Elyas Khan

 

Awesome montage created by La Productrice of the Gentlemen & Assassins Paris / GlazArt show in March 2011... including the song "BELLS" which is on Elyas's new album BRAWL IN PARADISE (coming to you in early 2012!)

Just got a pre-listen of Elyas singing on the 3rd BOOKS OF KNOTS project founded by: Tony Maimone, Joel Hamilton, Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi!

 

John Fekuda's" Top Dog" short film for Toyota, featured soundtrack by Nervous Cabaret!

Elyas Khan and Sxip Shirey will join forces on stage in Berlin with FELOCHE - The Urban Cajun Sensation from Paris!

Elyas Khan with Brian Viglione and Martin Bisi in Prague!

Show just announced!

Elyas Khan and Sxip Shirey will be one stage together at White Trash / Berlin. Then it's off to Prague for Elyas and Brian Viglione with Martin Bisi at 007. And... BIG NEWS... ALBUMS COMETH! Click the link to read more about ALL of this!

 

Elyas Khan and Sxip Shirey will be in the same city (Berlin) for 3 Weeks in September!  In celebration they are PLAYING a double header during PopKomm at WHITE TRASH!

I can't give too much away here, all I can tell you is... IT'S GOING TO BE RIDICULOUSLY GOOD! Two powerhouses on the same stage = PURE ALCHEMY!

Elyas & Sxip have been working out a few new songs to play together, which YOU will get to hear LIVE before their EP to be released closely thereafter!

This is truly an event not to be missed offering TWO 90 minute sets ! !

Tune in to 100.6 MOTOR FM FRIDAY JULY 30, 2010 at 3PM for a sneak preview of what Elyas will be performing with Kitty Solaris at the Solaris Empire Label night at Schokoladen.

If you don't have a radio, or don't live in Berlin, you can live/stream from their website!

Radio Dijon Campus 92.2 invited Elyas to work on a video collaboration covering "Small Town Boy" by Bronski Beat. Elyas and his drummer Nick Stubbs did a little switcheroo - so you also get to see Elyas play drums on this one!

Fellow collaborators are FM Belfast and Nibs van der Spuy.

Lars Amend asked Elyas to help out on some of the translations for the website about Rudolf Schenker's biography "Rock Your Life"

This resulted in Elyas hanging out with the Scorpions backstage after their show at Berlin's O2 Center.

See all the graphic action as Elyas tells it on his new Tumblr Blog!

 

WEDNESDAY 07 APRIL 2010

ELYAS KHAN and JIL IS LUCKY perform LUNATIC (from Elyas upcoming release) at La Cigale in Paris!

ELYAS KHAN with JIL IS LUCKY on TARATATA

WITH A SECOND CHANCE TO WATCH ON FIRDAY:
10 février 20h35 sur France 4
12 février 00h50 sur France 2

We will announce online re-broadcasts once they are up!

Elyas  is heading for Paris where he will join Jil Is Lucky as guests of Taratata!

The recording will take place on January 13 (2010).

Keep your eyes peeled for announcement for when to watch.

"The Music Hall Of Williamsburg was the drunken bright-lights sin-city brother to the hushed living-room confessional vibe of Palmer’s last New York appearance, at Highline Ballroom.  Flanked by the incredible NY-based Nervous Cabaret,  this time Amanda Fucking Palmer had a Fucking band. And what a Fucking band they were, if I may say so myself. Impeccable rhythm, flawless horns, and a leader with a voice like melted fucking chocolate doused in bourbon."

www.SoldOutMusic.com

Finally getting back in the groove of things and got the videos downloaded from our camera... here is Elyas singing a little John the Revelator into Cat Head Live on East Village Radio's Chances With Wolves Show.

It was so much fun seeing the Brooklyn crew in the Manhattan studio, although everyone was completely distracted by The Sandwich Incident .... To listen to the show again, which features some fantastic tunes you probably have not heard before, as well as Elyas's new tracks tune in to:

Chances with Wolves EPISODE 76

The New York show at Music Hall of Williamsburg was amazing. It is so wonderful to play to your home crowd, and walking around Brooklyn these past 2 days seeing all our friends and how psyched they were to be at this show has been truly uplifting.

Elyas had the camera on stage and snapped off this shot of Amanda Palmer auctioning off some art works in between songs. I think it shows the energy of the night... what an incredible audience to give us all so much energy!

Looking forward to seeing all the guys tomorrow morning and heading off to Philly to do a radio segment with Amanda and then of course the show at Theater of the Living Arts.

See you there!

Elyas Khan will be in the LIVE in the booth with Mikey Palms

on East Villages Radio's CHANCES WITH WOLVES!

5:00PM - 6:00PM EST (a.k.a. NYC Time)

Listen GLOBALLY!

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/

This will largely be a rambling blog. When squeezing this much activity in the span of just one week, excited, tangental sputterings are about all I can manage. Bear with me. Or as our tour bus GPS is fond of saying: "Bear Right".

Nick Stubbs flew in From London with his fiancee Deborah. This would be our first time playing together as a duo. Nick "The Big Stick" on Drums and yours truly doing the old guitar/bass/electronics/vocals routine.

I had played with him at Jordan's (Three Black Eyes) wedding in Enfield, London a couple of months back and was impressed with his knowledge of our music.

I, on the other hand, was completely indecisive as to what to play for this string of gigs. I had the new material: Lowest of the Low , The River, Three Merry Boys etc... but right before leaving Berlin I had uncovered a whole portal of other new work I had been churning out in the last year, plus up to the moment fiddlelings I wanted to fiddle with some more.....

Realizing that Nick didn't need that kind of bumble-mindedness I decided to stick with the game plan. Got into Studio Bleu in the bustling, African market vibe Chateau D'eau district and we were off. Suffice to say Nick's a lovely boy, he really is....

THE SCREENING OF " Between The Bridges" : A documentary about NERVOUS CABARET (that's my band in NYC) came up next; the day before the Paris gig. It was going to be screened at INTERNATIONAL, a great two floor venue in Menilmontant. The very idea of having to attend this the day before our Point FMR Paris gig was a bit much for me. Revisiting a document of the last time we played together as NERVOUS CABARET, my moving house from Brooklyn, my marriage to Melissa etc... in front of an audience was a tad emotionally daunting: I'm a sensitive fella y'all!

Accompanied by my wife Melissa and old chum Nadja, we meandered through the golden, dusky houred Rue Oberkampf in Menilmontant; past my favorite cilantro, ginger and galanga scented Korean rice shop overflowing with after work customers, past Nouveau Casino getting ready for their evening concert and straight into my worst scenario: having sit through a film where I have the most lines: embarrassingly self scripted impromptu dialogue; the things one says, appalling in retrospect.

The place was packed, another surprise because in-fact, the other worse thing would be to sit through the premiere of such a film, a film in a sense honoring the achievements of our happy enterprise, with no one in attendance. Thankfully that didn't happen. Our director Guillaume Dero was outside the murmuring venue smoking. Devilishly handsome and shy, a Saint of a man, all the more so because he had a book of drink tickets which I eagerly clutched from his paw. He was nervous. They wanted me to make an appearance before the film. I did so but sheepishly. I just wanted to get upstairs and down some more of the house red.

