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GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS RETURN TO THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB, NYC, ON FRIDAY DEC. 17TH AT 8PM. 308 Bowery, corner of Bleecker and Bowery Tickets are $15
with Ernie Brooks (bass), Billy Ficca (drums), and special guests.
Recent Press Raves for the band:
THE NEW YORKER, 10/05: Gods and Monsters is the rock outlet for the maverick ex-Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas. While the ever- shifting ensemble has featured such names as Matthew Sweet and the late Jeff Buckley (Lucas co-wrote his hit “Grace"), the current incarnation includes the former Television drummer, Billy Ficca, and the onetime Modern Lovers bassist, Ernie Brooks, making the band an underground-rock fan's dream team.
VILLAGE VOICE, 1O/05: A band almost as much about history as music, GODS AND MONSTERS consists of guitarist muy eclectico Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart), drummer Billy Ficca (Television), and bassist Ernie Brooks (the Modern Lovers). The music's always a squonky tad off-register whilst rocking, jazzing, popping, and othering with the best of 'em.
Upcoming Gary Lucas Appearances:
Thursday, Nov. 17th midnight to 2:00am EST WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City - Gary Lucas plays solo acoustic and is interviewed by the legendary Bob Fass on his long-running program “Radio Unnameable"-- listen online at www.wbai.org
Saturday, Nov. 26th Earthcore Global Carnival, Victoria, Australia - Gary Lucas plays with Amorphous Androgynous (Future Sound of London's live psychedelic band, with Garry Cobain and Baluji Shrivastav)
Wed., Nov. 30th Gary's original score featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary, “LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON" (2001), a film by Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, and Albert Maysles, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. Evanston Illinois, 7:30pm
DECEMBER 2005 Thursday, Dec. 1st The Prince Ballroom, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia - Gary Lucas plays with Amorphous Androgynous
Saturday, Dec. 3rd Earthcore Festival, Queensland, Australia - Gary Lucas plays with Amorphous Androgynous
Wednesday, Dec. 7th 7:30pm Makor, 35 West 67th Street, New York City - Gary Lucas' music and interview is featured in award-winning documentary film maker Slawomir Grunberg's new documentary “The Legacy of Jedwabne"
Thursday, Dec. 8th--Gary Lucas solo, Cafe Nine, State Street, New Haven Conn., w/ Eugene Chadbourne and Doot, 9pm
Friday, Dec. 9th--Gary Lucas solo, Buttonwood Tree, Main Street, Middletown Conn., w /Eugene Chadbourne and Doot, 8pm
Tuesday, Dec. 13th 9:00pm Epistrophy, 200 Mott St., New York City - Gary plays solo acoustic, with Andy Statman
Saturday, Dec. 17th 08:00pm Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, corner of Bleecker and Bowery, New York City - Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters with Ernie Brooks and Billy Ficca
Thursday Dec. 29th--Gary Lucas solo acoustic, The 12-Bar Club, Denmark Street, London England, 9pm
JANUARY 2006 Saturday, Jan. 14th World Financial Center Wintergarden, New York City - Gary plays as part of The Nebraska Project, interpretations of Bruce Springsteen's songs from the Nebraska album, opening night of the New York Guitar Festival, with Dan Zanes, Martha Wainwright and others
Wednesday, Jan. 26th New York Guitar Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City - Gary plays as part of a Tribute to Skip James, with Alvin Youngblood Hart, Chocolate Genius, and others
FEBRUARY 2006 Friday, Feb. 10th 09:30pm Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street NYC - Gary plays his original solo guitar score live to accompany a screening of the silent horror classic “The Golem" (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese)
MARCH 2006 Saturday, Mar. 26th James River Film Festival, Plant Zero, Richmond, Virginia - Gary plays “Sounds of the Surreal", accompany silent surrealist film classics by Fernand Leger, Rene Clair and Ladislaw Starowicz with his original solo guitar music; Gary will also play with Hotel X after the performance
APRIL 2006 Saturday, Apr. 1st The Flynn Theater, 147 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont - Gary plays “The Golem"
more dates tba
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