Jesse Malin has announced that Bowery Electric, the downtown NYC venue which he co-owns, will stage live audience shows at the club starting in early April. Malin and his full band will perform two shows on Apr. 2 and two on Apr. 3 to a limited capacity audience, capped at 50 people.
Along with the live shows, Malin will deliver the final two installments of his 'The Fine Art of Self Distancing' livestream series. On March 18, he'll perform a stream from his apartment as the penultimate 'TFAoSD' livestream, featuring special guest Monte A Melnick (The Ramones' tour manager). The final episode will be a stream of the series will be a livestream of the first in-person audience show on Apr. 2.
Malin shared a statement regarding the reopening of Bowery Electric. Read it in full below.
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Hey Rastas,
I can’t thank you guys enough for the huge support this past year.
Many of us have lost people we love and some of us have lost or livelihoods.
It has been a very trying one, indeed, but doing these shows has really been a bright spot for me in the world, and I hope it has been for you as well.
It’s been great to connect somehow, to so many of you out there, in near and faraway places. It was a little scary and weird at first, but I have really enjoyed every single one of them. I feel like we all went through one of the heaviest times in our lives together.
I will never forget this.
Me, the band, the crew and Bob Strauss will be back to do some one-off livestream specials here and there, with the great folks at Rolling Live.
But for now, Thursday, March 18 in my apartment, and Friday, April 2 at Bowery Electric will be the final streams of The Fine Art of Self Distancing.
We will be playing some safe and distanced, real live shows with all the CDC guidelines, like the upcoming four shows in April.
I will be releasing a new single later this month on Wicked Cool Records, and a brand new album in September, 2021.
Please keep the PMA, stay safe and be loving to each other. I will be seeing you all very soon!
Much love and gratitude from the bottom of my heart!
Always,
JM
