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New
York Night Train One-Year Anniversary
Mad Monster Party
HALLOWEEN 2006
10
pm - 4 am
FREE!
New
York Night Train is celebrating its first anniversary on Halloween
with a dance party at Sub-Tonic. DJ Name Names (AKA Ian Svenonius
of Weird War World) will be spinning all night long. MC Trachiotomy
and Lefty Parker will stage a rare NYC performance. And a slew of
New York Night Train friends and family will be making guest performances
and DJ appearances from the evening deep into the morning. The entire
event is free to the public. Throw your costume on and come on down...
 Aside
from being one of the east coast's most exciting party DJs, Ian
Svenonius is a rock star, a man of letters, and, of
late, a television personality. Ian has been the leader of Nation
of Ulysses, Cupid Car Club, Make-Up,
David Candy, The Scene Creamers, and, most recently, Weird
War. As of late, Sassy Magazine's "Sassiest
Boy in America" has also grown into an essayist who is as well
known for his prose as for his music since the publication of his
first collection of essays, The
Psychic Soviet, on Drag City this year. Finally,
Ian is the moderator for Vice TV's new talk show Soft
Focus - interviewing the likes of Chan Marshall,
Henry Rollins, Genesis P-Oridge, Will Oldham, Ian McKaye, and Andrew
W. Kaye. Ian has DJ-ed all over the world with his unpredictable
and eclectic, yet kinetic sets that consist of rare soul 45s, yeah
yeah, lost soundtracks, disco obscurities, etc. Expect a spooky
bootie theme tonight.
 MC
Trachiotomy and Lefty Parker have been keeping New Orleans pumping
for some time now. Italian philosopher Pierre Scaruffi, in his History
of Rock Music, describes MC
Trachiotomy's recorded work as defining “a territory
straddling rap, spoken-word, psychedelic rambling, Captain Beefheart-ian
wackiness, lo-fi pop and the Residents' new-wave… The musical
equivalent of a hurricane, sweeping away swamp blues, freeform jamming,
reggae balladry, hip hop, etc. The comedian indulges in spoofs of
spy-thriller cocktail muzak, 1940s' big-band swing, Broadway show
tunes, and soft-night-jazz.” His two upcoming New York Night
Train releases are collaborations with Mr.
Quintron, Rowdy Life and RatsLiveOnEvil
Star.
Lefty
Parker is the bassist for The Interlopers (who
released first post-Katrina record in the city on Rhinestone Records),
a four-year member of the Ninth Ward Marching Band, manager ofthe
infamous Circle Bar, and produces, records, and/or masters the recordings
of a host of Ninth Ward performers - most noteably Mr. Quintron
and Miss Pussycat and MC Trachiotomy. He's also designed record
covers for everyone in town - including his late great friend Ernie
K-Doe. Both spent Katrina performing heroic deeds in New Orleans
and never left. Tonight is more than Halloween but also a is also
a regional holiday that residents of the Big Easy prefer to call,
unambiguously, "Lefty Parker's Birthday."
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