Madison House Inc.

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New York's own soul-punk orchestra, the WORLD/INFERNO Friendship Society, is blazing across the US and Europe to perform their red-eyed showtunes to the swarming punk-rock masses.

Fresh off the sold-out New York premiere of their vignette-laden new musical Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century, the band is arriving with plenty of gusto and a new drummer: Brian Viglione of Boston cabaret-punk heroes The Dresden Dolls. Says Brian, “Swing dance, slam dance, sing your heart out, and waltz with a stranger out into the street after the show – that’s the kind of fun we have. People looking for the real deal, a band that plays with more heart than you can imagine and leaves you sweaty and grinning ear-to-ear, need to see this band live and join in.”

At eight pieces – wailing drums, three horns, two guitars, way too many teeth, a piano, and a singer soaked with wit, charisma, and humor – their songs so sweet and quicksilver beat promise to put you smack in the middle of the vaudeville circus you’ve always wished your life could be. The band’s tight musicianship and penchant for brewing up high-energy dance numbers are rooted in punk, but manifest themselves with flashes of Count Basie, Wilson Pickett, The Pogues, and Little Richard all out on a night-long bender.

THE WORLD/INFERNO is coming to your town! Full-time fighting friends to the friendless, the most successful scourge to the oppressors since Willie Sutton, they're riding a wave of sumptuous red wine straight into your hearts. Even if they have to buy the drinks themselves, they'll do it. Come see the circus play the dirty rock club, one night only! Come and waltz with the one you love.

“It's Halloween, it's 1933, we're all in Blade Runner, and the drinks are on the house. You have no excuse not to come out unless it is that you are a jerk. I don't think you're a jerk, I'll see you there...”