Sleepytime Gorilla Museum with Isolation Tank Ensemble - Headliners Music Hall (Louisville, KY)

Name: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum with Isolation Tank Ensemble - Headliners Music Hall (Louisville, KY)
Start: 2025-05-12T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Headliners Music Hall

Schedule

Mon, 12 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Headliners Music Hall | Louisville, KY

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum with Isolation Tank Ensemble
May 12, 2025
8PM (7:00PM Doors)
$25 Advance / $25 Day of show
This is an 18+ event.
Headliners Music Hall
Louisville, KY
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On any given night, SGM's live set careens from euphoric to eerie to ego-annihilating wall-of-sound. Gleefully dark and joyful noise emanates from a wild array of instruments, many homemade. Crowds are engulfed in circuitous melody, strange bursts of color and light, unknowable time signatures, spasmodic dance.
A Sleepytime performance is never just a string of head-bangin' anthems. Each song is an elaborate journey of its own, framing cameos from friends and family in the form of Butoh dance, parades, puppet shows, and the occasional impassioned oration of Italian Futurist poetry. What was an average local rock club just hours before is transformed into a volatile dreamspace where anything can, and does, happen. People speak in hushed tones about the live shows like rites of passage. Flustered reviewers, desperate to pigeonhole the ineffable, have labeled SGM everything from neo-RIO (Rock in Opposition) to avant-prog metal to grindcore funk theatre to, in the words of one particularly rapt concertgoer, "some kinda Satanic Anarchic Viking Shit". None of those descriptors come anywhere close to conveying the band's ethos.
Sleepytime's arsenal of instruments ranges from the traditional violin, trumpet and flute to standard rock fare of electric guitars, basses and drums, to intriguing contraptions from various folk traditions, to junkyard percussion and Fisher Price toys, to xylophones 'n' bells 'n' rusty trash can lids, to a collection of handcrafted one-offs including the Percussion Guitar, the Wiggler, the Spring-Nail Guitar, and a brutal, seven foot long piano-stringed bass behemoth called The Sledge Hammer Dulcimer.
General admission standing room only
Limited accessible seating available upon request at the door. Please arrive early if you require assistance and we will attempt to accommodate you as best as we can.