HONEY WEST, Feat. Grammy-Nominated Foreigner/King Crimson Co-Founder IAN McDONALD, Live At The Cutting Room 1/25

Following year-end Top Album list nods by Goldmine and WFUV's Darren DeVivo, Honey West, the NYC guitar rock outfit featuring Foreigner/King Crimson co-founder Ian McDonald, emerges during GRAMMY WEEK for its first gig of the new year behind its latest single, "Bad Old World," Thursday, Jan. 25 at The Cutting Room, 44 E. 32ndSt., New York City.

"Bad Old World" is the second single and driving title track from the band's acclaimed debut album, BAD OLD WORLD(Readout Records). The upcoming "Bad Old World" music video, to be directed by Follette Films (Patty Smythe, John Doe of X), is due in February. It follows the groundbreaking lyric video for the first single "Dementia," which premiered exclusively in Billboard. The fiery new single, crafted by McDonald and his "odd couple" songwriting partner, Shakespearean thespian Ted Zurkowski of The Actors Studio, is indicative of an album that Fireworks Magazine (UK) calls "a pure joy" and Glide Magazine declared "full of just good, fun, crisp-sounding, non-overproduced songs, and it's very much worthy of a listen."

As a British rock titan who has figured prominently on four of the biggest-selling albums of the 10-year period from 1969 through 1979, encompassing two completely different rock genres, McDonald - who was nominated for a GRAMMY as an original member of Foreigner - proudly tells interviewers BAD OLD WORLD, the album, is "some of the best work I've ever done." Indeed, noted Billboard, "It merits some attention when Ian McDonald gets excited about something. Bad Old World is filled with memorable melodies and clever and sophisticated lyrics served on a bed of guitar-driven rock 'n' roll played by top-shelf musicians, including guest appearances by drummer Steve Holley, whose credits include Paul McCartney & Wings and Graham Maby (Joe Jackson, They Might Be Giants) on bass. While it's a modern sound stamped by McDonald's world-class musicianship and production, it also bears an instant familiarity, thanks to a sonic blueprint recalling such Brit-rock greats as The Move, Mott the Hoople, the Kinks and Rockpile.

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