Super Mirage Presents A Night of Pretty Lies At Galapagos Art Space 7/28

"Super Mirage Presents A Night of Pretty Lies." Wednesday July 28 at 8pm. Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street in Dumbo. Tickets $5 at the door.

Super Mirage is a Brooklyn-based band that serves up a high-energy dance-ready indie pop with a flair for theatrics. In celebration of the release of their album Pretty Lies -- with its lead single "Song for a Go-Go Girl," about a burlesque dancer who just doesn't know when to stop -- they transform Galapagos into a sixties-style gentlemen's burlesque for one night only. Dress code is sharp (jackets or ties, snappy cocktail dresses) for this extravagant evening of music, burlesque, and variety.

Featuring guest performances by burlesque stars Madame Rosebud (bottom photo), Gal Friday, Bastard Keith, and Gigi LaFemme (Miss Coney Island 2010), as well as the variety show stylings of The Ineffectuals AKA the cast of the Joe Donovan Variety Show. The whole shebang will be topped off by a performance by the nattily dressed boys of Super Mirage themselves. With horns! Then stay late for dancing with DJ Rabbi Supreme on the decks. All of it crafted into a fully conceived theatrical evening by director Peter Cook (Straight Up Vampire, Sailor Man).
SUPER MIRAGE (top photo): Called "quirky indie pop" by New York Magazine and "macabre rock [that] takes audiences on a tuneful tour of dark places" by The Village Voice, Super Mirage is above all music you can move your body to. Taking their name from a 1970s French bicycle brand, they combine driving guitars and bouncing synths with influences ranging from post-punk, emo and electro-plus a healthy dose of Michael Jackson (R.I.P.). Always impeccably dressed, the boys of Super Mirage stand strongly behind the belief that life is hard and short, so we should party now before it's all over. Super Mirage has strong ties to the theater world, featuring the talents of Kyle Jarrow (also of the band The Fabulous Entourage and an Obie Award winning playwright) on keyboards and vocals, Nathan Leigh (noted theater composer and sound designer, also of Boston band A Thousand Ships) on guitars and vocals, Drew St. Aubin (also of the band Aldenbarton) on the drums, and Arvi Sreenivasan (also a stage and television composer) on bass.

For more information, visit http://www.supermirage.com