THE RITA Live

Upcoming THE RITA shows:

TBA

Selected past shows:
2009 THE RITA, The Sinking Ship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 THE RITA, Trauma Tone Festival, Rearview Mirror, Toronto, ON, Canada
2009 THE RITA (supporting act for Zbigniew Karkowski), The Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 THE RITA (performance, lecture, workshop), Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2008 WALL RIDERS (featuring THE RITA, TASKMASTER), Noise! 2008, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
2008 THE RITA, THE VINTAGE TWO-STROKE DIRT BIKE ENGINE AS A SOUND GENERATOR FOR HARSH NOISE, Antisocial, BC, Canada (We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.)
2008 THE RITA and Christian Nicolay, AMPLIFIED AND EFFECTED SKATEBOARD LEDGE/RAILING (Video presentation), MOVE>SOUND: Soundwave>Series Season ((3)), The Lab, San Francisco, SF, USA
2008 THE RITA (supporting act for WOLF EYES), Victoria, BC; Vancouver, BC; Seattle, WA
2008 EDWIGE (featuring SEWER ELECTION, KAKERLAK, THE RITA), No Fun Fest, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY, USA
2008 THE RITA, East Coast tour, Philadelphia, PA to Portland, ME, USA
2008 THE RITA, VIVO, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 THE RITA, Reed College, Portland, OR, USA
2008 THE RITA, The Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL, USA
2007 THE RITA, & Loan Gallery, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
2007 FALSE CREAK (featuring SICK BUILDINGS, TASKMASTER, THE RITA), Antisocial, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2007 THE RITA, Splinter Squid Affair IV, Seattle, WA, USA
2007 THE RITA, Japan tour: Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Japan (We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.)
2007 THE RITA, Noise! 2007, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada
2007 THE RITA, No Fun Fest, The Hook, New York, NY, USA
2006 THE RITA, DIVA, Eugene, OR, USA
2006 THE CHERRY POINT (featuring THE RITA), Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Musick Pfestival, Seattle, WA, USA
2006 THE RITA, Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 THE RITA, West Coast tour, Vancouver, BC to Austin, TX
2006 THE RITA, 1067 Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 LE RITA VIATHANS, Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 THE RITA, 1067 Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 THE RITA (harsh noise "performance"), San Francisco Harsh Noise Festival, Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA, USA
2005 THE RITA, Noise! 2005, 50/50 Arts Collective, Victoria, BC, Canada
2005 THE RITA, 1067 Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 THE RITA, Blim Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 THE RITA, 2005 Portland Noise Festival, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
2004 THE RITA (with members of HOSPITAL and GOATSBLOOD), Video-In Studios, BC, Canada
2004 THE RITA, Christian Nicolay, and Eli Bornowsky, The Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2003 HOSPITAL (with THE RITA and members of GOATSBLOOD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 THE RITA, Ms T’s Cabaret, Vancouver, BC, Canada

BA. KU. / BT. HN. Discography

Releases:
BA. KU. / THE RITA (cs Harshhead Rituals 2005)
BA. KU. - Wolf Woman of Black Lake (c40 Audiobot)
BA. KU. - Ritual Totemic Stone (c40 Trash Ritual)
(Note: name change to BT. HN. / LA BETE HUMAINE)
BT. HN. - Crypts of Dark and Obscure Lineage (c10 Iatrogenesis 2006)
BT. HN. - Ritual Totemic Stone (c40 reissue Trash Ritual)
BT. HN. - Black Mirrors and Dark Planet Alignment (one-sided lp Rundownsun)
BT. HN. - Burned Forest, Blackened Landscape (3" cdr Chondritic Sound 2007)
BT. HN. - The Forbidden Barrier (cs Mistape)
BT. HN. - Her Serpent (cd Troniks/PACrec 2008)
BT. HN. - Vitiated (lp Dogma Chase 2009)
BT. HN. - Valastro (cs Cipher Productions)
BT. HN. - Retrospective (cdr Pointless Blank)

Misc:
BARRIER KULT HORDE VIDEO (BA. KU. provided the sounds for the extras 2004)

