Kiki & Herb

Cabaret legends Kiki & Herb are also reissuing their 2000 holiday album on vinyl and heading out on tour this month.

“We’re trotting out the old show ponies!“ they say.

Mr. Mellman compared their characters to a radioactive yo-yo trick. “What makes it special makes it dangerous,” he said. “There’s a lot of intensity and a lot of craziness…

NY Times: You have a new CD out in March called “Justin Vivian Bond: Dendrophile.” Explain. Justin Vivian Bond: A dendrophile’s a person who gets an erotic charge out of nature…

Justin Bond & band @ Highline Ballroom (more by Chris La Putt) tonight in NYC & NJ * FREE STUFF * Slick Rick @ Europa * Bob Mould @ Maxwell’s * Saints and Lovers @ Rehab * KRS-One in East River Park * Bound Stems @ Mercury Lounge * The Spinto Band @ Union Hall * Laurie Anderson @ Rose Theater * Ambulance LTD @ Bowery Ballroom * Smokey Robinson in Coney Island * Bjorkestra @ (le) poisson rouge * Dean & Britta @ the Zipper Theater * Akron/Family are playing Castle Clinton What else…

words & Martha Wainwright Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) on keys & Kate Mcgarrigle (Martha’s mom) Rufus Wainwright (Martha’s brother) Last night’s show at the Highline Ballroom (July 23, 2008) had the flair of drag queen drama as Justin Bond, of Kiki and Herb fame (she’s Kiki), performed a number of jazzy songs written by transvestite singers she’s met along the way…

Kiki & Herb return to Carnegie Hall on December 12th. Tickets are on sale. They’re calling it “The Second Coming: A Christmas Concert”. The first coming was back in 2004, was released as a CD, and featured a guest appearance by Rufus Waiwright…

Rufus Wainwright in drag @ Gramercy Theatre, NYC June 5, 2007 (CRED)Rufus Wainwright, prodigy of the prodigious McGarrigle/Wainwright Clan, played the newly reopened Gramercy Theatre, which he claims is a stumbling distance of only two blocks from his own house…

See a good show, and be on a DVD – Kiki & Herb do it at Knitting Factory in NYC tonight (May 17, 2007). Lat time you saw them they weren’t Tony-nominated…