Ex-Television/Waitresses Billy Ficca on Drums, Seafoam Green on Bass, and Dylan Nirvana plays an Electric Potato with a live Weasel.
Influences
Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Sex Pistols, Smiths, the Cure, John Lennon, Doors, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Stones, Brian Jones, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Clash, Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Faces, Cream, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Peter Tosh, John Mayal and the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, George Harrison, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, New York Dolls, Cramps, Slits, Marc Bolen and T-Rex, X-Ray Specs, Debbie Harry, XTC, Cars, Violent Femmes, Alice Cooper, Police, Sonic Youth, Morphine, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, AC-DC, Afghan Whigs, Billy Idol, Zombies, Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, James Brown, Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gaye, Motown, Jackie Wilson, Johnny Cash, Bach, Beethovan, Brahms, John Dowland, Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, Hemmingway, Tolkien, Howlin Wolf, Muktananda, red bug lake (Cake this is for you) Herman Hesse, Dalai Lama. And ok, ok Pink Floyd!!!
Sounds Like
"Morrissey meets Motörhead" - Village Voice "A harder early Bowie" - CMA Festival
White Stripes, Wolfmother, Black Keys, Talking Heads, Smiths, Sex Pistols, XTC, Led Zeppelin (Physical Graffiti), the Doors, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Beatles (Revolver), Rolling Stones (Brian Jones era), Television, David Bowie
Ganymede from the record Anne Boleyn byDylan Nirvana on Icarian Records. Caitlin Lyon as Anne Boleyn, Dylan Nirvana as Ganymede. Directed Alex Engel. Vimeo
S.N.U.G. - Go-Go London/New York Punk Brit-pop Psychedelic Glam Garage & Brick Shithouse Studio 54.
Sponsored by The Bad Flowers and Amelia Danger.
Go-go: Amelia Danger, Fem Appeal, Mini Malicious. DJ's: Dylan Nirvana, "55", Maguire, Brent the Total Fucking Homo, Gorilla Bob, DJ SLUT.
GAME SHOW:*Dental Dam Darlings: Real O or No? (don't be a moron and miss this!)
"Who are these freaks coming down out of the trees? Oh, shit! They're my parents!"
Many ecclesiastics have similarly barked at the perceived indignity of discovering that they were descended from apes. Perhaps thats why it was lights-out in the middle ages: it took a long time to talk these guys down. 1565 may have been English Renaissance but it was grim times for St. Augustine. And have times really changed?
Dylan Nirvana, with a bookish English glam, spits out a rather Blake-like bang-up of twisted poetry on the record Anne Boleyn that seems to revel in its conflict. If Hank once had a stiffy for the six-fingered Anne Boleyn, after the BIG DIVORCE he certainly proved that she was no longer the cats meow. Icarian Records.
He would know something about the transitions between worlds. Dylan, whose name in Gaelic means “Sea Spirit”, was raised by hippie surfers, received a scholarship in Renaissance lute, got expelled from an Ivy League school, and ended up in a kind of self-imposed exile in a mountainous Hindu monastery. Re-entering life without the proverbial grass-skirt, Dylan Nirvana may nonetheless have become somewhat of an Icarus figure.
According to Ovid’s myth, Icarus escaped from the Labyrinth on wings made of wax, built by his father Daedalus. As Icarus took flight, he came too close to the sun and the heat melted his wings. Even though he came crashing down, the myth associates the young Icarus with the Moon, which waxes and wanes, indicating that he attained a kind of odd immortality. Daedalus, however, is relegated to obscurity, for even though he was a master craftsman, wax is a dumb thing to make wings out of...
Burning up in the corona of the Sun isn't the worst flaw a person can have. Look on – well, the dark side. He has always been prone to temporal distortion.
Born under the influence of Sagittarius on a beach in a recurring dream, the year 1088, the baby Dylan was found floating in a bed of seaweed near Devonshire, and believed to be the sea-child of Neptune & Karen Carpenter. He was taken to very battlefield of Hastings were he attempted to advise King Hank on how to defeat the French. Dylan tried to say that the French (at that time) were weak in the middle, but since he was but a babbling infant, his words fell on deaf ears.
“Anne Boleyn sounds like Physical Graffiti" – Rich Kammerman of Brunswick Records
High etheric vocals & layered guitar work interlace the multifaceted Anne Boleyn. Each song is subtitled to mark an entry in Boleyn’s diary. A racy story unfolds with the opening songs Automatic, KT-88. And Ganymede, the subject of a music video with Engel Films featuring actress Caitlin Lyon, as Anne, trying to outrun her fate. By the end, well you know what happens. It is however, amazing that a new artist attempts such a bold move without losing his head. He may have invented a new sub-genre of Literary Punk. The result is a strong impression of this original & stand-out artist.
Buy the new record ANNE BOLEYN from Dylan Nirvana & The Bad Flowers, now available IN STORES and Apple iTunes. The record paints the story of Anne Boleyn through the eyes her almoner Lord Grey and various letters. Queen for 1000 days until her untimely and brutal beheading in 1536, Boleyn was arguably the most singular voice of Reason in the birth of a falcon age.
"Oh my Gawd. When me and my girlfriends showed up, like at this stupid little club in the like, East Village, I mean groaty, it was like, called OTTOS SHRUNKED SKULL or some shit, and diiiiiiissssguuuustiiiing. There were all these like, biker FREAKS there and METAL PEOPLE! OMG! You couldn't tell who was HOMELESS and like, who WORKED THERE. I mean, I am never, NEVER going to the Viiiiilllage again. But whatever, this hot guy right asked me to come see his band, and it was stupid and I just about BARFED. I'm like, these homeless guys in this band don't even know Brittney. They probably don't even care what she's been going through or even if they did, they wouldn't understand it. I got like smashed anyway, and starting yelling at them. JT! Play some JT! OMG they were so loud and stupid, so I like took the lead singer of this other band into the womans bathroom, right, he was HUGE. Then I like left my purse with all my shit in like, some cubicle and the bastards stole it!"
This show is not recommended for everybody...
The new record, Anne Bolelyn is NOW AVAILABLE IN STORES and on iTunes and CD Baby!
Punk-ass singer-songwriter-guitarist Dylan Nirvana is the lezbo-nun messiah in the gee-mom-am-I-trying-too-hard, angst-a-thon church of alternative music. His sand-blasted apocalyptic vocals are pith-viper attacked by suicidal guitar in songs that don't suck, have lyrics that are cool, and hook without hate.
Originally playing the ding-repair clinics in surfer Florida's St. Augustine, now his shows in Manhattan, according to one rabid concert-goer, "have always started calm, gotten a little faster, slowed down again, and then really got faster again."
While it is true that Mr. Nirvana's performances are well attended by New York's intellectual elite, they have become overrun by tit-goths, and over-sexed feel-good coffee bar dropouts. "ve vere trying to keep our seats und mind our own businesses, ven all dese misclad teenagers in bondage pants started de pushing und de shoving und de pushing und de shoving," says one Hans van der Griff, professor of neuro-astrophysics at Yale University. "all my colleagues und I drove in de Volvo in de cramped conditions, just to be mistreated by these feral dogs of de underbelly of our culture."
Hey Hey It's Amelia Danger. New concept. Throw together a heroine named Danger and a little duckling named Esther Normal, add a little Toni Collette, sprinkle lightly with some Liza Minelli, blend well and half bake. It'll be the hit of your tweenage daughter's slumber party!
Let me know what your plans are and if I can help you at all. It'll be nice to see you around! Wish I could visit up there sometime, I'm kinda bogged down! Party On!
