Category: Mikelangelo

Mikelangelo launches his new album 

CITY OF DREAMS at Melbourne Festival

Tues 14, Wed 15 and Thu 16 October

Featuring Clare St Clare and Miles Brown

http://www.mikelangelo.net.au

Acclaimed around the world for his voice, charisma and quiff, award winning singer Mikelangelo is The Balkan Elvis!

Join him at Leaps and Bounds Music Festival for the grand opening of Collingwood Town Hall on Friday 11 July for what will be an incredible tour de force!

Speaking from his luxurious estate on the shores of the Black Sea yesterday, Mikelangelo said, “I am honoured and delighted to play in this splendid ballroom.  It is truly a venue fit for The King.”

Imagine, if you will, that Elvis had grown up in the Balkans and that his musical instrument of choice, aside from an impossibly lush voice, was the piano accordion.

Backed by a seven piece brass Balkan band and Eastern Bloc Go-Go Dancers, Mikelangelo sings the hits as you’ve never heard them before, sprinkling hilarious tales of his rags to riches story throughout the show like so much glitter.

This is Elvis as you’ve never seen or heard him before, overflowing with emotion, romance and animal desire, telling the history of the birth of rock’n’roll behind the Iron Curtain.

Mikelangelo is thrilled to be the first artist invited to perform at the Collingwood Town Hall, which has recently had a once-in-a-century refurbishment that has revealed and restored the art-deco delights of the ballroom.

This iconic building’s ballroom was playing host to live music long before punks were thrashing about on the floor of the Tote.

The crowds that arrived for the weekend dances in the mid-20^th Century ensured that the ballroom’s well-worn timber floor became the fastest dancefloor in Melbourne.

Live music continued to light up the town hall’s stage until the 1990s.

The stage is set for a musical renaissance and who better to usher in the new era than our very own Balkan Elvis, the aptly named Mikelangelo!

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is proudly presented by City of Yarra, Music Victoria, Beat Magazine & PBS FM with the support of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.

For further information please email Karen@karenconradpublicity.com.

MIKELANGELO plays
CASH – CAVE – WAITS – COHEN

Mikelangelo steps up to the plate to interpret a quartet of classic albums that shaped his ears as a lad. Each album he has happily fallen asleep listening to over the years, thus they have worked their strange magic on his dreams and become pivotal influences on his songwriting.

Mikelangelo plays:
Johnny Cash’s 
‘American Recordings’ 
and
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’
‘Your Funeral, My Trial’ 
at 
THE VANGUARD SUN 24 NOV 8pm
42 King St. Newtown
http://www.thevanguard.com.au/shows/2013/11/24/cash–cave-performed-by-mikelango-/12027

Mikelangelo plays 
Tom Waits’ 
‘Franks Wild Years’
and
Leonard Cohen’s 
‘Songs of Love and Hate’
at
CAMELOT  LOUNGE – THURS 28 NOV 8pm
19 Marrickville rd. Marrickville
http://camelotlounge.wordpress.com 

Plus a one-off show with in the Blue Mountains with the Gentlemen!

Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen 
THE CLARENDON
SAT 30 NOV 8pm
68 Lurline St. Katoomba 
www.clarendonguesthouse.com.au

Its been a busy year for Mikelangelo, touring the UK, Europe and Australia with the Black Sea Gentlemen to rave reviews and taking home a swag of awards. He also recently received a ‘Best Male Artist’ nomination for The Age Music Victoria awards alongside Paul Kelly, Goyte and Archie Roach. Voting for the Age MV Awards closes Friday 15 Nov. Vote 1 Mikelangelo!
http://agemusicvictoriaawards.questionpro.com/

Mikelangelo first performed his Classic Albums series at Melbourne live music bastion The Old Bar and now he brings it to Sydney. Interpreting Tom Waits final album in his tranformational ‘trilogy’ from the 1980’s Mikelangelo explains:

“Franks Wild Years is Waits’ definitive album for me, not just for the musical and emotional breadth of the songs, but for the way they so beautifully fit together to tell the story of a young man with stars in his eyes, who jumps a train going through his wind swept hick town for the bright lights of New York city. The album chronicles Frank’s dreams of rising to fame and his eventual crashing fall into madness. This magnum opus was a musical theatre work by Tom Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan – I would have loved to see it!”

