Opening Night

Attention all UJDB lovers... Tonight is opening night for the PS 122 show. Please see the press release below. Come out and support the masters of puppet rock.



UNCLE JIMMY'S DIRTY BASEMENT
premieres AT PERFORMANCE SPACE 122
ON THURSDAY MAY 19th

Performance Space 122 presents Uncle Jimmy's Dirty
Basement beginning
performances on Thursday, May 19th and running
through Sunday, May 29th. Tickets can be purchased by calling the P.S. 122 Box Office at 212-477-5288 or online at http://www.blogger.com/www.ps122.org

When downtown art-rock stalwarts Coocoohandler
joined forces with James
Godwin' s avant-puppet ensemble The Elementals to
create Uncle Jimmy's
Dirty Basement, no-one knew what to expect. Over
the past several years of live performances the two groups have fused together to create a unique rock-theater hybrid. The Dirty Basement combines the irreverence of Frank Zappa, the hipster irony of They Might Be Giants and the theatricality of Alice Cooper with surreal, imaginative and bawdy puppetry. Both excellent musicians and extraordinary puppeteers, Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement is a one-of-a-kind spectacle, an ongoing, always-changing post-punk art-rock cabaret.

Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement has been accumulating rabidly devoted fans and love slaves over the course of its long-running engagements at The Bowery Poetry Club and sold out shows at the Bowery Ballroom, Toyota Comedy Festival and Joe's Pub. Now they are setting
up shop at the only place brave enough to give them whatever they want -- Performance Space 122. Whether you seek a joyride through the underbelly of the American Psyche, enjoy being whacked on the head with an oversized phallus, or long for everything in between, The Basement is the place to be. Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement is a place, a band and a state of mind; these undisputed godfathers of puppet rock create a fever-pitched naughty nightmare that dares to ask the question, "Do Manipuloids dream of electric guitars?" Our P-Funk Pinocchio Uncle Jimmy, accompanied by his foul-mouthed furry friend Chuck-Bob, sets out on
a psychedelic mystery tour in search of the human within. Along the way, and with the guidance of his band mates, we meet a cast of twisted characters like Piranha Man, Hot Robots in Love, Hat-Humpin' Cats, Grandmas, Grandpas and Bedbugs. It's like Frank Zappa and Fraggle Rock hanging at the nitrous tank.

Built, Created, Conceived, Composed, Directed, Designed, Dressed, Delivered, Performed, Puppeteer-ed, Played and
Penned by: Tom Burnett, Ceili Clemens, Jennifer A. Cooper, James Godwin, Andrew Innes, Tom Kazumplik, Tim Lagasse, John Pavlik, Leigh Secrest, Martin Small, Russ Tucker, Dave Yearwood

Special Basement inductee: John Creery Lighting by Paul Jones
Production made possible in part by AREA grant
through Chashama