Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow: Press

The Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow are honored to announce that we are the recent recipients of the Candlelight Award presented to us by the Circus Historical Society. The Candlelight Award honors young performers that are keeping the circus and sideshow dreams alive in the present day. Thanks to Al Stencell, President of the Circus Historical Society, Franco Kossa, founder of the Sideshow Gathering, and our family and friends for making this award possible.

Thrill Kill Jill on the Chop-Off Winning Bike at Smokeout East.

And in the Runnin Free In Sturgis insert in THE HORSE.


Off duty hanging out in The American Motordrome Wall of Death.

Tyler Fyre & Thrill Kill Jill head out to the motorcycle rodeo on a killer chopper by Nash Motorcycle Company Thanks Taber!
And in the picture avove us there's Charlie Ransom from the Wall of Death heading out for the Barrel Races.

Here's the whole gang gathering at the Broken Spoke Saloon Campground in Sturgis, SD getting geared up for the Cycle Source Ride.
Look all the way at the back of the pack, there's Thrill Kill Jill & Tyler Fyre. We're the ones wearing black T-shirts.
Here's a hot exercpt from the Limpnickie Lot article by Taber Nash.
"Throwing shows all day was the fabulous Wall of Death. These crazy suckers do some stuff unthinkable on motorcycles. Capping off every night was the Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow, Tyler Fyre and Thrill Kill Jill's fast paced funny, death-defying daredevil stunt spectacular with the glitter, glamour, and gut-wrenching thrills of a Vegas show. The Limpnickie Lot is a rising force in the motorcycle scene that continues to grow and grow. Expect to see them in places all over the country."

"This year we added a Thrillshow with Thrill Kill Jill and Tyler Fyre; fire eating sword swallowing kind of stuff. If you missed it, you missed a great show. I look forward to seeing them again next year."

ARE YOU CONESOME TONIGHT?
"Coney Island freaks and geeks reunited
Last year the powers that be in New York City decided to scrub down and redevelop Brooklyn's Coney Island, a resort famous for its seaside arcades and circus shows. But while the area's faded glamour is set to replaced by luxury apartments and megahotels, the Island's freaky residents aren't taking these changes lying down.
Dick D Zigun, owner of NYC's Coney Island Circus Sideshow, is determined redevelopment won't force out his traditional circus, telling Bizarre: "We're here to stay. No matter what happens, the strippers, freaks and mermaids will always have a home here."
To prove his point, Zigun staged the second Annual Congress Of Curious People in May, bringing the old kooks together to raise a glass, a cheer... and a few eyebrows.
Audiences were treated to performances from The Great Fredini, who knocks 6in nails into his nose, fire eating by Tyler Fyre, and swoird swallowing from his wife, Thrill Kill Jill. Beats were supplied by The Penguin Boy, whose tattooed hands were a blur as they rapped out a drum roll on a snare hanging from his ears, while Eak The Geek - a man with planets etched onto his forehead and stars shooting across his temples - was also on hand to wow the crowd.
Check out more pics from the Congress at Bizarremag.com, and pray this amazing spectacle doesn't disappear from Coney Island forever."

THE WASHINGTON POST
Light My Fire!

Tyler Fyre & Thrill Kill Jill's Valentines Day 2007 wedding made the cover of the Washington Post Weekend Section! Read all about it....

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER

BEST SIDESHOW DUO 2008!

The sword-swallowing, fire-eating, carnival world isn’t the most stable environment in which to build a marriage. But Tyler Fyre and Thrill Kill Jill (really Tyler and Jill Fleet) somehow manage to defy death while upholding until-death-do-us-part. The West Virginia-based pair met on Valentine’s Day 2006; exactly one year later, a Vegas Elvis impersonator tied their knot. Now, they tour the country together in a 1973 Airstream trailer as the Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow, stopping monthly for sold-out shows at hometown haunt the Palace of Wonders. The Fleets manage to keep some spice in their two-year relationship: Tyler eats fire; Jill charms snakes; Tyler drops 19 steel blades into a sarcophagus while Jill contorts her body inside. But even when Tyler’s not carving a watermelon off Jill’s bare belly with a chainsaw, the two are still each other’s main attraction. Recently, the pair’s at least picked up a safer activity to share together: taxidermy. “We’re starting with what we’ve got handy,” says Jill. “So right now, we’re big into squirrels.”

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Sword Swallower's Awareness Day!

Tyler Fyre and Thrill Kill Jill are interviewed by Amanda Hess of the Washington City Paper after their Sword Swallower's Awareness Day show at the Palace of Wonders! Click the link below to read all about it!