There were great whoops of applause after it was all done. Many pats on the back as the audience climbed back upstairs and saw me wobbling on my stool, elbow on the bar, drink tickets at the ready for "all my friends" who were brave enough to show up.

I missed my band. Those boys had taught me so much. I missed New York. I was proud and getting a little nectar sappy with Melissa about it all. She reminded me that I'd be back in NYC soon enough and just to enjoy what was happening now.

Well, ok then, "I'm off to the Absinthe bar two doors down. Anybody care to join!" A boozy caravan organized itself clumsily on the narrow sidewalk and chugged along after me. The shattered glass from a vandalized car poured out in front of us like a starry carpet that lead to the door of the bar.

Secretly now, I was only thinking about the next day, the order of the songs and how shitty my voice was sounding. I was sick. Had been for a week and it was getting worse. Flemmy, shredded tones pushing through a snotty nose and thick head. Some people like that kind of thing I'm told and I was doing all I could, in my revery, to make sure the people, God bless 'em, got what they wanted.....

The next evening at the sweaty, fog filled Point Ephemere, on the banks of the lovely Canal Du Saint Martin, excited and rearing to get on with this gig, my D string snapped at the very top of the show; without any provocation, before I had even uttered a raspy breath! With no back up instrument I tuned up and went for it. Nick was looking a bit worried but also mysteriously calm and pounded through the set with great aplomb. The Thermals had a nice set but we were over the moon at having pulled this one off. The intensity intact and in full force.

Next up was Reims, the birthplace of champagne; Dijon, Mustard land and Strasbourg, aah...more French food. We were ready

Directed by Guillaume Dero or release on La Huit Productions Nervous Cabaret: Between The Bridges, filmed in St. Nazaire and Brooklyn/NYC, takes you on an intimate journey with the band and packs in lots of live footage to keep everything moving along!

The DVD will have it's first public screening at L'International in Paris on October 13th!

It's getting to close now I can taste it... and I am wiggling around in anticipation, spurred on by getting in my hot little hands (hot little hard-drive?), this video promo clip featuring a bit of "LOWEST OF THE LOW", which will be one of the tracks on Elyas Khan's forthcoming EP "BLACK SWAN".

The footage was edited in Berlin by Oliver Kless and was taken from the "Between The Bridges: Nervous Cabaret" documentary by Guillaume Dero, La Huit Productions  (Paris), and was shot at Festival Les Escales 2008 in St. Nazaire (FR), and also in various locations in Brooklyn (NYC).

The DVD will be released later in 2009... Elyas EP: BLACK SWAN will be released in October 2009, and is part of a 3 stage project leading up to a full-length release in 2010.

Here is a photo of me (Melissa: Elyas's manager) opening my mail and finding my new Ted Milton / Burt Cut It / Hat 7" Now, this looks like a normal 7" - but it's actually more than that. It's a microcosm of what symbolizes for me the very best of what music can do in this world, and what music means in my life. In this 7" I have received 2 gifts in one. First of course, it's given me a really lovely piece of music to listen to. And Second, it's given me a reflection on what is important and why the I do this work anyway. I was very inspired the first time I saw the limited edition books that Ted Milton puts out - which you can see here on his website: TedMilton.com. He's been added to this wonderful group of people I have been so fortunate to be exposed to in the music business, and a lot of it is coming together in this great series of coincidences, that are coming around again in September in Holland. It's interesting to me to see how it all hangs loosely together... kind of like that 6 degrees of separation game: Ted is an alumni of the Beukorkest project Elyas will be playing with this September. Elyas was recommended to the Beukorkest project by De Kift, who Nervous Cabaret have played several shows with over the years. De Kift are a very passionate band that are, for the most part, related to each other, and they also make extremely cool limited edition merch. Nervous Cabaret listened to Ethiopiques A LOT when getting ready to record the last album Drop Drop... The Ex (from Holland) have been recording an touring with Ethiopiques... Therrie Ex (guitar player) is also a Beukorkest alumni... You are getting the idea by now... and my brain feels slightly less tangled as well. I am not sure Ted Milton could have had any idea that this would all resonate so personally with me when he sent me the 7", but it does. Art makes my life worth living... and passionate artists give me a hope for humanity. PS: Ted Milton will be playing in Berlin on November 18th 2009 at the DOT Club Put it on your calendar and come with me - but don't worry - I'll remind you later!

Tetsuo's "Cousu Main" is now available on iTunes, Amazon.com, Fnac.com and Deezer Elyas Khan is featured on the track #10 "Gargantua" but I suggest downloading the whole album as it's really good. Since the last time we wrote about getting Cousu Main in the mail several people have purchased the CD, and one new fan ended up buying ALL Tetsuo's stuff after discovering them! Elyas had a nice surprise while we were working with Three Black Eyes in Toulouse. Arnaud from Tetsuo happened to be passing through on the way back from a festival and thus had time to spend an afternoon with us before driving back Pau. Tetsuo and their label organization A Tant Rêver Du Roi have some interesting projects in the works (sorry not allowed to say what yet), but let's just say we're looking forward to future collaborations!

Got a note from NYC beatboxing pal Adam Matta last week. The Beatbox Battle World Championships were being held in Berlin this year, he was about to hit the city and suggested I come down. I checked out the various promo videos out on youtube and was happily surprised to see that old friend and lower east side alumni Kid Lucky who was hosting this year. Kid Lucky and Adam Matta Backstage Great news, I hadn't seen him in a number of years and he certainly was not expecting me to show up. Suffice is to say that major manly squealing and fits of laughter accompanied by spasms of festive hugging ensued as we caught sight of each other. We recalled the old days when we met in Tompkin Square park, smoking, drinking, prepping for for the Sidewalk Cafe open mics or taking our instruments and following the legendary likes of Sabir Mateen and Daniel Carter around the city and into Queens to tour and jam at an assortment of rent parties, gallery openings, weed spots, subway platforms, bars and happenings. Sabir and Daniel would take their saxophones and play up to five different events a night back in the day, sometimes for not a dime. These guys had played with Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Sonic Youth and never lost faith in music and played as mentors to a countless numbers of young enthusiastic musicians who flooded the city every year. I was thrilled to learn that both were doing very well and touring all over. The worst and toughest part of their long careers being well behind them. Elyas and Kid Lucky Kid Lucky clipped a three day pass on my lapel and we were off. Adam was getting his breathing together and demonstrated some wonderful Egyptian Orchestral beatboxing he'd been working on. I was floored. This was going to be fun. The competition was split into three categories: Men, Women and Group. There were fifty people in the mens alone which would eventually be cut down to 16 and then the finalist over a period of three days. Here are some pics of the first day. My camera was at the studio so I had to borrow another. No video I'm sad to say. Look up the youtube page etc... for updates and results. Adam was up first and he smoked 'em. Adam Matta OnStage I'll be catching up with Lucky in Prague. Peace! Met this BeatBoxer named DAQ - real nice guy.

