About The Site
Electric Theatre officially began in 1994. Trilo started it as a means to share multimedia resources and information in support of the band Duran Duran. The name comes from the band’s 1989 tour, which was an incredible mix of live performance, art-rock, poetry, dance music, burlesque show, and theatre. At the time the internet and web as we know it today was in its infancy, and Electric Theatre initially began via email and an FTP site.
After securing permission to use the name from the band and learning more than he ever wanted to learn about writing HTML code, Trilo created Electric Theatre as a web site in late 1994. Between 1995 and 1997 the site expanded to support additional artists (including U2, Garbage, David Bowie among others), and an art gallery. By late 1997 the music industry had discovered the web, bands started making their own web sites, and the need for Electric Theatre to support them had diminished. During this time the site transformed itself into an online gallery.
After moving from New York to California in 2002, the goals of Electric Theatre began to change and grow. Inspired by the band Underworld and Tomato, Electric Theatre as an art collective began to take shape. Further inspiration came from the Los Angeles art and music scene, and was refined after Trilo moved to San Francisco in 2006. Electric Theatre currently offers resources to and showcases the work of a number of artists around the world with more than 70 hours of free music (available on the site or via podcast), offers web resources and information, produces world-class events and more.