Vic Thrill & The Plaster Cramp
Thu, 15 May 2025 (EDT)
08:00PM - 11:00PM
Unicorn Bar
224 Foxhall Ave
Kingston, New York 12401
Billy Campion aka Vic Thrill has been a pillar of the NYC music scene since the early 90's, first as singer of The Bogmen (Arista Records) and then reinventing himself as Vic (short for Vicarious) Thrill in 1997, playing underground art parties at places like Rubulad and 3rd Ward in Williamsburg using drum machines, laptops and vocal harmonizers to express a punk'd up, at times futuristic mix of East meets West music that Vic refers to as "Lo-fi-Sci" or "Himalaychian" (imagine a mountain, Appalaichian on one side and Himalayan on the other where the musicians from both sides meet at the top to play! From NY to LA, UK, Dublin and Italia, Vic Thrill has rocked many stages in various forms, opening for such legends as Devo, Iggy & The Stooges, The Ramones, World Inferno Friendship Society and countless more. This time he comes to you solo, equipped with guitars and electronics, decked out in bright colors and dollar store bling with live visuals by long time collaborator B.A. Miale!
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The Plaster Cramp are a psychedelic post-punk trio with jagged guitars, stacked harmonies, and electronic impulses. Formed in 2016 by John Frazier, Matthew Talmage, and Mason Brown, the three had played together for years in a variety of bands and projects in NYC and wanted to create a new group based on their shared love of Burroughsian cut-ups, improvisation, and the musical ferment of Downtown New York. Inspired by everything from the writings of Borges (from which their name was taken) to the twitching electronics of The Silver Apples and Devo to the composition-through-chance techniques of the Talking Heads and Eno, they have produced three albums, The Plaster Cramp (2016), A History of Rome In Five Pages (2018), and Cut/Echo (2023).