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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 @ Luna Lounge. 9:00pm
361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Different place and size, same great old Luna Lounge

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 @ The Filter (Budapest). 8:00pm
Morex Optimo plays its second show ever in the lovely Budapest, hoping this time to not be breath-alyzed on the Elizabeth bridge at 3 am. More info TBA.

Monday, May 21, 2007 @ Fluc Wanne. 9:00pm
Praterstern 5, Vienna, AUSTRIA.
9 pm LIGER (A) melodramatic Popular Songs
10 pm MOREX OPTIMO (NY) innovative art-rock
11 pm Schottenfeld

Saturday, May 19, 2007 @ Cabestro. 8:00pm
Spalena 47, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.
With the awesome garage-ticking bomb of Zeroking in the packed and energetic Cabestro! Also, be sure to check out the devastated lounge pop of The Sads! Presented by Panika!

Friday, May 18, 2007 @ The Matrix (Prague). 8:00pm
Koněvova 13, Praha 3, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.
With Secret 9 Beat (garage punk rock), and
Zeroking (fantastic basement indie rock). Presented by Panika!

Thursday, May 17, 2007 @ Schokoladen. 8:00pm
Ackerstrasse 169, Berlin, GERMANY.
In a sort of homecoming, Morex Optimo returns to the lovely Schokoladen to play with the sweet and haunting Overlord, Azalia Snail and Kitty Solaris

Friday, May 4, 2007 @ Trash. 11:50pm
256 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY.
12:00 MOREX OPTIMO
11:00 FREER
10:00 DISPOSABLE THUMBS
9:00 SIDEWALK DRIVER
8:00 FUTURE IN PLASTICS

Thursday, April 19, 2007 @ East River Bar. 8:00pm
97 South 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY.
With the ever surprising Room and Sunshine Club

Saturday, February 10, 2007 @ East River Bar. 9:00pm
97 South 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY.
Come see Melorex this thursday at East river bar in Williamsburg. What's Melorex, you ask? MELOREX is the portmanteau name for the smooshing together of "MELOMANE' + 'MOREX OPTIMO' both in name and setlist. This came about when members of both bands were asked to join visual artist Christoph Draeger to re-create the epic performance of the Who's "My Generation" as part of an art installation in Lyons, France. They decided to take the opportunity to learn each other's songs, and the result is Melorex. Come see their trial run before they go to Lyon to wow the kids. Who? will end the night. 10PM - Pretendo 11PM - Melorex 11:55PM - WHO?

Friday, September 15, 2006 @ Fontana's. 11:30pm
105 Eldridge St, New York, NY. Cover: 8
Nu-Artskool is a regular night of live music in New York City dedicated to adventurous, innovative and cutting edge rock bands! To hear the bands and find out more check out the myspace page at myspace.com/nuartskool
Lismore 9pm
Mutronium 10pm
Weeds of Eden 11pm
Morex Optimo 12am

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ Tonic. 8:00pm
107 Norfolk St, New York, NY.
Morex Optimo plays their debut show at downtown avant-garde establishment Tonic. With Purple Organ, Wooden Ghost, and USAISAMONSTER

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ Sin-e. 11:00pm
148-150 Attorney St., New York, NY.
Celebrate our new lineup, our wonderful little 3 Song CD, and our tour to Europe together with our friends Room.

Saturday, August 5, 2006 @ LockInn. 5:00pm
949 Grand St., btw Catherine and Morgan, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $5
Come check out a sneak-preview of Morex Optimo 2.0 in an outdoorsy, summer setting! Lots of great bands... Morex Optimo (5pm), The Dagons, Blackhorse, The Art of Shooting, Madame Robot and The Lust Brigade. BBQ, 18+.
See you there!

Friday, February 10, 2006 @ The Wreck Room. 8:00pm
940 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Valentine's Party, *mwa!* w/ the Negatones, *mwa!* *mwa!*
also Pretty Flowers, The Dead Betties, Ghostrunner, DJ Varicose Vain. Damn! I want that to be MY DJ name, that is the best one yet!

