Summer is certainly a time where things slow down whole lot for good reason in New Orleans, but we’ve been (relatively) busy:
First, we recorded 8 songs with engineer Ben Mumphrey in mid-June (the week after our last show at the Saturn Bar for the Antigravity anniversary party). We’re currently in the process of overdubbing tracks at our own studio, but stay tuned as we make progress towards completing the new album.
Next, if you’re in town this weekend, half of Chef Menteur will be exhibiting their art at Nola ‘Nacular, Anthony DelRosario’s gallery at 1172 Magazine Street, this Saturday 1 August starting at 6pm. Dan, despite being mostly a drummer, has created a bevy of beautiful synthesizers, hybrid noise-makers that you can get hands-on with, if you like knobs. Here’s a preview reel: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1764965647853283
And Dan will undoubtably be talking about it with DJ Kerry tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 11am on WTUL 91.5 FM, so tune in if you can.
Finally, some gig news: We just found out we’ll be playing at BJ’s LOUNGE with Spaghetti Heist on Friday, 4 September at 8pm. Mark your calendar! We’ll send out another email closer to the gig with a real flyer and stuff.
Come celebrate (and help support) ANTIGRAVITY at the Saturn Bar, as the leading voice of New Orleans underground culture enters their 22nd year of publication. Featuring Chef Menteur, Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, Oh Dang, and Antigravity’s very own DJ MB.
We are very honored and happy to be doing this show. Please come out and help give back to this awesome resource that’s supported our community for so long. And does it with a free publication that’s not only worth reading but comes out monthly, which is pretty amazing. They’ve reviewed our music for as long as we can remember, and they even reviewed one of our albums twice!
8pm, Saturday June 6. Saturn Bar. 3067 St. Claude Ave NOLA. $15 cover. Ages 21 and over.
We’re back at the Holy Diver with 2 more local bands: Spaghetti Heist plays soundtrack, lounge and exotica music, featuring Paul Grass of Egg Yolk Jubilee. And the Brewing Means is vintage indie rock featuring veterans of Big Blue Marble, Mahayla, the Beams, and the Grasshoppers.
Doors are at 8PM, and the cover charge is $10. Ages 21 and over. Address: 1200 St. Bernard Ave., New Orleans.
Chef Menteur will be playing first this time, at around 9PM, again at the Holy Diver, one of our favorite places to play our present version of garage-psych-drone (post-)rock. We will be followed by Caldwell, which is the solo project of Kevan Caldwell (formerly of the Planchettes), with a full band presenting some lovely retro-inspired tunes of his own, and Get Dressed who are also from New Orleans, and will appeal to fans of 80s-90s indie punk.
Doors are at 8PM, and the cover charge is $10. Ages 21 and over. Address: 1200 St. Bernard Ave., New Orleans.
Chef Menteur returns to Carrollton Station in New Orleans on Thursday, December 11, 2025, joined by Fantasy Non Fiction and Bright Cloud. Doors at 8pm. $10 cover.
After 9 months of more shows than we’ve probably ever done in a row, we took a long summer break from playing live. Although we have continued to work on recordings for the new album, the usual New Orleans summer doldrums still worked its magic on us.
But now we are back, with 4 other bands, at the Okay Bar, Friday October 17, 2025. We will be playing 2nd, and the show will start around 7 or 7:30pm, so a good one for you early-to-bed types to come out to.
Address: 1700 Port St, New Orleans, LA 70117
$10.
NOTE: Despite the flyer, Ben & DC are not able to play this event.
We are playing this Friday May 23 at the Holy Diver with Josh Nagel’s (Luxurious Faux Furs) new side project Nite Nurse and the always wonderful and psychedelic Shining Fields.
Come get your minds blown… Likely our last show until fall comes around again.
