Photo by Greg Cristman
Gregory R. Cristman

Psychic TV played two nights at Brooklyn Night Bazaar (pics, video, setlist from night 1)

photos by Greg Cristman

Psychic TV @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar 12/27/2013
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The new Greenpoint locale of Brooklyn Night Bazaar has been up and running for about two months, offering crafty shopping, gourmet eats, beer and bands every weekend. The venue scored a bit of a coup by getting post punk legends Psychic TV to play both nights this past weekend (12/27-28). If you know anything about confrontational main man Genesis P-Orridge and PTV’s history, it’s perversely funny to see them playing a venue centered around buying things. I’ve been to a few Bazaar shows this season and while it’s always been crowded it’s often been more for the shopping. Saturday it was by far the most people I’ve seen for the show part. Our photographer hit Friday night and pics from that are in this post.

While line-ups for PTV have changed like The Fall, it has always been P-Orridge’s show who was definitely in control and in mostly good spirits Saturday (at least until someone threw a beer can on stage, which clearly stuck in his craw). This iteration of the group (which has been stable for about 10 years) included a violinist and, for part of the show, a couple saxes, and they were a tight live unit. Sets were long (definitely longer than most BK Bazaar bands get), somewhere around 90 minutes or more and, though they didn’t come near their most famous songs “Godstar” or “Roman P,” it was nonetheless a fun, somewhat surreal evening.

This weekend at Brooklyn Night Bazaar, it’s Swearin’, Cymbals Eat Guitars and more on Friday (1/3) and Magic Man and more on Saturday (1/4). More pics from Friday’s PTV shows — including one of the setlist, pics from Soundcheck and a few of openers House of Blondes (Heliotropes ended up not playing) — and a video are below…

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