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Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters, December 2010
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Gary at the Karl Marx Theatre for the closing ceremonies of the 32nd Havana Film Festival, 12/12/10

Gary Lucas Gaia Arts Center Havana Cuba 12/11/10
photo by Esther Cardoso

With Daniel de Solar, one of the prime movers of the Buena Vista Social Club album, who raved about Gary's new score for "Esta Noite Encarnerei no Teu Cadaver", 32nd Havana Film Festival 12/11/10

Gary rocks the cream of Cuban musicians including rising young vocalist Danae Blano and Iraker drummer Enrique Platte on the roof of the Gaia Aets Center, Habana Vieja 12/11/10

Performing "Grace" with (l to r) Danae Blanco, Orlando Sanchez "Cubajazz", and Enrique Platt on the roof the Gaia Arts Center, Old Havana 12/11/10

Gary directly before performing his new score for "Esta Noite Encarnerei no Teu Cadaver", La Rampa Cinema lobby, 32nd Havana Film Festival 12/10/10

World premiere of Gary's new solo guitar score for José Mojica Marins' (a/k/a Coffin Joe-Zé do Caixão)'s 1967 Brazilian cult horror classic "Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver" (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse) at the La Rampa Cinema Friday Dec. 10th 2010 at the 32nd Havana Film Festival

A Fever Dream—world premiere of Gary's new solo guitar score for "Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver" (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse), Havana, 12/10/10

World premiere of Gary's new solo guitar score for "Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver" (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse), Havana, 12/10/10

Gary with Julio Medem, director the the 2001 Spnaish film "Sexo Y Lucia" at the 32nd Havana Film Festival 12/9/10

At the Press Conference for Gary's world premiere performance of his new score for Jose Mojica Marins' "Esta Noite Encarnerei no Teu Cadaver", 12/9/10

Gary Lucas solo concert @ the Pabellon Cuba, 12/9/10

Arriving at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba to play the Havana Film Festival after arriving from Italy via NYC on 4 hours sleep over 48 hours, 12/6/10

Onstage with Massimiliano Lali at the Official Italian Tribute to Jeff Buckley, Velvet Club Rimini Italy 12/4/10
photo by Annarita Mancini

At a special meeting with Jeff Buckley fans in Pesaro Italy 12/3/10, translator Livi Gallagher on Gary's right and Jeff Buckley Tribute organizer Annarita Mancini on his left

With Italian Tribute to Jeff Buckley organizer Annarita Mancini, Alexander Museum Hotel Pesaro Italy 12/3/10

Urbino Italy, 12/3/10
photo by Annarita Mancini

Papal wraiths from "Fellini Roma" at the Museo Fellini, Rimini Italy 12/2/10
photo by Annarita Mancini

Adding ambient guitar to "LuvzOldSweetSong" at The Maid's Room NYC, l to r Gary, Ernie Brooks and Jason Candler 11/30/10

Gary performs the UK premiere of Spanish "Dracula" closing the London Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall 11/21/10

Gary performs the UK premiere of Spanish "Dracula" for the London Jazz Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall 11/21/10

Menu in Czech at the Sumperk BluesAlive Festival featuring dishes named after the artists performing, Gary's dish is Lucas's Paradise: Sirloin in cream sauce, dumplings 11/19/10

Gary performs solo at the Church of Lady Day, BluesAlive Festival, Sumperk Czech Republic 11/19/10
photo by Martin Moucha

Gary performs "Grace" (Rise Up to Be), Church of Lady Day, Sumperk BluesAlive Festival Czech Republic 11/19/10
photo by Martin Moucha

Gary in Mikulov, Southern Moravia, before performing a solo blues concert 11/17/10
photo by Martin Moucha

Gary in Mikulov, Czech Republic 11/17/10
photo by Martin Moucha

Gary backstage with one of his favorite artists Paolo Conte, Royal Albert Hall London 11/16/10
photo by David Jones

Gary and Cheyenne Schiavne perform "Hymne a L'Amour" at the Cine Party for Jerome de Missolz's new Arte Channel rock doc. "Wild Thing", La Machine du Moulin Rouge Paris 11/12/10

Gary after performing live on Radio Aligre FM, France's longest-running independent radio station, 11/9/10

Gary at the press conference for the Spanish premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project, 7th Sevilla Film Festival 11/8/10

GL with legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski ("Deep End", "Moonlighting") at the 7th Sevilla Film Festival 11/7/10

Gary plays the 7th Sevilla Film Festival Inaugural Gala with an excerpt from Spanish "Dracula", 11/5/10

Gary in Sevilla Spain for the Sevilla Film Festival, 11/4/10

Gods and Monsters at CMJ, Bowery Poetry Club NYC 10/29/10

Gary at the US premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project at the 48th New York Film Festival 10/9/10

Gary and NY Film Festival Associate Programmer Scott Foundas conduct a Q&A at the Walter Reade Theater Lincoln Center after his performance w/Spanish Dracula at the 48th NY Film Festival