Woah!!! Super link-heavy post, but I just had to do it because I want to save everyone the time of having to google each band... NERVOUS CABARET is once again in the playlist of REAR WINDOW RADIO. These guys are based in Toronto and many of the artists they play are also Canadian so I KNOW all my Canadian friends are going to wanna tune in! (although their playlist is actually pretty international). This playlist episode airs from FRIDAY, 29 MAY (AKA TOMORROW), until June 4th. Go ahead - have a listen! The playlist (in playing order is): Green Cup & The Dudes - In The Morning Entire Cities - Talkers Aaron Stout - The Coronation Kill the Lights - Nation of Introverts Pedestrian - Brain on a Stick The Audiovisuals - 1986 Kurran and the Wolfnotes - Your Four Limbs Casper and the Cookies - Yer Birthday Spanish Prisoners - Ask Isaac Asimov Say Ah! - Beggar's Ballad Johnny Nobody - This is Falling Apart The Craft Economy - Big Purse, Lil' Dawg Love in October - Soft Errors Built By Snow - Something in 3D Mississipi Kings - What's Going On Johnathan Wynn - Everything is Alright, Everything is Ok Twilight Hotel - Highway Prayer The Tiger & Me - The Forsaken Few Stations - Narcissus Poeticus The Antlers - Two Viarosa - Poor Man's Prayer Maneli Jamal - Cold Arrival
NERVOUS CABARET - GRAND PALACE OF LOVE
Maps of the Night Sky - We Were Young A Place to bury Strangers - Ocean Parlour Boys - Lovers After the Weather - Shark Song The Paint Movement - Faults Ume - The Conductor Black Hat Brigade - Castlevania

That's right it's finally here... the album features Elyas singing on track 10 "Gargantua", and also features Dawn McCarthy from Faun Fables You can pick it up from iTunes or buy direct from their label at ATRDR.NET

(written by Melissa) Being full of excellent hors d'oeuvre and wine it was time to get back on our bikes and head over to the Privat Club in KBerg to see our studio neighbors SkaZka Orchestra play (you'll remember these guys from our previous post SkaZka. We've been meaning and planning to get over to one of their shows - but for whatever reason it never worked out. Anyway, we wanted to see them at Privat because any place that's instructions start with "go into the restaurant and look for the stairs at the back of their restroom" is a place you've gotta go. What we found was an absolutely packed, sweat soaked room of people down for a serious amount of partying. Unbelievably Elyas and I scored a seat (two actually)! where we remained for most of the show... Elyas stood up on the seat to get some photos and shoot two videos (which we will post later once SkaZka give us the thumbs up). For now here's a pic (which makes the club look deceptively small - trust me those people go back a long way): From there, and completely giddy by this point, we hopped back on the bikes and made our way for the Stella Flamingo, where Sxip and Elyas played. we wanted to stop by their anyway and talk about playing another show, and also we figured we'd get ahead of the crowd of dancing Russians that were sure to follow from the SkaZka show as Stella would surely be the natural spot for the after party. It turned out to be one of those nights where you just can't miss and everything you see is inspiring. Stella Flamingo had a DJ working tunes to this video that was a cut up of old movies pasted into a running train-race theme... it was so good we were mesmerized for a good 30 minutes... so we stayed around for a bit, and then back into the night, riding our bikes all over downtown berlin!

(Written by Melissa) Wow - what a day Elyas and I had yesterday! So much so that I'm going to divided it into two separate posts. First off, it was the Federal Republic of Germany 60th Anniversary, which was being celebrated by, among other things, a huge concert at the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor). We headed down to see the 17 Hippies, who were one of the bands playing. We figured we'd be able to scope put some back-stage action and see what was up. As we approached the area from Unter Den Linden we realized this might be a bit difficult as we saw what turned out to be about 100,000 people stretching all the way into Tiergarten! We headed for the stage side of the gate and it was completely packed... At the top of the show we ducked back around to the other side of the gate and Elyas got some great shots of the band on one of those giant screens erected for people who have no chance in hell of getting close enough to see the people on stage... this is a close up of the accordian against the gate (I love this shot!) Not satisfied with watching the show vicariously through the camera mans eyes, we headed through the gate and back into the main audience area and see if we could get close.... With a little prodding, luck, and a little bit of charm, one the security guys let us into the penned in area RIGHT in front of the stage! It was a super fun show, the audience was in the mood to sing along and to dance. From this vantage point we got the full-on giddiness inducing effect of a high tech stage set up and the energy of 1 in 30 people in the city dancing around. The Hippies got a SERIOUS encore from the crowd, but unfortunately with these big events things are pinned to the schedule. The video backdrop being used on the stage was really cool, the images changed and melded together based on what the camera men on stage where focusing on and blended it in real-time with thematic elements from the Hippies album artwork and the like.. Elyas got some great shots there too, here's one to give you an idea. After the show we did end up getting backstage, and were presented with fine treat indeed! We were invited, along with the Hippies, to an extremely private party being hosted at the top of the Dresdner Bank building, directly overlooking the gate. The view as backdrop to the lovely company of our friends with some very nice catering and delicious German white wine - life really does not get any better. Melissa & Henry with the Brandenburger Tor

Yesterday started out with a good idea. I'll peruse the SBahn / UBahn busker scene, play a few ditties, makes a few friends, scratch up some dough. But from the outset the weather put a major damper on my plans. Torrential rain soaked me to the skin, by the time I got to Schlesisches Tor on my bike I needed a rapid dry-off. What I was greeted with instead was a fully self-powered, strap-on microphone'd balalaika Russian-Punk-Folk outfit dominating the sidewalk underneath the overhead train. I parked the bike and waddled around the scene, guitar strapped to my back and the not-so-fresh rainfall oozing from my boots. These guys were putting on an epic and the throngs of Berliner fisted polka enthusiasts were gathering. They sounded good though. The band members were taking turns passing the hat, and by the looks of it making enough money for their next meal and a few drinks. All I could think was, "I just wanna play". What I didn't realize was there was going to be no playing today. The long and the short of it is I hooked up with a neighborhood friend and for the next six hours got well embroiled in a domestic abuse scenario involving police, ambulance and a somewhat psychopathic former lover. Situations like this require much needed self-medciation. Now I just wanted to go home and pull the blanket over my head. Tomorrow - there's a drum set coming my way courtesy of Daniel and the local experimental rock band Alice Daisy - who are presently wailing away in the studio next door on some heavy Led Zepplin meets Jack White riff. To cheer up this post - just a tad - I uploaded a video of NYC Math-Pop outfit Capillary Action Within their ranks is old pal and Nervous Cabaret band mate Sam Kulik. It was great to see him and the band coming through Berlin town. Such great players. They put on a great show at Lokal where they co-billed with The Season Standard sponsored by their record label Discorporate Records... click over to my YouTube/KidSic Channel and ENJOY!

Nervous Cabaret Trombone player Sam Kulik is in Berlin right now with the band Capillary Action and I had the pleasure of hanging with him and dragging him to an open mic at Artliners in F'Shain. It was a great excuse to play with him again, as I hadn't scene him since my wedding three month ago in Brooklyn. It was probably the most boisterous and noisy open mic I've experienced - lead by resident bartender Tom Lee Who. It was sort of like a scene from a Philip K Dick story. Suffice to say I got invited back for an actual gig on June 25th. We'll be going down to Lokal tonight on Rosenthaler Strasee tonight to check our Sam with Capilary Action. Here's a little pic of Sammy & Me playing darts at an underground after hours joint where the stragglers from the open mic wandered off to... a legendary place called the Concierge... can't tell you where it is!

