Fleur de Tease, voted the city's best new burlesque troupe by Where Y'At Magazine, returns to One Eyed Jacks on Sunday, September 9th to start a monthly run of shows. Catch two performances that night at 8 and 10. Doors are at 7 and 9.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Fleur de Tease return for another season of burlesque starting September 9th
Fleur de Tease, voted the city's best new burlesque troupe by Where Y'At Magazine, returns to One Eyed Jacks on Sunday, September 9th to start a monthly run of shows. Catch two performances that night at 8 and 10. Doors are at 7 and 9.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
High on Fire and Mono at OEJ's September 29th
"Truth is, few bands would be capable of achieving such a primal, yet thoroughly modern-sounding heavy metal album even on their most inspired moments." --All Music Guide on High on Fire's 2005 release, Blessed Black Wings
“The High On Fire Blessed Black Wings record [is] the most brutal metal album I’ve heard in years.” -- Dave Grohl (SPIN Magazine)
On September 29th High on Fire, the best doom metal band in the world, return to One Eyed Jacks with new album, Death is This Communion, to be released on September 18th. High on Fire are currently in Los Angeles, CA working on the music video for "Rumors of War," their first single.
Tickets $15
Doors at 9.
Show at 10.
"Tony Iommi's jaw would drop." -- KERRANG!
"High on Fire is the sludgy resin from 30 years of super-hard-rock history transubstantiated into three men from Oakland with low-slung jeans" -- NEW YORK TIMES
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Meat Puppets reunite at OEJ's on September 15th
After more than a decade apart, brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood have reunited to make their first record together since 1995’s No Joke. The legendary cowpunk anti-heroes that rose from SST Records to international fandom will stop at One Eyed Jacks on September 15th. The Puppets just released their new album, Rise To Your Knees, on July 17th, and their new old lineup already has a successful West Coast tour under its belt and are now setting out on their first full tour since reuniting.
Rise to Your Knees is a dense, layered record that finds the band continuing to grow as songwriters and musicians, not just rehashing the past. The bulk of the CD rolls along with country-tinged, laid-back songs--some hopeful and some bleak. With menace lurking at their edges, songs like “Vultures” start and end with protracted bouts of static. On tracks like “New Leaf” and “Disappear,” the record brings them back to the quintessential rock sound that original Meat Puppets fans have grown to love.
Rise To Your Knees is more than just 15 tracks of classic-style Meat Puppets. It’s Cris Kirkwood’s rebirth after decades of drug abuse, legal problems, and jail time. And it’s good to have him back.
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Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game comes to OEJ's in September
“Hilarious” --Gawker.com
Conceptual and comestible” – The New York Times
The Off-Off Broadway theater collective The Legitimate Theater Company stamps its fast and loose vibe on William Shakespeare’s classic comedy of concealed identity
and hidden passion during Friday and Saturday nights in September at One Eyed Jacks. After two sold-out runs in New York City, Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game arrives in New Orleans with an all-new cast for selected weekend evenings beginning August 31st, 2007. For it’s January 2006 production in New York, Twelght Night: The Drinking Game was the subject of a feature article by the New York Times, and was named “Best of Season 2005 - 2006”
by Offoffonline.com.
Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game, directed by Richard Lovejoy, is a unique, interactive production focusing on the play’s themes of stasis confronting inevitable change, morality colliding with hedonism, and sexuality unveiling its ambiguities. Through the drinking game, the audience members literally join
in the festivities, and raise a glass when cued by the play’s actions. The actors sit with, drink with, and directly engage the spectators as they perform the bard’s tale of shipwrecked twins lost in a strange world. Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game allows the audience to experience Shakespeare’s comedy like raucous comedy like never before.
Tickets are $7, cash at the door only. No reservations required. All shows are at 7 p.m. A portion of the door proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity. Saturday, September 8th’s performance will be PAY WHAT YOU WILL.
Fridays: August 31st, September 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th
Saturdays: September 1st, 8th, and 22nd
Conceptual and comestible” – The New York Times
The Off-Off Broadway theater collective The Legitimate Theater Company stamps its fast and loose vibe on William Shakespeare’s classic comedy of concealed identity
and hidden passion during Friday and Saturday nights in September at One Eyed Jacks. After two sold-out runs in New York City, Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game arrives in New Orleans with an all-new cast for selected weekend evenings beginning August 31st, 2007. For it’s January 2006 production in New York, Twelght Night: The Drinking Game was the subject of a feature article by the New York Times, and was named “Best of Season 2005 - 2006”
by Offoffonline.com.
Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game, directed by Richard Lovejoy, is a unique, interactive production focusing on the play’s themes of stasis confronting inevitable change, morality colliding with hedonism, and sexuality unveiling its ambiguities. Through the drinking game, the audience members literally join
in the festivities, and raise a glass when cued by the play’s actions. The actors sit with, drink with, and directly engage the spectators as they perform the bard’s tale of shipwrecked twins lost in a strange world. Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game allows the audience to experience Shakespeare’s comedy like raucous comedy like never before.
Tickets are $7, cash at the door only. No reservations required. All shows are at 7 p.m. A portion of the door proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity. Saturday, September 8th’s performance will be PAY WHAT YOU WILL.
Fridays: August 31st, September 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th
Saturdays: September 1st, 8th, and 22nd
Monday, August 13, 2007
Heartless Bastards at OEJ's September 12th
"All This Time swings with the force of a heavyweight champ, but there's an unpretentious intelligence, compassion, and cautious hope in these ten songs, and the Heartless Bastards bring them across with an elegance that belies their muscle; they know how to say a great deal with a little, and that's a large part of what makes this album worth hearing."--All Music Guide
It's perplexing why Heartless Bastards aren't more popular. The power pop trio from Cincinnati plays catchy and very emotionally engaging songs, and they've got a diverse taste, bringing a little bit to the table for everyone--blues, garage punk, indie rock, soul, and roots rock. No matter. You know and I know, and on September 12th at One Eyed Jacks, we get to rock out with the band.
After a few years of working dead-end jobs in Dayton, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Erika Wennerstrom moved to Cincinnati, where she met bassist Mike Lamping, who was working at his family's janitorial supply company. Wennerstrom and Lamping began performing around town as the Heartless Bastards, and quickly added drummer and pizza delivery man Kevin Vaughn to the lineup. The band began to tour and were eventually signed to Fat Possum Records, which released both the band's 2005 debut, Stairs and Elevators, and its follow-up, All This Time, a year later.
Doors at 9
Show at 10
Tix are $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
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Turbonegro and Mondo Generator at OEJ's September 30th
The politically incorrect deathpunk group from Norway returns to give us another heaping of humor, sexuality, and shock. For heaven's sake, they were gonna call themselves Nazipenis. They decided that Turbonegro was less offensive.
“WHAT IS ROCK?!
Rock is the area between the balls and the anus of a dog or another man…
WHAT IS ROCK?!
Rock is the possibility of choking on your own vomit in the back of a rapist’s van…
WHAT IS ROCK?!
Denim-clad Satanists making love in the sewers of Birmingham during Maggie Thatcher’s prime…
WHAT IS ROCK?!
Meeting the grim reaper in a sports arena stampede at the tender age of nine…”
…only the first verse from the blood-spattered rock-operatic epic which climaxes RETOX, the latest and career-best record from Turbonegro, the band who (rather humbly) style themselves as the “Official Number 4 Formula Band In The Universe” – the top three are, they state, AC/DC, the Ramones and Slayer. Turbonegro will be supported by Mondo Generator at One Eyed Jacks September 30th.
From Norway, these 6 deviants have wrought more rockin’ havoc around the world than any other band in the last ten years. Their blue-denim sailor-boy gear and “faux-mo-erotic” lyrics have caused astonishment and confusion everywhere. Their remorseless collaging of influences from across the spectrum of classic rock, punk and metal – what they call their musical “dream cocktail” – serially blows the minds of their disciples, leaving others wondering if it’s really okay to let their jams be kicked out, too. Must the Great forever be doomed to be misunderstood by the masses?
RETOX, finally, blows away such nonsensical logic. It’s hard, heavy, hilarious, terrifying, offensive, dumb-ass, thought-provoking and plain genocidal all at once. It IS rock. Total rock. Total Turbo. A record which, to borrow a lyric from its riotous lead-off single, ‘Do You Do You Dig Destruction’, will hit you like “brass-knuckles and a 2-by-4”. “It is the sound,” they add, “of cold steel slashing through hot leather”. On the cover, a Kenneth Anger youth gazes up at the vast projected horror of singer Hank von Helvete’s eyes. Time for anyone with the least passing interest in rock to stare the Devil in the face. Fuck, yeah!
“Most rock ‘n’ roll bands start as a riot, but end up as a parody,” remarks Happy-Tom, the bassist and mastermind behind the dark power that is Turbonegro. “We started as a parody, but ended up as a revolution.”
Doors at 9
Show at 10.
$18 in advance
$20 day of show
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