US premiere of Gary Lucas' Spanish "Dracula" project at the 48th New York Film Festival, Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center 10/9/10

Communing with lovely Lupita Tovar at the US premiere of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" project at the 48th New York Film Festival in Lincoln Center 10/9/10

The Wedding March, Spanish "Dracula" US premiere at the 48th New York Film Festival 10/9/10
photo by Jason Candler

Chez Lucas NYC, 10/8/10

Gary and Dutch radio producer Co de Kloet and Ziva, Park Hotel Amsterdam 9/27/10

Gary and Paradiso booker Jan-Willem Sligting outside the Paradiso Amsterdam 9/27/10

Gary, Sirish and Najma @ Paradiso Amsterdam 9/26/10
photo by Bert Wils

Gary, Najma and Sirish Manjo, Amsterdam 9/26/10

Gary, Najma and Sirish @ Paradiso 9/26/10

Gary, Sirish and Najma at the Madame Guitar Festival, Trciesimo Italy 9/24/10
photo by Riccardo Bostiancich

Gary and punk provocatrice Cheyenne Schiavone, Paris 9/22/10

Gary and Najma perform live on Radio France International's "Musiques du Monde" show 9/18/10

Gary and Laurence Aloir, host of "Musiques du Monde" program Radio France Internationale, 9/18/10

Gary, Sirish and Najma, Barbican Transcender Festival, LSO/St. Luke's Church London 9/17/10

Gary conducts a "Captain Beefheart Symposium", The Stone NYC 9/13/10

Gary salutes 30's Shanghai film star Chow Hsuan at the legendary art-deco Shanghai dancehall The Paramount, 8/9/10
photo by Sally Kwok

Gary, masterchef Zang, and Andrew Bull and Sally Kwok (right) and friends, Shanghai China 8/8/10
photo by Yolanda Kwok

Gary and his old friend (and 4 year Shanghai resident) writer Emily Prager ("A Visit to the Footbinder" et al), the Bund, Shanghai 8/7/10

Gary with Mo Hai Jing and Sally Kwok, the 2 singers selected at the final audition for the Holland Festival's June 2011 production of "The Edge of Heaven", Shanghai Dramatic Arts Academy 8/7/10
photo by Lieven Bertels

Gary lays down a track at db Studios Shanghai, with owner/enginer Mark Burrell 8/6/10

Gary is interviewed by Dr. Robert Lai for Shanghai Today before his mainland China performing debut, Chinatown Shanghai Club, 8/5/10

Gary and Sally Kwok perform Bai Kwong's "I Wait for Your Return" onstage at Gary's mainland China performing debut, Chinatown Shanghai Club 8/5/10

Gary's mainland China debut in Shanghai, with vocalist Sally Kwok, Chinatown Shanghai club 8/5/10

Gary's performing debut in Shanghai w/Sally Kwok 8/5/10

Gary and Najma onstage with Sirish Manji at Sfinks World Music Festival, Boechout Belgium 7/31/10
photo by Domenique Cardone

Gary sur le toit de l'Hotel Terrass, Paris France 7/30/10
photo by Jerome de Missolz

Wrestling with angels: Gary plays "Sounds of the Surreal" at the University of Sevilla Spain 7/23/10
photo by Hector Marquez

Gary w/ Hector Marquez (right) @ a Tapas bar Sevilla Spain prior to performing "Sounds of the Surreal" and "Monsters from the Id" at the University 7/23/10
photo by Eliezer Godoy

Gary and Najma Akhtar at the Jazz Cafe London, 7/15/10
photo by Emanuela Grima

Precise Gods and Monsters stylee, outside the Bowery Poetry Club NYC, l to r: Ernie Brooks, Alex Lash, GL, Jason Candler, Mike Edison and Joe Hendel 6/25/10

Legendary Danny Fields (Godfather of Punk—Ramones, Iggy Pop, MC5, Jim Morrison and Nico enabler) at Gary's birthday party, Cafe Loup NYC 6/17/10

Ernie Brooks and Gary outside the Tarrytown Music Hall before Gary's performance of "The Golem" 6/12/10

Outgoing Polish Cultural Office chief Monika Fabijanska and Gary at her 10th Anniversary Farewell Party, Polish Consulate NYC, 6/9/10

Spanish "Dracula" European premiere outside Banffy Castle Bontida Romania, Tranysylvania Film Festival 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Gary immediately after performing 1 hour 45 min. non-stop with Spanish "Dracula", TIFF Festival 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cerciu

Gary plays Spanish "Dracula" at the TIFF Festival, Castle Banffy Bontida Romania 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Dracula European premiere, Castle Banffy Bontida Romania 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Gary performing Spanish "Dracula" at TIFF 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Gary performing the European premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project, Banffy Castle, TIFF Festival 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Gary outside Castle Banffy before his Spanish Dracula" premiere 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cerciu

