The Punk Rock Horror Show w/ Green Jelly & First Jason

Hard Rock Cafe and CE Presents welcome The Punk Rock Horror Show featuring Green Jelly and First Jason with special guests The Wasted, 13occult and The X-Ray Dead on Thursday, October 31, 2024!

Entry and seating for event attendees begin at 6:00 PM.

MORE ABOUT GREEN JELLY

A theatrical, costume-heavy comedy rock band, Green Jelly found success in 1993 with their surprise Top 40 hit "Three Little Pigs" and its accompanying claymation video. The single appeared on their Billboard-charting sophomore LP Cereal Killer Soundtrack. Led by vocalist and sole constant member Bill Manspeaker, the band emerged in 1989 and went on hiatus after the release of 1994's 333. They reconvened in 2009 with the original lineup and released Musick to Insult Your Intelligence By, and in 2021 they issued their fifth long-player, Garbage Band Kids.

Green Jelly began their career as Green Jellö in 1981. The name was chosen due to the band's poor opinion of green-flavored jello, and they decided it also appropriately reflected the quality of their music. Hailing from New York, the bandmates never attempted to be good, deciding instead to "disguise their lack of ability with stupid props," as their liner notes once put it. Green Jellö appeared on The Gong Show touting themselves as the world's worst band, but the real turning point came in 1988, when they met GWAR and learned how to sculpt props and costumes with latex, papier-mache, chicken wire, and couch cushions. They attracted a small, curious following with their bizarre, cartoonish look and wound up signing with Zoo Records as a video-only band.

Having already released several EPs and one album (1989's Triple Live Möther Gööse at Budokan), Green Jellö made their Zoo Records debut with Cereal Killer, a "video album" that featured music videos for each song. Filled with silly costumes and simple, bubblegum metal songs, Cereal Killer became a hit once the clay-animation video for "Three Little Pigs" started showing up on MTV. Demand for the band's music increased, and the guys responded by releasing Cereal Killer Soundtrack -- essentially the audio version of their video-only album -- in 1993.

With success came lawsuits. After Kraft Foods took them to court for trademark infringement, the musicians were forced to change their name to Green Jelly. They also had to include an edited version of "Cereal Killer" on their audio release, as the cereal companies whose mascots were murdered in the video did not take kindly to it. The music industry still had faith in the group, though, and Green Jelly had little trouble convincing BMG to co-finance Green Jellÿ Studios, an audio and visual production house that opened its doors in 1994 on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. That same year, Green Jelly supplied the first-ever video game soundtrack for Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage, based on the Marvel Comics characters. The group released one last single in 1995, a version of Gary Glitter's "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" with Hulk Hogan on vocals, before calling it quits.

A decade passed before Green Jelly reunited in 2008. After touring the country and reissuing their 1993 opus Cereal Killer Soundtrack, the band released a new record, Musick to Insult Your Intelligence By, in 2009. Things remained relatively quiet on the Green Jelly front for the next several years. A new single, "Fr3tö F33t," appeared in 2017, followed by a parody of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme, "Silence of the Sponge," in 2019. Two years later they released Garbage Band Kids, their first studio LP in 12 years.

MORE ABOUT FIRST JASON

"Razor sharp hooks, monster playing and infectious melodies take FIRST JASON to a level that you need to see to believe! Their DIY work ethic and expertly crafted material are winning over legions of fans with every note they shred!” SPENCER CHARNAS of ICE NINE KILLS

“First Jason is amazing...hits you over the head with an anvil being swung at 1000 miles an hour by the metal gods. Lehman and crew break out of your speakers in surround-sound, get in your face, flash you the devil horns... will leave your jaw dragging across the floor."- COLLEGE NEWS

Ari Lehman is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor. A classically-trained pianist, he attended NYU, where he studied big band orchestration and jazz piano. He went on to record and tour with reggae and world beat bands in the US and abroad.

In 2004, Lehman launched FIRST JASON, named for his distinction in playing the first Jason Voorhees of the iconic horror film "Friday the 13th, " and has been melting faces ever since, slashing a machete to metal with his keytar. His boot-stomping music includes elements of jazz, rock, Afrobeat, Middle Eastern, classical, reggae, classical, and punk. Lehman has been entertaining audiences in a variety of venues across the country, UK, and in Europe.

AGE RESTRICTIONS

This event is open to all ages.

Alcohol is available for purchase to attendees ages 21 and over.

Valid identification is required for the purchase and/or consumption of alcohol.

RESERVATIONS/RESERVED SEATING

Seating within the event is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you require accessible seating accommodations, you must notify the venue in advance.

If you wish to eat and/or drink prior to the event you may contact the venue by phone at 412.481.7625 or place your reservation on OpenTable.

Please note that General Admission tickets do not reserve a seat.

EVENT PARKING

Station Square Parking Garage
301 W Station Square Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Station Square Parking Lot (West)
35 W Station Square Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Station Square Parking Lot (East)
160 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

REFUND POLICY

All sales are final - No refunds, exchanges, or transfers

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