless of the lack of a continuous paycheck.The film features some...
. In 2001, Shive made news while raising money to fight tenant eviction
Eviction
How you doing???? Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms...
and trying to raise awareness of tenant's and poor people's rights.
In 2003 Shive became a founding collective member of The Icarus Project
Icarus Project
.The Icarus Project http://theicarusproject.net is a mental health movement characterized by the view that many phenomena commonly labeled as mental illness should actually be regarded as "dangerous gifts"...
alongside Sascha Scatter, Jacks Ashley McNamara and Will Hall
Will Hall
Will Hall , is a mental health advocate, writer, and counselor. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is recognized internationally as a leading organizer with the psychiatric survivors movement. In 2001 he co-founded the Freedom Center and in 2005 became a co-coordinator of The Icarus Project...
. In 2008 Shive was a contributing author to the anthology Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction on Seven Stories Press.
Discography
- 19931993 in musicThis is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....
: Julep (Compilation) (with Tattle TaleTattle TaleTattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
) – Yoyo Recordings - 19941994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
: Tattle Tale (with Tattle TaleTattle TaleTattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
) – Kill Rock StarsKill Rock StarsKill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission... - 19941994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
: Move into the Villa Villakula (Compilation) (with Tattle TaleTattle TaleTattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
) – Villa Villakula Records - 19941994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
: Post 10: Early daze (with Tattle TaleTattle TaleTattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
) – Pillarbox Red Records - 19941994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
: Unknown cassette - 19941994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
: Periscope (with Tattle taleTattle TaleTattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
) – Yoyo Recordings - 19951995 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
: Alderwood Mall/Loose lips (aka The Alderwood Mall Ep (with Tattle TaleTattle TaleTattle Tale is an American musical group that existed between 1992 and 1995. Composed of Jen Wood and Madigan Shive, they were well-known in the Riot Grrrl scene, playing what was later to be termed folk punk....
) – Chou Chou records - 19951995 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
: Sew True (with Tattle Tale) – St. Francis - 19961996 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...
: Rock Stop – MoonPuss Music - 19981998 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
: ...From the Burnpile (with Bonfire Madigan) – Kill Rock Stars - 20002000 in musicSee also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
: Saddle the Bridge (with Bonfire Madigan) – Kill Rock Stars - 20022002 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...
: 88 (EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, with Bonfire Madigan) – MoonPuss Music - 20032003 in music-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
: Plays for Change (with Bonfire Madigan, live) – MoonPuss Music - 2004/08: I Bleed: a decade of song – MoonPuss Music
- 20092009 in musicThe following is a list of notable events and releases in 2009 in music. Susan Boyle's album I Dreamed a Dream became the biggest selling album in the world for 2009, selling 8.3 million copies in five weeks; more than any other artist's in the whole year...
: Lady Saves (EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
Single, with Bonfire Madigan Remixed by Neotropic and Dub ID) – Moonpuss Music
Theater Works
- 2006: prepared solo cello suites for Vigil of Light at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
- 2008: live score written and performed for Tis Pity She's a Whore at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco
- 2008: live material for Twisted Christmas program at Barbican Hall, London
- 2008: performing composer for Powerful Voices, Women of Ancient Greek Drama at The Onassis Cultural Center, New York
- 2010: original recorded score for The Lion in Winter at Shakespeare Santa Cruz
- 2010: composer and musical director for Elektra at Getty Villa, Los Angeles
Filmography
- 1998: "Pity Rock" by Madigan featured in Sleeping BeautiesSleeping BeautiesSleeping Beauties is a 1999 short comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit. It premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. It stars Sarah Lassez as a morgue beautician trying to get over her ex-girlfriend, played by Radha Mitchell. Babbit made the film with help from David Fincher and Michael Douglas...
by Jamie BabbitJamie BabbitJamie Babbit is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films But I'm a Cheerleader, The Quiet and Itty Bitty Titty Committee. She has also directed episodes of television programs including Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, United States of Tara, Nip/Tuck and... - 1999: "Glass Vase Cello Case" by Tattle Tale featured in But I'm a CheerleaderBut I'm a CheerleaderBut I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader...
by Jamie BabbitJamie BabbitJamie Babbit is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films But I'm a Cheerleader, The Quiet and Itty Bitty Titty Committee. She has also directed episodes of television programs including Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, United States of Tara, Nip/Tuck and... - 2001: "Snowfell Summer" by Bonfire Madigan featured in Chain CameraChain Camera (film)Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students. It premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.-Summary:...
by Kirby DickKirby DickKirby Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for directing documentary films. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith... - 2002: "Scraps" by Bonfire Madigan featured in Better Luck TomorrowBetter Luck TomorrowBetter Luck Tomorrow is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess...
by Justin LinJustin LinJustin Lin is a Taiwanese American film director, best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious franchise and the television show, Community.-Life and career:... - 2002: "7 Mile Lane" performed live by Bonfire Madigan in D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent ArtistD.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent ArtistD.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist is a low-budget documentary film released by Music Video Distributors in 2002. The film is a "celebration of the underdog" and deals with why artists do what they do, regardless of the lack of a continuous paycheck.The film features some...
- 2003: "Mad Skywriting" performed live by Bonfire Madigan in Angel Food by Harper Carter
- 2006: "Mad Skywriting" performed live by Bonfire Madigan in Don't Need You: the Herstory of Riot Grrrl
- 2006: "Cage" by Bonfire Madigan featured in Laibach 3: Divided States of America / Laibach Live (2006)
- 2009: score, starring role and co-director of Transliminal Criminal
- 2010: cello compositions for Crooked Beauty by Ken Paul Rosenthal