Performing a 10 minute teaser concert of Spanish "Dracula" before several thousand folks in the Cluj Town Square, 5/28/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Gary outside Castle Banffy, Bontida Romania, before his performance of Spanish "Dracula" at the Transylvania International Film Festival 5/30/10
photo by Nicu Cherciu

Gary plays the European premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project at the Transylvania Intl. Film Festival, Bannfy Castle Bontida Romania 5/30/10

Outside Banffy Castle before the European premiere of Spanish "Dracula" at TIFF, 5/30/10

Gary at Banffy Castle Bontida Romania before his Spanish "Dracula" European premiere 5/30/10

Gary with Transylvania Film Festival director Tudor Giurgiu, Cluj Romania Town Square, 5/28/10

Gary in Cluj Romania Town Square about to perform teaser concert before several thousand people at the Transylvania Film Fest, 5/28/10

Gary outside Hotel Agape in Cluj Romania, 9th International Transylvania Film Festival 5/28/10

Gary plays solo acoustic at Joe's Pub NYC with visual light accompaniment by Steve Grise 5/15/10
photo by Caroline Sinclair

Gary at Joe's Pub NYC 5/15/10
photo by Caroline Sinclair

Gary, neuroscientist Prof. Joseph LeDoux and filmmaker Marina Lutz at a screening of her doc. "The Marina Experiment" @ NYU 5/8/10

Gary Lucas whirlwind at the "Virtue and Vice" party, Gibson Guitars NYC 4/29/10
photo by Natasha and Valera Cherkashin

Callan Hutchison, legendary producer Andrew Loog Oldham and GL, Gibson Guitars "Virtue and Vice" party/showcase, 4/29/10

Gary at The Magic Room, Boston 4/10/10
photo by Catherine Rogers

The Magic Room, Boston, 4/10/10
photo by Catherine Rogers

Punch the Clock: Gary at The Magic Room, Boston 4/10/10
photo by Catherine Rogers

Pulitzer prize winning poet Franz Wright, The Magic Room's Des Desmond, GL at The Magic Room, Boston 4/10/10
photo by Catherine Rogers

My aim is true: The Magic Room, Boston 4/10/10
photo by Catherine Rogers

The Magic Room, Boston, 4/10/10
photo by Catherine Rogers

Russian artists Natasha and Valera Cherkashin and GL, BAM Cafe Brooklyn, 4/2/10

Outside Kino Schauburg in Dresden before performing "Sounds of he Surreal" and a solo acoustic concert, 3/24/10

Gary grows extra fingers for the 6th Jazz Welten Festival, Theater Schauburg, Dresden 3/24/10

Gary at La Java (named after Serge Gainsbourg's "La Javanaise"), Lausanne Switzerland, 3/23/10

Outside Le Point Ephemere in Paris after Gary's solo show 3/22/10, l to r: Renaud Pion, Daniel Yvinec, GL, David Donatien, and Yael Naim

Melissa Mars rocks out performing "Grace" with Gary and Daniel Yvinec at Gary's solo show at Le Point Ephemere Paris, 3/22/10
photo by Mark Lyon

Superb French saxophonist Renaud Pion whips it out for "Dance of Destiny", Le Point Ephemere Paris, 3/22/10
photo by Mark Lyon

The great French singer/songwriter Silvain Vanot after performing Gary's song "Jericho" at Le Point Ephemere, Paris 3/22/10
photo by Mark Lyon

Gary and his friend legendary filmmaker/cinematographer Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter", "Grey Gardens") at his month long retrospective at Centre Pompidou Paris 3/20/10
photo by Mark Lyon

Have a cuppa...Gary at Cafe Gitane in the Jane Hotel NYC, 3/13/10
photo by Honey Twigg Aldrich

Josef Van Wissem, Frank Veenstra, and GL, Cross-Linx Festival Utrecht Holland, 3/4/10

Gary and Jozef Van Wissem rock out at the Cross-Linx Festival, Musiekcentrum Vrendenburg, Utrecht Holland 3/4/10

Rik's American Cafe: Gary at dinner at Rik Van Iersel's house, Eindhoven Holland 3/1/10
l to r: Erik Vanderberge, Agnes De Haan, GL, Joshua Van Iersel, Teun Jansen, Theo Van Rock, Rik Van Iersel, Frank Veenstra, and Nathanael Boelen

Gary at the NYC premiere of his "Cinefantastique" project, Gershwin Hotel 2/9/10
photo by Neke Carson

Backstage at Czech Republic and friends Benefit for Haiti, Bohemian National Hall NYC 1/29/10 - Martin Palous, Czech UN Ambassador; Eliska Zigova, Czech Consul General; GL; Marcel Sauer, Czech Cultural Center director/organizer of the benefit

Gary performs at his Captain Beefheart Symposium at the Echoplex LA Jan. 2010 shortly after the death of Don Van Vliet
photo by Angel LaCanfora