Vanity Crash and the Crones!
Friday, November 17 at 7:30pm
AT Jilly’s Music Room – 111 N. Main St., Akron 44308 – (330) 576-3757
Vanity Crash is proud to play with The Crones!
The brainchild of frontwoman Tracey Thomas (#Akronsound, Unit 5), THE CRONES play energetic and exciting cover songs from your favorite female-fronted New Wave bands of the ’80s. Tracey and her group of talented female musicians are all over the age of 50, and they have been rocking capacity crowds since their debut in July of 2023.
Their rapid rise in popularity is easy to understand as the band’s seasoned musicianship shines through entertaining renditions of songs made famous by Blondie, Joan Jett, Kate Bush, Cindi Lauper, The B52’s, and many more. These Girls Still Want To Have Fun and you will too when you catch a live performance by THE CRONES!
Don’t miss this exciting double bill as Vanity Crash presents special guests The Crones!
Presented by Thomas Mulready
Acclaimed impresario Thomas Mulready is known for his avant-garde non-profit festivals: Ingenuity Fest, now in it’s 17th year, and the legendary Performance Art Festival, the largest festival of performance art ever.
He created the CoolCleveland online media network to turn people on to the coolness of Cleveland, the location of David Bowie’s first US concert, the scene of the first Beatles show stopped by police, and the birthplace of rock ‘n roll and punk rock.
Assiduously researched, Mulready’s performances offer a multitude of facts and little-known background, informed by a framework of themes from every stage of the artists’ careers.
Music by Vanity Crash and more...
Vanity Crash was born on stage under hot lights in the crucible of sound and fury as the glam-punk band The Angry Inch in the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Ever since, Vanity Crash has been dressing up and throwing down eye-popping synchronized light shows, outrageous stage costumes and provocative attitude, playing with the likes of the New York Dolls, Poison, Semi Precious Weapons, the Darkness, and Gogol Bordello.
Known for incendiary live shows, Vanity Crash include timeless gems performed live alongside their own blistering originals. Their 5th album, “Phantasmagoria,” includes an original track featuring David Bowie’s longtime pianist, Mike Garson. Vanity Crash is singer/composer/guitarist/arranger Dennis Van Crash, drummer/composer/singer Thomas Anonymous, vocalist/percussionist Virginia Plain Crash, and lead guitarist Matthew Angel.
Videos
Presentations include rare archival videos, photos and needle drops,
plus a live music set by Vanity Crash
Presented and directed by Thomas Mulready
Vanity Crash performing “Rock and Roll Junkie”
WHAT OUR GLAM GUESTS ARE SAYING:
“Your presentation was really fantastic, I especially liked the video clips that you chose to show.”
– Coleen
“We also thoroughly enjoyed your show last Sunday, it’s stayed with me this entire week.”
– Hilary
“I really enjoyed the show. It was great to see the impact Bowie had on so many facets of popular culture!”
– Joy
Entertaining Educational Enlightening
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Below are examples of some of our other shows:
Cultural Exploration
With Live Music
Presented and Directed by Thomas Mulready
Live Music by Vanity Crash
Entertaining and educational presentations featuring rare video clips, needle drops, obscure cuts, and
recently surfaced details of arguably the most influential artists of our time.
David Bowie Part 1: The Early Years: From Davy Jones to the Thin White Duke
Part 1 opens with a 9-year-old David Jones, inspired by the film Don’t Knock The Rock claiming, “That was my ambition, to be in a band playing saxophone behind Little Richard.” Following formal art school tutelage under the father of future megastar Peter Frampton, and a half dozen failed singles, bands, record labels and stage looks, he finally makes his mark with the sci-fi folk rock novelty Space Oddity, the iconic Ziggy Stardust, and the worldwide hit, Young Americans.
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David Bowie Part 2: Mid- to Late-Period: From Berlin to Blackstar ★ and Beyond
Part 2 begins with the artist living like a king, having achieved stardom far beyond imagination, but strung out on cocaine and subsisting on warm milk and peppers. He flees his near-death existence in LA for the arid Krautrock beat of his Berlin era, the arena-sized celebrity of Let’s Dance, and his always-interesting but overlooked later albums. The show culminates with a close examination of Bowie’s late masterpieces, The Next Day and Blackstar★.
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David Bowie: The Berlin Era
After fame (and Fame) vaults Bowie to the top of the American charts (and to a new personal low), Bowie hooks up with heroin addict and unlikely sobriety partner Iggy Pop and moves to Berlin, the drug capital of Europe to clean up. Incredibly, the plan works. Calling on Roxy Music alum and “non-musician” Brian Eno, Bowie releases Low, “Heroes” and Lodger to critical confusion and growing acclaim, influenced by the arid Krautrock beat of the bands Can and Kraftwerk, and informed by his own funk rock rhythm section.
