Vanity Crash
Born on stage under hot lights in the crucible of sound and fury.
Creating punk spunk and glam clamor.
50th Anniversary of Aladdin Sane
THE STRAND THEATER
220 S Front St, Fremont, OH 43420
– Saturday, May 6, Doors at 7:30pm
JUKEBOX
1404 W 29th St, Cleveland, OH 44113
– Saturday, May 13, Brunch Show, Doors at 11:00am
Join us for a multimedia extravaganza as we explore David Bowie’s birth, life and the 50th anniversary of the release of his infamous Aladdin Sane album.
Vanity Crash will perform its eye-popping live show which will include, not only fantastic songs culled from our six albums, but a full array of Bowie classics from his albums The Man Who Sold the World to Black Star.
The multimedia portion will include exclusive interviews Vanity Crash had with original Spiders From Mars’ Woody Woodmansey and Mike Garson. Woody and Mike talk about their first concert in the USA, which was at Cleveland’s Music Hall, and many David Bowie stories.
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Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by David Bowie, released on 13 April 1973. The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), it was the first album he wrote and released from a position of stardom. It was produced by Bowie and Ken Scott and features contributions from Bowie’s backing band the Spiders from Mars — Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey — as well as pianist Mike Garson (who has performed on two Vanity Crash records), two saxophonists and three backing vocalists. Recorded at Trident Studios in London and RCA Studios in New York City between legs of the Ziggy Stardust Tour, the record was Bowie’s final album with the full Spiders lineup.
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BIO
Vanity Crash was born on stage under hot lights in the crucible of sound and fury as the glam-punk band The Angry Inch in Cleveland Public Theater’s production of the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Ever since, Vanity Crash has been dressing up and throwing down with eye-popping synchronized light shows, outrageous stage costumes and provocative attitude, opening for the likes of the New York Dolls, Poison, Semi Precious Weapons, the Darkness, and Gogol Bordello. The band placed songs in the movies Kingsbury Run and Hellweek. Their recent acclaimed tributes to David Bowie include timeless gems performed live alongside their own incendiary originals.
Jeff Niesel of Scene magazine says, “One of the only bands on the local circuit that keeps the glam rock flame burning brightly, Vanity Crash has been going strong for a decade now, pumping out good, gritty records with regularity.”
MEMBERS
Dennis Van Crash
Having played guitar for Queue Up, System 56, Verdanzen and The Times, Dennis has also composed original scores for numerous plays, including the musical version of Lysistrata and the recent hit at Cleveland Public Theatre, Shakespeare’s Titus. Dennis served as musical director and guitarist for the musicals Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. When not writing songs and playing guitar, you can find Dennis behind the camera creating videos and photographs.
Thomas Anonymous
Virginia Plain Crash
What’s her name? She’s been around a long time just trying to make the big time since The Rubburheads. Made her stand in the desert strand singing and playing guitar with bilingual darlings, Everybody’s Cousin, until falling in love with the sheer and chic Vanity Crash. A songwriter and photographer, she also loves to sing and to bang on things that make sound, all while dancing the cha-cha through till sunrise, far beyond the pale horizon.
