CONEY ISLAND SIDE SHOW LAST NIGHT

Well last nights performance in Williamsburg Brooklyn with the Coney Island Side Show was a hit!  Place was packed so tight it was your worst nightmare to walk to the stage from the back of the place where the dressing room was.  Finally on stage there was just enough room for the tattooed strong man, his accomplices, a snake, implements of fire, bed of nails, steel bars, electric metal grinders, swords for swallowing... you get the picture.  I started with a posing and flexing routine to Rob Zombies Dragula then went to a bed of very sharp nails then on to steel bending.  Very cool. ;-)

Funny story... Dick Zigun owner of the Coney Island Side Show www.coneyisland.com owns 2 beds of nails.  One that I had used in past was older.  So lets say maybe the nails weren't quite as razor sharp as the ones on the "newer" one he had brought for me to use last night! LOL! When I saw which bed he had brought I thought "shit."  And to top me off... we brought two ladies on stage to stand on top of me while I focused on not letting nails impale my skin. LOL!  When I saw the two girls come on stage I thought "fuuu**."  Later when I mentioned all this to Dick he looked at me and gave a chuckle.  "No worries Dick!  I do this stuff for the art man!"  I do it for the art.  And I love art.

Some photos from last night including this pre midnight brew challenge.  Get all this in yer gut! :-)  The venue was just so damn crazy and hectic with so many people therefor there was no good opportunity for filming.  Alas still photography will do ;-)

Bed of nails is bad ass.  And bending steel bars over your head... brutal. ;-)

~TD~

BTW... that beer was heavy.