Tickets £12 advance / £15 on the door ♦ doors 7.30pm
Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer living in New York’s Hudson Valley. In addition to records under his own name, he was a member of cabaret-punk orchestra World/Inferno Friendship Society, “world’s best bar band” the Hold Steady, Balkan-jazz quartet Guignol, co-founded the composer-performer collective Anti-Social Music, was a touring member of agit-punks Against Me!; AND recorded (complete discography here) or performed (complete list here) with dozens of other acts. PHEW!
His first book, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control was named a “Season’s Best Travel Book” by The New York Times; his second book, the novel Someone Should Pay For Your Pain, was named one of Rolling Stone “Best Music Books of 2021.” His newest album, New River, will appear on Don Giovanni Records in spring 2022.
Band People, a non-fiction study of the working and creative lives of musicians, was named to Rolling Stone’s “Best Music Books of 2024,” and Hua Hsu writing in The New Yorker called it “one of the least bacchanalian books ever published about the rock-and-roll life style, but also one of the most honest.” His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Paris Review Daily, The Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a faculty member in music and written arts at Bard College; and was once named #1 of “Punk’s 10 Best Accordion Players.”
Press Quote;
“a natural-born star”—Pitchfork
Doors 7.30pm
8pm – Jim Lockey
9pm – Franz Nicolay
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