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- Location:
- New York, NY
- Bio:
- Formed in Detroit in 1977 as Mr. Unique and the Leisure Suits, the band got their start as the opening act for The Mumps (featuring Lance Loud) and local favorites like Flirt
and Destroy All Monsters. They spent the following years amusing, annoying, and antagonizing audiences in Detroit and environs, before finally releasing their four-song EP,
Mr. Unique and the Leisure Class, in 1983. The record received generally favorable, though puzzled, reviews from Ira Robbins in Trouser Press, and Dennis Loren in the
Metro Times, who found "something to offend everyone."
The band moved to New York, making their debut at CBGB in 1984, and launching a musical and visual assault that featured, at various times, legendary writer Herbert Huncke, a custom built two-story prison, impaled goat's heads, and Abraham Lincoln.
In 2005, the band was profiled on the National Public Radio show, Day to Day ("The Rise, Fall and Reunion of the Leisure Class"). Lead singer Dimitri Mugianis is the subject of the 2009 documentary film, "I'm Dangerous With Love". The new CD is Parents Night at the Leper Colony.
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- http://www.leisureclass.net
- Favorite Music/Influences (list some bands, musicians, genres, etc.):
- Captain Beefheart, Kevin Coyne, MC5, Stooges, Frank Sinatra. Shakin' Jake Woods
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