Adam Weiner aka Ladyfingers and his various incarnations
BOOKING / PRESS : myladyfingers@gmail.com
Influences
Tom Waits, Sun Studios, VU, Charley Patton, Kinks, Hasil Adkins, Cab Calloway, Dion, Jerry Lee Lewis, Suicide, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Leonard Cohen, Beefheart, Klaus Nomi, Cramps, Mississippi John Hurt, Dylan, X, Springsteen, Young, Johnny Horton, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, Iggy, Richard Simmons, greek rembetika, and the Happy Days Theme Song
Sounds Like
LADYFINGERS is the alter ego of eccentric New Jersey-born artist, Adam Weiner. His music is a spastic brew of lo-fi rock, rockabilly, punk, and cabaret stylings. Weiner developed the Ladyfingers aesthetic of wiggy theatrics and self-depracation while living and performing in New York City for 8 years. Drawing from such artists as Tom Waits, Ween, Hasil Adkins, and Cab Calloway, Weiner’s live shows are a rush of nervous energy and dark humor. His “rubber room boogie-woogie” (Connect Savannah), finds him yelping and crooning his heart out over a flood of gnarly guitar, slinky whorehouse piano, and his patented hard maple stompbox. With his hair piled high, and his eyes popping, Ladyfingers morphs from a yelping Nu-Elvis, to a menacing carnival charlatan, to a smarmy cabaret crooner…all within a few tender moments.
In 2006, Weiner released the first official Ladyfingers album, “MY PROM”, featuring the bracing, hiccupy single “Cure for the Common Cold” (which is used in an upcoming MTV UK episode of Dirty Sanchez). The record received significant indie and college airplay all over the U.S. and Canada. Besides numerous shows in North America, Weiner has consistently toured the U.K., France, and Germany (the Europeans really appreciate the Ladyfingers schtick a lot!), and played the NXNE Festival in Toronto, SXSW in Austin, and CMJ in Manhattan. Audiences in various gin joints from Berlin to New Orleans have witnessed the striking energy of Herr Ladyfingers.
In 2008, Weiner released a full-length collection of demos and bedroom tapes called “MY HANDBOOK”. The record, which was recorded in various motel rooms and warehouses across America, features the psycho-midget porn-abilly of “Lite FM” and the sad-sack lo-fi classic “Genius Friends”. The album has already kicked up a buzz both in Europe and North America. In early 2009, Weiner plans to tour the UK, France, Spain, and Portugal, as well as the Southern U.S.
Ladyfingers is an independent artist. He has no management, label affiliation, booking agent, or personal stylist. He performs all these duties for himself. Are you impressed?
" My mind was blown away. Weiner stunned me with pipes of steel."
- Two Way Monologues
" Rubber room boogie-woogie act that smacks of Tav Falco aping Beefheart's first Magic Band. That shit's cool."
- Connect Savannah
" Ladyfingers' music, which is some wondrous medley of rockabilly and grimy punk, is as addictive as the cigarettes it makes you crave."
- the Radio Files, Montreal
" Ladyfingers' songs are funny, deep, hilarious and mad all at the same time."
- Indiemusic.com, NXNE
" Weiner manages to variously channel Elvis, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and Dion with incredible ease and fluidity. Somehow, through all this polyvalence he still manages to have his own voice."
- the Deli
"Arrest that man, he just about stole the whole night."
- Gig Scene with Graham Chalmers (Harrogate)
Nice to meet your aquaintance too :) You definitly got some skills, great songs! Must say Monsier L. Vagabond's review definitly sparked further investigation of your stuff, bang on from what I can hear. Now just got to see you live. I've floated around this continent and am now near Edmonton and Saskatoon Canada, you ever make it to western Canada? Hope your doing great on this fine fall day!
That was a great set at Rancho Relaxo. A singer-songwriter troubadour taking cues from rockabilly, accentuated with a country-blues-romp. Pinched-wails, sultry vocals, a renegade poet rippin' loose on the guitar, with shining lyrical themes. Greaser cool meets smile-inducing sentimentality. Ladyfingers may not claim greatness. But he may come close to it.
Heya Adam... How are you mate ? This is an invitation for our very first vinyl release.. La Féline # 1. Let me think you're still OK to appear on #2. isses from Paris. Xav "FRENCH ROCK'N'ROLL SPECTRE" At LA BELLEVILLOISE Vendredi 24 OCTOBRE 2008.
Réservez votre nuit: Show case des groupes figurant sur le disque (Tony Truant et ses deux Solutions, Smash, Fix it, Pussydelics, Beef Paradise, IKU, Fury Furyzz, Whodunit, Shéraff, Viande Pétrole et Tu Seras terriblement Gentille). L'ensemble sera ficelé par Juliette Dragon et son Cabaret des filles de Joie. Nombreuses surprises & DJays jusqu'à l'aube.. Bref de l'Or en Barre ! Merci de diffuser et l’info et le flyer.
as you can see, myself, jason and cooper have set up a regular night in harrogate on the last sat of every month. so hopefully this is going to kick off quite nicely!
hope all is well and cant wait for you to come back to our lovely land!
Hi mate... Such a pleasure to hear again from you. Our first production is almost done: Out on October 24th... Yeah. I'm gonna have some holidays now ! For sure in September we'll start working on something else and for sure we'll contact you again. Hope you're having good time. Enjoy ! Kisses from Paris. Xav
Hi Sir... Well I'm back in Paris after short holidays.. I've listenened to the CD you gave me at la Féline in Paris. It's fucking great. Our first vinyl compilation will be out soon (september), but we plan to record for another one soon. As I told you If you wanna be part of it you're wellcome. Let me tell you what you think about it. Kisses from la Féline. Xavier
Just checking in to see when you were coming to Toronto and soooo happy to see you are booked for Rancho. I will definitely be there! Can't wait to rock out to your divine sounds. xoxo
LADYFINGERS "Delectus" T-shirt (S-M-L-XL) - $12
SHADOW BOYS "Jimmy Cagney" EP (2005) - $5
SHADOW BOYS "HORROR" CD - $10
