Join them for a one-time show on December 2nd opening for shoe-gaze icons Sea Ray
Show announcement
December 2, 2023
The Knitting Factory (at Baker Falls) 101 Avenue A
Doors at 8:00 pm
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We caught up with Tigers and Monkeys lead singer/songwriter Shonali Bhowmik in City Hall Park to talk to her about the band’s upcoming show at the Knitting Factory on December 2nd and how this all happened. After a two-year hiatus, Tigers and Monkeys are teaming up with NYC shoe-gaze icons Sea Ray to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Sea Ray album “Stars At Noon”.
To add to the nostalgia of the event, the show will take place at the site of the old Pyramid Club on Avenue A, which is now the re-launch of The Knitting Factory. The area, an incubator for artists such as Jeff Buckley and The Strokes, triggers the memories we New Yorkers have from going to shows in the early aughts on the Lower East Side in NYC. So it made sense that two bands are going back in time to this hallowed ground to celebrate their music, community, and friendships made along the way.
Like many of us, Shonali is someone that you could say has had a fair share of curve balls thrown at her left and right over the past two years. So as an artist, one never knows if and when the passion to write and record will happen, but the good news is that Shonali is back to making her music with her band Tigers and Monkeys. Already finished with writing and tracking the new songs, Bhowmik is looking at early 2024 for the release of her upcoming solo album “One Machine At A Time”.
“It’s a weird connection that we have in our lives as artists. That a lot of us took two years off during the pandemic. I never considered the possibility of taking two years off from music, never.” -SB
