Holy cow, Gil, you blow my mind.

I had never heard of them up until last night's Art Brut show at Bowery Ballroom. Why? I'm really not sure. One thing I do know, Gil Mantera's Party Dream know how to put on a show. Even when their equipment cut out on them a couple of times, Ultimate Donny knew how to take control of the stage with comedy antics that briefly reminded me of the style of Mitch Hedberg's delivery. "We built a bridge from Ohio to New York. A lot of other people have talked about doing it, but we actually did it. Those other people never got it done because they were speaking in metaphors. But we really fucking did it. And we made it out of french fries." That quote is not exact, but I'm working from an overloaded memory here. You get the point. These guys are like Junior Senior in spandex after a hit of MDMA and 2 cases of budweiser back in 1989. I'm in love.

If you missed it, they are headlining a show tonight at Northsix in Brooklyn. If you can make it... I DEFINITELY recommend going. It's just something you need to experience for yourself. If nothing else, you just have to go to see Gil's dancing skills.

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P.S. To the guy who thought it was funny to scream "You look like Hitler!" between every song during Art Brut's set - You're an idiot and it wasn't funny the first time.

- LB