køpper: Welcome to the Hideout. To help you find your way around and get started, I recommend taking a few minutes to read this page. It should go a long way in givin... moreWelcome to the Hideout. To help you find your way around and get started, I recommend taking a few minutes to read this page. It should go a long way in giving you a better idea of what all is available to you here. Hopefully you'll like what you find and keep coming back for more, because that's what it's all about. Cheers!
Bio
Formed in Detroit in 1977 as Mr. Unique and the Leisure Suits, the band got their start as the opening act for The Mumps (featuring Lance Loud) and local favorites like Flirt
and Destroy All Monsters. They spent the following years amusing, annoying, and antagonizing audiences in Detroit and environs, releasing their four-song EP,
Mr. Unique and the Leisure Class, in 1983. The record received generally favorable, though puzzled, reviews from Ira Robbins in Trouser Press, and Dennis Loren in the
Metro Times, who found "something to offend everyone."
The band moved to New York, making their debut at CBGB in 1984, and launching a musical and visual assault that featured, at various times, legendary writer Herbert Huncke, a custom built two-story prison, impaled goat's heads, and Abraham Lincoln.
In 2005, the band was profiled on the National Public Radio show, Day to Day ("The Rise, Fall and Reunion of the Leisure Class").
Lead singer Dimitri Mugianis is the subject of the 2009 documentary film, "I'm Dangerous With Love". The new CD is Parents Night at the Leper Colony.
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