Glamour Times™:
the continuing adventures of Tish & Snooky®
The MANIC PANIC® Glamour Times™ reports all the places we are seen and heard: our latest and greatest parties, gigs, and promotional events. This news won’t give you the blues!
2013
Best of Punk Magazine… New York Originals… London Calling… Estelle Bellomo Award… Michael Musto and more…
2012
Manic Panic® on ABC TV… Snooky talks Turkey… Manic Panic® supports BCRF… new location for Manic Panic® in Los Angeles.
2011
Tish & Snooky® rockin’ more than ever! New Electrifying MANIC PANIC® Hair Colors.
2010
MANIC PANIC® hair color a hot item for fashion week… Rocky Horror… head color and shave fundraising events… and more.
2009
MANIC PANIC® in a major motion picture… and on network television… Tish & Snooky® on exhibit at MOMA… MANIC PANIC® walks the Catwalk… Tish & Snooky® in a cool comic book.
2008
Emily the Strange joins the MANIC PANIC® family… MANIC PANIC® Hair Color wins a Peta award… Shiragirl delivers MANIC PANIC® at Warped.
2007
An outlaw party to celebrate our 30th “Manniversary”… fashion shows in Japan and the USA… Tish & Snooky® join Patti Smith and Robert Gordon for T. Rex and Jayne County for Joey Ramone Birthday Bash, the sisters become DJs and get caught in Spiderman’s web.
2006
The International MANIC PANIC® family grows… MANIC PANIC® WEST opens in Los Angeles with a grand opening bash… We sponsor a star studded rock show to benefit animals… more great rock ’n’ roll moments we're so proud of.
2005
Horror Film Festivals, Chiller Theatre… more MANIC PANIC® Salons in Japan… CBGBs forever rock show in the park… Snooky addresses the Lower Eastside Girls Club.
2004
VH1 save the muisic with Cyndi Lauper… SO80’s book bash and MANIC makeovers… academy award nominated film stars Kate Winslet and MANIC PANIC® Hair Color… Sic F*cks reunite for Joey Ramone Birthday Bash.
2003
An NYC street is named Joey Ramone place… MANIC PANIC® tours with Spa–Lapalooza… Party Monster the movie premieres with a celebration and a MANIC PANIC® creation station.
2002
We celebrate our 25 year “Manniversary” with super stars for pooches… Tish & Snooky® take a road trip on the hairstream for the Snapple Dyehard tour… a book comes out with a photo of our MANIC critters… and we win an award!
2000
Tish & Snooky® rock the house with 60s tunes at the Ready Steady Go Show.
1999
British Invasion in NYC at the Bottom Line with Tish & Snooky®… Glam Gems explode in magazines.
2006
December 15, 2006
London stylings at CYBERDOG: Tish and stylist Thom Cammer flew to the UK for a special MANIC PANIC® promotional pre–holiday event which featured modeling contests, photoshoots, training sessions and MANIC Makeovers.
Thom Cammer giving a crash course in MANIC PANIC® glamour and the use of our products to the staff at Cyberdog.
Two Cyberdog vixens: Vivien (modelling MANIC PANIC® Marilyn™ lipstick, Vampire™ Red blush, and Fierce™ Glam™ Lashes) and Lorna (modelling MANIC PANIC® Glam™ Dust and Nightqueen™ and Electric Banana™ Glitter Shadow).
Photos by Peter Perenyi.
November 13, 2006
California Happ-nin! Celebutante author of Party Monster and the soon to be released Freakshow James St. James, with Manic Panic® Goddess Snooky, and actress/Frontiers magazine columnist Lenora Claire at the Paper Magazine: Paper invades LA party in Hollywood.
Lenora always combines Manic Panic® hair colors to create her very own unique shades. Here she wears a mixture of Pillarbox Red™ and Wildfire™.
October 21, 2006
The Sydney Australia alternative scene was treated to a hair, fashion and music spectacular as presented by hairdressers John and Kylie, the owners / directors of Furr Hair, Newtown.
The event was held in celebration of Furr’s 11th year birthday and coincided with the official launch of Manic Panic® products in Australia. Featuring 26 models, the event showcased the awesome range of Manic Panic® hair colour and makeup, and confirmed Furr’s standing as Sydney’s leading alternative hairdressing salon.
Garments were supplied by Reactor Rubber, the Wild One, Gallery Serpentine, Psydeways, Holey Moley and Tokyo Joe. Joining in the celebrations on the night, were Sydney bands Toydeath, Dead Inside the Chrysalis and Bad Art, as well as leading goth Sydney Djs NeoTokyo and Caterwaul.
A truly wicked night was had by all! Photographs courtesy of Jo Lukis.