Saturday, February 4, 2006 @ Ralph's. 9:00pm
148 Grove St, Worcester, MA.
We are extremely excited to help celebrate the CD release of the inimitable Campaign for Real Time. CANCELLED.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 @ East River Bar. 9:00pm
97 South 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY.
our favorite foosball haunt, where kristofer and heather always lose to everyone because the only ones who ever want to play the stupid thing are europeans and only europeans know how to play properly. stupid game. what do you mean no spinning? that is retarded, it's no fun to play if you can't spin. why do they spin around all the way if you're not supposed to spin then, huh?

oh yeah. we're also playing music with our dear friends ROOM and (WHATEVER JAN'S NEW BAND NAME IS). who will take turns making our little line of plastic retards look like elderly gnomes on defense between sets. okay! okay! no spinning. whatEVER.

oh, jan's new band is called "chasm in labrador". rats, now we are no longer the most-googleable band in the world. i have no idea what that name means. probably something about bestiality.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 @ Rothko. 11:00pm
116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY. Cover: 10
VICIOUS party: the main reason tuesday equals cool. we will put an end to all that pronto. also:
Salt & Samovar 10 PM, Nicole Atkins & The Sea 9 PM, Cameron Hull 8 PM Doors 7:30 PM
the doors?! cool!
Rothko site

Friday, November 18, 2005 @ 14 Karat Cabaret. 9:00pm
218 West Saratoga St, Baltimore, MD.
We go to the land of John Waters. And Edgar Allen Poe. We're playing at the 14 Karat Cabaret which seems to be umbilically related to the very cool Maryland Art Place. We like Maryland, and we like art and we sure as heck like places so I think this is going to be a good one. 14K Cabaret site...

Thursday, November 17, 2005 @ The Empty Glass. 9:00pm
410 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, WV.
Beautiful Charleston West Virginia! We look forward to the southern hospitality and will greet it with our good old-fashioned, home-grown yankee twitchiness. Empty Glass site...

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 @ The Cave. 10:00pm
451 1/2 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Cover: $5
We finally get to try out our spelunking gear at the Cave. We'll have to remind ourselves: stalagmites are the ones that are on the ground and like girls and stalactites are the ones hanging from the ceiling that go both ways? Chapel Hill boasts the highest # of PhDs per capita in the US so everyone will get lucky! The Cave site...

Friday, November 4, 2005 @ Pianos. 11:30pm
158 Ludlow Street, New York, NY.
With Salt & Samovar, ISM, Paper Airplane Pilots (Chicago), and The Jumblies

Sunday, October 30, 2005 @ Mercury Lounge. 10:15pm
217 E. Houston St. , New York, NY.
By request, Morex Optimo plays a last minute show at the wonderful Mercury Lounge. Also appearing:
- 9:15 John Biz
- 8:15 Lauren Hoffman

Friday, October 21, 2005 @ 169 Bar. 10:00pm
169 East Broadway, New York, NY. Cover: $5
I know we always say Morex Optimo + (whoever) = True Love, and usually we mean it. Unless we would hurt someone's feelings by saying Morex Optimo + (whoever) != True Love and then we white-lie. But when (whoever) is the NEGATONES? It feels just like we are the nerdiest boy/girl in school and the cutest most popular senior has just agreed to go to prom with us! And as hermaphroditic boy/girls we have a hard enough time without being the nerdiest to boot. Think of this as a triumph for nerdy, differently-gendered peoples everywhere! The Negatones! and us little Optimoze! Hot dog!

Friday, October 14, 2005 @ BAMcafé. 9:00pm
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $10 food/drink minimum
We'll bring out our inner dinner-and-cocktail hour demons and bring in our outer sonic imaginations for a special evening at the elegant BAMcafé. Come early for a table.

Friday, September 30, 2005 @ Sin-e. 10:00pm
148-150 Attorney St., New York, NY. Cover: $5
<3 (as our 18-year old friends on myspace have taught us) equals HEART. Get it? HEART = LOVE. Get it? We <3 The Art of Shooting and we <3 The Campaign for Real Time and also Kerry's new band NV so it will be a night of <3 <3 <3!

Sunday, September 25, 2005 @ Historic Battery Park. 3:45pm
State Street and Battery Place, New York, NY. Cover: Free
NYC arts organizations showcase their exciting new exhibitions, programs, performances and plans for the upcoming year. Also Morex Optimo will play. We are right after the The Merrill Lynch Kiddie Dash where hundreds of 3-6 year olds race each other for candy and prizes. No, seriously. I think we may finally have found our target audience: breathless, sugar-doped pre-schoolers. CultureFest site

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 @ The Delancey. 11:59pm
168 Delancey St., New York, NY. Cover: Free!
"Death Disco is now slayin' 'em here in NYC" - Bruce Tantum, Time Out New York

This just in: We've been picked for a midnight slot at the great rock and roll party "Death Disco" in the basement of The Delancey, a wonderful summertime lounge and rock club on Delancey Street at the foot of the Williamsburg bridge. We were there last week to see Emma La Reina play, and we had a great time. Come on out and join us for some great music and a chance to feel the summer engine roar so softly. It's free!

