Art Gray Noizz Quintet with Lydia Lunch/Knife Thrower/Skull Practitioners @ The Sultan Room, Brooklyn, NY 2/26/25

 Bill: Art Gray Noizz Quintet with Lydia Lunch/Knife Thrower/Skull Practitioners

Venue: The Sultan Room, Brooklyn, NY

Date: 2/26/25

Door: $25 (Vanya gave me his extra ticket)

10:30pm Art Gray Noizz Quintet with Lydia Lunch

Active (Art Gray Noizz Quintet): 2013 (New York, NY),  (Lydia Lunch): 1976 (New York, NY)

Affliated: 

Stu Spasm: Crunt, Lubricated Goat, Salamander Jim, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet, The Beasts Of Bourbon, James Baker Experience! Ryan Skeleton Boy: Woman Rich Huchins: Digitalis (6), Hungry March Band, Live Skull, Lubricated Goat, Missing Foundation, Needlenose, New Old Skull, Of Cabbages And Kings, Phideaux, Ruin..., Sugartime, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet, Vestments Nikki D'Agostino: Vestments Grace Bergere

Lydia Lunch: 13.13, 8 Eyed Spy, Beirut Slump, Big Sexy Noise, Harry Crews, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Lydia Lunch's Putan Club, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, The Bomb Gang Girlz, The Immaculate Consumptive, The JLP Sessions Project, Willing Victim (2) Latest Release: AGNQ: (split with Gravel Samwidge): "Relief" (Sound Pressing, 2024), The Art Gray Noizz Quintet (Bang!, 2022) Lunch: (with Marc Hurtado): Suicide or Murder...You Decide (Widowspeak, 2022), The War Is Never Over (Widowspeak, 2021) AGNQ: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs All Music Setlist Wiki YouTube Lunch: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs All Music Setlist Wiki YouTube 9:30 Knife Thrower   Active: 2021 (New York, NY) Affiliated: Skeleton Key Latest Release: "Tint The KIlls" (Knife Thrower, 2021) Bandcamp   YouTube 8:30 Skull Practitioners  Active: 2014 (New York, NY) Affiliated: Jason Victor, Guitar: Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3, The Dream Syndicate, Velvet Crush, Willard Grant Conspiracy Latest Release: Negative Stars (In The Red, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube A fine night for the tenth anniversary show of the Art Gray Noizz Quintet.  Almost everyone around has been around for a while, but there wasn't much nostalgia.  More like lifers doing life.   First up were the Skull Practitioners who have fast become a band that seems to get on a bill I go to on a regular basis.  They have a strong pummel that was reminding me of something out of the Midwest like Hammerhead.  They've been around almost as long as Art Gray Noizz Quintet at this point.  Knife Thrower are a little bit newer, but hold the presses, they are born of the ashes of the 90's band Skeleton Key.  They do more of a dual percussive art skronk sort of thing. It was great to see how AGNQ evolved throughout the decade.  They've played bigger shows for example opening for Mudhoney at Warsaw, but this was a packed 280 capacity room of a who's who of the New York noise rock scene.  Old friend Ryan Skeleton Boy was excited to play with long time idol Lydia he told me in the weeks leading up to the show, so it was kind of neat to see the 2-string pummeler as a true headliner.  Stu Spasm had Lubricated Goat, and garnered television in Australia that made him a bit of a local celebrity certainly in his time in NYC but having a movie about you helps.  Lydia Lunch of course is Lydia Lunch.  The grand madame of noise rock.  She asked the question if you've ever got a video on an iphone that isn't a piece of shit.  It's always a bit of a weak transgression to get these 30 second clips, so I kept footage to a minimum.  But how often do I get to see Ryan on stage WITH Lydia Lunch?  Never before, just a bill.  It may happen again someday since she attests to the band being her favorite in NYC.  I can't really think of any better active NYC bands.   Happy Tenth Anniversay! FOR FURTHER REVIEW: Vestments @ Mama Tried, Brooklyn, NY 8/29/24 The Unthinkable @ Bowery Electric, New York, NY 10/20/24 Skull Practitioners @ Heaven Can Wait, New York, NY 10/4/24 Sally Can't Dance: In Tribute To The Cramps @ Bowery Electric, New York 10/30/24 Lubricated Goat-Plays The Devil’s Music (1989) Lubricated Goat-Schadenfreude (1989) Lydia Lunch/13.13-13.13 (1982) Lydia Lunch/Clint Ruin-Stinkfist (1988) The Birth of Tragedy Magazine's Fear-Power-God (1987)