Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez who survived her teenage angst and matured into a smokey contralto, is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school drop out, juvenile delinguint, self taught painter, and multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who had defied catagorization, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law. Her solo LPs and numerous collaborations ( with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sounds stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, and Collapsed Lung, Christophe Heeman, and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae & hip hop to torch and the avant garde. Only Annie could assemble a similarly eclectic and magically marvelous cast of downtown--and uptown--luminaries to help us all celebrate and survive the holiday season. After two years each at La Mama and The Slipper Room, "Christmas with Little Annie & Friends," will set up shop for 2006 at the Lower East Side's most elegant cabaret, Mo Pitken's House of Satisfaction for 5 Saturdays in December. Little Annie's stories will stay with you long after the snows of december have receded.
Annie will be accompanied at the 88s, as always, by Paul Wallfisch, (Botanica, Firewater), and guests will include, (but not be limited to): Jim Nue, Bianca Bob, Kid Congo Powers, Christine Donnelly, Joe Budenholzer, Julia Frohdal, Eric Hoffman