With June Fool, Monument, Blak Milk, Trouble Everyday, and Poparoxi.

B.P. Fallon's own Death Disco

Friday, July 1, 2005 @ The Knitting Factory. 11:00pm
74 Leonard Street, New York, NY. Cover: $8
On the awesome Main Stage at the Knitting Factory. With The Black Spoons and A Place to Bury Strangers.

Sunday, June 26, 2005 @ Great Scott. 9:00pm
1222 Commonwealth Ave, Allston, MA.
Honeypump Presents Morex Optimo (9pm), Aaron Perrino (10pm), Ho-Ag (11pm, "A frightwig cacophony of thrash skronk, treble squall, and art-punk murder ballad"), and The Stairs (12pm, CD Release).
Great Scott

Friday, June 24, 2005 @ Lucky Dog. 9:00pm
89 Green St., Worcester, MA.
with The Average White Boys, and Campaign 4 Real Time. Evidently, the Rolling Stones played here in 1981 (can't tell if it was 1981 A.D. or B.C. though).

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 @ Lit. 9:00pm
93 Second Ave, New York, NY.
Morex Optimo with fabulous bands The Black Spoons, and Cordalene at Lit. A great place to let loose, and let the music in.
9pm Cordalene
10pm The Black Spoons
11pm Morex Optimo

Friday, April 22, 2005 @ Manhattan Room. 10:00pm
15 W Girard Ave., Philadelphia, PA.
With Faux Bear.

Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ PA's Lounge. 9:45pm
345 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA.
(Night Three BJ Snowden Residency!)
The Jazz Requirement 11:45
B.J. Snowden 10:45
Morex Optimo (N.Y.C.) 9:45
Wujai 8:45

Sunday, April 17, 2005 @ Mercury Lounge. 10:00pm
217 E. Houston St. , New York, NY. Cover: 8
With Cologne (8pm), and Pink Noise (9pm).

Saturday, March 26, 2005 @ Galapagos. 7:00pm
70 N 6th St., Brooklyn, NY.
GET THE WORM! early bird special show. We are thinking of it as "late brunch" and for your gustatory pleasure will bring foodstuffs to prove it. No kidding. So come early for free food (no worms). With Ad Frank, self-proclaimed "world's best ex-boyfriend" and the smoky, sexy Melomane.

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 @ Southpaw. 9:00pm
125 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: 7
DEFALCO PRESENTS:
The Art of Shooting
Morex Optimo
Gilgongo
Doors at 7:30pm

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 @ Galapagos. 8:00pm
70 N 6th St., Brooklyn, NY.
Come with your friends and neighbors to celebrate the long-awaited release of our debut CD Beast of Reflection in the beautiful atmosphere of Galapagos. Performances by BBC Radio artist Gregory Whitehead, the Rev. Luke Murphy, NY Pushcarts, with music by Aroma, Morex Optimo, Pink Noise, and DJ Privateman.

Also, we will introduce our very own cocktail, the Morex Optimo, and its twin, the Pharmakon.

The anticipation is killing us.

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 @ North Six. 8:00pm
66 N Sixth St, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: 7
In the charged atmosphere of North Six's downstairs grotto, we will allow ourselves to be your selves, even if only for a moment.

8pm: Morex Optimo
9pm: atlatl (http://www.atlatlband.com/)
damezumari: http://www.magisterludi.net/damezumari/
11pm: Tungsten 74 (Tungsten 74)

See you there!

Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ Tokio Ballroom. 11:00pm
122-124 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Down to Philly to participate in the IMC 2004!

Friday, August 6, 2004 @ Boogaloo. 10:00pm
168 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $5
This sexy little Williamsburg afterhours club plays sexy host to Morex Optimo and her sexy little friends, all tarted up for the night.

