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Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show at the lovely Gramercy Theater on 23rd Street last Thursday night June 11th was a stone gas, a celebration of my hard working band guys Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jason Candler and Joe Hendel, and some very cool friends (Alan Vega, Lenny Kaye, Jon Spencer, Dean Bowman, Peter Stampfel, Mike Edison, and compere/singer Dusty Wright)--a testimony once again to the power of music to lift and transport the collective audience (as well as a yrs truly--I was in a kind of enjoyable trance throughout, it was truly like a dream reeling off nearly two and half hours of music with only a 10 min. break/change 'o clothes in such a fantastic old theater setting, with the best lighting and sound--yeah!!)...
You can read a review of it here, from CultureCatch.com.
Jon Spencer joins Gods and Monsters at their 20th Anniversary Show for "The Train Kept a Rollin'", Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Yvonne Ericson | click to enlarge
Mike Edison, Ernie Brooks, Gary, Billy Ficca, Dusty Wright, Jon Spencer, Lenny Kaye, Jason Candler, and Joe Hendel, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show @ Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
"One Man's Meat" goes down a treat, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show, Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Blow-Out at Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Blow-Out at Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary Lucas, Jon Spencer, Jason Candler, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show @ Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary Lucas, Jon Spencer, Jason Candler, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show @ Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
In the house were Giorgio Gomelsky, Danny Fields, Howard Thompson, Steve Paul, Jane Friedman, Caroline, Glenn Kenny and Claire, Tiffany Barbarash, Paul Mauceri, Ricky Ohrbach (who threw a great pre-gig party for the band at his loft near the Gramercy), Yvonne Ercison, Mark Larson, Jerry Roche, Sally Kirkland, Nicole Kafka, Kenny and Mi Ling, Peter Bull, Betsy Wollheim, and a host of other friends and supporters who will probably kick me for leaving out their names here but these are the first come to mind, the place was packed and they were applauding and cheering throughout (loudly)...I am too knackered to write a full blow-by-blow account of it as I am running to finish stuff before catching a plane for Amsterdam, (wait for some fan clips to surface on YouTube)...meanwhile you can see a clip of me and Alan performing our new song "Life Kills" from the show here at North Fork Sound, thanks to Howard Thompson...and there are or will be photos galore posted by Tanya herein by Howard, Michaela Warren, and the wonderful Michel Delsol who shot a centerfold pic of me back in the day (1992) for the Village Voice, and who was covering all the action at this one :-)...
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary and Alan Vega, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Dean Bowman (Chase the Devil), Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Lenny Kaye, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Dean Bowman (Chase the Devil), Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Just back from dinner at Alfama, our favorite Portuguese restaurant down the road apiece, with Caroline and our old friend the extremely lovely Melissa Mars, in town from Paris for a few weeks, Melissa is a very very talented singer, actress and collaborator (I wrote a song with her called "Little Blue" that graced her last album on French Universal) and she is about to star in a new musical--"Mozart l'Opera Rock"--opening in Paris in September in the 4000 seater Palais des Sports... based on the life of Mozart, it's directed by Olivier Dahan, who helmed that great "Piaf" biopic starring Marion Cotillard last year...and the musical features Melissa as Mozart's first love, the one who breaks his heart (naturellement)...
In the run-up to the 20th anniversary show we got all kinds of good press notices in NYC , and I did some media jaunts, did a promo solo acoustic taping one afternoon at Time Out New York's retro-fitted capacious hang during the office lunch break which you can check out on their music website "The Volume" here...and Jason Gross wrote a nice preview of our show in the mag itself complete with colour photo here...The New Yorker weighed in with a feature pick as well in The Nightlife section courtesy of John Donohue...and Jason and I skipped the light fandango down to WBAI's estimable studios at midnight one night after rehearsal's to guest on the legendary Bob Fass' Radio Unnameable show as a duo...
Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Peter Stampfel, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
I'll write more about the anniversary show itself in subsequent blogs, meanwhile extra special thanks to Harvey Leeds and Matt Saril at Headquarters, and all the folks at Live Nation...Harvey invited me out Wed. night this week to see this hot new all female band from Norway called Katzenjammer do their set at the Mercury Lounge, they were a big hit at SXSW this year--and they were incredible, kind of like Gogol Bordello meets Abba, the four lissome lasses could sing up a storm, they harmonized together beautifully, and tossed and switched their instruments to each other during the set effortlessly...check out their new single "A Bar in Amsterdam" for a really good time (where I'm heading tomorrow night...to Amsterdam, that is--not a bar!)...
