The Curious Case of the Midnite Monster Hop
Once upon a time in the mid 1990's, there was a teenage caveman named Mike Decay. Mike didn't like people or see the need of having friends, so he got into psychobilly. After assisting in bringing the Klingonz to NYC in 1997, he decided he needed to create his own reality by running Phantom Creep Fridays, a monthly live psychobilly/rockabilly/garage/wil
d r'n'r band event in Philadelphia from about 1997 through 2002 booking bands like the Kings of Nuthin, Brimstones, Pits, and Hillbilly Werewolf. Mike was also one of the co-producers of the 1st NY Big Psychobilly Rumble Weekender at the turn of the last century, and the director of the feature-length 2002 documentary, Psychobilly: A Cancer on Rock'n'Roll. In 2003, he turned his sights back home to NYC to co-run the monthly live band event, the Midnite Monster Hop, bringing international bands to Otto's Shrunken Head, such as Nigel Lewis from the Meteors & Tall Boys, Reverend Beat-Man, Girard from Deja Voodoo, the Kings of Nuthin', the Gutter Demons, Zombie Ghost Train, Sasquatch & the Sick-a-billys, Nikki Hill, and many, many more over the years. Whilst parachuting from an autogyro, Mike Decay was fatally killed, his pureed remains being splatted across the Hollywood hills. Although on a positive note: Prior to his death, and as a result of a preexisting medical condition, he had had his hands removed and alligator heads sewn on in their place.Those alligator heads-for-hands have since gone on to manage to great success, Furious, an Edwardian band from Liverpool. Be it kismet, or coincidence, it was at the time of Mike Decay's passing that a signal was first received from outer space. It was a radio signal and it was broadcasting rock'n'roll originating from a gigantic Bucket o'Blood emerging through a wormhole from before... time... began! The Bucket o'Blood landed outside Otto's Shunken Head, bathing the entire block in gloopy goo and released upon Madmanhattan: the Phantom Creeps! The Mighty Moloch, Greg-Gory, Isadora Spivey, Ek the Ghoul, Farmer Smith, Ginger Frightus, and a casket of thousands, decided to claim the Midnite Monster Hop as their own, and broadcast Phantom Creep Radio live from within the Lower East Side tiki bar... and to this day nobody has managed to stop them! Between Monster Hops, the Phantom Creeps go on adventures traversing all space and time in their Bucket o'Blood, or amuse themselves in NYC by putting on old time, real deal spook shows with 16mm films at the Coney Island Museum, Nitehawk Cinema, Morbid Anatomy Museum, and most recently the Bowery Electric. All in all, things could be worse.