10ish room - sassy female-audience'd punk rock
10:30ish MOSKITA - female fronted pop punk 3 piece
11:30ish Morex Optimo - female backed oddball 3 piece
12:30ish Dirty Lenin - female sided doublesexy 5 piece: the unquestioned American leader of the SPAG (Sexy Party Alterna-Glam) movement: http://dirtylenin.com

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 @ Rothko. 9:00pm
116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY.
It's not a subtle tableau. At all. None of those topographical, slightly out of focus striations and fields of color that make you question how well your eyes work. On the other hand, it's a perfect scene for rock that makes you question how well your ears work. Come down to Rothko, hotspot-of-the-moment, down some drinks with your friends, and take in the cavernous improbabilities, sonic and otherwise, surrounding you.

9pm: Morex Optimo
10pm: Seymour Glass
11pm: The Broke Revue

Thursday, July 1, 2004 @ Southpaw. 10:30pm
125 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: 7
Morex Optimo plays at the posh and lovely Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It's a stellar sound system, a beautiful setting, and the incomparable songs of Morex Optimo.
Colin Steel
The Waylons
Morex Optimo

Saturday, May 29, 2004 @ La Belle Epoque. 8:00pm
827 Broadway (12th-13th), New York, NY. Cover: 10
La Belle Epoque is a beautiful, beautiful place, and a very odd place to see noisy, abstract, exciting rock and roll music. Morex Optimo appears together with The Benjamin Ickies Preservation Society, Flaming Fire, and The Negatones.

Another full-on rock onslought dance party produced by the BIPS. You are actually allowed to dance at this place! All ages welcome, 21+ to drink.

Friday, May 7, 2004 @ Dr. Watson's Pub. 10:00pm
216 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Springtime crack of a gig in Philadelphia. Morex Optimo's first chance to confound this new populace.

Saturday, April 24, 2004 @ PS 122. 10:30pm
150 First Avenue (9th Street), New York, NY. Cover: $7
Morex Optimo headlines and curates an evening of oblique strategies, rule-based performance, and sublime rock music at legendary East Village performance art venue PS 122. PS 122 presents Schoolhouse Roxx featuring the odd rock and roll of Morex Optimo, The Main Squeeze Orchestra (the world's largest all-female accordion orchestra), the awe-inspiring hula-hoop magic of GrooveHoopilition, the eerie verbal madness of Gregory Whitehead, and the exquisite post-modern psychological insights of the Rev. Luke Murphy, presented in Powerpoint format. Schoolhouse Roxx is a weekly late-night rock and roll party featuring the best in NYC rock bands accompanied by performance art and entertainment.

Friday, March 26, 2004 @ Pussycat Lounge. 8:00pm
96 Greenwich Street (S. of the WTC), New York, NY.
Downtown New York. A couple blocks from the old World Trade Center. A little beating heart. And inside that heart, Morex Optimo on stage, playing their hearts out.

Monday, March 15, 2004 @ The C-Note. 10:00pm
157 Avenue C (at 10th), New York, NY. Cover: Tips
Morex Optimo takes the 10pm slot at The C-Note as part of Dan Herman's Radio Crystal Blue showcase. The C-Note is always packed with a relaxed and friendly crowd, and the sound system is good.

Saturday, March 13, 2004 @ The Tank. 10:30pm
432 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY. Cover: 7
INSTRUMENT (8pm) documents the first ten years of the band Fugazi. On 16mm, Super-8, and video, Jem Cohen captures the band performing, practicing, recording, and simply living. Then, it's time for Brooklyn-based rock band MOREX OPTIMO to take the stage. MOREX OPTIMO's intricate melodies, tight vocal harmonies and quirky songs will keep you going all night. Again, admission is free if you see the movie, $5 if you don't. MOREX OPTIMO will go on around 10:30pm.

Monday, March 8, 2004 @ Meow Mix. 10:30pm
269 E Houston St, New York, NY.
Morex Optimo takes the stage for a rock and roll night at Meow Mix!

Thursday, February 26, 2004 @ Pianos. 8:00pm
158 Ludlow Street, New York, NY.
Morex Optimo debuts at lovely downtown bar-of-the-moment Pianos. Also on that evening's bill: Baby, and Morningwood. Come early for Morex Optimo; stay for an entire evening of superb rock music in a great setting.

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 @ Galapagos. 9:00pm
70 N 6th St., Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $5
Once again, Morex Optimo lights up Galapagos Art Space for its New Rock Weekly show. This lineup promises to be really excellent, so bring your friends out and spend the whole evening in one beautiful, warm place.

