Zowie Bowie brings new energy to the Monte Carlo
For eight years, Marley Taylor and Chris Phillips have been making beautiful music together.
Not only are they a couple, but they are also the lead components of a band named Zowie Bowie. Every Friday and Saturday night, Taylor and Phillips perform their high-energy show, singing, dancing and bantering with each other in The Pub at the Monte Carlo. On Sunday nights, they perform their vintage Vegas show on stage in the Lance Burton Theatre. Being on the Strip is the culmination of a longtime dream for the duo, who have been garnering fans over the last few years performing at venues in Station Casinos and most recently at the Palms.
Taylor says she sees the show in The Pub as a fresh approach to the nightclub concert scene while the vintage Vegas show endeavors to bring back the songs and feel of the city's golden era. The shows in both venues strive to keep live entertainment and the spirit Las Vegas was built on alive; in The Pub, the duo creates a party atmosphere that draws people back week after week.The show in that venue also offers a lot of audience participation while the one in the main showroom seeks to engage the crowd as well.
“It’s like weekly therapy,” Taylor says.
Audiences also seem to appreciate the chemistry between Taylor and Phillips, who got engaged five years ago on stage in Scottsdale, Ariz., and say that they will know when the time is right to get married.
Both were born, raised and spent their entire lives in Arizona until moving to Las Vegas to perform in the nightclub at Red Rock in 2006. They had both been performing individually in different parts of Arizona when they met. As fate would have it, they ended up using the same keyboard player, who introduced them (and who still performs with them today.)
"It was instant — I knew that we were going to be a couple and have a successful show together," Taylor explains. “Everything kind of clicked."
Phillips had been performing in the Arizona Valley for years, and being a big fan of David Bowie, had used the name Zowie Bowie.
Taylor admits that she and Chris are focused on the show and that it consumes most of their waking hours. They are together 24/7, but that's "effortless” and “easy,” Taylor says. They love what they do and share the same visions and goals.
Zowie Bowie — together wherever they go.
- by Bobbie Katz, Las Vegas Reporter for HelloMetro
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