THE RITA Discography

THE RITA – Creature Drowning You (cs almos 1996)
THE RITA – Cartilage Deposit (cs almos 1996)
THE RITA – Refulcilized (cs sr)
THE RITA – OCD (cs sr)
THE RITA / KEVIN RIVARD – Shin Health (c/s sr)
THE RITA – Living Dead Girl (cs sr)
THE RITA – Possessed Nun Sleaze (cs Labyrinth 1998)
THE RITA – Crusty Etruscans (cs Spite)
THE RITA / ANTIBODY (cs)
THE RITA – Swingers Get Killed (cdr Solipsism/SAR 1998)
THE RITA – Shin OCD (reissue cdr Trauma Tone Recordings)
THE RITA – Weimar Whores (card disc PACrec)
THE RITA / THE CHERRY POINT (cs Troniks)
NOTHINGISTTRUE / THE RITA – Her Corpse Was Missing the Head (cdr AssassinMonk)
THE RITA – Knife of Signora (3” cdr Chondritic Sound)
THE RITA – Recycled (cs RRRecords)
THE RITA / NKONDI – Worship (cs Dollfullofrivots)
THE RITA – Sea Wolf Leviathan (cdr Solipsism/SAR)
THE RITA – Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence (cd PACrec 2004)
THE RITA / PCRV – They Can Breathe in the Murky Fresh Water (cs Dadadrumming)
THE RITA / MEDEA – Fra Diavolo (3” cdr Titus)
THE RITA – Flapper Influence from French Prostitutes (c40 Monorail Trespassing)
THE RITA – El Lago de los Muertes Vivientes (3” cdr Audiobot)
THE RITA / MAIM (cdr Snip-Snip)
THE RITA / OSCILLATING INNARDS (cdr Iatrogenesis Records)
BA. KU. / THE RITA – Fur of the Vitch / Bestialita (cs Harsh Head Rituals)
THE RITA / DAMNO TE (cs Dollfullofrivots)
THE RITA – Lake Depths Lurker (cdr Harsh Noise)
THE RITA / LAP DANCER – Darkness Off the Coast of Vancouver, Off the Coast of Japan (cs Swampland Noise)
THE RITA / KAKERLAK - Delta Bayou Whore-House (c30 Kakerlak)
THE RITA - Anna Christie (3" cdr Pitchphase)
THE RITA / FILTHY TURD - Kill the Women Rape the Men (cdr Voltagestress*r)
IMPREGNABLE / THE RITA (2 x card disc Iatrogenesis)
THE RITA - Magazine (2 x c40 Abisko)
THE RITA / OSCILLATING INNARDS (pro-cdr reissue Iatrogenesis Records)
MANIA / THE RITA - Stockings From the Rear + True Ass Worship (7" + cs Dadadrumming)
MANIA / THE RITA - Together They're Murder (cdr Biteworks)
BONE AWL / THE RITA (cs Klaxon)
THE CHERRY POINT / THE RITA - Breast Mutilation (one-sided lp Troniks)
GOAT / THE RITA (cdr Deadline Recordings)
MUTANT APE / THE RITA - Armed Combat Collaborations IV (cdr Turgid Animal)
THE RITA / FECALOVE / TOBY DAMMIT - Collaboration (c60 Turgid Animal)
THE RITA - Thousands of Dead Gods (cd PACrec 2006)
THE RITA - The Village of Holfen (c30 Throne Heap Devotional Music)
WILT / THE RITA - Werewolf in the Black Space (cs The Institute for Organic Coversations)
THE RITA - Milicent Patrick (7", lim. ed. box set includes c10, card disc, stickers, pins, mini comic, and T-shirt Self Abuse Records)
THE RITA - Albert Kogler (one-sided lp Troniks)
THE RITA - Standing Water (cdr Barfing Dagger)
THE RITA - Koskimo House Post (c40 Erratic Sporadicism Tapes)
THE RITA - Graveyard of Whorrer (cs + card disc T.O.E. Productions)
THE RITA - The Tortured Ghosts of Creeks and Rivers (lp Trash Ritual)
THE RITA - Retrospective (8 x cs Harsh Head Rituals)
MUTANT APE / THE RITA (7" Unrest Productions/Turgid Animal 2007)
WEREWOLF JERUSALEM / THE RITA - Feast & Flesh (cdr Deadline Recordings)
MANIA / THE RITA (cs Harsh Head Rituals)
THE RITA / IS - "..." (2 x cdr Whitechapel Records)
MURDER BOOK / THE RITA (cs Turgid Animal 2008)
WILT / THE RITA - Werewolf in the Black Space (cd reissue Cipher Productions)
TASKMASTER / THE RITA (Enterruption cs)
THE RITA - Revealing Leopard Skin (2 x cs Skeleton Dust Recordings)
THE RITA / BODY COLLECTOR (cs Ecstatic Peace)
KAKERLAK / THE RITA - Knifing and Knived (cs + poster Thorax Harsh Cassettes)
THE RITA / IMPREGNABLE - Collab (c20 Callow God)
WEREWOLF JERUSALEM / THE RITA - Collaboration Collection (cs Enemata Productions)
THE RITA - Reptilian Corpse and Dirt (Graveyard of Whorer reissue, cs Drug Money Records)
AN INNOCENT YOUNG THROAT-CUTTER / THE RITA (cdr Lake Shark Harsh Noise 2009)
CARLOS GIFFONI / THE RITA - Two on a Match (2 x lp No Fun Productions)
THE RITA - Headless With Leopard Skin (2 x cs Definitive Circumstances)
THE RITA - The Nylons of Laura Antonelli (8 x cs Utmarken)
MORIBUND / THE RITA (6.5" lathe Sirkut Electronics)
THE RITA - Shark Knifing (7", booklet SNSE)
THE RITA / DOG HOLOCAUST (live recordings, cs Utmarken)
THE RITA - Headless With Leopard Skin (cdr reissue Definitive Circumstances)
THE RITA - Snorkel / Skate (lp RRRecords)
THE RITA - The Parisian Dancing Girl... (cs Dead Audio Tapes)

