Strange Party - Sleepwalking Through Life (Vinyl)

On a hot summer day in 1980, more than a few people got together and formed STRANGE PARTY -- a musical group consisting of a mime-artist socialite (Joey Arias, of Fiorucci/David Bowie fame), a TV commercial producer-jazz singer-poet (Tony Frere), a dilettante composer living off of stocks and bonds (George Elliott, formerly of Come On), a successful illustrator (Page Wood, designer of Summer '81's Bloomingdale's bag), a mad female scientist and model (Janus, who worked with Joey and Tony in the Klaus Nomi show), a sizzling session saxophonist (Steve Elson), a rock and roll male secretary (Tom Kirchner, former child-actor), an ex-Young Adult (David Hansen, the New England cult-idol), and a roving 6 foot-4 inch guitarist (Jack Rigg, a jack-of-all-bands for David Johansen, Blue Oyster Cult and STRANGE PARTY).

The theme of a STRANGE PARTY show is always a surprise...be it Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast", "Mermaids on Heroin", or "the Beatnik Romans", STRANGE PARTY manages to come through as original, exotic and inspiring.

The band contains a store-house of mass multi-media capabilities-- comic strips, Broadway, holograms, video epics, not to mention several albums worth of striking, original material.

Always keeping an innate blend of musicianship, dynamite vocals, theatrics, style and wit, STRANGE PARTY has been equally well received playing clubs for Manhattan's scene-makers and intelligentsia, or playing for the clientele of posh restaurants, all the while keeping at bay hordes of screaming pre-teen girls. STRANGE PARTY hopes to tour the world to prove the ultimate party is music and that life, is indeed, wonderfully strange.

- Merle Ginsberg, Soho News (included printed on paper as promotional material with some copies of the single, with the header "The Best Party Band in New York").

Source: Discogs