Coming soon the Red Devil Lounge

::: RICHARD CHEESE :::

::: INFO :::

Two shows in one night:

Richard Cheese triumphantly returns to San Francisco for an exclusive performance at the Red Devil Lounge. "I Left my Dick in San Francisco" will feature an evening with Richard Cheese and his band, Lounge Against the Machine.

Richard Cheese is a lounge singer; it says so right on his business card. For what seems like years, Cheese has been treating speakeasy audiences to his unique blend of belt and heartfelt, a journeyman saloonster's story told through imagery, phrasing, and a beat-up microphone. His snazzy jackets, his notoriously elegant "personalle," and his occasional on-stage tirades belie the sensitively complex artiste behind the ever-jostling highball.

Dick has been seen recently on MTV, CNN, as well as Carson Daily's "Last Call". Multiple appearances on Howard Stern have also added fans. His upcoming appearance on Jimmy Kimmel will expose Dick to a greater audience.

The versatile vocalist was born in the swingin' 1960's in a Henderson, Nevada hospital, just like Frank Sinatra (although that hospital was in New Jersey). He spent his childhood singing on casino corners for chips, and eventually landed a job as understudy for one of the white tigers in the Siegfried & Roy show.

Legend has it that either Wayne Newton, Don Ho, the comedy/variety team of Bobby Vann & Elayne Joyce, or a combination of the three/four "discovered" Cheese, and arranged for his first lounge gig, at the Sands on the Vegas Strip. However, Cheese mistakenly showed up at the Dunes ("Dunes, Sands, what's the diff, huh? Jeez!"), but sang nonetheless, and his performance literally brought the house down, as the Dunes Hotel was imploded by a demolition crew during his act. Fortunately, his performance impressed Las Vegas talent impresario and TNT expert Jack Monterey, who recognized Cheese's explosive star power and snapped up the crooner on the spot.

Monterey put Cheese into a recording studio, and a few months later, put a microphone and a recording engineer into the studio with him. Now, seventeen albums and a thousand concerts later, Richard Cheese has earned a prominent place in that prestigious pantheon of lounge legends:

Frank ...Sammy ...Dean ...and Dick.

Opening the show is sci-fi band Warp 11.

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