Count on a night of riotous laughter and profanity-laced parodies when The Dan Band returns to L.A. Live’s CLUB NOKIA Friday, March 30, 2012. Tickets for this show are on sale now.
The Dan Band mouthpiece (and namesake) Dan Finnerty never planned on a career in music, let alone fronting a group that specializes in medleys of ’80s classics like “Gloria” by Laura Branigan and Toni Basil’s “Mickey” but after college he found himself in Los Angeles and this is where he met his wife, actress Kathy Najimy, and began playing his “diva” classics to small clubs with a four-piece band. As word of mouth spread, The Dan Band began attracting numerous celebrities to their shows, resulting in the group being cast in the popular comedy Old School, where they unleashed an expletive-heavy rendition of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Finnerty has since appeared in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, as well as Starsky & Hutch and The Hangover as the pastel tuxedo-clad wedding singer dropping F-bombs into love ballads and flipping off sweet old grandpas. The Dan Band released its full-length debut, Dan Band Live, on the USA Side 1 Dummy label in April 2005. In the fall of the following year, the band issued a Christmas album entitled Ho.
In the summer of 2009, The Dan Band performed a monthly residency at Club Nokia and an Examiner review of a May 21, 2010 CLUB NOKIA show said, “The Dan Band are ingrained in the pop culture consciousness now, they deserve nothing less than musical supremacy…seeing them live at CLUB NOKIA in Los Angeles truly proved that…One reason why this is all so hilarious, beyond Dan’s dancing, is that he’s got an impeccably pristine vocal delivery. The man can carry a tune to the heavens and back, so when he says something dirty unexpectedly it’s impossible not to laugh.”
Ticket prices are: Floor Reserved $30.25, Balcony $25.25, GA Floor $19.75. Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets or online at www.ticketmaster.com and from 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri at the STAPLES Center Box Office located at 1111 S. Figueroa St. No fees are charged at the STAPLES Center box office or at the Club Nokia box office on show days (open after 5 PM).
About Club Nokia: Club Nokia, a multi-use music, entertainment and concert venue–located in the heart of the acclaimed L.A. LIVE sports, residential and entertainment district–accommodates over 2,300 guests. Featuring state-of-the-art acoustics designed for live entertainment, Club Nokia is the perfect venue for emerging music acts and cultural shows while also providing excellent space for corporate events and private parties. The theatre brings the latest technology to music enthusiasts including an innovative interactive experience embedded in foot-controlled floor interfaces, touchscreens, and a large LED installation within the lobby of the Club Nokia space. This interactive experience allows users to scroll through the history and the future of Club Nokia events and interact with pictures, video and text messages submitted by fellow concert fans. Club Nokia has been honored two consecutive years at the annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards-in 2009 as “Best New Major Concert Venue” and in 2010 as “Nightclub Of The Year”; along with a Zagat Award for Best Live Music Club in Los Angeles (2009).
Since its opening, Club Nokia has hosted a massive array of eclectic events: packed concerts of every musical genre (Band of Horses, Motorhead, Adam Lambert, Drake, Matisyahu, Queens of the Stone Age, Vince Gill, The Specials, La Roux, to name but a few); comedians (Lisa Lampanelli, Sarah Silverman, Jim Jefferies and more); special month-long residencies (The Pee-wee Herman Show, Cirque Berzerk); awards shows (Grammy nominations concert, Revolver Golden Gods Awards) and private events.
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