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Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell: David Bowie's Deep Tracks
Let’s peel back the layers and dig deep into Bowie’s catalog for those gems that never quite made it onto everyone’s pop playlist, but deserved to. We’ve listened to every track on every album and bootleg, so you don’t have to. These songs and videos should have been classics. And who knows, maybe someday they will.
If you’re a hard core Bowie fanatic, you’ll recognize many of these epic tracks and videos. If you’re new to Bowie, take your protein pills and put your helmet on; you’re in for the ride of your life.
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Everything Is Subject To Radical Change
Cleveland Performance Art Festival Revisited
LIVE Show and LIVESTREAM
Presented and Directed by
Thomas Mulready
Featuring live music by Vanity Crash
When Andy Met Lou
Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground and The Exploding Plastic Inevitable
The intersection of two masters of the late 20th Century, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, resulted in a spontaneous combustion of music, film, poetry, visual effects and underground culture that spawned generations of followers and redefined art in the modern world.
Warhol called it The Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Thomas Mulready presents a multi-media presentation featuring rare video, needle drops, trivia, contests and giveaways, unearthing the back stories of the confluence of Warhol, Reed and the underground experimentation of the EPI. The show includes a live music showcase by the band Vanity Crash pairing music of The Velvet Underground with their own sizzling originals.
All ages will be admitted.
The show contains explicit content.
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The Birth of
PUNK
in Cleveland, Akron & Kent
Presented and Directed by
Thomas Mulready
Live music by
Vanity Crash
DYLAN 8.0
Celebrating 80 Years of Genius
LIVESTREAM
Presented and Directed by
Thomas Mulready
Featuring Dylan music by Jenna Fournier, Papi and the Smears,
The Modern Electric and Vanity Crash
Relax and Float Upstream: Behind The Beatles’ Groundbreaking Revolver
Considered by many as the apex of The Beatles’ incredible musical career, Revolver was the first Beatles album with no filler, the first to feature extensive studio trickery, and the first to reflect social concerns. Revolver showcased George Harrison’s fascination with politics and Indian sitar music (Taxman, Love You To), John Lennon’s relentless experimentation with LSD and Tibetan Buddhism (Tomorrow Never Knows, Doctor Robert, I’m Only Sleeping), and Paul McCartney’s topical lyrics and orchestrated backings (Eleanor Rigby, Got To Get You Into My Life, Here, There and Everywhere), while Ringo Starr became the most popular Beatle in America with the international smash hit, Yellow Submarine.
Thomas Mulready dissects Revolver and peels back the curtain to show how the album was recorded, the stories behind each song, and what was happening in The Beatles’ lives at time.
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“(secrets of The White Album)” Behind The Beatles’ Masterpiece
While in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi studying Transcendental Meditation, The Beatles wrote what has come to be known as The White Album, considered one of the best albums of all time, and generally tops lists of the best double albums.
Featuring diverse and strong material throughout, favorites might include, Revolution 1, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, Back In The U.S.S.R., Birthday, and the sound collage Revolution 9. The album is known for it’s wildly differing styles, overtly political lyrics, stellar songwriting by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison (and Ringo’s first Beatles song), and the contentious atmosphere surrounding its creation, causing engineer Geoff Emerick to quit, Ringo Starr to briefly leave the band, and creating tensions that eventually led to the band’s breakup 16 months later.
Thomas Mulready examines The White Album and reveals how the music was made, the anecdotes behind the songs, and the untold backstories.
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Bowie@75
Ziggy Stardust Revisited
LIVE Shows and LIVESTREAM
Presented by
Thomas Mulready
Live Music by
Vanity Crash
Cultural archeologist and avant-garde impresario Thomas Mulready teams up with glam punk superstars Vanity Crash to celebrate what would have been David Bowie’s 75th birthday by revisiting the artist’s pivotal Ziggy Stardust tour, character, music and backstory in a unique, multi-media extravaganza.
The show features exclusive interviews with members of Bowie’s band, The Spiders From Mars. We’ll hear from drummer Woody Woodmansey, pianist Mike Garson, and author Clinton Heylin.
A photo exhibit by photographer Anastasia Pantsios of Bowie’s first US appearance in 1972 will hang on the walls, with prints available.
Vanity Crash presents live original music alternating with Bowie classics and deep cuts.
All live shows will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative test, and the utmost in care is taken at BOP STOP and Jilly’s Music Room to ensure social distancing, sanitized surfaces, and masking. Audience discretion is advised for those under 18 years of age.
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Travel stipends and comps are available.
CONTACT: Thomas Mulready: info@ThisAnalogWorld.com