Elyas Khan singing with Jan Bell, Phillipa Thompson on violin, and Tim Luntzel on bass at Galapagos (Dumbo/Brooklyn) January 2009, Video shot by Oliver Diaz. A little history on the layers of what's happening here: Elyas sings this song "Miners", an adaptation from a Wilfred Owen poem, on Jan's Award Winning album Songs for Love Drunk Sinners. Jan Bell is the one who started Elyas off playing music - and he met Fred (Nervous Cabaret cornet) at her open mic, and then Elyas/Fred met Brian Geltner (Nervous Cabaret drummer who also plays with Jan) at a party of some of Jan's friends. Tim Lunztzel (the bass player in the clip ) is the bass player on Nervous Cabaret's second album release "DROP DROP" (Naive/ 2007) Read what Phil Edwards had to say about Elyas's performance on Songs for Love Drunk Sinners at Americana-UK

Oh you heard it right... JANUARY 31, 2009 @ UNION POOL in Williamsburg, Elyas and Melissa are getting married on stage! The guys in Nervous Cabaret will herald the event and Sxip Shirey will perform the ceremony! After Nervous Cabaret plays Beat Circus will take over to keep us dancing through the night!

Merry Seasonal Seasonings VooDoo Style... Wishing you all a Silent Night! Three Black Eyes along with Lucas and Bene from Paris to sing a holiday hymn for the good people are Le Cargo! Wishing all of you the best for 2009!

Christmas and New Year are well into their season and Santa is bringing MUSIC to warm our hearts cockles! First off Elyas is stripping it down and showing off his new guitar tunings and bare bones percussive ravings for the wonderful Nu Moon Festival crew at Lantaren-Venster in Rotterdam...

December 6th, 2008 Elyas is proud and excited to return to RENNES for the Trans Musical Festival ! This is great way for many people who have seen the big stage appearances of Nervous Cabaret, and ELYAS KHAN (Solo and with The Hungry Ghost), to experience a more intimate performance. See SHOW listing for details

The inimitable Mat Clark of Three Black Eyes, and Sexy Butchers (London) made this poster using some of the lyrics from demos and rough pieces of songs that will appear on the ELYAS KHAN and THE HUNGRY GHOST album... currently being worked on in between show dates, on subway cars, in taxis, and anywhere that a mic can be plugged in! LOOK OUT for very limited CDRoms (think of mixed hardcore show tapes back in "the day") which Elyas will have on hand at his November shows... you'll recognize them because they'll be wrapped in this poster! Three Black Eyes current recording project invites Elyas as a guest vocalist (SORRY we can't leak their material - even though the temptation to include it on the demo CDRoms was almost overwhelming!). Three Black Eyes will come across the channel in Dec 2008 and will play a show in Paris where they will be joined by their main vocalist Chad Parks (NYC). Elyas will be making a guest appearance in this show... Not to be missed!

SAT, NOV 1, 2008 : Nevers (FR) @ Nevers à Vif Festival FRI, NOV 7, 2008 : St. Etienne (FR) @ Le Fil SAT, NOV 8, 2008 : Serignan (FR) @ La Cigaliere MON, NOV 10, 2008 : Toulouse (FR) @ Le Phare TUES, NOV 11, 2008 : Biarritz (FR) @ L'Atabal FRI, NOV 21, 2008 : Rotterdam (NL) @ Nu Moon Improvisational Composition Festival SAT, NOV 22, 2008 : Rotterdam (NL) @ Dizzy's Jazz Café SAT, DEC 6, 2008 RENNES (FR) @ BARS EN TRANS!!! FRI, DEC 28, 2008 : Rotterdam (NL) @ Nu Moon Festival

That's Right... Nervous Cabaret has been nominated for The DELI Magazine's NYC Band of The Month. Hit up the site and VOTE! No annoying log-in process, just click "Vote" under the list of bands and click the box: DELI MAGAZINE

Thursday, June 26, 2008 come to the Southpaw benefit party for Burrow Magazine - Brooklyn´s Own Arts & Literary Publication Live music by: John Pinamonti Nervous Cabaret´s , Les Sans Culottes, DJs: Mikey Palms & Ben Carlin Spinning The Wheels Hosted by: Ben Carlin

Liquid Vinyl presents its second Saturday Night Revival. Nervous Cabaret's original Trio hits the stage in this 300 year old church in South Philadelphia Complimentary beer courtesy of the Philadelphia Brewing Company and a uniquely elegant venue, Old Swedes Church Playing with LadyFingers, and Dillon Minacci All ages are welcome!

FRIDAY JUNE 20th WAVE GATHERING FESTIVAL @ ASBURY LANES - Asbury park New Jersey wavegathering.com asburylanes.com With Special Guests from Paris: Naive New Beaters, I am Un Chien, I love my Neighbors

It's been another exciting week for Nervous Cabaret! Last weekend marked the first show ever in New Jersey -- at the incredible Asbury Lanes (we're definitely doing this again!)... watch soon to watch live broadcast (on re-broadcast from JamNow.com)! The Knitting Factory show was FANTASTIC... you can check out photos on Flicker courtesy of Nicola Nonesuch! and... a great interview aired on Radio France on Feb 7th. Laurence Aloir interviewed Elyas at the RFI studios, where they discuss who he'd like to be buried next to, musical influences, and played tunes from Drop Drop. The translator was Naive's own and beloved Maya (who is as gorgeous as her voice!). Listen Here: ELYAS ON RFI PHOTO: Elyas Khan et Benjamin Sarralié au studio 136 photo: L.Aloir PHOTO: Elyas, Maya and Laurence at the RFI Studio

Man, so excited to see what Lucas Racasse comes up with again. He directed our last video for "Passion Plumbers" after a long night of drinking and merry making with yours truly. The results were transporting, literally. We were in Brussels, Paris and NYC all in one tight four minute bundle. This time for the new "SLEEPWALKERS" video Lucas got to hit the road with us for four days and shoot the band in Liege Belgium and Vendome France (where incidentally we shared the stage with Deerhoof one of our all time favorite bands...that was cool!). After the tour Fred and I ventured back to Brussels to complete the green screen shoot. We improved take after take from all angles with both still shots and full video. great work if you can get it ! Here is just one small glimpse of said green screen take. Finished video coming soon. Enjoy. Elyas SLEEPWALKERS (ROUGH PASS)

Yes folks… it’s been a pretty great week! Elyas was shipped off to San Francisco to record vocals on the third BOOK OF KNOTS project at Tiny Telephone Studios! For those of you listening to the PodCast of his Watt from Pedro Show… yes that was Elyas singing in the background! Elyas had a great time hanging out with old friend Steve Raspa, who gave him a full city tour, complete with a tour of the Burning Man HQ. Big thanks go out to Matthias Bossi, Carla Kihlstedt, Tony Maimone, and Joel Hamilton for all their hospitality and for putting together such a wonderful project! If that wasn’t cool enough, we got a call from another friend saying to click over to OkayPlayer because The Roots had given Pere LeChaise a big thumbs up. El Keter (one of the sites main contributors) wrote the January 22, 2008 entry: "BASS: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?" And yes indeedy, he does say some great things about Nervous Cabaret… European Tour Dates are being announced for February/March… keep your eyes of the website or myspace/nervouscabaret Elyas will be writing all about his week in San Francisco - so keep your eyes on the blog! Hope to see you ALL out at the shows! All Love, Melissa

Naive have given us the official release date for DROP DROP! The album will hit stores September 11, 2007 and the official CD Release show is that THE LOUVRE MUSEUM!!!