And of Cohen:
“I feel lucky to have come across him pretty much by accident as a young man. From the opening guitars and orchestration of Avalanche to the final ‘La la’s’ of Joan of Arc, I was lost deep in a dream listening to this album. These are such pretty lullabies İ almost didn’t notice how harrowing they are until years later. İ guess my world was full of fire and brimstone at 19, so this was the perfect album to soothe the savage beast”.

Interpreting the first album from Johnny Cash’s ‘American’ series that saw Rick Rubin guide the ailing star to one of the most amazing combacks in musical history, Mikelangelo says: “Hearing Johnny Cash with just his guitar for accompaniment, I felt like I was alone with him in the room. He’s sombre and profound one moment, playful and devil may care the next, and his rumbling voice never sounded so good. I’m a baritone too, so Cash’s low notes always make me feel right at home.”

And of Nick Cave:
“Your Funeral, My Trial was the first Bad Seeds album I ever bought. It had just come out, i was a teenager and when the needle hit the record, a whole new dark, theatrical world opened up before me. How could i resist leaping in? I’ve followed Nick ever since and love almost all of his albums, but this one still has the faded yet compelling allure of the first love”.

2013 Age Music Victoria Best Male Artist Nominee Mikelangelo, brings his group The Black Sea Gentlemen to Melbourne to play the Spotted Mallard’s 1st Birthday on Friday 1 November.

A heady mix of music, theatre and black humour, Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen’s signature sound blends Balkan melodies, European Kabaret Noir and Spaghetti Western – a heady cocktail that plumbs the depths of sophisticated irreverence. Captained by Mikelangelo’s extraordinary, sonorous vocals, the Gentlemen sail their ship of fools through oceans of tragi-comedy, storms of melodrama and waves of eccentricity, leaving audiences weeping with laughter in their wake.

Mikelangelo formed the Black Sea Gentlemen in 2000 with members in Melbourne, Sydney and the South Coast of NSW. The group have gone on release three highly regarded independent albums, won multiple awards and have toured widely through Australia and the world to rave reviews, from Sziget Festival (Hungary), to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Mona Foma, Melbourne International Festival, The Edinburgh Festival and London’s West End.

2013 has been a great year for the band, seeing them funded by International Pathways for a four week tour of the UK in May that included shows at the Aussie BBQ in London, Norfolk and Norwich Festival and Brighton Festival, where they played sold out shows, garnered five star reviews and won two music awards. The group were also funded by Playing Australia for an extensive tour through WA and NT during September and are currently working on a pilot for their own TV series with best selling author Elliot Perlman.

Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen last played in Melbourne for their tenth anniversary tour, selling out a three night run at the Famous Spiegeltent. This will be Mikelangelo’s first show in Melbourne since disbanding his group of three and half years The Tin Star in July this year. The lush atmosphere of the Spotted mallard will be the perfect venue for him to return to the local live scene with the devilishly handsome and frighteningly talented Black Sea Gentlemen.

Featuring:

Mikelangelo – Lead Vocals and guitar

Rufino the Catalan casanova – Violin and vocals

The Great Muldavio – Clarinet and vocals

Gudio Libido – Piano Accordion and vocals

Littla Ivan – Doublebass and vocals

Special guests

THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND (ADE)

MY SAUCE GOOD (SYD)

***** “These are performers at the top of their game.” —The Scotsman (UK)

“They are not so much a band as a dream you cannot wake from…” —Sydney Morning Herald

Spotted Mallard event page:

http://www.spottedmallard.com/events/mikelangelo-and-the-black-sea-gentlemen/

http://www.trybooking.com/65542

Part fashion parade, part styling demonstration and part concert, this afternoon hosted by stunning burlesque star Gypsy Wood and the devilishly handsome (and perfectly coiffed) Mikelangelo.

The style, grace and music from the 20s to the 50s has inspired this celebration of vintage fashion and styling with a twist.

You’ll not only learn lots of tips and tricks on how to incorporate a touch of vintage pizzaz into a modern look, you’ll also see some fabulous ladies frocks and elegant men’s couture whilst tapping your toes to some wonderful tunes.
A great way to spend an afternoon.

Please be fashionably punctual and get ready for the ultimate musical glamour experience – featuring instructive makeovers, audience participation and fabulous prizes for a lucky few!

See you at The Famous Spiegeltent at the Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne CBD.