That’s right, you heard correctly. The Bad Things will grace Seattle-area stages three times this month. Been a while since that happened. Here’s the rundown:

1. Saturday, March 16th at Miller’s Carnation. We bring the For Shane tribute to the east side this Saturday alongside Invisible Shivers, Mister Ink (from the Peculiar Pretzelmen), Kevin Sur (KEXP, Artist Home), Deacon Raleigh St. James and the incredible Party Cats. Bad Things will be closing out the night with a set of Pogues songs and trad classics. Buy tickets here!
2. Sunday, March 17th – The Last St. Patrick’s Day at Conor Byrne! This was just going to be another St. Patty’s at Conor’s until the very sad news was released last week that Conor Byrne will be closing down at the end of March. Conor’s has been our home away from home throughout our career and this is a blow to the local music scene….BUT you have one more chance to get wild in Ballard and we couldn’t be more proud to be closing out this very special night. It will be a raucous set of Pogues songs and Irish trad. Buy tickets here!
3. Saturday, March 30 – The Bad Things and The Party Cats at Cottontail. After two months of paying tribute to Shane, we’re excited to get back to our catalog and tonight will be a special “speakeasy” style performance at Belltown’s Cottontail Club. Enter through the alley , of course. Party Cats are opening the night. Buy tickets here!

This Saturday, The Bad Things return to the Rabbit Box Theatre to kick off our favorite season, the fall. I know it’s technically still summer but September means fall to me. The new lineup of the band has really been energized and our creative juices are flowing like crazy. We’ve been writing a ton. Even talking about doing another record…..gasp! For Saturday’s show, we’ve decided to showcase a few of these new songs, three in fact, as well as some cuts from our catalog that don’t see the light of day too often. No worries, plenty of classics will be smattered amongst the new stuff, but we’re excited to play these new ones for you.

Opening the show will be the Party Cats, featuring Accordion Cat, well-known and loved busker from the Pike Place Market, who is probably in more international photo galleries than any busker I know. He will be joined by Violin Cat and together they are the Party Cats! Not to be missed.

As before, this show is all ages with an 11pm curfew so expect The Bad Things to hit the stage around 9:00pm. Pick up advanced tickets here. Last time we played the Rabbit Box, it was pretty crowded so get those tickets in advance and get there early so you can snag a table and catch the Party Cats.

See all you miscreants on Saturday! xxoo Jimmy the Pickpocket

Has it really been two years since we posted here? Is that right? It’s like there was a worldwide pandemic or something. The pandemic impacted us as it did many of you and we had two members get the hell out of Dodge (or Seattle in this case): bass player Mad Wilcox moved to Portland and banjo extraordinaire Captain Panto to the sunny climes of Mexico.

Austin is still willing to commute but we found a new (or old) banjo slinger in Professor McBee, original Bad Things banjo player circa 2002-2004. That’s him you hear on the first album. Since Captain Panto has big shoes to fill, we also added a guitarist in Devin Carlen (Bad Things nickname forthcoming). We knew him when he was in the great band from back in the day Gunstreet Glory. He was a natural fit with the band’s sound and aesthetic and we can’t wait for you to hear him.

You can witness this new lineup on Friday, May 26th at the Rabbit Box Theatre in the Pike Place Market – former home of Patti Summers Cabaret and, most recently, the Can Can Cabaret. Both were regular haunts of the Bad Things of yore and it’ll be a hoot returning to the scene of the crime(s). Better yet, the show is all ages until 11pm PST. If there are some young Bad Things fans out there that have always wanted to witness us live, now’s your chance. You can get tickets here, which we recommend given the limited capacity.

So glad to be back and expect much more action on the show and new song front now that we have a hungry and excited new lineup. See you all on the 26th!

