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David Johansen Coming To NXNE Conference In June

On Saturday June 10, the influential actor/singer, David Johansen will give a personal interview with Rob Bowman at the 11th annual North By Northeast Music and Film Festival and Conference.

Famous for fronting the New York Dolls, Canadian musicologist, Bowman says, “David Johansen and the New York Dolls, alongside the Velvet Underground, the MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, were seminal influences on the first wave of punk rock.”

In 1973 The New York Dolls were in their prime with their reputation for drag-queen rock and drug-influenced lifestyle. During this time Bomb Magazine wrote, “David Johansen has been one of the most important musicians in American music.”

After the band went their separate ways in 1975, Johansen continued on with his solo career. In 1984 he took on the alias Buster Poindexter and created an international hit, “Hot, Hot, Hot”. Since 1995 he formed the band David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, who released two albums.

Appearing in hundreds of film and TV shows such as Married to the Mob, Scrooged, 200 Cigarettes, Freejack, Miami Vice and Tales from the Darkside, he appeared regularly on Saturday Night Live and HBO’s OZ.

Recently a DVD was released showing the New York Dolls reuniting for a headline act at the Meltdown Festival last summer in England. The DVD is titled Morrissey Presents the Return of the New York Dolls, by Attack/Sanctuary Records.

Johansen has released a total of 12 records and recently recorded his own version of Benny Goodman’s “Ain’t Cha Glad” for last year’s film The Aviator. He is also a film composer and painter, with showings in galleries across America. On top of his already busy schedule, he also hosts a weekly show on Sirius satellite radio, “David Johansen’s Mansion of Fun”.

Any NXNE registered delegates can’t miss this rare interview at the Holiday Inn on King Street in Toronto on Saturday June 10. For more information, visit www.nxne.com.

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