NEW WEBSITE! Many of you have emailed to say the site had been down, and we're sorry to have kept you waiting so long! The site is back up, (here you are now) It's a template while we build the new one, but it's fully functional and will be updated OFTEN!

The new album will be released in Europe on September 11th. NERVOUS CABARET will launch it with the show at THE LOUVRE!! As for North America, it's been so busy we have not had time to go label shopping (seriously). Take heart, NERVOUS CABARET will issue a limited edition release until we get the rest figured out!

OK, it's been far too long since NERVOUS CABARET posted news!... but here it is and there is SOOO Much to Tell! I've broken these into separate posts for easier reading: 1. Shows 2. BIG (HISTORY MAKING) Tour News 3. New Website 4. New Album THIS SATURDAY!!!! JUNE 23rd 2007 10:00PM NERVOUS CABARET @ The KNITTING FACTORY in NYC! With EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND! Those of you who were at the show last year when these folks came through town KNOW this is NOT TO BE MISSED! Come prepared to Dance Dance Dance and quite possibly Get Naked (sometimes it can't be helped). Think of it as the logical conclusion to your Mermaid Day! Pure non-stop debauchery!

ELYAS KHAN SOLO IN PARIS! That's right he's doing it again! Elyas leaves RIGHT AFTER the Knitting Factory show to make his way to Paris and start promotions for the new record! Find Elyas at Truskel and La Fleche D'or and rocking the new tunes! IN TOUR NEWS: NERVOUS CABARET have been invited to PLAY concert a the garden of THE LOUVRE MUSEUM (garden/jardin des Tuileries) during the festival Brass bands in Tuileries in September... details to come soon! NERVOUS CABARET fall tour dates for Europe will be announced later this summer... very exciting shows are being lined up!

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Nu-Artskool Presents NERVOUS CABARET Givin' It @ FONTANAS CMJ SHOWCASE YOU'VE WAITED ALL YEAR FOR THIS SHOW - COME LEND SUPPORT THIS SATURDAY AT FONTANA'S 105 Eldridge (between Grand / Broome) in the Lower East Side 12 MIDNIGHT NERVOUS CABARET 11PM B-Monster 10PM Deat Of fashion 9pm Saints and Lovers 8pm BM Linx 7pm Superfortress

Nervous Cabaret's very own Elyas Khan a.k.a. KiD [SiC] was rocking Radio Europe 2 (103.5 fm in Paris) this afternoon in an interview that covered everything from last nights semi-finals win for France to why it's great to drink at his favourite Parisian watering-hole Truskel Look back to the website soon for a posting of the interview... and in the meantime feel free to call up or email and request Mel Gibson in rotation!

For the many who have asked... the Lyrics to the album "NERVOUS CABARET" are now on the website! Click over on the menu bar... read em, come out to the shows, and SING ALONG!

This was a real treat for us when we were in Europe. Elyas got free Chinese food, Greg got lost doing his laundry somewhere in Paris and the boys got to ogle at Scarlet and all the cute make up girls. Ah, the wonderful world of TV land. Big "MERCI" to Stephan Saunier, the mastermind behind this legendary show. This one Rocked Hard! ALBUM DE LA SEMAINE Airing 05/29/2006 thru 05/04/2006 06:15 PM (18h15 : PARIS Time) "Hey, Listen Here...We're Totally... Together" (Jakie Mittoo)

4 May La Lune des Pirates (Amiens, FR) 5 May PARIS La Scène Bastille - nuits zébrées radio Nova (Paris, FR) 6 May Maison Folie (Maubeuge, FR) 7 May Festival Les Nuits Botaniques - Le Cirque Royal (Bruxelles, BE) 9 May La Maroquinerie (Paris, FR) 10 May La Condition Publique (Roubaix, FR) (Roubaix, FR) 11 May Chalon 12 May Des Lendemains qui Chantent (Tulle, FR) 13 May L'Ampli (Pau, FR) 14 May El Castel Embrouxiat (Perpignan, FR) 17 May Geneva 18 May Le Matahari - Festival Stereomobile (Evreux (27), FR) 19 May Festival Les Portes de L'Enfer (Brasparts, FR) 20 May Festival Ouest Park (Le Havre, FR) 21 May Fleche D'Or (Works on Flesh Festival) - (Paris, FR) 22 May Festival Au quart de Tours - Bateau Ivre (Tours, FR) More details to follow! For further info also visit 3C TOUR and NAIVE!

THE ADVENTURES OF CHARCOAL BOY is a dark, musical journey where an unlikely hero - a charred stick - becomes a star and incites a revolution! The theatrical journey is all set to an original music score by Elyas Khan which is performed LIVE by NERVOUS CABARET! Nervous Cabaret musicians in this performance: Brian Geltner, Matt Morandi, Fred Wright are honored to be joined by Gwen Snyder (a.k.a. Blueberry) singing the part of Flame Girl and adding her considerable mucical talents to the performance. Found object and original puppets by Eric Novak, Directed by Sarah Provost. The show is presented at HERE Arts Space from April 1st to 17th with three matinee performances for all the early birds out there! All show dates and times are listed under "shows". For further information, photos and MP3s please visit: CHARCOALBOY.COM

Following the tremendous experience at Trans Musicales Nervous Cabaret head back out to tour France! Elyas Khan.. a.k.a. KiD [SiC] will start the voyage solo on January 28th and the full band will follow beginning February 27th. Check show pages for details from January/Janvier 28th through March/Mars 12). For Booking Info please visit: 3C TOUR Here's what the French Press have to say (warning... one magazine has naked ladies): "LE GROUPE LE PLUS ATYPIQUE DU MOMENT" - EPOK "SURPRENANT, ATTACHANE ET DIABLEMENT EFFICACE" - ROCK MAG "INTENSE, BROUILLON, INSPIRE ET HAUTEMENT RECOMMANDABLE!" - MAX "PUISSANT, DETONANT, DESTABILISANT" - GUITAR PART

2005 was a pretty packed exciting year! Finishing the album, signing the record deal with NAIVE!, playing the TRANS MUSICALES FESTIVAL, and finishing developemnt of The Adventures of Charcoal Boy. Many great things are on the horizon for 2006: Nervous Cabaret will be back on tour in Europe in February. There is an entire world of new countries to release the CD in... and maybe even a little US tour action (you never know!) Charcoal Boy will be back too for a run at HERE in April. Overall things are already shaping up to be extremely busy and it's only 3 days into 2006!