Meanwhile Karl Lippegaus at national German radio Deutschlandfunk devoted a 2 hour show to my music on June 6th, check out the playlist here, he spun a fair amount from my new album with Najma Akhtar, "Rishte", which is out this week (finally! good things are always worth waiting for) in the UK and Europe on World Village/Harmonia Mundi...and what terrific reviews it's getting: 4 stars in MOJO as well as fRoots, we got a Top of the World pick in the new Songlines, and this week the Financial Times gave it 5 Stars!! The first French review has surfaced too in Haute Fidelite, where it received 4 stars...and the news from Down Under is equally celebratory, as we scored a rave in Cyclic Defrost music magazine...and today (I mean yesterday!) in Australia, "Rishte" was selected as the Featured CD of the Day on National Australian Radio network ABC...
And the best is yet to come...wait till Najma and I hit the boards with this music again (keeo watching this space!)...
Have to turn in now, big day tomorrow, traveling to Amsterdam to perform a new live score written in collaboration with Dutch-Iranian composer Reza Namavar and the Cameleon Ensemble under the baton of Wilmar Devisser, and featuring violinist par excellence Emi Ohi Resnick to accompany a screening of Abel Gance's 1924 silent anti-war masterpiece "J'Accuse"...UK Film Historian Kevin Brownlow (*"The Parade's Gone By") will be there to introduce the film too...we do three days intensive rehearsal and then next Tuesday and Wed. June 23rd and 24th we will hold forth at the grand Staddschouwburg for the world premiere...expect instrumental fireworks (natuurlijk), percussive thunder, and electronic fugues and fantasias in surround-sound (yes, it will be a very 3D, very visceral presentation...set the Azimuth Coordinator for the heart of the sun)...
then it's off to the sultry Gold Coast of Spain to close the Malaga Film Festival with "The Golem"...
then home to NYC for one day only...
before I head to Sao Paulo Brazil to close the 1st International Fantasy Film Festival of Sao Paulo-SP Terror with "The Golem"...
and then...
(when the time is right.
all shall be revealed...
for your ears only!)
xxLove
Gary
Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show at the lovely Gramercy Theater on 23rd Street last Thursday night June 11th was a stone gas, a celebration of my hard working band guys Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jason Candler and Joe Hendel, and some very cool friends (Alan Vega, Lenny Kaye, Jon Spencer, Dean Bowman, Peter Stampfel, Mike Edison, and compere/singer Dusty Wright)--a testimony once again to the power of music to lift and transport the collective audience (as well as a yrs truly--I was in a kind of enjoyable trance throughout, it was truly like a dream reeling off nearly two and half hours of music with only a 10 min. break/change 'o clothes in such a fantastic old theater setting, with the best lighting and sound--yeah!!)...You can read a review of it here, from CultureCatch.com.
Jon Spencer joins Gods and Monsters at their 20th Anniversary Show for "The Train Kept a Rollin'", Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Yvonne Ericson | click to enlarge
Mike Edison, Ernie Brooks, Gary, Billy Ficca, Dusty Wright, Jon Spencer, Lenny Kaye, Jason Candler, and Joe Hendel, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show @ Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
"One Man's Meat" goes down a treat, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show, Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Blow-Out at Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Blow-Out at Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary Lucas, Jon Spencer, Jason Candler, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show @ Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary Lucas, Jon Spencer, Jason Candler, Gods and Monsters 20th Anniversary Show @ Gramercy Theater NYC 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
In the house were Giorgio Gomelsky, Danny Fields, Howard Thompson, Steve Paul, Jane Friedman, Caroline, Glenn Kenny and Claire, Tiffany Barbarash, Paul Mauceri, Ricky Ohrbach (who threw a great pre-gig party for the band at his loft near the Gramercy), Yvonne Ercison, Mark Larson, Jerry Roche, Sally Kirkland, Nicole Kafka, Kenny and Mi Ling, Peter Bull, Betsy Wollheim, and a host of other friends and supporters who will probably kick me for leaving out their names here but these are the first come to mind, the place was packed and they were applauding and cheering throughout (loudly)...I am too knackered to write a full blow-by-blow account of it as I am running to finish stuff before catching a plane for Amsterdam, (wait for some fan clips to surface on YouTube)...meanwhile you can see a clip of me and Alan performing our new song "Life Kills" from the show here at North Fork Sound, thanks to Howard Thompson...and there are or will be photos galore posted by Tanya herein by Howard, Michaela Warren, and the wonderful Michel Delsol who shot a centerfold pic of me back in the day (1992) for the Village Voice, and who was covering all the action at this one :-)...
