UPDATE: Jello Biafra’s Incredibly Strange Dance Party has been postponed. There is currently no word on when the rescheduled date will take place. A post on the event’s Facebook page reads:
Hi everyone, due to a family conflict, Jello will not be able to perform on July 21st. For those of you who have had the privilege to catch one of his set’s, you understand how much of a bummer it is for me to write this. Let’s not call it a cancellation, let’s say, “ Postponed until we can send Jello back to Siberia”.
Jello Biafra will host an “Incredibly Strange Dance Party” at Siberia in New Orleans on Friday, July 21. The Dead Kennedys frontman will be spinning records from his own personal collection at the St. Claude Avenue music venue.
Biafra’s history with New Orleans goes back many years, but hit an interesting peak in 2011. That’s when the punk rock icon and former San Francisco mayoral candidate teamed up with members of Down, Dash Rip Rock, Cowboy Mouth, Supagroup, Morning 40 Federation and Egg Yolk Jubilee for a one-off “Jello Biafra’s New Orleans Raunch and Roll Revue” show at the now-defunct 12 Bar. The unofficial Jazz Fest after show—which featured Bill Davis, Pepper Keenan, Fred LeBlanc, Brian Broussard, Josh Cohen, Pete Gordon and the Egg Yolk Jubilee horn section—was recorded for a 2015 live album called Walk on Jindal’s Splinters.
Tickets for Biafra’s DJ set at Siberia are now on sale for $8.