Here's the lineup:
20:00 Richard McGraw
21:00 Morex Optimo
22:00 The Color Bars

Thursday, January 8, 2004 @ Pussycat Lounge. 11:30pm
96 Greenwich Street (S. of the WTC), New York, NY. Cover: $5
"The plausible impossible is better than the implausible possible." Come celebrate Morex Optimo's flourishes of musical rhetoric and jaw dropping musical brio at the perfectly decadent Pussycat Lounge: The only strip club in the world, as far as we are concerned. Morex Optimo steps on stage at 1 am.

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 @ Galapagos. 9:00pm
70 N 6th St., Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $5
For those of you missed us last time, here's another chance to catch us on the main stage of Galapagos—a perfect night out with your friends. Lineup and showtimes have not yet been finalized. Please check back soon.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 @ Galapagos. 10:30pm
70 N 6th St., Brooklyn, NY.
Morex Optimo will grace the main stage of Galapagos Art Space to help cap off their Film, Video and Animation night.

19:00-21:00 Film, Video and Animation by Artists who Teach
21:30 The Elisa Korenne Band
22:30 Morex Optimo

Friday, August 22, 2003 @ The Tank. 10:00pm
432 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY.
Come help us explore the sonic possibilities of "The Tank"—a new arts-center featuring a garden and very cheap drinks. <The Tank NYC>. Bring your friends along so we can fill it. Void. Fill. Void. Fill. Morex Optimo.

This will be our first show after recording our album, and we are eager to play straight to your beautiful faces, and not just to tape.

Friday, June 13, 2003 @ Location One. 8:00pm
26 Greene Street, New York, NY. Cover: $5
Morex Optimo has been invited to perform as part of a series of musical events at the Location One gallery in SoHo. We're excited about it, and hope to see you there. In the meantime, you can whet your appetite by reading the official press release.

Ill? Infants or sickly cacti to care for? This event will also be streamed live from the Location 1 Web site. Watch us in our full, jerky, pixelated, lossy audio compression glory!

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 @ M Shanghai Den. 9:00pm
129 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $5
Morex Optimo plays host to an evening of experimental rock, pop and... balloons, at the seductive downstairs lounge of M Shanghai Den in Williamsburg. On the bill:

At 21:00 Amy X Neuburg
Amy X Neuburg composes and performs new music for voice and electronics in a variety of capacities from opera singer to rock band leader to cartoon composer. She is best known for her work with the electronic avant-cabaret ensemble Amy X Neuburg & Men and for her solo performances of original work for voice, electronics, and percussion. "Neuburg's vocals are a miracle; she is, by turns, a frigid dispenser of cold truths, a siren and an eccentric." — San Jose Metro

At 22:00 Morex Optimo
Sensational purveyors of the most mysteriously beautiful and weird rock to come out of Brooklyn in recent memory, Morex Optimo intends to bind up hearts and minds with gorgeous, unpredictable vocals and melodies and intellectually overwrought pretension in search of the ever elusive postmodern catharsis. "A surprisingly fresh perspective of musical textures and melodies... set to a twisted pastiche of rapidly changing time signatures, and sometimes dissonant key changes" — Drummer Interview

At 23:00 Ricardo Arias and Barry Weisblat
Ricardo Arias and Barry Weisblat will be performing Arias' singular improvisational compositions together. Ricardo Arias will be electrifying the room with his innovative 'balloon kit', accompanied by Barry Weisblat on found and homemade electronic gear.

Thursday, April 3, 2003 @ The Stinger. 9:00pm
241 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $3
Morex Optimo returns to The Stinger Club, this time with surfrockers Ghostwave and musical architecture modernists Five Second Flat. As follows:
20:00 Ghostwave
21:00 Morex Optimo
22:00 Five Second Flat

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 @ M Shanghai Den. 10:00pm
129 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $4
Morex Optimo plays host to a lovely evening of fantastic, odd-ball music, and the wonderful, quirky audience that loves it. All this, in the relaxed and oh so relaxing dark den of the fabulous Mai Liu's M Shanghai restaurant. We recommend a bite to eat upstairs before the musical festivities begin.

