DIRECT FROM AFRICA:THE DEADITES RETURN TO THE LUCKY DOG

(August 6, 2003) Continuing what has become a quarterly tradition before all Deadites performances, Wormtown.org continues its ongoing conversation with the legendary Dynamo Habib, Deadites frontman, who talks about his band's recent visit to Africa and this weekend's show at the Lucky Dog Music Hall.

WORMTOWN.ORG: Are you excited to be playing with Thinner?

DYNAMO: Hell yeah. Anytime I get to hang out with a couple of midgets in drag its always a good time.

WORMTOWN.ORG: What do you have planned for your show this Saturday?

DYNAMO: For one, we will busting out our new jam - "Underground Sky." It¹s so hot I got five indecent proposals before the first line was even done.

Worcester Magazine August 15, 2002
By Charlene Arsenault

Lots of kids below the 21 bar complain that they can’t see their favorite bands on stage. The Deadites, an Electro-shock group hailing from a place called Necronomicon [a place that is eerily similar to Worcester], are constantly asked to draw up their comic book-like show for an all-ages group. Finally, they’ve obliged. Friday, the Deadites slip into their tights and masks to join The Average White Boys (who recently welcomed DJ Shame into their fold), Livesexact and Zero Times Infinity at The Palladium. “The Deadites are tremendous — a shake your ass ‘til the cows come home, cymbal on fire, raw sexuality, crowd sing-along, didn’t want it to end, good time,” said rabid fan Gabe Rollins. The all-ages show (with alcohol available to those who are legal) starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $8.

In celebration of this show, The Deadites have issued their “Top 13 CDs to fight the forces of evil by”

1. The Entire KMFDM and Pop Will Eat Itself Catalogue
2 . Kiss - Alive 2
3. Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
4. Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather
5. Sade - Love Deluxe
6. Metallica - Kill ‘Em All
7. Anything by Danny Elfman Or Oingo Boingo
8. Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
9. Depeche Mode - Violator
10. Alice Cooper- Welcome to my Nightmare
11. Renegade Sound Wave
12. Alien Sex Fiend Catalogue
13. The Very Best of the Velvet Whores

This weird little scene has been playing itself out at The Lucky Dog Music Hall in Worcester. Now that The Deadites can pack that room, it’s shooting for a larger place to convene what it calls The Deadites’ Secret Twilight Society. Thus, the band is set to play the upstairs room at The Palladium, 261 Main St., Worcester, tomorrow. The all-ages show begins about 7 p.m. and features opening sets by Average White Boys and Livesexact.

The Deadites consists of Habeeb and Matrix on vocals, Ethan Magloofabits on bass, Tiny Wight and Silica on keyboards and other hunks of electronic equipment, and The Vigilante on percussion and additional electronic gizmos.

While swaddled in secrecy, there is something familiar about The Deadites. Habeeb, Magloofabits, Silica and Matrix bear striking resemblances to people seen around the Worcester music scene for a few years. Wight and Vigilante look like nobody in particular because they wear masks.

The Deadites’ sounds fuses edgy electronica, Gothic gloom, metallic mayhem and pretty polka into a package that puts Rob Zombie and Trent Reznor on notice. At one recent show drum cymbals were set on fire, a pizza was delivered to the band during it’s show and a werewolf attacked the group as it played. That final scuffle drew Lucky Dog bouncers into the fray, with nobody certain what the heck was going on.

It’s a hellishly good time, but beware: The Deadites will be happy to collect your money, but what they really want it your soul. Or at least your e-mail address for the contact list it maintains at thedeadites.com

DYNAMO HABEEB ON THE DEADITES VIEW OF THE WORLD, THEIR EUROPEAN TOUR, AND UPCOMING INVASION OF BOSTON
by Mike Mars

I hate Dynamo Habeeb. I hate the Deadites, and I could care less about electronic music. Every dealing I've had with those people has been a catastrophe. So when Brian Goslow asked me to interview one of them I said "No!" In fact, I said, "No fucking way." But he asked nicely and promised me a big, big favor in the near future. So with a six pack in me and a bad attitude I traveled to a small coffee shop outside Worcester to meet the mad man known as Dynamo Habeeb. For those of you not familiar with Mr. Habeeb or his band The Deadites, Here is the Reader's Digest version.