Compilations, related projects:

UNDERGROUND CANADA (cs Mother Savage Noise Productions 1996)
THE RITA / AMES SANGLANTES / FLATLINE CONSTRUCT – When Canadians Attack (cdr) THE RITA / HOSPITAL - Live at Ms. T’s Cabaret (vhs sr)
HOSPITAL / (members of) GOATSBLOOD / THE RITA – Horde of Gillmen (live cdr sr)
PANIC/SLEEP (live cdr Thesefineproducts)
NITRO DRAGSTERS - A TRIBUTE TO OVMN AND THE INCAPACITANTS (2 x cdr Militant Walls)
BLACK TO COMM - Robert Pamperin (cdr Trauma Tone)
CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE VOL. 2 (cdr Brise-Cul)
EDWIGE - The Inconsolable Widow and All Those Who Consoled Her (Sewer Election, Mania, The Rita, lp Segerhuva)
TOTAL SLITTING OF THROATS (The Cherry Point, Mania, The Rita, Sewer Election, Treriksroset, cdr Militant Walls)
BLACK AIR - Plague Ritual (Oscillating Innards, Pedestrian Deposit, The Rita, one-sided lp Iatrogenesis, Militant Walls, Dadadrumming, Rundownsun)
VANCOUVER HARSH NOISE PURITY (Richard Ramirez, The Rita, Flatgrey, Taskmaster, Sick Buildings, DVDr Militant Walls)
LOVE INTERRUPTS - A DADA DRUMMING SAMPLER (cd Dada Drumming)
ZENTA SUSTAINED - That's All That You Need to Know (2 x c20 Trauma Tone)
EDWIGE (Night Science 3, cd Cipher Productions)
TOTAL SLITTING OF THROATS (cd reissue PACrec)
BLACK AIR - Phoenix/Albuquerque (c20 Iatrogenesis)
NONE SHADOW (6 x c30 Hate State)
WALLRIDERS - Documents 1, 2 (cs Harsh Head Rituals)
INCISION (Cracked Dome, The Rita, cdr Burnt Sound Offerings)
L.O.D. (2 x cs Callow God)
EDWIGE - The Inconsolable Widow and All Those Who Consoled Her (cd reissue Segerhuva)
ORTHOPEDICS (cdr Iatrogenesis)
ZENTA SUSTAINED - Rooftop Snipers (cdr Life is Easy)
FALSE CREAK - Dark Water Otter Whores (cs Abhorrent A.D.)
MY BACK IS AGAINST THE WALL (6 x cdr Slop Drug)
EDWIGE (cs Harsh Head Rituals)
WALLRIDERS - Document 3 (cdr Trauma Tone)
VANCOUVER (Flatgrey, The Rita, Sick Buildings, Taskmaster, 2 x 7" Ketchup Cavern Records)
VICE WEARS BLACK HOSE - Part 1 (cs Cathartic Process)
VICE WEARS BLACK HOSE - Part 2 (cd Violent Noise Atrocities)
ZENTA SUSTAINED - Breaking Through the Terminal Stasis (cs Nurse Etiquette)
THE CHERRY POINT (live feat. THE RITA) / DRIED UP CORPSE (cs Gnarled Forest)
VICE WEARS BLACK HOSE - Part 3 (lp Urashima)