21:00 lyndon roeller
22:00 morex optimo
23:00 rv wolfsegg

Lyndon Roeller (the more naïve country bumpkin bass player of math rock trio Five Second Flat) will twang your heartstrings with alt country sweetnes. Morex Optimo combine angular melody and gorgeous vocals to create odd but eerily beautiful compositions. Joined by RV Wolfsegg who perform with theatricality vacuumed into a custom bag of unpredictable guitar rock on an IV drip of sampledelic confusion and soothing electronics. True love!

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 @ Continental. 8:45pm
25 Third Avenue, New York, NY. Cover: $5
The first rock show Kristofer saw in New York was at The Continental (Divide). That was ten years ago, and for some reason he just hasn't been back since. But on February 19th he will return, as part of that joyful consternation that is Morex Optimo, to blow the doors off the place (and the cobwebs from your heart). We will be playing at our most amped up (after hanging out at St. Mark's bookstore beforehand—Kristofer probably flipping through the erotic photography books, Heather sniffing through the Pataphysica, and Yuri perplexed as to what all the fuss about Georges Bataille is for). We would love to see your shiny post-mortem [work] faces moving jerkily about near the bar, or standing motionless in front of one of the main speakers.

Sunday, January 26, 2003 @ The Stinger. 9:00pm
241 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: Free
After bandological hybernation, we anoint the new sound system at venerable Williamsburg sticky floor dive bar The Stinger on SUPER SUNDAE® For the intrepid, you will be rewarded with an extra long set, and the joy of being able to spend all your money at the bar instead of at the door (no cover).

Friday, September 13, 2002 @ The Charleston. 10:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: Free

Morex Optimo burns a bridge in Madison County. We sing about it, with our sore stocking feet on the floor.

22:00 Morex Optimo
23:00 The Ofays
24:00 Tungsten 74


Friday, August 9, 2002 @ The Charleston. 11:30pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: Free

Alight lightly:
The Big Sleep
Tungsten 74
Morex Optimo in the late slot.


Thursday, June 27, 2002 @ The Knitting Factory. 8:00pm
74 Leonard Street, New York, NY. Cover: $7 US

Morex Optimo kicks off an evening of eye-brow knitting and hip-smacking at the Knitting Factory's Alterknit Theatre.

20:00 Morex Optimo
21:00 Five Second Flat
22:00 Overlord


Wednesday, June 5, 2002 @ Acme Underground. 11:00pm
9 Great Jones St, New York, NY. Cover: $6 US

Go on, be electric! You don't want to starve in the streets, do you?


Wednesday, May 29, 2002 @ The Charleston. 9:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: Free!

c.f., Bedford Avenue. ibid the rock and roll. op cit. sporting the shiner. Check your mate.

Morex Optimo


Saturday, May 18, 2002 @ Rockstar Bar. 9:30pm
351 Kent Ave (South 5th), Brooklyn, NY.

Morex Optimo expertly curates a sandwich. Come meat us.

21:30-The Beeps
22:30-Morex Optimo
23:30-Suran Song in Stag

"Some words of yours are very probably ore there.
Or will be by the time our eyes are ember."
—From Pushkin Town, by Anne Carson


Saturday, May 11, 2002 @ Location One. 8:00pm
26 Greene Street, New York, NY. Cover: $5 (donation)

Because you have shared in our lives through your Friendship and Love, Heather Wagner, Yuri Weber and Kristofer Widholm invite You to share in our Happiness together as We exchange Vows of Love with you in the Form of a Musical Recital.

Morex Optimo Bandmusic Recital & Video Shoot

The Eleventh of May, Eight o'clock in the Evening, The year of our Load Two Thousand Two at Location One, 26 Green Street, New York City


Wednesday, February 13, 2002 @ Jarrod's Lounge. 9:00pm
198 Union Avenue (near Broadway), Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $5
Here's a chance for those of you who live under the J-train to run out, get a bottle of milk, and watch us play right in your neighborhood! Opening for the comedy musical act Electric Sheepdog, the evening promises to be a cantankerous slip of the musical tongue.

Friday, January 11, 2002 @ The Charleston. 11:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

With our favorite spacious beauty mongers: Tungsten 74


Saturday, December 29, 2001 @ The C-Note. 11:00pm
157 Avenue C (at 10th), New York, NY. Cover: $3

Wednesday, November 14, 2001 @ The Charleston. 9:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

Wednesday, November 7, 2001 @ Lovesexy. 9:00pm
104 Hudson St. (2 blocks from PATH), Hoboken, NJ. Cover: $5

Hyype Alternative Art and Media Presents: "Tender Lips and Rusty Strings"
8:00 Catspaw
9:00 Morex Optimo
10:00 Babyana
and others.