Nervous Cabaret's INSTANT LADY is on SALON.COM Thomas Bartlett's Audiofile TOP 20 Downloads of 2005 list! It's huge honor to be included in this list... Here them all and support these artists by buying the top 20 (links below will open in itunes!): Animal Collective: Grass The National: All the Wine Toms: Sun M. Ward: Fuel for Fire Dave Deporis: Swan King in the Snow: Buy on iLike The Robot Ate Me: Bad Feelings Ed Askew: Fancy That Spoon: I Turn My Camera On Albert Ayler: Ghosts Dwight Yoakam: Blame the Vain Richard Swift: As I Go CocoRosie: Beautiful Boyz Dungen: Panda Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek Xiu Xiu Larsen: Paw Paw Paw Paw Paw Paw Paw: Get it at BeeMP3 Destroyer: The Music Lovers Aimee Mann: Dear John Prefuse 73: Hideyaface The Books: It Never Changes to Stop

Heading off to TRANS MUSICALES... Needless to say, titilation has ensued amongst the band members! Sharing the stage with likes of THE FUGEES, CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, SHOUT OUT LOUDS, PRIMAL SCREAM, GANG OF FOUR, DIPLO, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, JULLIETE AND THE LICKS...

NERVOUS CABARET kicks off a third episode of FEARLESS MUSIC Saturday, December 3rd For NYC Television viewers it's Monday, December 5th at 8:30pm EST There's another great line-up in store for you and Nervous Cabaret starts it off… so get your butt on the couch early!: Cut Copy, The Go! Team, Crash Convention, Koufax, and Sons and Daughters Check Fearless Music for you local station (NYC: Time Warner Cable 35)

Nervous Cabaret perform the score of this awe-inspiring spectacle! A limb from a tree struck by lightening and turned to charcoal in the ensuing forest fire rises to great adventure and audience delight! The show and the puppets have been featured in Vogue, Good Morning America, Time-Out. SHOWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2005 AT 9:3-PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2005 Matinee AT 4:30PM VISIT Theatre for The New City for details and/or Charcoal Boy.com

IT'S OFFICIAL! NERVOUS CABARET RELEASES IN FRANCE ON NOVEMBER 15TH! You can see from the little picture below that it's a different cover... but don't be jealous... the "fans only" CDs you bought, and are still buying at shows, are now LIMITED EDITIONS and have a BONUS TRACK not included on the commercial release! You can still buy these LIMITED EDITIONS on CD BABY! France is the first country of release... look for upcoming release dates in other countries, and tour info! CHECK IT OUT ON NAIVE! COME ON OUT AND CELEBRATE WITH A FRENCH THEMED SHOW AT PIANO'S ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12TH (with Les Sans Culottes, Moi, Rasa Radiata and Black Male)

Check out the latest media words on Nervous Cabaret. This time brought to you by the highly reputable Salon.com Thomas Bartlett offered up "Instant Lady" as the daily download in his Audiofile column for October 25th. "… taking the spiritual and making it gleefully profane" How do you like that… He thinks we´re naughty! Read the review, download the song, and leave comments for Thomas! You can either subscribe to Salon, or watch a commercial and get your Instant Lady for FREE!

NERVOUS CABARET kicks off another episode of FEARLESS MUSIC Saturday, November 5th - for NYC Television viewers it's Monday, November 7th at 8:30pm Time Warner Cable Channel 35 Also performing on the show are: Longwave, The Redwalls, Lucy Woodward, Izler, and Troubled Hubble ...NERVOUS CABARET kick starts the show so grab your popcorn and tune in on time! Check the Fearless Music website listings or your local for listings in your area. www.fearlessmusic.com

Nervous Cabaret performs on tonight's Fearless Music show! The show also features: The Giraffes, Longwave, The 22-20's, Group Sounds, and Anna Nalick Check the Fearless Music website listings or your local "I" Independent Network listings for listings in your area. www.fearlessmusic.com

Nervous Cabaret's own Donny Undeen is getting hitched to the Lovely Liz from far away Calgary on October 22nd. There will be heavy celebrations at the North 6th show on the 18th (as long as he's still not green in the face on Saturday! Come'on down and bring ya'll ball & chains...

They're Up! Two mini-documentary style music videos about NERVOUS CABARET shot for SONY World Event Village, at the NERVOUS CABARET CD Release Party. "Being gorgeous, darkness, and "nervousness" Directed by Masako Tsumura! Filmed by Valentina Caniglia, Brian Murphy, and Andy Biscontini "One night about 350 people got together in a basement space. People were there to see 'Nervous Cabaret'. Their live performance was quite incredible. A wall of sound with elements of jazz, punk and energy rock music, full of raw energy and passion that's guaranteed to get the audience's feet moving." From the World -ニューヨーク- 華麗でダーク、そして「神経質な」キャバレー -Nervous Cabaret CD Release Party at D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn- 世界で見つけた風景や人々、旬な情報などをご紹介。アナタも世界の街角を覗いてみませんか?

NERVOUS CABARET is proud to be part of the CD Baby Disaster relief effort for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This program allows artists to donate ALL (100%!) of the profits from CD Sales directly to the Red Cross. BUY THE CD FOR YOURSELF AND HELP OUT AT THE SAME TIME! We were sad to learn that Danny Kadar, who recorded, produced and released Ecstatic Music for Savage Souls has lost his home, and his NOLA based recording studio.... but we are happy to learn that he and his wife fled on time and are reported safe. Danny... There's ALWAYS couch space in Brooklyn! As for our many other friends in New Orleans... if you're reading this... leave us a message! BUY NOW AT WWW.CDBABY.COM

The results of the MTV 72 Hour Shoot Out are in! "CLOUDS" directed by last years winner CS Lee with score by NERVOUS CABARET'S own Elyas Khan made it to this years top 15 cut! The short also features an on screen appearance with KiD [SiC] performing NERVOUS CABARET's newest song "LUNA-TICK".

KiD SiC Lyric from "Furious Bed" used to title the latest work by artist Angela deRosette The painting "I Was Shot In The Eye" will be unveiled at the exhibit "Dead Kids Do Nothing" opening Thursday, July 7th, 2005. For further info visit 31 Grand

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 Listen Live to NERVOUS CABARET on the BBC New York Sessions! 20:05 (UK/Scotland Time), 3:05PM (NYC Time) Missed the show? Listen at your leisure for the entire week!

NERVOUS CABARET is featured in the Summer issue of Quadrafoil Magazine! The feature is written by Robert Kruse with photo by Mark Veltman. "The energy was immediately explosive... They had attacked on all sides with their music... washed clean by an onslaught of authentic, inspired sounds" Read the rest: Pick up Quadrafoil on your local NYC or LA news stand or click over to Quadrafoil Magazine

The latest film to feature Nervous Cabaret, both musically and in on-screen performance, has won the Best Documentary Jury Award at the 6th Annual (2005) Malibu Int'l Film Festival! "Between the Bridges", directed by Adam Ross, documents the Brooklyn artists' community, D.U.M.B.O. (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and its struggle against development and gentrification on the Brooklyn waterfront: a microcosm of our post 9/11 world.

9pm, $5 CHEAP DRINKS! Nervous Cabaret launches the brand new self-titled full length CD Saturday May 14th! Matching Records is hosting the party at their unbelievable underground digs in the basement of Nervous Cabaret headquarters in DUMBO. This is one of the finest places to hear music anywhere in NYC! THIS IS A PARTY NOT TO BE MISSED! Very Special Guests for this Evening! DJ Sets by: RICHARD FEARLESS (Death In Vegas) DJ DAVE ELLIOT (Fearless Vampire Killers) DAVE DEPORIS (10PM) DYNASTY (11PM) NERVOUS CABARET 2 SETS (Midnight & Late Night) Directions: 65 Pearl Street (at Corner of Front), DUMBO, Brooklyn. Go through the door and down into the basement... wind around till you hear the music.

