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All times listed are local to the location of the venue, except as noted. APRIL 2008
Sunday, Apr. 6th
10:00pm-11:00pmWKCR 89.9 FM, New York City - Gary Lucas performs live and is interviewed by Charles Blass on his "Live Constructions" program, listen live on the internet here Wednesday, Apr. 9th The Knitting Factory Main Space, 74 Leonard Street, New York City - Gary Lucas curates Beefheart Night at the Knit, a salute to the Music, Poetry and Art of Don Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart--beginning at 8:00pm with a screening of rare Beefheart videos and documentaries and the spinning of unreleased tracks--followed by a reading of Don Van Vliet's poetry, and reminiscences by special guests including Lee Ranaldo, Alan Vega, Roswell Rudd, Kurt Loder, Danny Fields, Mike Edison, Hal Willner, Jamie Cohen, Billy Altman, Dusty Wright, Giorgio Gomelsky, Fred Perry, Felice Rosser, Darryl Read, Glen Kenny, Brainpang, and more tba; also David Lynch is taping a reading of a Van Vliet poem specially for this tribute ("This man is a very sophisticated lyricist!"--Jerzy Kosinksi, Yale University 1973)--and at 11pm, the return of Fast 'N' Bulbous, the Captain Beefheart Project, featuring Gary Lucas, arranged and conducted by Phillip Johnston, with Jesse Krakow (bass), Joe Fiedler (trombone), Rob Henke (trumpet), Dave Sewelson (baritone sax), and Richard Dworkin (drums) Friday, Apr. 11th
10:00pmThe Stone, corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York City - Gary Lucas performs with Italian jazz-rockers Gallo and the Roosters (Danilo Gallo--acoustic bass, Zeno Di Rossi--drums, Achille Suchi--bass clarinet, trombonist tba), with whom he's just recorded an album in Milano Saturday, Apr. 12th
10:30pmRubulad, 338 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - Gods and Monsters with Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jason Candler, and Joe Hendel Sunday, Apr. 13th
7:00pmKGB Bar, 85 East 4th St., New York City - Gary improvises while writer/editor Steven Lee Beeber ("The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's", Chicago Review Press) reads from Gary's short story "Me and the Golem" from "Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless" (Soft Skull Press) Thursday, Apr. 17th Dionysus Disco, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio - Gods and Monsters, with Gary Lucas, Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jason Candler, Joe Hendel, and Aishlin Harrison Thursday, Apr. 24th
7:00pmYale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Ave., New York City - Premiere of Erik Anjou's new documentary "8: Ivy League Football and America", featuring an original score by Gary Lucas, see the press release here Saturday, Apr. 26th
6:00pmWFMU, 91.1 FM, New Jersey - Gary Lucas and Indian vocalist extraordinaire Najma Akhtar perform live on Rob Weisberg's show, listen live on the internet here MAY 2008
Thursday, May 1st
11:00pmWNYC, 93.9 FM, New York City - Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar perform live on John Schaefer's "New Sounds", listen live on the internet here Saturday, May 3rd
9:30pm $20Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City - Gary and Indian vocalist extraordinaire Najma Akhtar debut their new project, with Dibyarka Chatterjee, tabla; more info here, and see the flyer here JUNE 2008
Tuesday, June 3rd Hard Rock Cafe, 14, Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, France - Gary performs at the French Tribute to Jeff Buckley, with some very special guests including French icon Elli Medeiros, Israeli Pop Idol winner Ninet Tayeb, Spleen, Hoody Goody, and Shingai Shoniwa (The Noisettes) Friday, June 20th
10:00pmBowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City - Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters, with Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jason Candler, and Joe Hendel JULY 2008
Saturday, July 12th Gods and Monsters play the Salzkammergut Festival in Ebensee, Austria, with Jerry Harrison, Billy Ficca, Ernie Brooks, and Jason Candler