Don't Hide The Madness: Lydia Lunch To Host Howl Benefit at Pyramid

HOWL! Arts and Some Serious Business Present an Evening of Spoken Word in the Raw

LYDIA LUNCH Hosts DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS
With cohorts Bob Bert, Nicole Blackman, Bibbe Hansen, Zachary Lipez, Edgar Oliver, Tony O'Neill, Phantom Family Halo, and surprise guests. 

 DJ: Linda Rizzo

Thursday, May 30, 2013 / 7–10 PM

Tickets: $10 in advance / $15 at the door / Cash only the evening of the show
Tickets available in advance through Brown Paper Tickets http://m.bpt.me/event/378639

A Benefit for HOWL! Emergency Life Project (H.E.L.P.)
*100% of the proceeds from the door go to H.E.L.P.

Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
101 Ave A (between 6th & 7th Streets)

East Village, NYC

Kraut (post Dougie) at the Pyramid (1986)

The second line-up of Kraut plays the Pyramid Club, July 1, 1986 (source)

Pyramid Club building up for historical status?

The Village Voice blog mentioned today a story about the possibility of the Pyramid Club (well, the building the club has been in for the last 25 or so years) getting historic landmark status...read about it here. Too bad it never happened for CBGB.

Friday Ephemera - Downtown again

More New York nightclub footage

Following up from the great video from The Tube earlier this summer, here's another find: A trip through more clubs of 1980s New York City, albeit slightly more underground and on the performance art side of things. Included are the Palladium, Limelight, Danceteria, Wah Wah Hut, Mars, The Copa and more. Karen Finley, Ethyl Eichelberger, Michael Musto, Holly Woodlawn, Kenny Kenny, Jayne County, and others make appearances. This montage is from the videos of Nelson Sullivan, created by Robert Coddington for the Avant-Garde-A-Rama at PS 122 NYC.



As an added bonus, here's some sort of TV commercial made for the Ritz (now Webster Hall for those of you who don't know). Judging by the quality, I'd say it was made for cable access.