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.

"The first book of its kind, The Tattooed Lady uncovers the true stories behind these women, bringing them out of the sideshow realm and into their working class realities. Combining thorough research with more than a hundred historical photos, this social history explores tattoo origins, women's history, and circus lore. A fascinating read, The Tattooed Lady pays tribute to a group of unique and amazing women whose legacy lives on."
Featuring our very own Tattooed Lady, Thrill Kill Jill!
Avaliable at Amazon.com

Big Mountain Run 2009 was hands down one of the most fun bike rallies we've ever been to. Possibly that explains these pictures of us out of costume having a good time with our friends. Check out Jill on the cover! Inside they show a little more skin cutting the picture off right above her bandaged knee from that mini-bike accident. What mini bike? Well look at the next picture, that's Bandit, Tyler Fyre, and Flip hanging out around that dastardly daredevil death-machine.

"How did you get into this?"
It is the question we hear all the time. Some are surprised to learn that Tyler actually graduated from college with an entertainment related degree. For more info check out this great write up in the NYU Alumni Magazine.
http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue13/13_classnotes_fleet.html

The Massachusetts Tattoo Arts Festival was a great time and Tattoo Society has a great spread in their Sweet 16 issue starting off with a full page picture of Thrill Kill Jill, and her cuddly critters Evel, & Fang. With all the great artists, the exciting shows, seminars, and cool crowds, they even fit in room for a picture of Tyler eating fire.

The newest book on sideshows comes out March 2010. We got this sneak peek at the cover with Tyler on the front and Jill on the back!
"Step right up, Ladies & Gentlemen, and feast your eyes on the incomparable wonders of a hidden world! Be astonished! Amazed!
Discover Today's Dedicated Entertainers, like Thrill Kill Jill..."

The Gorilla on that mini-bike is a real Daredevil!

"Back by Popular Demand!"

"The one neat thing about BMR that was unlike a lot of other things that we've been to is that during the day, for the most part, the camp was empty. People decided to take advantage of all the area had to offer and spent the daylight hours either riding the other killer roads around th area or rafting or just plain swimming, it was cool. I can still see Jill and Tyler of Lucky Daredevil sitting in their lawn chairs halfway submerged in the small creek behind the camp. Even the dog was in on the act... (Bandit is plunging his head in the creek for his ball just outside this picture)
Nighttime on the grounds was like an outdoor music festival. Lucky Daredevil put on some killer shows and even initiated one of the young Nash girls and made her part of the show."
Thanks Whitney!
That's pro-skater Benji Galloway doing donuts in the hay in front of the stage on Tyler's mini-bike, look close you can see the Daredevil sticker on the fender.

That's a Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow T-Shirt on Pat Patterson of Led Sled Customs during the head to head burnout with Nick Lee pictured in these magazines. That's right, you see him standing up, he's actually standing on his running motorcycle and all the smoke is from the back tire. He's a Daredevil.

Fun photospread in the local paper from our show at Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park with Miss Coney Island, Gal Friday.

Harpers Ferry couple brings fire-breathing, sword swallowing, snake charming show to city...

Lucky Daredevil comes to Philadelphia with Magic Hat Brewery for Philly Beer Week.
We got up extra early on Friday the 13th to enjoy a tasty Magic Hat beer with Chuck Bassford from Magic Hat and our friends at Fox 5.

Thrill Kill Jill with her 2 dancing partners Evel & Fang at the Broken Spoke Saloon in Daytona Beach for Biketoberfest.

Sword Swallowers Dare Their Way Into Resort Hearts

We got up Extra Early to be on FOX 5 Morning News on Friday January 2 for our show at the Birchmere. Reporter Beth Parker came out to get some hands on reporting with the Lucky Daredevils. See the Videos here.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=8183318

Tyler Fyre & Thrill Kill Jill at the Alamo City Tattoo Expo in San Antonio, Texas.

Hot Bike Magazine calls Thrill Kill Jill "The Hottest Sword Swallower Alive."
They ran the same picture in the Table of Contents as "The Best of Sturgis." At a rally with a million motorcycles, and only one female sword swallower, some things naturally stand out.

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 (bottom right) 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."

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.”

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. And there's a picture of the Weekend section on the actual front page of the Post, so here's us on the cover of the Washington Post. Not bad first piece of press for the new team.

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.

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!

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.