October 7, 2006
MANIC PANIC® JAPANIC! Another MANIC PANIC® Salon opened in Shibuya, a shopping and entertainment district situated in west Tokyo. Here are some party shots from the opening bash that hosted some famous musicians andthe renowned illustrator ISSEI, who drew a beautiful butterfly for the occasion.
October 4, 2006
Rational Animal™ — NYC’s non–profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness about NYC’s at-risk animals — and the ASPCA® hosted “GIMME SHELTER: Rock & Rescue NYC,” a rock concert celebrating NYC’s animal rescue work.
NYC’s 2nd annual rock celebration jam for animal rescue was held on St. Francis of Assisi Day, October 4, from 7–12pm at the chic Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel in NYC. Crowds at the sold out show enjoyed performances by the Beastie Boys, Blue Oyster Cult, Debbie Harry, the Buzzcocks’s Tony Barber, Sic F*cks, the Dictators’ Handsome Dick Manitoba, Marshall Crenshaw, Miss Guy, Nellie McKay, The Star Spangles, and The Choke. MANIC PANIC® was one of the sponsors of the hugely successful event.
This photo of Tish & Snooky getting ready for their Sic F*cks set shot by legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen. See more awesome photos taken by Bob Gruen.
This just in from one of the Beastie Boy message boards: “Sic F*cks — Legendary NYC Punk band. Great energy. At one point I thought my ears were going to bleed and I loved it.”
But seeing is believing…
How high is your hair? Tish, Snooky, and Diana Mae (far right) performing as the Creamtones, show off their fab retro looks by the great Thom Cammer and editorial hair stylist pal Ellen Lawlor.
September 2006
Tish and Snooky are pleased to welcome FURR hair salon of Australia to the MANIC PANIC® family. Owners John and Kylie are cutting edge stylists. At left, their models wear MANIC PANIC® cosmetics and Glam™ Strips in this shot for Fiend, the country’s “ultimate dark alternative magazine.”
INTERNATIONAL MANIC PANIC® FAMILY! John and Kylie visited some of the MANIC PANIC® Salons in Japan. They stopped off at MANIC PANIC® Roppongi, Harajuku, and Omote Sando.
John writes us: “It was really awesome to meet up with other stylists and to feel part of the MANIC PANIC® family! This was actually one of the highlights of our trip… that and the squeals that Kylie got whenever she showed her leopard print undercut!”
July 8, 2006
Venice Beach, California...Tish and Snooky hosted a Grand Opening Bash at the new MANIC PANIC® Retail Store/L.A. Showroom. It was a star–studded event at the purple palace and a great time was had by all.
Cyndi Lauper joined pals Tish and Snooky and super stylist Thom Cammer backstage at Threepenny Opera on Broadway. Cyndi starred as Jenny in the show and proved that she can do sophisticated theatre as well as rock.
April 30 — May 2 year 2006
Tish and Snooky and the MANIC PANIC® crew at the International Beauty Show in New York City. We really wowed them this year!
At right is our glamorous sales diva and in–house make up artist herself, Jessica.
Our special guest: Stylist Thom Cammer who worked his magic before the crowds. Not only did he style the models hair and make up, but he also photographed them and created the fab MANIC PANIC® posters you see in the background behind Jess.
March 13, 2006
This year Blondie was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame. At the awards ceremony Debbie Harry gave a special thanks to Tish And Snooky… original Blondie members.
Debbie said, “there are so many people we’d like to thank… some of them are performers… some of them are girls… TISH AND SNOOKY!”
We are all so proud. Here is a clip from the awards ceremony.
February 28, 2006
The fabulous Creamtones starring Tish, Snooky, and Diana Mae Munch reunited for a Huricane Katrina benefit on Fat Tuesday. The ladies blended their sweet voices in 3–part harmony for some renditions of classic cajun as well as rock.
It all took place (where else?) at Manitoba’s in NYC, with host Handsome Dick.
Photos by Peter Perenyi.
February 15, 2006
MANIC PANIC® exhibited at some way–cool rock ’n’ roll style tradeshows and some celebs came by to say “hi.”
Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day shows off his newly bleached hair to our gal Cynthia. (What MP hair color did she suggest for him?)
Speak of the devils… Meet the MISFITS family. Reading from right to left: Glen Danzig, Cyn, Doyle, and his daughter Boriss. Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein named her in honor of the great horror film star, Boris Karloff.
On Feb 6, 2006
MANIC PANIC® Sponsored the Redbuttafly fashion show at CBGBs. the models wore MANIC PANIC® hair color, cosmetics, Glam™ Strips and Voodoo Dreads to match their cool rock and gothic clothing designs.
Also this February…
Manic Panic Sales Goddess Lauren and Webmistress Gooby travelled to foreign lands to spread the gospel of MANIC PANIC and recruit more devotees.