Videos from Cannonball’s AF/NY era (2012-’16)


(see also: Photos from this era)

Music Videos

Sun (2012)
Cannonball Becomes the One Armed Man (2013)
Frostbite (2014)
Wormwood Toxicity (2014)
Manhattan, I am a Sheep (2015)
Skyscraper, NY (2015)

Short Films and Video Bits & Bobs from this time: Love Letters (2014), Dogs vs. Cats 2013 Tour Promo, Cannonballfest! 2013 Promo, Cannonball in the studio, Sidewalk bits and bobs

Cannonball at Sidewalk // Cannonball at Goodbye Blue Monday

Cannonball and K-WAK the Nomad play “Tiger” at the AntiHoot, 2013 (Camera: Joe Yoga and Ben Searcy)

Cannonball plays “Monster” at home, with his left hand still in a splint from the famous injury, 2012

*** LIVE PERFORMANCES ***

First official Cannonball Statman gig, Goodbye Blue Monday, 2012 (Full Concert)

Cannonball quintet play “Horse” and “Buddha” at Cannonballfest! 2013

Cannonball duo play rare songs in TriBeCa, 2012

Cannonball plays “The Morgue” with “Dexter” Dan Cohen on harmonica in NYC, Christmas 2012

“Manhattan, I am a Sheep” Official Music Video (2015)

Cannonball at Smooch Cafe, 2013 (Full Set)

Cannonball quintet at Muchmore’s, Valentine’s Day 2013

Cannonball quartet play “The Unreliable Narrator” at Silent Barn, 2013

Cannonball trio play “The Unreliable Narrator” at Cake Shop, 2013

Cannonball Statman with “Dexter” Dan Cohen on harmonica performing “Rachel” at Cannonball’s first official Sidewalk gig, 2012

Cannonball plays a few rarities with “Dexter” Dan Cohen on harmonica at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013

Cannonball performing 3 songs with “Dexter” Dan on harmonica at Sidewalk, January 2013

“Wormwood Toxicity” Live Music Video (2014)

Cannonball quartet play “Buddha” during a terrible snowstorm at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013

Cannonball octet play a number of songs at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013

Cannonball quintet play some of the songs on Real Live Cannonballism at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013

Cannonball trio play “Horse” and “Tom Turkey” at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013

“Cannonball Becomes the One Armed Man” at Sidewalk, 2013

Cannonball solo plays “Tiger” at Make Music NY 2013

Cannonball quintet play “Tiger” at Deep Tanks, 2013

Cannonball quintet play “Tiger” at Bromley Mansion, 2013

Cannonball at Belgrave Pub, Darwen, UK, 2015 (video by Andy Helliwell)

Cannonball duo play “Tiger” and “Paint” at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2012

Cannonball solo plays “Paint”, “Tiger”, and “Horse” at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2012

Cannonball solo plays “Theme from Cannonball Statman” and “Carlos is on Fire” at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2012

Cannonball plays “Strasbourg” in Charlotte, NC, 2013

Cannonball and Jane LeCroy making music and poetry on stage together at Goodbye Blue Monday and Sidewalk, 2011-’13

Jane LeCroy, Kid Lucky, and Cannonball performing “Lost My Way” at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2012

Cannonball with K-WAK the Nomad performing “Tiger” at the Monday Night AntiHoot, 2013

Cannonball performing at Sidewalk as a 7-piece band on Hand Night 2013

Cannonball quintet performing at Phoebe Novak’s Ex-Boyfriend’s Birthday Bash at Sidewalk, 2013

Cannonball quartet performing “Mud Therapy” at Sidewalk, 2013

Cannonball performing “Lady Godiva’s Operation” with Jeffrey Lewis on lead guitar and Barton Lewis on piano, 2013 (Camera: Steve Espinola)

Cannonball’s NYC Antifolk Fest Debut, February 2013 (Full Set, Full 5-Piece Band)

Cannonball quintet at the Summer 2013 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set)

Cannonball trio at Sidewalk, Halloween 2013 (Full Concert)

Cannonball solo at the Summer 2014 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set)

Cannonball at Brand New Hustle, 2014 (Full Set)

Cannonball at Nyack Village Theater, 2014 (Full Set)

Cannonball plays “Riverside Park” and “Wormwood Toxicity” at Palisades, 2014

Cannonball on tour in the USA, 2014

Cannonball Statman trio play “Tom Turkey” at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013 (video by Mallory Feuer)

Cannonball plays “Pyro vs. Poison Cat” at Sidewalk, 2014

Cannonball with Kyle Stersic on alto sax at Sidewalk, 2015

Cannonball plays “Hunger Strike” at the AntiHoot, 2015

Cannonball plays bits of “West Coast” and “Serendipity” at Sidewalk, 2015

Cannonball solo at the Winter 2015 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set, Introduction by Somer Bingham)

Cannonball solo at the Summer 2015 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set)

