Jeremy X. Halpern Performs at Oh You Pretty Things At Highline Ballroom 5/30

Looney host Jeremy X. brings weirdness onstage and off to Oh! You Pretty Things "Killer Queens" - A Glam-Rock Retrospective in honor of Queen, Roxy Music, and Bowie at The Highline Ballroom on May 30, 2010. He'll be filming and broadcasting for www.Weirdos.TV all night long, including exclusive backstage footage and interviews with the performers. And, at 11:30 pm, he'll be joining Michael T. & the Vanities on stage as the Eno-esque keyboard player for a rockin' set of Bowie, Queen and Roxy Music covers.

The Highline Ballroom is located at 431 West 16th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues in New York City. For show information and tickets, please go to: http://highlineballroon.com/bio.php?id=1514.

Jeremy X. Halpern is the sole proprietor of 1-800-Weirdos, and founder of the multimedia performance group Verge,. As an actor, he has worked with such notables as Yehuda Duenyas, Anne Bogart, Jerzy Grotowski, and Eugenio Barba. As musical director of Verge, he has masterminded and composed music for such bizarre epics as "Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret)" and "Battle of the Dead Celebs (A comic dance of historical significance)", and is currently composing the score for "Mogulopolis", a music spectacle about female robots. He will be performing again in the NTUSA's highly acclaimed show, "Chautauqua!"

in its return engagement at the Longwharf Theatre in New Haven in June.
1-800-Weirdos.TV is an ever-evolving live interactive international multimedia musical mash-up. 1-800-Weirdos was founded in 1995 and live weekly radio broadcasts began in 1998. In January 2009, live interactive video broadcasts began on www.Weirdos.TV. All episodes of the radio and TV show are available for download as a podcast on Apple's iTunes Music Store.

During each broadcast, music is created using a dizzying array of digital synthesizers, including samples of callers as well as live callers to 1-800-Weirdos. In addition, audio processing in realtime using digital effects and MIDI controllers creates an aural landscape that stimulates the imagination of the viewer. The visual technology includes realtime video processing of multiple cameras and multiple video overlays creating a psychedelic cornucopia of delicious eye candy.