Music Monday #060 – Unextraordinary Gentlemen

Fire up the dirigible and polish up your spats because we are back into some SteamPunk for this week!

Unextraordinary Gentlemen
Unextraordinary Gentlemen (UXG) is a musical project formed in Los Angeles in 2005 by bassist/keyboardist Richard Pilawski (previously with the surf punk band Sex with Lurch) & vocalist/lyricist Eric Schreeck to “…explore our love for post-punk, synth-pop, industrial & experimental music combined with the literary genre of Victorian fantasy.” The project went public in early 2007, joined by Jennifer Pomerantz (of Demonika & The Darklings) on violin. The band’s name is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
UXG has been called one of the “foremost of the musical assets of… steampunk” and has been interviewed by or featured in several genre and local scene publications. Their first CD, 5 Tales from God-Only-Knows received positive reviews from several sources, most notably ReGen magazine, Mick Mercer and Sepiachord. Mick Mercer called their second release, No Hands To Guide Us, “most impressive”, and they are featured in Mercer’s latest book, Music To Die For.

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And now for some music …

Unextraordinary Gentlemen – Open Arms, Empty Air (Live)

Unextraordinary Gentlemen – Skeleton Goes to Town

Unextraordinary Gentlemen – Mr.Soot’s Black Book

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