{"id":1627,"date":"2011-09-09T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2011-09-09T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T11:33:48","slug":"mister-joe-black-cabaret-misfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/mister-joe-black-cabaret-misfit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister Joe Black: Cabaret Misfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well THIS is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misterjoeblack.com\/assets\/galleries\/131\/lr-6.jpg?resize=401%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we feature neo-cabaret artists Mister Joe Black, whose brand of dark, dolly-watching-you-while-you-sleep-and-grinning kind of cabaret is filled with personality, wit, and weirdness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The neo-vaudevillian, the real life Disney villain, the gin-addled courtesan, the anti-christ of cabaret and the one and only waltzing cynic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eccentric to international stages, Joe Black takes to shows in an almost cartoon-esque theatrical assault,<br \/>\nsweeping the audiences through an array of show tunes, ballads, and a rather varied but fine selection of morally questionable entertainment. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqxgGK4xY5w]<\/p>\n<p>Twisted purveyour of gothic cabaret,\u00a0&#8220;An accordion-playing lovechild of Danny Elfman and a gin-addled courtesan&#8221;, &#8220;Like making a conference call to Bedlam lunatic asylum; It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re conducting a pleasant-yet-bonkers chit chat with several people&#8221;,\u00a0inspiring you to finally follow your &#8220;dream of\u00a0burning down an orphanage, drinking whiskey and stowing away on a pirate ship&#8221;, Mister Joe Black is based in England (as far as i can tell) but does cabarets and shows across Europe and in the US and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another little gem:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M4toanLkGXE]<\/p>\n<p>For more info and whatnot you can visit his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misterjoeblack.com\/\">www.misterjoeblack.com<\/a>\u00a0as well as his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/misterjoeblacketc\">Youtube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly a promotional music video for the title track from upcoming Joe Black halloween release &#8216;Vile Volumes for Villainous Children&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9qv-Ydeob_Y]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well THIS is interesting. Today we feature neo-cabaret artists Mister Joe Black, whose brand of dark, dolly-watching-you-while-you-sleep-and-grinning kind of cabaret is filled with personality, wit, and weirdness. &#8220;The neo-vaudevillian, the real life Disney villain, the gin-addled courtesan, the anti-christ of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,64,97,258],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-band","tag-cabaret","tag-dark-cabaret","tag-music","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}