Wednesday, October 10, 2001 @ The Charleston. 8:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

Welcome the bright and shiny brain behind the drums!


Saturday, March 31, 2001 @ Local. 9:00pm
351 Kent Ave (at South 5th St, Williamsburg), Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

Morex Optimo has an urgent need to perform musical surgery. And so we will.

Consequently, come to the THE TATPIYN APRIL FOOLS BONANZA!!! where Morex Optimo will incise, cajole, caress, and suture at the elegantly late hour of 1 am in LOCAL.


Wednesday, February 14, 2001 @ The Charleston. 10:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

This Valentines Night, let Morex Optimo be your lover: Come see Shahzad Ismaily, Yuri Weber, and Kristofer Widholm move, sing, and soothe. This Wednesday night*. The Charleston**, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It will cost you a drink or a bump on the head from Bennie***.

Also appearing: The improvised soundscapes of Tungsten 74.


Wednesday, February 14, 2001 @ The Charleston. 9:30pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 @ The Charleston. 10:00pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

Shahzad Ismaily, Yuri Weber, and Kristofer Widholm tear it up.


Tuesday, September 5, 2000 @ The Charleston. 10:30pm
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Cover: $free

Morex Optimo again plays with the improvisational soundscapers Tungsten 74 in that capital of incongruity, the Charleston.


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Armed with an arsenal of pop hooks and poetic charm, Morex Optimo has been relentlessly interrogating the possibilities of what punk, new wave and anthemic pop can be. Hailing from the NYC art-rock scene, they are best known for their weird and jagged mix of guitars, beats, and soaring vocals harmonies . With a nod to Fugazi, Gang of Four and the glitter of Bowie, Morex Optimo conjures tales of sacred places, reaching for the divine, and tumbling down from outer space.

With two critically acclaimed recordings under their belt, and several tours of Europe, Morex Optimo is embracing the audience it loves best: one that dances with its head and its heart. Morex Optimo's live concerts are impulsive explosions of cerebral and gutsy rock and roll and a refreshingly sincere earnestness.

In just a few years, Morex Optimo have produced an insanely ambitious body of work. 2004's amphetamine-paced Beast of Reflection, produced by Martin Bisi (Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, Dresden Dolls) found Morex Optimo taking indie rock and punk to extremes by searing through the genre's penchant for irony with a direct and impassioned sincerity, and by organically introducing elements of tension and abstraction throughout its 12 highly original tracks.

If Beast of Reflection saw Morex Optimo exploring the possibilities offered by the recording studio, on 3 Songs they took fuller advantage of that environment. With producer Jay Braun (Band of Susans, The Negatones, Kapow, Mooney Suzuki) twirling the knobs, the band moved into an expansive, textured set of songs with a more pronounced melodic orientation.

Morex Optimo is currently writing a new collection of material to be recorded in the fall with producer Mike Skinner at the helm. In the meantime you can catch them on tour in Europe and in the northeast USA.

Pierre de Gaillande [bass, vocals]: is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born in Paris, France who has worked with such memorable arists as Vic Chesnutt, C. Gibbs, The T. Griffin Coraline, and Melomane. He also makes soundtracks for movies.

Jan Haux [drums, vocals]: Originally from Germany, Jan plays pretty much every instrument needed for a rock band. Besides playing drums in Morex Optimo, Jan plays in a bunch of bands with Swiss people in them, including Room, Greatest Hits, and Aroma.

Kerry Kennedy [guitar, vocals]: Kerry Kennedy will start dancing at the drop of a hat, just 'cause she likes to dance. She moved to NYC in 2001 to play in Greg Garing's bluegrass band. She is a founding member of Blue Sparks; has played and or recorded with Cyndi Lauper, Angela McCluskey, Lenny Kaye, and Overlord; and can also be caught on occasion working on a new album that no one is allowed to hear.

Kristofer Widholm (vocals, guitar): Kristofer Widholm has been writing songs since age 6, when he first started walking his dog. His previous musical adventures include being Roger Daltry for Christoph Draeger's The Who? project at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyons, multiple acclaimed appearances at The Loser's Lounge, NYC, and his solo recordings and tours under the name Pharmacy and Gardens. When he is too tormented by his muse, he writes popular open source software tools.