Here's how The Ladies & Gentlemen got started... Unlike their name, The Ladies & Gentlemen do not feature any ladies in the band, yet the all-male group can certainly not be described as gentlemen either! What they do feature is blasts of hook-filled new wave power pop songs that clock in under 3 minutes! Formed out of the ashes of venerable Chicago stalwarts Box-O-Car, singer/songwriter Skid Marks brought aboard ex-Material Issue drummer Mike Zelenko, ex-Verbow bass player Lennie Deitsch, and Lennie and Skid’s friend, “recording-engineer-extaordinaire” and ex-Poi Energy, Inc. keyboardist Scott Ramsayer to play synthesizer in the spring of 2004. “Getting a synth player was crucial to separate our sound from the traditional 2 guitars, bass, drums line-up”, says Marks. “In Box-O-Car we loved The Cars, Adam and the Ants, Human League, etc., but we never quite fully distilled that sound like we have in The Ladies & Gentlemen, and I feel it's definitely due to having Scott on board. The cool thing is that I don’t think we sound retro at all. I like to think of us as new new-wave. My vision for The Ladies & Gentlemen is simple: A rock band that makes people wanna shake their a**!” Since forming less than 2 years ago The Ladies & Gentlemen have already performed with Iggy Pop, Jet, Louis XIV, The Dead 60's, The Cramps, Superdrag, Cheap Trick, We Are Scientists, and Say Hi To Your Mom, to name just a few. All this with no recordings released due to the word-of-mouth buzz about their incendiary live shows! But all that is about to change… Their debut album, "Ladies and gentlemen.... The Ladies & Gentlemen!" is available now! Be first to say you “knew them when”… You’ll be glad you did!!!