Santos’ Party House Opens Upstairs SpaceWith a sound system that promises to do justice to its cabaret license, Santos (a.k.a. Santa’s) is very early Christmas gift to dance fiends.
LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy Aboard at 100 LafayetteJames Murphy reveals on the message board of his label, DFA, that he’ll be doing a little something there called Special Disco Version at Andrew WK’s new party pad.
SLA Poops the Party at Andrew W.K.’s Soon-to-Open Venue
Brooklyn Vegan has it that on April 5 rocker-muse Andrew W.K. and artist Spencer Sweeney will host a Handsome Furs performance at their long-in-the-works venue, at one point called Santa’s Party House. We’ve heard that owners of bygone East Village dive the Hole will also be involved along with bookers from the Knitting Factory and P.S. 1’s Warm-Up series. But it might not be time to party hardy just yet.
The New York Diet
Musician Andrew W.K. Eats Pretty Much Everything With a Side of Nuts
What does a party animal eat? Well, peanuts, for one, and not just at parties. Andrew W.K., who has parlayed his rock anthems such as “It’s Time to Party” into a career as a performance artist and motivational speaker of sorts, tells us he eats them with everything from his breakfast cereal to junk food. “Once I started teaming Cheetos up with peanuts, I was really hitting them hard,” he says. Though he confesses to the occasional post-peanut queasiness, it hasn’t bogged him down much: In addition to kicking off the Bamboozle music festival tomorrow morning with a rousing speech, he’s currently at work on a freeform TV show, a solo piano album (and others), and a multipurpose venue to open in lower Manhattan by summer. To get an idea of what sorts of bar snacks he might just be serving at the latter, we asked him what he’s eaten this week.