MDC at KNITTING FACTORY this tuesday

YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: MDC at the knitting factory for HOWL! festival…

Okay, I'm completely excited to announce that MAISON DU CHIC emerges once again, this time for the HOWL! Festival on the mainstage at Knitting Factory. We're thrilled to have been asked to share in this celebration of NYC counter-culture, we're pulling out all the stops. Bands, electronics, visuals, and the future and past of multimedia performance converge on the stage for tonight's show. And just so you know, Nicklcat is co-presenting this event with NYC-newcomer, Earl Dax, whose "third tuesdays" have been capturing the collective imagination of the downtown scene. Yes, folks, this evening's lineup is a confluence of two impeccable (or at least impeccably strange!) tastes. Our menu includes…

Performance art pioneer Nao Bustamante is best known for her work, "Indigurrito," in which she strapped a burrito to her loins and invited white men to take a bite and absolve themselves of 500 years of guilt. Nao brought in the 90s with her quirky and intricately executed performances dealing with gender and ethnicity, including an infamous appearance on the Joan Rivers show as a "stunt exhibitionist." Her Aughties style finds her vivid as ever, performing with MDC co-conspirators, the ever-inspiring feminist art revolution, LTTR. "By making serious fun of everyone, she pushes people to stop defending their personal territory of indignity and let go through laughter and irreverence" - San Francisco Weekly

The Petit Prince of Avant-Electo, Phiiliip came onto the scene a few years ago when indiepop's badboy genius Momus released his bizarre debut disc, Pet Cancer–a chaotic amalgam of folky fragments, broken beats, and Phiiliip's husky-toned voice. Since then, his name has become synonymous with both the electro and underground art scenes: International DJ Gigolo, Berliniamsburg, K48, and (most recently) Deitch Projects have championed his efforts. "A real wierdo"- Vice Magazine

Daisy Spurs are the latest creative project of Bill Coleman, legendary New York DJ and producer well-known and well-respected for having discovered the band Deee-Lite. Like an small army of Vogue-era ballroom boys, his Spurs take to the stage with fierce attitudes, in-your-face punky-funk beats, revved-up, sexed-out lyrics, and a stage show that I've seen make burlesque starlet Dirty Martini's jaw drop to the floor…"The Daisy Spurs are like the uber-sexy downtown version of OutKast on steroids. I would book the crunkadelic stage show any chance I could." - Larry Tee!!!

War Slut combine shit-blistering noise rock with outrageous theatrics a la Richard Foreman (whose Ontological-Hysteric the band just played). The band features the leggy Elizabeth Purrleader on saxophone, James Hoff on guitar, Black Moustache/Miracle of 86 drummer Mike Skinner, and Plexifilm scion Gary Hustwit on hand-built electronics. Comparisons have been made to Harry Pussy, Merzbow, and the Swans, but most likely you will compare them to death.

John Moran is best known to the experimental performance community for his post-minimalist opera, The Manson Family, championed by Philip Glass, and recorded by such luminaries as Iggy Pop and Terre Roche. His subsequent theater works (on subjects ranging from Jack Benny to "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari") have been produced at Lincoln Center, the Kitchen, and LaMaMa. Along with his muse, the chanteuse Saori, John will perform excerpts from his celebrated works, incorporating atmospheric electronics, speech-sample loops, and haunting texts.

PLUS PLUS PLUS
We have the incredible DJs LAMBCHOP and DIRTY LARRY providing the tunes
Visuals by legendary MIGHTY ROBOT
A film by NEGATIVLAND
and, quite possibly, a death-defying special surprise act!!!!

Please please please spread the word…we've put this amazing lineup together at the last minute, so we really need yer help letting others know to come to the party!!!!!! it's going to be a ton of fun, and if you have been missing your "retrofuturist cabaret," then this will be a welcome moment for you!!!!!!

here are the details:

MAISON DU CHIC
TUESDAY, AUG 23
8:00 PM - midnite
KNITTING FACTORY MAINSPACE
70 Leonard Street NYC
$8 in advance/$10 at door

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

xxxooo nciklcat