Now you can purchase both Ecstatic Music For Savage Souls AND "Nervous Cabaret" (eponymous) CDs online through CDBABY!

The next fantastic news to come rolling along in the past week is that KiD [SiC] (Elyas Khan) has been selected by the MacDowell Colony as a composer in residence. The decision was based on the score which Elyas wrote for Charcoal Boy. The score was performed live by Nervous Cabaret last summer during it's development as part of St Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab. The MacDowell Colony was awarded the National Medal of Arts for "nurturing and inspiring many of this century's finest artists." With great reverence for that legacy Elyas Khan, along with Charcoal Boy creators and puppeteers Sarah Provost and Eric Novak, will join ranks of the long list of artists who have been awarded residency, including such venerables as Spalding Gray and Leonard Bernstein.

Nervous Cabaret has been chosen as a featured artist on Sony World Event Village! NERVOUS CABARET is extremely honoured to be along side such world renowned artists as Musafir. Apparently you can VOTE FOR NERVOUS CABARET... it has not been explained what the voting contributes toward but, what the hell... PLEASE DO IT ANYWAY!

For all of you who were wondering when we'd get our Paris tour photos online... they're here!

Nervous Cabaret are hugely saddened to learn of the sudden death of independent music's greatest champion, John Peel. A sad day indeed. Anyone wishing to leave tributes to John Peel can do so at: www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/

Recording for the upcoming album is complete! The album mastering date is set with Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in NYC for first week of October. Official release date is yet to be set but an advance pressing is expected to be out in time for Christmas!

The new Tears For Fears album, Everybody Loves A Happy Ending, the latest recording to feature Nervous Cabaret's drummer Brian Geltner (a.k.a. Dr. Snitch) hits the stores today: September 14th! You can check out all the details of the release at: www.arista.com.

Nervous Cabaret has returned from a wonderful success in Paris and is heading back into the recording studio at Old Soul for the weekend of June 11th with producer Kenny Siegel and engineer Tom Schick to continue work on the forthcoming second release.

Nervous Cabaret will appear on the Tony Blair show, on East Village Radio, Wednesday, April 14th at 9:00pm. If the weather is nice, you're invited to come down and listen live while Nervous Cabaret plays and does a Q&A session with DJ Tony Blair, otherwise, you can listen to their live stream online at Live 365. East Village Radio is located on Avenue A, between 6th and 7th.

KiD [SiC] is set to begin performances of his newly composed score for The Adventures of Charcoal Boy. The Adventures of Charcoal Boy is a puppet show about a boy formed of charcoal by a cruel and beautiful occurrence of nature and his harrowing adventures of love, sorrow... and circus freak shows. Elyas and the story's creators, puppeteers Eric Novak and Sarah Provost, have been in residency at Mabou Mines leading up to this performance. See Shows for more details at www.charcoalboy.com

Tune in to Radio Nova, Paris, on Tuesday, February 23rd to hear Nervous Cabaret's single "Kid Sick" from their EP Ecstatic Music for Savage Souls. The song will be played between 2:00 and 2:15 EST (20h - 20h15 Paris) during the show "Le 20H de LAZIC" - a segment which features eclectic new music that's caught the attention of the Radio Nova team. Radio Nova provides a live internet stream, so everybody can tune in!

Nervous Cabaret has inked a deal to record their full-length album at Old Soul Studios in Catskill NY. Producer Kenny Seigel and Engineer Tom Schick will be in the studio with the band beginning late February.

Reel Round Table has announced that Nervous Cabaret will return to their weekly film program this year, this time for a month long residency in March 2004. The Reel Roundtable is a weekly series that caters to the independent film industry. Part of their weekly series includes short showcases by local musicians to introduce filmmakers to possible partners for original music scoring.

Nervous Cabaret's KiD [SiC] is working with artists Sarah Provost and Eric Novak scoring their upcoming theatrical production The Adventures of Charcoal Boy. The artists are in residency at Mabou Mines and the project has also been accepted at St. Anne's Warehouse. The stage show will include live soundtrack performance by Nervous Cabaret. Show dates will be announced early in 2004

Every Dog's Day, a feature film Directed by Andy Biscontini has wrapped and is finalizing preliminary screening dates in September (TBA). The trailer for Every Dog's Day backed by a soundtrack of live performance from Nervous Cabaret: . Every Dog's Day includes a screen performance by Nervous Cabaret and a character performance by Elyas Khan. The movie soundtrack features songs by great bands including Pneumatic and Radio Mundial.

Nervous Cabaret is back in NYC after a fantastic trip to Europe. The reception in Geneva, Paris and Berlin was even more than we'd hoped for! We will be back, soon! Thanks to many people who helped us get there: Tanya, Cara Lee, Laura, and the staff at Superfine, Bronx Monx, Chad Parks, John Dyer, The Kairos! Co., Noelle Scumwrench, Pnuematic, Don McCloskey, Alex McDonald (Paranoid Larry)... and of course Josh Coleman, Kat, and CK... Yvan TaiebEmilyne and Recall Group Records, What's Wrong with Us?, Parker, Dancing Flower Bar, Thomas Thorpe, Musee d'Adzak, John Von Bergen, and all our new friends in Europe!... WE WILL POST PICTURES SOON!

Nervous Cabaret will leave for Paris on June 16th and continue on to Switzerland where the tour begins with a show in Geneva, moves to Neuchâtel on June 21st for performances at Art en Plein Air and The Dancing Flower Bar with What's Wrong with Us?. More details to be announced - watch the show listings!.

Saturday, June 14th Superfine will host the Nervous Cabaret European tour fundraiser. Nervous Cabaret will be joined on stage by some of our favorite acts. On stage that evening: performance artist Noelle Scumwrench, musical comedian "Big D" Don McCloskey, with music from Chad Parks, Pneumatic, and Bronx Monx. Nervous Cabaret is honored to have a huge show of support for this event from Superfine, and from many people in our community, artistic and geographic, who are lending us their talent and services to make this evening a success. 11:00pm $10 Superfine, 126 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn: F Train to York

Johnny Society will be supporting Chris Whitley and his new band at gigs in almost all the states in the US plus one gig in Ottawa, Canada.

Peripheral City, created and produced by Red Dive, is a boat voyage down Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal celebrating the stories of local residents, activists, artists and more. Fred, our beloved coronet player, will tantalize voyagers ears as they glide along through the journey. Starts Saturday, May 24th.

Elyas Khan is ready to take the stage as Capulet in Uber Project: House Plague, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Performances will run from April 1-20th, 2003 at The Belt Theater: 336 West 37th St. (btw. 8/9th Avenue).

Two floors of entertainment will be on offer at CBGB gallery on April 26th! The night will feature two of our favorite performers - - SXIP and Zero Boy as well as many other great performers from NYC and San Francisco. Check out Laughing Squid for details.

THIS FRIDAY! FEBRUARY 15th - 8:00PM! Uber Project is holding a fundraising party for House Plague - the dance adaptation of Shakespeare which will feature our own Elyas Khan as Capulet... a.k.a. Big Bad Daddy! Come on down to the brand new MISSION. $10 Cover goes to support the show, Drink specials from 9 - 10pm. NEXT... head over to Superfine in DUMBO where Nervous Cabaret will take the stage at Midnight and carry you into the wee hours!

