Wednesday, August 23 New York, NY: Otto’s Shrunken Head: Copycat 10th Anniversary, 9pm – 4am, FREE:
Jonathan Toubin joins Drew Redmond, Phast Phreddie, Captain Heartlock, MC Huge, Greg-gory, and DJ Xerox in celebrating 10 years of Copycat!
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Thursday, August 24 New York, NY – Baby’s All Right: The Nude Party, Stuyedeyed and Boytoy with DJ Jonathan Toubin 10:30pm – 1am, $5: NYC’s latest and greatest immigrants (all the way from Boone, NC!) turn it on every weekly at Baby’s and this week they’re supported by friends Stuyedeyed, Boy Toy, and Jonathan Toubin!
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Friday, August 25 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin and special guest Sheila B (WFMU’s Sophisticated Boom Boom), 10:30pm – 4am, $5 (FREE before 11pm): Get your kicks Friday in the cozy subterranean confines of Home Sweet Home at New York Night Train’s iconic weekly Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down fiesta! Do the wiggle to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of your favorite DJ Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl singles turning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down deep below the big city after dark! NYC’s longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Tonight is kinda special because, for the first time ever, JT’s good buddy and hero Sheila Burgel of Sophisticated Boom Boom on WFMU will be his special guest DJ! Sheila not only has turned on her unique and amazing girl group and beyond platters all over the world but she is the curator of iconic compilations like Sony Legacy UK/ Real Gone Records’ “Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl Pop” or Ace Records’ Marylebone Beat Girls 1964-1967! We are thrilled to have Sheila’s ecstatic energy and cool platters on board the Night Train! Don’t miss this! Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, August 26 Maspeth, NY – Knockdown Center: NY Night Train Rock’n’Roller Skate Ball!, 9pm-2am, $10 Big multi-room multi-media good-time Saturday night extravaganza! Jonathan Toubin and friends turn party vinyl all night long while you roller skate, dance, and hang out with yr amigos under the huge disco ball!!! If you don’t have your own, cheap $7 skate rental! Plus… Live music by The Tough Sh!ts, Tower, Johnny Couch, Chorizo, and Animal Show! Live Visuals by Spencer Bewley and Gary Baliban! Pizza! Roller girls! Le Crunch glam dance party room with Josh Styles and Sophie Thunder! Thee amazing Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne! Go Go by Erin Sheehy and the N.Y. Night Train Shadow Dancers! Gary Ballaban Roller-Exploitation Cinema Masterpiece Theater, and a whole lot more! definitely plan to make an entire night of it!
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Sunday, August 27 Brooklyn, NY – Our Wicked Lady Sky Terrace: NY Night Train Sunday Soul Scream Rooftop Record Hop with Escape-ism and DJs Ian Svenonius and Jonathan Toubin, 8pm-4am, $10 suggested donation: Every summer Sunday NY Night Train and Our Wicked Lady bring your favorite weekly soul vinyl wingding back way up on the OWL’s fabulous sky patio bar! Shake a tail feather to the exquisite 60s soul 45 magic of thee one and only dee jay Jonathan Toubin, his fabulous guests, and the world’s best rock’n’roll bands. Dancing, delectable eats courtesy of Strange Flavor, homemade frozen tropical cocktails, and moonlit Bushwick rooftop party ambience! Every week of summer… Early party kicks off at 7PM, live music at sunset, and dancing through the night! Tonight! Are you ready for star time? It is indeed a great pleasure to present to you at this partiuclar time, national and internationally known as the hardest working man in show business, the vocalist/lyiricist/conceptualist of Nation of Ulysses… Cupid Car Club… The Make-Up!… David Candy… Scene Creamers… Weird War… Chain and the Gang!… XYZ… the author of… “The Psychic Soviet”… “Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group”… “Censorship Now”!… host of Vice TV’s “Soft Focus”!… director of the film “What is a Group?”… The reigning “Sassiest Boy in America” for decades… Mr. Blue is Beautiful himself… thee star of the show…. thee debonaire IAN SVENONIUS and his latest solo music project, thee electrifying ESCAPE-ISM!
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upcoming nite training:
– Friday, September 1 London, UK – Moth Club: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off with a live set by Auckland, NZ’s The Cavemen (facebook event)
– Friday, September 1 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/special guest
– Saturday, September 2 Larmer Tree Gardens, UK – End of The Road Festival: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off (facebook event)
– Sunday, September 3 Larmer Tree Gardens, UK – End of The Road Festival: Jonathan Toubin DJ Set (facebook event)
– Friday, September 8 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin
– Saturday, September 9 Long Island – Jonathan Toubin does weddings
– Sunday, September 10 NYC South Street Seaport: NY Night Train Day at the 15th Annual Seaport Music Festival with The Make-Up, Martin Rev, James Chance and the Contortions, The Mystery Lights, Wolfmanhattan Project (Kid Congo Powers, Mick Collins, and Bob Bert), Death Valley Girls, Surfbort, and Warm Drag, 1pm-9pm, FREE! (facebook event)