After almost two years of no Seattle appearances, Seattle’s kings of junkyard cabaret return. While our first attempt had to be cancelled due to Delta variant concerns in indoor venues, we’ve relocated to the outdoor stage at Slim’s Last Chance Saloon, in our beloved homeland of south Seattle.This will truly be a triumphant return (assuming we still know how to play the songs) and we can’t wait to see all your smiling, drunken faces.Joining us will be the always epic Chaotic Noise Marching Band. Been many years since we’ve shared a stage and they’re sure to get the party started right! Might even sit in on some Bad Things tunes, you never know.

Advanced tickets available here.

That’s right. You thought it was dead but no, it’s rearing it’s ugly head again. Cabaret Macabre returns to the Columbia City Theater this Saturday, October 26.

Cabaret Macabre had a solid run of 13 years before we decided to call it quits three years ago. Life got in the way and handling production and promotion duties for this show just became impossible. So, when our friend Kali of Freaksheaux To Geaux fame asked if she could take over production duties if we would agree to headline, it seemed like a no-brainer.

She’s put together a hell of a lineup: Baby Gramps, Vito and the One Eyed Jacks, Strangely (also holding down MC duties), Mai Li Pittard (Debaucherauntes, Pickpocket Revue) and Sasha Berenstein, Jenny Penny, La Petite Mort, Kino B. Demented, Anna Clara Buoyant and our lovely hostess Mistress Kali. Many of the dancers will be performing live to Bad Things songs and we’ll be adding some special guest musicians as well. Whew! What a night!

Advanced tickets are available here and are highly recommended as this has always sold out in year’s past. Plus they’re cheaper.

Also heard there will be T-shirts for sale of this incredible poster design by Robert “Nix” Nixon.

Feels good to be back. Link to the event page on Facebook and tell us you’re going. We can’t wait to see all your creepy crawly mugs this Saturday.

Wow, has it really been since January 2018 since we’ve posted anything? Hard to believe. We apologize for the radio silence but middle-aged reality has taken over, leaving little room for our “other” lives. We still get out 2 or 3 times a year but that’s about it.

Luckily for us, our much older friend Danbert Nobacon, has been a busy little beaver up there in Twisp. He remixed the 2010 album “Woebegone” at Mell Detmer’s Studio Soli in West Seattle and the result is “Woebegoner.” The new mix sounds amazing. We miss Miss Funi’s vocals, but Miranda Zickler’s voice offers a great new take on the Liliithiana Red character. The mix is much warmer with a lot of that reverb-soaked space that Mell is known for and that we’ve grown to love. Pick up your own digital copy here. Physical copies should be available soon as well.

We will also be making a rare appearance this Saturday, February 16 at the Owl & Thistle. This has become one of our favorite dives to play. They don’t charge a cover, the crowd dances and we get to play two sets. It’s all Bad Things, all night long. Feel free to throw a little money in the hat and maybe pick up the Bad Things album that’s been missing from your collection. You can find all the details here.

Here we are doing “Evolution 9” off “Woebegone” at the Owl N’ Thistle back in 2017:

And we promise it won’t be over a year until we post on here again. Really. Seattle friends, we’ll see you on Saturday and everyone else, thanks for continuing to support. I know, why not take a trip to the beautiful Pacific Northwest for our next shindig. We’d love to see you.

Been a while since we’ve posted on the old website but don’t fear, we’re still around. Just don’t get around much anymore, as Duke Ellington once said.

We’ll be rearing our ugly old heads in February at our favorite dive bar on the banks of the old Duwamish, Lucky Liquor. This one is just us all night long. Our last few shows have been with no support and we’ve found it works well for us. We get to dust off old classics, play our favorite covers and by the time the second set rolls around, we are nice and warmed up and ready to party with ya’ll. Last time we played Lucky Liquor, things got a little rowdy. Here’s some video evidence. Can’t believe it’s been two years already.

So, that’s Saturday, February 17th at Lucky Liquor. Advanced tickets are $8 and we highly advise you grab some as it gets mighty cramped in there mighty fast. You can pick those up here. See you on the South End!