The Residents - Pictures from The Bunny Boy Tour, Blender Theater, NYC 10/11/08 ~ BrooklynRocks: NYC Music Blog

Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Residents - Pictures from The Bunny Boy Tour, Blender Theater, NYC 10/11/08

The Residents - Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC 10/11/08Last night, I caught the last of The Residents' three night run at the Blender Theater. The band is touring behind their latest CD, The Bunny Boy.

The Bunny Boy follows a story line of a "unabomber" type loner searching for his missing brother Harvey. The live show follows the sequence of the CD as the narrator deals with obsession, insanity and the coming Apocalypse. Like most releases from The Residents, this is pretty wild stuff.

The Residents - Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC 10/11/08 The production on this tour was a bit smaller scale than the last time that The Residents came through (DDA tour stopped at the Warsaw in 2002). The Bunny Boy tour is the equivalent of a one-room play where the narrator is the only live actor. The narrator takes the audience through the Bunny Boy story through narrative, songs and showing videos on the projection screen.

Here is an audience video from the tour premiere in Santa Cruz which will give you a sense for the stage set up:


The show was split into two parts and the pictures that follow are from the second act. The narrator performed the second act in a bunny costume (you have to see the show or buy the disc to understand the background for this). and these pictures show the narrator in his "secret room" slowing recognizing his madness.

The Residents - Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC 10/11/08
The Residents - Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC 10/11/08
The Residents - Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC 10/11/08
The Residents - Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC 10/11/08

This was an amazing show so, if you get the chance to catch one of the remaining US tour dates (below), you should go.

Oct 14 USA Detroit Royal Oak Theater
Oct 15 USA Chicago Lakeshore
Oct 16 USA Chicago Lakeshore
Oct 17 USA Chicago Lakeshore

Links:
Ralph America (The Residents' Record Label)
The Residents YouTube Channel
The Residents Website