Celebrating 10 years of performances at BOP STOP honoring David Bowie’s passing, glam punk rockers Vanity Crash present the inside story of how Northeast Ohio came to host the artist’s first-ever US appearance in 1972, launching Bowie’s career outside of England.

David Bowie in Cleveland will be presented at 8PM on Friday, January 10, 2025 at BOP STOP and features brand new music and tunes pulled from Vanity Crash’s five albums of original material.

Guests will also experience David Bowie classics and deep cuts alongside rare and exclusive video interviews with Cleveland radio pioneers such as Billy Bass and Danny Sanders, as well as experts and members of Bowie's band The Spiders from Mars, who recall that life-changing first US performance in Cleveland.

Tickets: $18 in advance, $22 day of show. This show will not be livestreamed.

Additional performances take place:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at Jilly’s Music Room in Akron (111 N. Main St AKR 44308)

Sunday, January 12, 2025 at Beachland Ballroom and Tavern in North Collinwood (15711 Waterloo Rd CLE 44110)

Info: VanityCrash.com

(photo by Anastasia Pantsios 11.22.72 Music Hall, CLE)

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DAVID BOWIE:
“He’s chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature,” David Bowie sings in 1971, but he could have been writing his own bio. Legendary for creating multiple personas like Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke, and more, the artist quickly innovated through musical styles from early experiments in R&B and folk rock to inventing glam rock, to “plastic soul,” Krautrock, ambient, pop, Drum and Bass, to a jazz rock collaboration on his final album, ★Blackstar. With over 30 appearances as an actor, and 100 million records sold, Bowie is credited with influencing generations of artists in the genres of glam, disco, punk, grunge and alternative. He raised the bar permanently for theatrics in live performance, and he upended the notion of what it means to be a rock star.

VANITY CRASH:
Vanity Crash was born onstage in the smash Cleveland Public Theatre production of “Hedwig and The Angry Inch” about a botched sex change operation. Band front man Dennis Van Crash was the musical director of the play, which featured the fictional on-stage band The Angry Inch. The glam punk band was so tight and rocking, the decision was made to keep the band together and work on original material. Five releases later, Vanity Crash has been dressing up and throwing down with eye-popping synchronized light shows, outrageous stage costumes and provocative attitude, opening for the likes of the New York Dolls, Poison, the Darkness and Gogol Bordello. Their acclaimed presentations on David Bowie include timeless gems performed live alongside their own incendiary originals.

THOMAS MULREADY:
As creator of Cool Networks LLC, Mulready leads an influencer-driven multimedia content network utilizing sites, podcasts, videos, and e-blasts to promote economic development, arts, culture and technology in Northeast Ohio. After creating the Performance Art Festival+Archives, he co-founded the Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, and has served as Senior Vice President of National City Bank and worked at Management Recruiters International, Richardson-Vicks, and Campbell Soup. He’s played drums with Cats On Holiday and Vanity Crash, presented his performance art in New York and Paris, and served as a Senior Research Consultant in the United Kingdom.