Lift Your Head Up
From the ultra glamorous photo shoot promoting this Saturday night’s show. Dave Seigel and Margaret Horning of Dolly! graced us with their talent and beauty, while Ben Absurdo and Barbara Dragun of The Repressions made their best attempts not to look like muppets that were thrown on the scrap heap.
The show will be closing with a new song featuring both bands. Hope to see you there!
The Repressions are duper super excited to be playing the Irish Whiskey Bar on Saturday March 26, with friends Ben Absurdo (solo act) and Dolly! (The ultra-talented Dave Seigel and Margaret Horning.) This is going to be a zany and entertaining night in Astoria!
Ben Absurdo -9pm  (philosophy-punk)
Dolly! – 10pm (acoustic surf rock)
The Repressions – 11pm (silly-sad-mental-fun-rock)
Here it is! The only cover song The Repressions have ever done. With love and thanks to writers Mark Mueller and Ron Jones, for creating one of the grooviest cartoon theme songs ever known. Life IS like a hurricane.
From the blizzard sessions The Repressions made a simple live video for this strange song. Panic Attacks are not funny by any means, but if you or someone you know suffers from them, this song is for you, from the point of view of the attack itself. Giving the panic external form was helpful in the writing of it, perhaps it can give someone out there a laugh of understanding, or at least a little empathy.
No thanks to the blizzard and plenty of thanks to the Irish Whiskey Bar… Our show with Dolly! and the solo Ben Absurdo will now take place on Saturday March 26th! That gives The a Repressions plenty of time to freak out, and you plenty of time to make plans or think of a way out. 🦃 Yay!
The Repressions are so happy to be playing FRIDAY DECEMBER 18 at THE IRISH WHISKEY BAR in Astoria, with Dirty Wings, The Concentrics and Madison Rust. No cover, definite weirdness!
The Repressions Big Mental Fun Show with special opening act Ben Absurdo!
Come and be mental next Friday in Astoria with The Repressions!
The Repressions are thrilled to be playing at The Grand Victory in Brooklyn this Sunday October 4!
This Sunday, October 4th, Space Jump Live, The Big Apple Sunshine Band, The Repressions, & Ben Absurdo will rip the walls out of The Grand Victory in Williamsburg. Show starts at 7pm. $10 at the door, or your bloody heart over an open fire.
Space Jump Live Band are a 4-piece psychedelic / indie rock hybrid composed of some of Astoria’s hardest-working artists; Justin Finley on vocals, John Keegan on guitar, Philip “Snake” DiFranco on bass, and Keith Malonis on drums. There’s a moody, drone-driven charge to the Jumpers’ music, tempered by upbeats and major chords, like Bauhaus meets the Kinks.
The Big Apple Sunshine Band (formerly the Dead Roses) are a hard rock -driven quartet from New York who play bluesy rock and roll with a rusty vengeance. A tight unit of four interlocking components, no one player is more important than the others. BASB are the Stewards Of Classic Rock.
The Repressions are an art-therapy-funk-rock-vaudeville duo fronted by Barbara Dragun. Their manic theatrics and poetry-panic have pounded stages around Astoria. Giving dark humor a light touch, the band combines sullen silliness with slap-happy sadness, in surreal cartoons as well as songs.
Ben Absurdo is a musician and writer who yells anarchist poems at people while playing guitar. He calls this style philosophy punk. In addition to several live acts, Ben plays in the internet-based bands DiscoAbsurdo and COLOURS.
The Quays Pub in Astoria! Friday October 16!
The Repressions are hyper-enthused to be there!
The Repressions 