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World Inferno Friendship Society
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New York's own soul-punk orchestra, the WORLD/INFERNO Friendship Society, is thrilled to announce HALLOWMAS 2009 at the Grand Ballroom with special guests O'Death and more to be announced!

Fresh off of recording the followup to 2007's Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century in Hoboken, NJ with Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, The Dresden Dolls), the band is eager to introduce the new material to the swarming punk-rock masses. The new recordings stretch the band's stylistic versatility further in all directions, as quieter moments ("The Mighty Raritan," "Burn & Scar") are captured with more intimate nuance than ever before, while scorchingly intense up-tempo numbers like "Ladies & Gentlemen of the Road" see the group hit devastating new heights.

At eight pieces - wailing drums, three horns, two guitars, way too many teeth, a piano, and a singer soaked with wit, charisma, and humor - their songs so sweet and quicksilver beat promise to put you smack in the middle of the vaudeville circus you've always wished your life could be. The band's tight musicianship and penchant for brewing up high-energy dance numbers are rooted in punk, but manifest themselves with flashes of Count Basie, Wilson Pickett, The Pogues, and Little Richard all out on a night-long bender.

THE WORLD/INFERNO is coming to your town! Full-time fighting friends to the friendless, the most successful scourge to the oppressors since Willie Sutton, they're riding a wave of sumptuous red wine straight into your hearts. Even if they have to buy the drinks themselves, they'll do it. Come see the circus play the dirty rock club, one night only! Come and waltz with the one you love.

"It's Halloween, it's 1933, we're all in Blade Runner, and the drinks are on the house. You have no excuse not to come out unless it is that you are a jerk. I don't think you're a jerk, I'll see you there..."
O'Death
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Five guys, maybe three shirts between them, take to the stage. There's a banjo, a fiddle, a drum set littered with gas cans, chains, and broken cymbals. Then they all start howling, stomping; it's an anachronistic jug band party in a junkyard with sing-along hooks and weathered vocals from another time. Their fans, an ever-expanding congregation, sing along and follow the band with an almost religious fervor, and as vocalist Greg Jamie's eyes roll back into his head there's a sense that something almost sinisterly spiritual has overtaken everyone in the room. This is the world of O'Death. Originally formed in 2003 while the members attended SUNY Purchase, the band, with Jamie on guitar and vocals, Gabe Darling on banjo, David Rogers-Berry on drums, Jesse Newman on bass, and Bob Pycior on fiddle, self-released their first album in 2004. They quickly took to the task of stirring up a wholly original scene of NY musicians with their reverently twisted take on Americana filtered through a wealth of musical influences as divergent as Bill Monroe, Prince, Dock Boggs, Neil Young, The Microphones, and The Misfits via a series of shows at the now defunct Apocalypse Lounge.
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