Jack Terricloth
Jack Terricloth is the stage name of Peter Ventantonio, lead singer of the cabaret-punk band The World/Inferno Friendship Society and guitarist and vocalist of Sticks and Stones.
He grew up in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, the son of a businessman father and a school-principal mother; his hometown is referenced in the 1997 album The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League by The World / Inferno Friendship Society. He attended Bridgewater-Raritan High School, where he met future Sticks and Stones bassist Osamu Kawahara. During high school, he sold subscriptions to the Courier News. He credits the New Brunswick music scene with putting him on the map, but has since moved to Brooklyn.
As the front man and public face of World/Inferno, Jack advocated in favor of drinking, lying, traveling, stealing, doing drugs, keeping enemies, always looking one's best, getting in fights, befriending hobos and "walking the walk," through his lyrics, on-stage banter, and a rarely-updated advice column on the band's website
He is the author of two chapbooks, Cloth Dam Sorrow and Bakshish, both of which are anthologized with additional material in The Collected Cloth.
His band Sticks and Stones, formed in the early 1990s, reunited in November 2017 for a series of performances in Brooklyn and Asbury Park, New Jersey.