Brooklyn Weds
Sideshow Couple Are Freaks For Traditional Family Values
"She slithered into his heart... and he lit her fire.
Talk about getting your freak on: Valentine's Day saw the holy union of Tyler Fleet, a 30-year old fire-eater/sword-swallower, and Jill Fisher, 26, a snake charmer.
Fleet, known as Tyler Fyre, made a name for himself at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore, the borough's best known freak show. Fisher a.k.a. Thrill Kill Jill, is a burlesque performer in the Washington D.C. area.
"Neither Jill or I were looking for love that day," Fleet said as the couple was in between shows in Alabama last week.
Fisher agreed.
"I don't really know how to explain it, I never felt that way before," she said. "I knew it was for real."
Cupid-most likely sporting a Mohawk, pierced nose and face tattoo-found his mark.
After meeting in passing over the years, the two connected just over a year ago on Valentine's Day at the Birchmere Burlesque-A-Pades in Alexandria, VA.
"It was obvious to both of us," Fleet recalled.
On Thanksgiving, Fisher brought Fleet home and introduced him to her parents not as the fire-eater, but simply as Tyler.
The two decided to get married in Las Vegas, with an Elvis-impersonator presiding. The wedding was broadcast live on the website wwwcicalasvegasweddings.com and is still viewable in the site's archives section.
They are now a husband and wife team, performing such acts as the "Double Straight Jacket Escape."
Another act, Fleet described, has Thrill Kill Jill lying on a bed of razor sharp nails, with a watermelon resting on her stomach. Tyler then carves up the melon-with a chainsaw. It's Gallagher on steroids.
"There's watermelon juice everywhere," Fleet Explained.
But Thrill Kill Jill gets the last laugh. At one point during the act, she pulverizes a cinderblock resting on Fleet's "package," as she described it.
"There's a lot of trust involved," Fleet said.
"We try to make sure we are getting along every day before the show."
"On a day when we are about to risk each other's lives, it puts things into perspective for you: is this really worth arguing about?" he continued.
"Any time someone is slinging a sledgehammer, you really want to trust him," Fisher added.
For years, Fleet, originally from Gwinnett County, Georgia, lived in Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island. At one point, he was a pizza maker at Two Boots Brooklyn in Park Slope. He and Fisher originally from Virginia, now live in Washington D.C.
But while the newlyweds traverse the south during the winter months as part of the Lucky Devil Circus Sideshow, Brooklyn remains close to their hearts.
"Coney Island is unique in the entire world," Fleet said.
Fleet will return to Brooklyn in late April for an "alumni weekend" event at the Coney Island sideshow. For information, go to www.coneyisland.com/sideshow.
"I'm going back to retake what I consider my home stage," he promised.
Developer Joe Sitt's plan to turn Coney Island into a Las Vegas style attraction might not be a bad thing, Fleet said.
"I hate to see it change, but its abandoned beachfront real estate and it needed a change," he said. "You can't stand in the way of progress."
Fleet is not averse to change in his personal life either.
"I'm not young, wild and single anymore," Fleet admitted. The snake charmer has tamed the wild beast.
To the borough's lonely hearts, Fisher offered some advice: "Keep an open mind," she said. "I never thought I'd find the one."
"Don't let it slip away from you," Fisher advised.
And don't let the sledgehammer slip either.

DAREDEVIL TV APPEARANCES:

Closing time is a late night comedy talk show, starring Baltimore based comedian Mickey Cucchiella! Click on the CLOSING TIME link below to see Tyler Fyre & Thrill Kill Jill do a shortened version of their sword swallowing act and a very funny interview. WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGAUGE

Back before HDTV's were in every living room, they had to show people the image quality High Definition TV. Voom Networks filmed Tyler Fyre eating fire for "The HD Sideshow" to show off their new networks.

One morning the phone rang and they said, "Can you eat anything funny?" We said, Fire Eating? Sword Swallowing? They said, "No, something funny." And this is what happened.

Back before the Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow, Tyler Fyre & Thrill Kill Jill were hard at work on other projects. Here's a 3 minute look into some of Tyler's pre-Daredevil shows.

Rock & Roll
Daredevils Like to Rock. Rockers like to Freak Out. We've done shows with some of our favorite rockers and maybe some of yours.
Including:
Ted Nugent
Marshal Tucker Band
Travis Tritt
Jimmy Van Zandt (Lynard Skynard)
Little Steven Van Zandt
Bad Company
Kansas
The Who
The Flaming Lips
Red Hot Chile Peppers
Dresden Dolls
The Pietasters
The Bouncing Souls
The White Stripes
The Killers
The Raconteurs
The Scissor Sisters
Gnarls Barkley
New York Dolls
Chesterfield Kings
The Good The Bad & The Queen
Andre Legacy & Dirt Nasty
Also check out Tyler Fyre's rock & roll past here: