Current lineup: Bruno Wizard, Jonathan Edelstein, and Julian Bennett Holmes
Founded in 1978 out of the remnants of the Rejects formed by Bruno Wizard in 1976, The Homosexuals rose out of the glorious ashes of the The Rejects founded in 1976 by Bruno Wizard. The merry progression of this wayward band of minstrels will be minutely listed in minute detail at http://www.astralglamour.com when the complete revamp of the site is completed. Details will be posted for the re-launch of the site which for the past 3 years has been incarcerated in creative Guantanamo Bay.
Influences
The Homosexuals Aristophanes, Idries Shah, Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Big Youth, Alton, Ellis, Lee Scratch Perry, Tchaikovsky, Ginger Baker, King Crimson, K-Tron The Devil, The Who, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention, ?songs from Pink Floyd, Pearls Before Swine, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Billie Halliday, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bob Dylan, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, The Small Faces (BEFORE Rod Fuckin Stewart) The Kinks, The Righteous Brothers, This Heat, Dr. John the Night Tripper, The Khan Brothers The Jazz Warriors, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles BEFORE 1968, Abba, Chic, Aretha Franklin, Prince, and if anyone is still reading this, I am lying so I will not go any further.
THE HOMOSEXUALS
"Simply put, one of the most flawlessly great British punk/post-punk bands."
-WFMU
"The Homosexuals were, by all accounts, one of those late-1970s UK garage-punk bands that deserved to reach a wider audience alongside icons like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and all the rest."
-Marc Hogan, Pitchfork
Read Pitchfork's 8.4 review of The Homosexuals CD..."I'd say these guys would have given any of the big post-punk bands a run for their money in terms of both songwriting (the impact of these songs is almost impossible to deny) and sheer diversity. "
Read Pitchfork's 8.0 of the 3CD box-set Astral Glamour ... "As David Berman put it, "Punk rock died when the first kid said/ 'Punk's not dead.'" Maybe so, but as limb after limb is plucked from the wreckage, it's leaving behind one exquisite corpse. The three-plus hours of material ranging over Astral Glamour unites The Homosexuals' fragmentary oeuvre to reveal them as punk visionaries who were at least as questing, untamed, and ultimately listenable as any of their more renowned contemporaries. This is the sound of history revising itself toward perfection."
"I just had the closest thing to a religious experience since my bar mitzvah...
The Homosexuals played the most dynamic, explosive set I've seen in a couple years."
-The Washington Post
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That's Right! Oh yes. Me and my 7-piece band are teaming up with the amazing Hula-Hoop Queen Miss Saturn to bring you night of Original Rock Music and Sexy Sexy Sexy Stripping and Dancing featuring Clams Casino and Darlinda Just Darlinda.
Pinch me--is this really my life?
Come on out this Thursday, May 14th at the Slipper Room Two sets starting pretty sharply at 10.30 pm.
The band features:
Mary "Freakin" Feaster on the Electric Bass Guitar Sean "On it" Dixon on the Drums Chuck The MacKinnon on the Trumpet Tina "Bo Bina" Richarson on the Tenor Saxophone Young Danny Lubin on the Slide Trombone and Matt Katz-Bohen on the Synthesizer
+ + + It only costs $5. The Slipper Room is located at
167 Orchard Street at Stanton on Manhattan's Lower East Side
Sunday, May 3rd, 8. 30 pm Rose's Live Music 345 Grand Street Brooklyn Seven piece band! $5 Suggested Donation
Wednesday, May 6th Independent Music Awards with Ekayani Chamberlain Wicked Willy's 149 Bleeker b/w Thompson and Laguardia Evening starts at 8 pm, We play at 10, $8 Power Trio!
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