[DID NOT ATTEND: September 25, 2026] Nitzer Ebb / Vosh / DJ Mighty Mike Saga
I’ve known about Nitzer Ebb forever, but I guess I never really listened to them. When this show was announced, I thought…hmm do I remember these guys at all? And when I looked at the album covers I didn’t recognize any of them. In fact, it’s possible I don’t know a single Nitzer Ebb song, so I clearly wasn’t going to go to this show.
In fact, I didn’t even realize that they were English. I assumed they were German (which I guess was their goal)
Nitzer Ebb are an English EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan “Bon” Harris (vocals, programming, synthesizers, drums), Douglas McCarthy (vocals, guitars), and David Gooday (drums). The band was originally named La Comédie De La Mort but soon discarded that and chose the name Nitzer Ebb by cutting up words and letters and arranging them randomly to create something Germanic without using actual German words.
How about that.
The opening band is Vosh, who I’d never heard of.
Originally the trio of Chris Moore (Repulsion, Coke Bust, The Rememberables), Carson Cox (Merchandise, Death Index), and Josephine Olivia (Blacksage), VOSH was built to explore an amalgam of influences that range from Bauhaus to early Ministry to Sisters of Mercy to Zounds to Killing Joke to latter-day titans Nine Inch Nails. And while a wide-reaching and generic term such as “synth pop” or “darkwave” could be applied to the effort in broad strokes, the drama, intensity and excellent songwriting evokes something much deeper, more sinister, and darkly beautiful.
The description is apt. They have an old school synth goth vibe. I like it, but don’t need to see them.
I’ve been a to a show where a DJ was announced and he spun songs before and I guess during the acts. But it often doesn’t feel that much different from the house music they play between bands. Maybe more curated to the night, but I don’t usua;;ly pay that much attention to it. Tonight’s DJ was Philly’s Multi Genre Dj Dark Dance Super Hero! DJ MIGHTY MIKE SAGA
| 2024 Brooklyn Bowl | 2022 The Foundry | 2019 Union Transfer |
| Violin Akai € | Intro / Pathos, Pathos ∇ | Marigolds Ø |
| Chiba Funk € | Manchester ∇ | F Delano Ø |
| Late Night Comic € | Bright Whites ∇ | Hey Big Star $ |
| It All Began With a Burst ∇ | It All Began With a Burst ∇ | Say Yeah $ |
| Can’t Let Go, Juno $ | Wonder Woman, Wonder Me ∇ | Carry on Phenomenon ∠ |
| Marigolds Ø | Atticus, in the Desert ∇ | Honeybody $ |
| Colorful State € | I Am the Antichrist to You ∇ | Honeybody Remix $ |
| solo improv | Beat the Bright Out of Me ∇ | Can’t Let Go, Juno $ |
| I Am the Antichrist to You (solo) ∇ | This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads cover) | Theme From Jerome (Forgotten Words) Ø |
| Summer of ’42 (solo) Ø | Q&A ∠ | I Am the Antichrist to You (solo) ∇ |
| Violin Tsunami Ø | Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear Ø | This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads cover) (solo) |
| This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads cover) (solo) | Marigolds Ø | Violin/Banjo improv |
| Escape from Knossos € | I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) (Meat Loaf cover) | Bright Whites ∇ |
| Icarus IV € | The Ballad of Mr. Steak ∠ | Q&A ∠ |
| Hahaha Pt. 2 ∠ | Honeybody (began with studio arrangement which bled into performing in the style of the Mattsoro remix) $ | Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear Ø |
| Lilliputian Chop € | encore | Angeline Ø |
| The Ballad of Mr. Steak ∠ | Violin Tsunami Ø | Violin Tsunami Ø |
| Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! ∠ | Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! ∠ | Ode to My Next Life $ |
| Honeybody $ | Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! ∠ | |
| encore | Atticus, in the Desert ∇ | |
| Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear (acoustic, in crowd) Ø | (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes cover) | |
| Manchester (acoustic, in crowd) ∇ | The Ballad of Mr. Steak ∠ | |
| Ooh La La (Rod Stewart cover) (acoustic, in crowd) | It All Began With a Burst ∇ | |
| encore | ||
| Annie, Heart Thief of the Sea (acoustic, in crowd) Ø | ||
| Manchester (acoustic, in crowd) ∇ | ||
| Summer of ’42 (acoustic, in crowd) Ø |
| 2016 Union Transfer | 2015 TLA (opening for Guster) | 2014 New Brunswick (opening for Rod y Gab) |
| Stranger Things Theme [recordong] | violin improv | violin improv |
| Statues in a Gallery $ | Atticus, in the Desert ∇ | It All Began With a Burst ∇ |
| Hey Big Star $ | Bright Whites ∇ | Bittersweet Genesis for Him AND Her ∠ |
| m’lover $ | Bittersweet Genesis for Him AND Her ∠ | Atticus, in the Desert ∇ |
| Atticus, in the Desert (featuring extended banjo percussion solo) ∇ | The Ballad of Mr. Steak ∠ | Bright Whites ∇ |
| Bright Whites (with improv interlude featuring flute solo) ∇ | Q&A ∠ | Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! ∠ |
| Carry on Phenomenon ∠ | Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! ∠ | Manchester ∇ |
| Who’d You Kill $ | Manchester ∇ | |
| Can’t Let Go, Juno $ | ||
| Say Yeah $ | ||
| Ode to My Next Life $ | ||
| I Am the Antichrist to You ∇ (solo) | ||
| The Ballad of Mr. Steak (featuring Mr. Steak) ∠ | ||
| Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! ∠ | ||
| It All Began With a Burst (with “Don’t vote for Trump” vocal loop) ∇ | ||
| encore | ||
| Honeybody $ | ||
| Q&A ∠ | ||
| Manchester ∇ |
Ø Omoiyari (2019)
∇ 151a (2012)