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary and Alan Vega, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Dean Bowman (Chase the Devil), Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Lenny Kaye, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Dean Bowman (Chase the Devil), Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Just back from dinner at Alfama, our favorite Portuguese restaurant down the road apiece, with Caroline and our old friend the extremely lovely Melissa Mars, in town from Paris for a few weeks, Melissa is a very very talented singer, actress and collaborator (I wrote a song with her called "Little Blue" that graced her last album on French Universal) and she is about to star in a new musical--"Mozart l'Opera Rock"--opening in Paris in September in the 4000 seater Palais des Sports... based on the life of Mozart, it's directed by Olivier Dahan, who helmed that great "Piaf" biopic starring Marion Cotillard last year...and the musical features Melissa as Mozart's first love, the one who breaks his heart (naturellement)...
In the run-up to the 20th anniversary show we got all kinds of good press notices in NYC , and I did some media jaunts, did a promo solo acoustic taping one afternoon at Time Out New York's retro-fitted capacious hang during the office lunch break which you can check out on their music website "The Volume" here...and Jason Gross wrote a nice preview of our show in the mag itself complete with colour photo here...The New Yorker weighed in with a feature pick as well in The Nightlife section courtesy of John Donohue...and Jason and I skipped the light fandango down to WBAI's estimable studios at midnight one night after rehearsal's to guest on the legendary Bob Fass' Radio Unnameable show as a duo...
Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
Gary solo, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Michel Delsol | click to enlarge
Gary and Peter Stampfel, Gods and Monsters 20th anniversary show, 6/11/09
photo by Howard Thompson | click to enlarge
I'll write more about the anniversary show itself in subsequent blogs, meanwhile extra special thanks to Harvey Leeds and Matt Saril at Headquarters, and all the folks at Live Nation...Harvey invited me out Wed. night this week to see this hot new all female band from Norway called Katzenjammer do their set at the Mercury Lounge, they were a big hit at SXSW this year--and they were incredible, kind of like Gogol Bordello meets Abba, the four lissome lasses could sing up a storm, they harmonized together beautifully, and tossed and switched their instruments to each other during the set effortlessly...check out their new single "A Bar in Amsterdam" for a really good time (where I'm heading tomorrow night...to Amsterdam, that is--not a bar!)...
Meanwhile Karl Lippegaus at national German radio Deutschlandfunk devoted a 2 hour show to my music on June 6th, check out the playlist here, he spun a fair amount from my new album with Najma Akhtar, "Rishte", which is out this week (finally! good things are always worth waiting for) in the UK and Europe on World Village/Harmonia Mundi...and what terrific reviews it's getting: 4 stars in MOJO as well as fRoots, we got a Top of the World pick in the new Songlines, and this week the Financial Times gave it 5 Stars!! The first French review has surfaced too in Haute Fidelite, where it received 4 stars...and the news from Down Under is equally celebratory, as we scored a rave in Cyclic Defrost music magazine...and today (I mean yesterday!) in Australia, "Rishte" was selected as the Featured CD of the Day on National Australian Radio network ABC...
And the best is yet to come...wait till Najma and I hit the boards with this music again (keeo watching this space!)...
Have to turn in now, big day tomorrow, traveling to Amsterdam to perform a new live score written in collaboration with Dutch-Iranian composer Reza Namavar and the Cameleon Ensemble under the baton of Wilmar Devisser, and featuring violinist par excellence Emi Ohi Resnick to accompany a screening of Abel Gance's 1924 silent anti-war masterpiece "J'Accuse"...UK Film Historian Kevin Brownlow (*"The Parade's Gone By") will be there to introduce the film too...we do three days intensive rehearsal and then next Tuesday and Wed. June 23rd and 24th we will hold forth at the grand Staddschouwburg for the world premiere...expect instrumental fireworks (natuurlijk), percussive thunder, and electronic fugues and fantasias in surround-sound (yes, it will be a very 3D, very visceral presentation...set the Azimuth Coordinator for the heart of the sun)...
then it's off to the sultry Gold Coast of Spain to close the Malaga Film Festival with "The Golem"...
then home to NYC for one day only...
before I head to Sao Paulo Brazil to close the 1st International Fantasy Film Festival of Sao Paulo-SP Terror with "The Golem"...
and then...
(when the time is right.
all shall be revealed...
for your ears only!)
xxLove
Gary
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