Aug 27, 2008

Contortions this weekend

This seems to be flying a bit under the radar, but then what do I know anymore? Text courtesy of our friends at ROIR:

Join James Chance and his longtime collaborator, Robert Aaron, are Original Contortions Jody Harris, Pat Place (also in Bush Tetras!) and Don Christensen in their first New York show in over a decade!

Saturday August 30th
JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS
6pm @ PS1 Warm Up
22-25 Jackson Ave @ 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY

http://www.ps1.org/warmup

Following the one time reunion of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (of which James was a founding member) at the Knitting Factory earlier in June and in timing with this year's 30th Anniversary of the seminal album NO NEW YORK (the band's first recorded appearance) the charismatic band will perform its original classics as well as tracks being recorded for an upcoming new release. All of this comes hot on the heels of the resurgence of the No Wave movement with new books by Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore/Byron Coley and rock writer Marc Masters.

James Chance would like to dedicate this performance to guitarist Jerry Agony who died on July 29th.

Jerry performed with James White + Blacks and The Contortions from 1981 - 1997.

IN RELATED NO-WAVE NEWS:
Thurston Moore/Byron Coley are performing a reading from their recent book, “No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1975-1980.” at 192 Books on Sat 9/12 at 7pm!

And in a nod to If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger, here's James Chance:

Before:


And after:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i'd still give him a kiss if he got close enough

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