Vanity Set - Vanity Set : Little Stabs of Happiness

Re-Issued Now at a Cheap Price to Tie in with Nick Cave Solo Shows. Brazenly Off-Kilter And Utterly Unique, This Is the Is the Vanity Set's Second Album, Little Stabs of Happiness a Debut Was Also Released in 2000. Written in a Rat-infested Basement on NYC's Lower East Side in the Weeks Directly After 9/11, the Vanity Set Recorded Little Stabs of Happiness in the Summer of 2002. Led By James Sclavunos (The Tallest Man in Rock And Rock And Famed Drummer Percussionist with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), the Vanity Set Blend Low Art, High Sass And Raw Bluster. No Other Band Leaps from the Sublime to Depraved, Filth to Elegance, Camp to Heartfelt Urgency Like These Black-Fisted Post-Romanticists. Sclavunos Is the Exquisitely Tailored, Six-Foot-Seven, Howling Crooning Front Man with a Vocal Style Somewhere Between Adam West, Jarvis Cocker And Kermit. Renowned for Their Wickedly Exuberant Live Performances, the Vanity Set Sally Forth with Psycho-Billy Guitar, Guitar, Creepy Keys, Raucous Tuba, Mellifluous Theremin, And Boasts the Finest Rhythm Section in All Five Boroughs of New York City. The Nick Cave Solo Band Dates Featuring James Sclavunos: 30th January Birmingham Symphony Hall, 31st January Cambridge Corn Exchange, 1st February Nottingham Royal Centre, 2nd February London Apollo Victoria, 4th February Edinburgh Playhouse, 5th February Glasgow Concert Hall, 6th February Manchester Bridgewater Hall. Cargo UK. 2006.

1) Big Bang
2) Little Stabs of Happiness
3) Little Demons
4) I Started a Joke
5) Imp of the Perverse
6) Some Little Bird
7) She Came Out of Nowhere
8) No Regrets
9) Morning Glory Day
10) Bell Song