Event

BLACKOUT & WLCI PRESENT SHILPA RAY AT THE SMILING SKULL SEPT. 26TH

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH
SHILPA RAY
BLAM BLAMS
BLOND
SLACKLUSTER
SMILING SKULL
9PM // $10

Shilpa Ray is a wailing, fire breathing Cyclops. She tornadoes everything in her path: small towns, big cities, and children's dreams. One of her fans commented on a YouTube video, "If there's a heaven, I want God to hire Shilpa Ray to sing the list of my sins." Within a few hours, she had a day job working for Saint Peter. Ray has ripped off all the greatsThe Gun Club, Tom Waits, The Doors and recently pulled off a triple rip: ripping off Nina Simone ripping off Screamin' Jay Hawkins ripping off the Devil.

Shilpa Ray released her album Teenage and Torture in 2011 on Knitting Factory Records and found her biggest fan in Nick Cave who started telling music journalists she was his favorite current band. Cave brought her on tour as support for a few Grinderman dates, recorded the Wiel/Brecht song "Pirate Jenny" with her for Hal Wilner's Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys II, and then hired her to sing backup on his Spring 2013 Bad Seeds tour as well as main support for their Fall 2013 UK and Europe tour to promote her new 4-song EP It's All Self Fellatio, Shilpa Ray on his record label Bad Seed LTD. She has also served as main support for Man Man and Acid Mother's Temple as well as the opening act for Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, and A Place to Bury Strangers.

Shilpa is currently touring the US in support of her latest release on Northern Spy Records.

http://shilparay.net/
http://northernspyrecords.com/shilpa-ray-to-release-new-record-on-northern-spy-chris-gethard-show-performance/

Blam Blams original line-up are also playing this show (features members of Southeast Engine, Dropdead Sons and Sportfishing USA), along with BLOND and SlackLuster.

DON'T MISS THIS SHOW!