Our annual all-ages Portland Christmas show — Big Gay Birthday Party in the Sky for Jesus — takes place Saturday, December 1st. For 2018, The Dandy Warhols team with Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in donating a portion of each ticket sold to SMYRC – Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Research Center – New Avenues for Youth.
NO SHOWS WHAT?
December 1st is also World AIDS Day. Join the Sisters later that night for a moving vigil through downtown Portland’s gay community spaces. More information on this vigil: FACEBOOK EVENT
Surprise. Your favorite band The Dandy Warhols have a new single – and a new video – the first taken from our new album coming in the new year on Dine Alone Records. This song is “Forever.”
Oh we’re doing it, puddlestompers. The Dandy Warhols annual all-ages Christmas show at the Crystal Ballroom is a go! Saturday, December 1st is the date and tickets are in sale NOW. Whoa!
Original Dandys superstar, avant-garde artist, and our dear friend Jeffery Wonderful has left Earth. Jeffery was a mainstay in our early days, appearing in music videos and coming with us on tour to do sixties style projections.
But Jeffery was much more than that, though. He touched many during his brief stay among us animals, and our thoughts go out to his family and all his friends worldwide. Godspeed. Personal thoughts to follow.
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When I first starting running around downtown Portland as a 15yr old, around 1990, I met a cute boy that went by Jeffrey Wonderful. He said if I mailed him a love letter he would return one and include a “plethora” of stickers. I followed through and so did he. I learned a new word that day and made a new friend. The first friend I ever made in Portland. Several years before joining The Dandys. This boy ended up starring in our first video, became our first psychedelic lighting guy by swirling oils, food dye and water in a pyrex dish on an overhead projector and was a ton of fun on tour with us in the early days. He was one of a kind and will be deeply missed. ZIA MCCABE
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Jeffery Wonderful was an amazing spirit. His sense of humor and positive energy encapsulated Portland’s X-Ray Cafe scene of which we were a part.We cast him in two videos (“TV Theme Song” and “Little Drummer Boy”) and brought him on tour to do oil and water projections. Later on with his construction company he worked on projects at The Odditorium and my house. He did all the finishing work in my bedroom. Jeffery will be missed.
PETER G. HOLMSTRÖM
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I don’t recall meeting Jeffrey for the first time. A few years ago he had bowed out of managing the Rose City Rollers and was putting on avant-garde theatre in town.
We took Sheppard Fairey and his wife to see Jeffrey’s production of Hot Gun which was of course a gender bender redux of Top Gun, which is still a movie I’ve not seen.
Well it was amazing and we were in hysterics for two hours. We were chatting with Jeffrey afterwards and I mentioned that his other play was also ultra queer and funny as fuck and how did he do this adaptation and know when to stop rewriting and let it be funny.
The Dandy Warhols Live From Cowboy Christmas – the All-New live album recorded with utmost care at The Dandys annual Christmas bash at Crystal Ballroom in Portland on December 9th, 2017. Eighteen Tracks – WAV, FLAC, or MP3. Whatever! Give the tracks a whirl first, we don’t care.
The Dandy Warhols return to Colorado and Texas later this year with three shows in each state. First, The Dandy Warhols fly sky high to Denver with a Massive Concussion of Rock at Ophelia’s Electric SoapboxJuly 13th and 14th, followed by Ft. Collins’ Washington FoCo Saturday, July 14th.
Then in September, The Dandys ride into Texas to show y’all how Oregon does it – Thursday, September 27th in Dallas at The Kessler, and two shows in Austin September 28th and 29th at 3Ten Austin City Limits Live.
All tickets go on sale this Friday, April 6th. Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!
Last year’s fervent cries of DANDYS WHY NO LIVE SONIC DISRUPTION ON VINYL are smothered with the sudden, shocking release of the LSD LP from Cobraside. And we plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Try and prove that one false, McCoy.
Get this live Long Playing Maxigroove exclusively from Cobraside right goddamn now for only $27 smackaroos. Sorry, local record shops, we love ya but maybe next time.
You can also still get the LSD lossless download from our Bandcamp. It’s more convenient than a twelve inch slab of chemicals, but there’s no purdy pictures to look at. And since I design the records that’s what i really care about.
