New York Dolls (Photos: Paul Bachmann; Live4ever)
The Legendary New York Dolls have announced 3 More UK Concerts in December.
Playing in support of their latest album ‘Cause I Sez So’ the glam punkers will perform at the Leamington Spa Assembly, Liverpool o2 Academy and Edinburgh HMV Picture House in addition to the originally schedule London HMV Forum show.
Following the release of their critically acclaimed Todd Rundgren produced studio album ‘Cause I Sez So, their TV appearance on Later with Jools Holland, and a rapturously reviewed London 100 Club show which sold out in 4 minutes, the New York Dolls have announced three more concerts to their forthcoming UK visit in December 2009.
The three new concerts include the Leamington Spa Assembly on Tuesday December 8, Liverpool o2 Academy on Wednesday December 9th and the HMV Edinburgh Picture House on Thursday December 10th.
The band will also perform a concert at the London HMV Forum on Friday December 4th. National Ticket Hotline: 08700 603 777. Book Online: www.seetickets.com.
The New York Dolls originally swaggered onto the New York music scene in the early ’70s, influencing a generation with its subversive mix of high-decibel rock and high-heeled androgyny. The original band recorded two seminal albums – the eponymous debut New York Dolls (1973) and Too Much Too Soon (1974), before calling it a day in 1977.
The surviving members reformed the group in 2004 to much acclaim, but soon lost bassist Arthur Kane to leukemia. In 2006, Johansen and Sylvain reunited again and recorded the NY Dolls’ third studio album, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This, which featured the single Dance Like A Monkey.
This is what the British press said about the Dolls’ sold out 100 Club Show –
“Kicking off with an ear-splitting rendition of ‘Babylon’ – a song which comes across like a funnier, filthier ‘Brown Sugar’ – it’s immediately apparent quite how well the band is aging. The Dolls are quick to slip in material from their new album ‘Cause I Sez So, its title track a glorious slice of cartoonish swagger and sleaze that made the band’s name all those years ago.”
John Matthew Hall, The Independent (4 Stars)
“Lead singer David Johansen has retained the body of a teenage boy and the swagger of a man born to be a star. Songs from the current album ‘Cause I Sez So and its 2006 predecessor – notably the former’s title track and the latter’s ‘We’re All in Love and ‘Dance Like a Monkey – went down as well as the oldies, ‘Babylon’, a fabulous ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Stranded in the Jungle’.”
Lisa Verrico, The Times (4 Stars)
“The real meat was in pulsating versions of ‘Trash’, ‘Jet Boy’, ‘Personality Crisis’ and their version of Bo Diddley’s ‘Pills’, the collective howl of energy which was punk’s tinderbox and the Dolls’ ticket to immortality.”
John Aizlewood, London Evening Standard (3 Stars)
Checkout this great footage of the Dolls from Burt Sugarman’s The midnight special (1973):