Sun 1/8 11:30AM
Fri 1/13 8PM
Sat 1/14 8PM
NOTE: The Saturday 1/14 show at BOP STOP is almost SOLD OUT. Very limited tickets remain HERE.
Bowieologist Thomas Mulready partners with glam rock superstars Vanity Crash to mark the 50th anniversary of the artist’s classic album Aladdin Sane in a series of live shows featuring live original and Bowie music, interviews, and a compelling live presentation entitled, Cracked Actor. View the trailer here.
The shows will be presented within days of David Bowie’s birthday (January 8) and death anniversary (January 10) at venues across Northeast Ohio.
* Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 11:30AM Bowie Brunch at Jilly’s Music Room, 111 North Main Street, Akron, OH 44308 TICKETS (brunch available). PHOTOSTREAM by Anastasia Pantsios here.
* Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8PM at CLE Urban Winery, 2180B Lee Road, Cleveland Hts, OH 44118 TICKETS
* Almost SOLD OUT: Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 8PM at BOP STOP, 2920 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113 TICKETS
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These dazzling presentations will feature a synchronized light show, interviews, a slew of new original songs by Vanity Crash from their forthcoming sixth release, plus a selection of Bowie deep cuts and favorites, all performed in the Glam Punk style foreshadowed by Bowie’s band The Spiders From Mars, which influenced Punk, Post-Punk, Glam, New Wave, Goth, New Romantic, and decades of styles since.
The album Aladdin Sane was Bowie’s first as a bonafide superstar, and was written mainly on the road during the artist’s first tour of the United States, kicked off with his US debut at Cleveland’s Music Hall on September 22, 1972.
That night was pianist Mike Garson’s first gig with Bowie, and he eventually performed and recorded with the artist for decades, right up to his last public performances before his passing in 2016.
Woody Woodmansey, drummer for Bowie’s groundbreaking early-1970’s band The Spiders From Mars, is featured in an exclusive interview, along with psychotherapists, an expert from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a musician colleague of Bowie’s, as the show explores the issues of mental health and madness that Bowie explicitly deals with in his music.
An exclusive interview with Mike Garson is featured in the show, and Vanity Crash will perform their song, Angel and Me, which showcases Mike Garson on piano.
About Thomas Mulready: Acclaimed Bowieologist, pop culture presenter and cultural anthropologist Thomas Mulready is known for creating avant-garde non-profit festivals: Ingenuity Fest, now in its 18th year, and the legendary Performance Art Festival, the largest festival of performance art ever. He created the CoolCleveland media network to turn people on to the coolness of Cleveland. Assiduously researched and painstakingly organized, Mulready’s performance art has been presented in Cleveland, Chicago, New York and Paris, and he served as a Senior Research Consultant in the United Kingdom. His multimedia presentations on Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Glam and The Beatles have been presented at universities, jazz clubs and aquariums.
About Vanity Crash: Vanity Crash was born on stage under hot lights in the crucible of sound and fury as the glam-punk band The Angry Inch in the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Ever since, Vanity Crash has been dressing up and throwing down eye-popping synchronized light shows, outrageous stage costumes and provocative attitude, opening for the likes of the New York Dolls, Poison, Semi Precious Weapons, the Darkness and Gogol Bordello. Their recent celebrated tributes to pop culture heroes include timeless gems performed live alongside their own incendiary originals. Vanity Crash recently dropped their 5th original release, Phantasmagoria, which includes an original track featuring David Bowie’s longtime pianist, Mike Garson. View the Vanity Crash trailer here.
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Photo of David Bowie at his US debut at Cleveland Music Hall 09.22.72 by Anastasia Pantsios
Vanity Crash clockwise from bottom left: Matthew Angel, Dennis Van Crash, Virginia Plane Crash, Thomas Anonymous
TICKETS
* Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 11:30AM Bowie Brunch at Jilly’s Music Room, 111 North Main Street, Akron, OH 44308 TICKETS (brunch available)
* Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8PM at CLE Urban Winery, 2180B Lee Road, Cleveland Hts, OH 44118 TICKETS
* Almost SOLD OUT: Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 8PM at BOP STOP, 2920 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113 TICKETS
Akron, OH 44308
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Cleveland, OH 44113