Click your way over to PunkCast and watch live footage of The Nervous Cabaret at Arlene's Grocery. The Nervous Cabaret joins other fantastic performers featured on this site such as: Joe Strummer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, UKSubs, Nina Hagen, the Exploited... Far too many to names them all... we love this site! Watch it here: NERVOUS CABARET ON PUNKCAST

If you didn't know already how brilliant Nervous Cabaret drummer, Brian Geltner (a.k.a Dr. Snitch) is... give a listen to his first solo album, Music for Uninspected Elevators, just released on Fang Records. Brian plays every instrument on this epic instrumental CD, which is loaded with surprises. Inventive, funny, layered and funky, the doctor gives us the soundtrack for a dozen unwritten, demented films released on Fang Records. Read Stanton Swihart's review of Dr. Snitch's album at All Music Guide.

While the dance releases continue to form in the studio, KiD [SiC] and the Bronx Monx have worked up a live cross-over to take to the clubs. KiD [SiC]'s exotic and moody vocals combined with the Monx's cinematic electronic style and ass-shaking rythym keep the dance floor moving into the wee hours. The partnership was debuted at Superfine in early January. If you missed them at Superfine you can see them again at Low Bar on February 27th.

Yes, it's true, veteran musician Greg Wieczorek ("Greg Wiz") will be joining the Nervous Cabaret line up for some pumped up percussion. Greg has agreed to sit in from time to time and, of course, session in on future recordings. And yes... he looks like Jim Morrison!

Art director, filmmaker and screenwriter Andy Biscontini ("A Day in the Life, Dead", Hal Hartley's "The Book of Life") will produce a video for "Have You All". Nervous Cabaret is also in discussion with Paul Moakley, photo editor at PDN Magazine, to design and produce a video for "Hotel 94". Both videos are currently in storyboard phase and filming is expected to begin in early spring 2003.

KiD SiC will perform at the final Broadway performance of Sxip's Hour of Charm Wednesday, December 18th. The Bindlestiff Family Circus which has occupied the Chasama Theatre at 125 Broadway is moving to a new home (Location TBA).

The Nervous Cabaret show at Arlene Grocery November 30th, 2002 will soon be available in video form on Punkcast. We highly recommend checking out the concerts available through this site. The Punkcast crew actually goes to gigs to tape them and the quality is excellent. Watch here for announcements on when to tune in!

Nervous Cabaret will perform December 15th at the New York launching of French magazine Kilometre0. The Kilometre Zero troupe of exiles returns from Paris to put on a spectacular launch party at Galapagos (Brooklyn) for issue 03 of their Art and Literature magazine. A night of magicalism hosted by Thomas Pancake and featuring a reading by Sparkle Hayter, installations from the Paris underground and moments of sudden phantasmagoric theatre. At midnight, the infamous KMZ open mic begins and the writers of New York are invited. The New York edition will be available on newsstands soon!

Miss Jan Bell, founder of the Little Red Hen Music, will host an Open Mic Reunion at Between the Bridges in DUMBO! It was Jan's coaxing, cajoling and tremendous support that lead KiD [SiC] (aka Elyas) back onto the music stage at her open mic nights thus spawning the Nervous Cabaret you've come to know and love! Jan is heading back out on the road and will be truly missed.

KiD SiC's (a.k.a. Elyas Khan) surreal sounds have been popping up on stages and dancefloors around NYC: The BRONX MONX have finished remixing "No Trouble at All", featuring original music and lyrics by KiD SiC, and have been spinning it on the party circuit to rave reviews. Watch for news of a single release in the near future. ON THE STAGE: ELYAS recently scored music used in the staged reading of Andy Biscontini's screen play "The Bargain Travellor's Guide to America" presented at Superfine on Sunday, October 27th.

Nervous Cabaret Will Be the Featured Guest on the December 19th Episode of Live From Downtown Performance TV Joins the Crowds in the Live Studio Audience for the Taping on Sunday, December 8th It's not a place it's a state of mind. Live from Downtown Performance TV! launches its new season on PBS member station WNYE/Channel 25 Thursdays @ 7:30pm beginning November 14. LFDT brings you performance by the brightest, boldest, and best downtown performers, news about the downtown performing arts spaces that love them, and talk on what's up downtown. The taping of Episode #6 Featuring Nervous Cabaret will take place Sunday, December 8th at 8:00pm @ the DCTV cyberstudio--87 Lafayette Street. Taping starts at 8:15pm. To reserve your spot in the audience or for more info call (212) 966-4510 ext. 411. The Nervous Cabaret epsiode will air on Thursday, December 19th.

Thanks to Danny Kadar and his team at E-Lab Recordings, Trout Studios and a whole host of other wonderful people you can look forward to the official release party coming soon!

While Brian is on tour with Joseph Arthur, we're fortunate enough to have Wylie Wirth, a fellow DUMBO native, sitting in on drums. Check out Joseph Arthur's site for tour dates.

Just look what VICE Magazine had to say about our own Matt Morandi: "This is the kind of guy you see on the street and you make a mental note to kind of make that your look a bit but then you try it and your hair looks like a stupid Jew 'fro and you feel like a New Wave silent actor and you say "fuck it" and go back to the old you because only he can pull it off."

Elyas Khan has been cast in Drunken Hearted, a play written by Dave Tianga of dirty-feet productions. The Drunken Hearted soundtrack will consist original music by Elyas Khan and the Nervous Cabaret. Performances are scheduled at the Nuyorican Poets Café: August 8th, 9th, 10th and 15th, 16th, 17th (2002).

Kid Sic and the Bronx Monx are joining forces in a new recording project. The two creative forces will be twisting up some of Kid Sic's song writing and vocal styling with the Monx original music and mixing arrangement. With the visual approach both artists have to their music the cinematic potential of this alliance is huge. The recordings will undoubtedly be moving some bodies on the dance floor as the Monx, newly returned from San Francisco, begin spinning once more in New York.

Elyas [KiD SiC] Khan will return to the stage as The Reverend Gilly Crocker. Smoke That Thunders Productions announced that it will produce the next run of the Sci-fi Rock Musical The Last American in conjunction with the Jane Street Theater this Christmas, 2002.

Beginning this week, Moto presents Elyas (a.k.a KiD [SiC]) every other Thursday. MOTO is a beautiful new restaurant and bar in East Williamsburg sets the perfect background for Kid Sic's brand of cinematic songwriting.

Kid Sic (a.k.a. Elyas Khan) will perform as part of a special commemorative Bitch's Brew at Joe's Pub on September 11th. The evening's singer-songwriter format will feature performances from New York artists including Chocolate Genius, Citizen Cope, and Jan Bell, among others.

For the month of August Nervous Cabaret drummer Brian Geltner will be on loan to Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum fame as he embarks on his North American tour in support of his new solo debut. The way Brian pounds... and sometimes tickles... the skins it's not surprising Pirner couldn't resist him! Dave Pirner on VH1

Fragmented Devotion (to You) was a hit at the DUMBO Arts Festival and we're all thrilled to be invited to present the show at Superfine on December 12th and 19th, 2001 - watch for it!  Plans are also underway for a European tour in October 2002.