We’re going to Texas! This Ambitious Orchestra, Lady Circus & Bro Circus are packing up and migrating south to perform for the grand opening of the Beauty Ballroom in Austin, Texas. Come out to this brand new 700 person venue- we’ll be there January 28th at 9:00pm! Check out our EVENTS PAGE or find more info about the Beauty Ballroom HERE. Beauty Ballroom Box Office- 512.391.1943.
Lady Circus & Benjamin Ickies present “This Ambitious Show” Friday, January 20, 2012 (that’s THIS Friday!). 8pm & 11pm at Brooklyn’s House of Yes. Reserve tickets HERE and enjoy the preview below.
Restaged and revived from summer’s hit symphonic rock ballet production.
You arrive to New York City, your eyes are bright and your heart is young. You step outside of the train staton and are immediately crushed by the buildings, suffocated by the noise and swept up by the crowds. Panic swells up in your chest – you are utterly alone in a city of 8 million. You have no choice, you breathe it all in.
You trade comfort for chaos. You take unimaginable risks in the name of adventure. What was insane back home is now the norm. You let yourself fall irreversibly in love. You lock lips with the city and it tastes like a familiar poison. You commit to your addiction, letting it destroy everything you thought you were. One day you wake up and realize that you’re home. You have paid your dues and you finally belong in the city built for the fearless, the beautiful and the ambitious. Read more »
@benjaminickies: Taking the new home studio for a test spin: The Pixies, The Clash and Bartók but settling on Smetana for now.
@benjaminickies: Probably was a bad idea to sign all these performance contracts right after painting my nails red & green.
This Ambitious Orchestra’s performance at the Halloween Oh! You Pretty Things reinterpreted the classic musical and film Cabaret as a glam rock stage revue, complete with dancing showgirls courtesy of Lady Circus. Photos by Jonathan McPhail.
@benjaminickies: I have walked over the Williamsburg bridge 5 times in the last 3 days. Great way to watch summer turn into fall.
Check out this review of our Freddie Mercury birthday party and show in NEXT Magazine:
Warm fuzzy quote: “Freddie Mercury was alive once more within the walls of Le Poisson Rouge”
Correction: Benjamin is a proud Brooklynite and hasn’t lived in the Heights for nine years, though the thing about reggaeton is totally true.
While on the other side of the pond Prince Harry was enjoying his first night as a married man, Martin White, leader of our London-based sister band The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra, performed his song ‘Thank You For Not Discussing the Outside World’. In his own words: “a song about apathy.” Recorded live at Sullivan Hall in New York City on April 30, 2011, here is This Ambitious Orchestra with Martin White on vocals and accordion.
@benjaminickies: Italicizing some text crashed my Sibelius software. We can put a man on the moon, but this is too much?
@benjaminickies: They say beware the ides of March, but the ides of April ain’t so great either.
