GHOSTS II: Gimme Danger Sunday, June 5th 2022

“GHOSTS II: Gimme Danger” at the Columns (3811 St. Charles Ave.) on Sunday, June 5th at 5:00 p.m.

featuring performances by Malevitus (Tiana Hux aka MC Sweet Tea, guitarist Rob Cambre, bassist Marcus Bronson, drummer Carlo Nuccio) with aerial troupe the Flying Buttresses

… plus special guests The Sleazeball Orchestra and Professor Harry Mayronne on the Grand Piano 

For ticketing info, please visit @Malevitus on Instagram (link in bio)

The new immersive musical from the mind of Malevitus, “Ghosts II: Gimme Danger,” acts as the sequel to the art rock band’s postponed performance event “If You Have Ghosts” and will be presented Sunday June 5th at the Columns Hotel.  

The production celebrates Malevitus’ eponymous vinyl release, offering their rock show in a vintage cocktail atmosphere complimented by the sumptuous piano stylings of Harry Mayronne and the cabaret jazz of the Sleazeball Orchestra.  

This iteration tells a supernatural tale of discontent; the desire to possess a body once more.  The poise of our hostess (Malevitus’ Tiana Hux) is rattled to the core when she finds herself facing a banshee (Sleazeball Orchestra’s Kitty Baudoin) of houses past, coming to collect an unpaid debt.  Party goers are invited to dress up and make way for a musical battle of wills and thrills in the ballroom and on the porch of the recently restored Columns, St. Charles Avenue’s most storied hotel.

Hux’s frequent collaborators, aerial troupe the Flying Buttresses, add their breathtaking movement to the mix as antique dolls that creep on the current owner and her family incessantly.  

With a nod to Louis Malle’s controversial Storyville film “Pretty Baby” (filmed there in 1978) and the music of Iggy Pop and Erik Satie, the deconstructed musical gives the audience plenty to chew on, including hor d'oeuvres by Columns chef Paul Terrebone and craft cocktails by Seven Three Distilling gratis.

“Ghosts II: Gimme Danger” is site-specific and uses the music and visual storytelling to probe questions around propriety, escapism and the burden of family secrets. The location, architecture and natural light become elements of the performance; ideas writer/director and Malevitus frontwoman Tiana Hux explored in her Storyville brothel-inspired show at The New Quorum, “A Day Late and a Dollar Short,” in 2019.

“The process of building performance art around music gives me the opportunity to present images and nonlinear stories that reflect the poetry inherent in the songs,” says Hux of the work.  Adding, ”We have to be ready to take it all apart and rebuild at any moment.”  Hux and her collaborators still look forward to presenting “If You Have Ghosts,” this story’s pandemic-postponed prequel, at a later date.