Doug Skinner will be performing at the Fabulous Jalopy Theatre, in Brooklyn, on March 12 at 9 pm.  I’ll sing mostly Skinner songs, with perhaps a couple of covers.  I’ll be on uke and cuatro; David Gold will join me on viola.
I’ve asked the incomparable Brian Dewan to share the evening with me.  He’ll hold […]

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Doug Skinner, one of your Ullage Group personalities, will present new picture stories on another edition of “Carousel,” due to be unveiled at Dixon Place on February 16.  More info can be scrutinized at the Dixon Place website.
Mr. Skinner will also be performing his inimitable compositions with violist David Gold at Jalopy on March 12. […]

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Our latest event attracted a small but Utopian audience.  Brooklyn was apparently a cornucopia of other forms of fun that weekend; still, a nice bunch gathered for a taste of an ideal society.
Doug began by talking about Utopias as unattainable ideals; and segued into a picture story on the subject, “The Glorious Town.”  He then […]

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The Ullage Group proudly, but earnestly, announces its ninth presentation, “Marching to Utopia.”  We will acquaint you with a few schemes for the betterment of mankind.
Step out of your cold, mechanistic, and meaningless universe, and go back to school with Lisa Hirschfield, your tour guide at the University of Science and Philosophy.  Far more than […]

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The Ullage Group’s eighth event will be a change for them.  John A. Keel, author of Jadoo, The Mothman Prophecies, and other books on unusual topics, died in July 2009.  Some of his friends and fans, including Doug Skinner, Anthony Matt, Lisa Hirschfield, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, and probably others, will mark the anniversary of his […]

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On Sunday, May 16th, hardcore fans of the suggestive braved suspended subway service and a glorious sunny afternoon to take in some harmless smut at the Ullage Group’s “Not Dirty, Just Spicy” event at Jalopy.
Doug Skinner started things off by reviewing the rhetoric of extended double-entendre. To drive the point home, he performed the Cliff […]

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The Ullage Group undrapes its seventh event, “Not Dirty, Just Spicy.”  We will examine the curious genre of the risqué and titillating, but not quite smutty: saucy postcards, suggestive songs, spicy pulps, and other specimens of the sub-obscene.  Doug Skinner will demonstrate the sustained double entendre.  Anthony Matt will speak on the phenomenon of stereoscopic […]

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The Ullage Group’s sixth public outing attracted our largest turnout yet.  We ran out of chairs and pews; some had to stand, fidgeting.
After an introductory sermonette, Lisa uncorked the ullage, and poured out the traditional offering to our hosts at the Jalopy Theater, Geoff and Lynette Wiley.  She then discussed the cultural history of toy […]

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For your listening pleasure, the Ullage Group returns this coming Sunday, January 24th with a cacophonous and fun-filled afternoon of unusual, under-appreciated, forgotten, and one-of-a-kind musical instruments. Part show-and-tell, part performance, all noise! Your ears will never be the same again.
Doug Skinner will discuss and demonstrate some of the patent instruments and “gizmo harps” manufactured […]

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First, we apologize for the hiatus.  Hiatus happens.
Our next event, devoted to marginal and obsolete musical instruments, is scheduled for January 24th.  Details will follow.
As you may have noticed, holidays have reared their troublesome heads.  You can soothe the angst with Skinner holiday songs here and here.
We remind you that our tribute to John Keel […]

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