Cannonball Statman and The Grasping Straws on tour in the US and Canada, 2015

Cannonball on tour in the UK, 2015

Cannonball with Brandon Perdomo on flute at the Winter 2016 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set)

Cannonball quintet play “Paint” on Valentine’s Day 2013 at Muchmore’s (video by Joe Yoga)

The Dick Jokes play “One More Singularity” at their first ever gig, Goodbye Blue Monday, 2013

The Dick Jokes play “The Wandering Star” at the Summer 2013 NYC Antifolk Fest

The Dick Jokes play “STATMAN” and “There Is” on Halloween 2013, introduced by Satan

The Dick Jokes at the Summer 2014 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set, Introduction by Becca Florence Moon)

The Dick Jokes at the Summer 2015 NYC Antifolk Fest (Full Set)

The Dick Jokes play “Cock in my Pocket” in NYC, 2016

Cannonball performing with Jeffrey Lewis for Lou Reed tribute events at Sidewalk and Jalopy, 2013

Cannonball reads “The Morgue” and “Skyscraper, NY” in 2012

Cannonball reads “Circle”, gifts it to Matthew Silver, then performs “Horse” and argues with Matthew Silver about horses
at Goodbye Blue Monday, 2012

Cannonball plays “Hoyt-Schermerhorn” on KPISS FM, Brooklyn, 2016

Albums, EPs, and compilation appearances from this era

Dogs vs. Cats (2013)
A split EP with the incredible and one-of-a-kind artist Phoebe Novak, for our 2013 US tour.

Icepick (2014)
A pretty solid representation of what I was doing on the NYC antifolk scene in the early 2010s; intense, high-energy, fast-paced acoustic music, which The Deli Magazine described as “the acoustic punk attack of antifolk by way of black metal”. This album includes “Horse”, “Tiger”, “Frostbite”, “Buxus”, and a bunch of other classics, including an extremely uptempo version of “Midnight in Kingston”.

Songs of Experience (2014)
A lively celebration of William Blake’s 257th birthday. Featuring New York antifolk legend Debe Dalton, a number of talented friends from my generation of the scene, and rare live recordings of my songs “Tiger” and “Roadkill”.

The Hardest Part of DIY (2015)
A compilation of some really cool artists from the East Coast DIY punk scenes of this time, including Brook Pridemore, Teenage Halloween, and Out of System Transfer. A rare live recording of my song “The Alien” is on this one.

Shriekofafreak! (2015)
The follow-up to 2014’s Icepick. Crazy & the Brains frontman Chris Urban listed this as one of his favorite albums of 2015 in PunkNews, writing: “He puts modern “punk” acts to shame. Very aggressive folk music. This is like acoustic Dead Kennedys. He sounds like he is about to snap and he barks like a dog. I think there is something wrong with him…in the best way possible.”

Cannonball Action (2015)
Stripped-down recordings of some of my “greatest hits” from this era, with a similarly raw and fast-paced vibe to Icepick and Shriekofafreak! but getting rid of the melodicas and bass guitars. Lots of rapid-fire vocals and fun guitarwork.

Year of the Swimming Dogs (2015)
Well, my parents and I got a new dog (Apollo), so of course I had to make a new album with him and his uncle Cannonball on the cover; this was a fun one, it has some eccentric early versions of songs like “The Morgue” and “F Train Over Brooklyn” in addition to a track called “Dragonflies” that’s more in the vein of my rapid-fire acoustic style I was known for in this era.

Live on the Independents Tour (2015)
This was a live album from the Salford date of my 2015 UK tour with JD Meatyard. Notable for being my first release with UK label German Shepherd Records and my last release in the “Frankenguitar” tuning and style that I was known for in those years. This was also a historic gig, because it was the final gig of the legendary Hamsters, who performed with us that night and also released a recording of their set on German Shepherd. There’s also a recording of JD Meatyard’s set from that night, which is equally incredible; what a night.

Regenerates (2016)
A surreal anti-fascist antifolk album I made in January 2016. Dark, unsettling, paranoid, and chaotic music made to serve as a record of a dark, unsettling, paranoid, and chaotic time.

Arriving Flesh-Scent (2016)
This is a dream I recorded in my bedroom in February 2016. A lot of the songs blend together and the vibe is simultaneously homicidal and romantic. The second half is more romantic than the first.

Outa / Orda (2016)
Also a dream, from March 2016. Everything is out of order, or “Outa / Orda” as was said in the dream. This album features The Elusive and Terrible Wendifer on clarinet, and some interesting versions of “Love Letter” and “Carlos is on Fire” in addition to some songs that are much more rare.

Twice Volcanicized (2016)
The last album I recorded before leaving NYC, after having spent the first 22 years of my life living in the same apartment there. It’s a summation of everything I’d been doing in my life up to that point, and it covers a lot of painful subject matter in a unique way for me. Lyrics about psychiatric abuse, homophobia, racism, capitalism, and the general dystheism and hopelessness of the time, framed with a kind of absurd optimism throughout.