Kristian Hoffman Bleaker Street Incident Pictures

Bleaker Street Incident were Kristian's folk parody band that became something of a nightclub sensation in N.Y. and L.A. in the mid-1980s. The band was Kristian, Ann Magnuson, and Robert Mache, also the guitarist in the Swinging Madisons. Two previously unreleased demos by Bleaker Street Incident may be heard on this website at the Sound page.

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Bleaker Street Incident
Bleaker Street Incident
Bleaker Street Incident
Kristian Hoffman, Ann Magnuson, Robert Mache
Bleaker Street Incident
Kristian is holding Lalena's skull. Her eyes lit up and blinked on and off, while Ann told the sad story of Lalena on withdrawal from heroin getting run over by a bus on Avenue B; then we would go into a heartfelt reading of Donovan's classic.
Bleaker Street Incident
Ann doing her reading of "Cold Hearted Orb" from Days of Future Past - we got it mixed up with the spoken intro to Diamond Dogs to great poetic effect: "Cold hearted orb that rules the night as the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare....."


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