One-Man Dance-Pop Spectacle-Artist to Watch Tungsten Rings

One-Man Dance-Pop Spectacle-Artist to Watch Tungsten Rings

W: J O began recording as Tungsten Carbide Rings while on a break from his post-punk band the D'Urbervilles, but the project gradually evolved into a one-man dance-pop multimedia spectacle featuring video art, choreography and flamboyant costumes. O'Regan says he came up with his new image and performance-art style in part to present his songs live in an entertaining way, but also to differentiate the music he makes with his band.

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"Tungsten Ring and the D'Urbervilles don't relate to each other at all and that was sort of the point," he says. "I wanted to do something new. The last thing you want is some guy up there strumming his guitar singing about his girlfriend or whatever."

Art School : O'Regan's multimedia approach to music and art comes out of his education as an art student at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. "I was taking apart stereo systems and putting them back together in weird ways," he says. "I was always trying to get my music into my art, and vice versa, as much as possible. I was doing everything I'm doing now, but more in a gallery setting." He discovered one the earliest inspirations for mens tungsten rings while at school. "I was really influenced by a collective from Toronto that was operating in the late Seventies, early Eighties called General Idea,"

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he recalls. "It was like a queer artist group. They were into utilizing media and technology as a means of disseminating an artistic message, and it was really theatrical, a bit campy. So that was an inspiration for sure, just using YouTube and using every available tool to get the music out there."

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