On December 6-9 and 18th, 2023 Joe McGinty & The Loser’s Lounge will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of their “uncategorizable” live music series. Joe & The Losers will be celebrating this occasion with nine shows at Joe’s Pub in New York honoring the music and memory of the great Burt Bacharach.

Bacharach’s music was the theme of the very first full band Loser’s Lounge show, performed at Fez Under Time Café (RIP). The music of Burt Bacharach has always epitomized the musical influences that originally inspired Joe McGinty to create The Loser’s Lounge.

Joe McGinty shares:

The Loser’s Lounge originally was started as a one off to celebrate artists that were ‘guilty pleasures’ or underappreciated. Back in 1993, Burt Bacharach hadn’t been rediscovered by younger artists. I was surprised that the very first show had a packed house! After the success of that first Bacharach show, it made sense to do another show, and another show, and here we are thirty years later.

The events will feature house band The Joe McGinty 7 and their eclectic cast of guest performers.

Many surprise guests have performed with Joe McGinty and The Loser’s Lounge over the years, purely out of their love of the show, including Lana Del Ray, Richard Dreyfuss, Moby, Parker Posey, Debbie Harry, Lee Hazlewood, Paul Williams, Cyndi Lauper, John Cameron Mitchell, Fred Schneider, Joey Ramone, John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, Ronnie Spector, Anne Magnuson, Michael Cerveris, Joan Jett, Ian Hunter, Fred Armisen, Antony, Santigold, and many more.

Founded in 1993 by former Psychedelic Furs keyboardist Joe McGinty, The Loser’s Lounge continues to canonize the great songwriting catalogs of the ’60s, 70’s and ‘80’s in its own unique way. From well known composers like Neil Diamond, Prince, Burt Bacharach, and David Bowie, to more obscure artists like Serge Gainsbourg and Harry Nilsson, The Loser’s Lounge shines a light on great music.