The Cure's Disintegration Listening Session with Andi
Silence Please132 Bowery Floor 2, New York, NY 10013 · Map
Thu 29 Oct 2026 · 7pm → 10pm · 3 hours
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In the order the promoter lists them.
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To celebrate the release of the 33⅓ seriesmbook release of The Cure's Disintegration, spend an evening with the author, Andi Harriman, who will play the seminal vinyl record in its entirety on Silence Please's hi-fi sound system. This is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself into the way Disintegration is meant to be heard: loud and in great detail. Come prepared to not only listen to the LP, but to experience it.
The book begs the question: why should an album make you feel good?
In 1989, The Cure's Robert Smith was going to turn thirty years old. His fears and anxieties of age-having not yet written his pinnacle album-caused Smith to embark on the band's undoing with Disintegration. The result was an LP drenched in melancholy sublime, a beautiful decree of breaking down to build anew. From the fame and notoriety of The Cure after their hit, “Just Like Heaven,” to the departure of the only other consistent band member, Lol Tolhurst, it's clear that the grisly spiral into the depths of pain is stamped throughout Disintegration.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase on site.
Andi Harriman is a Brooklyn-based DJ, boss of the party and label SYNTHICIDE, and a music journalist with an emphasis on all things 1980s. She is the author of the book Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Post-punk and Goth in the 1980s and has written for Rolling Stone, DJ Mag, Creem and The Village Voice.
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
“Electric is the only way to describe Andi’s sets.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Electric is the only way to describe Andi’s sets. The NYC-based DJ, producer, and SYNTHICIDE label/party boss constructs a dynamic and intoxicating flow that’s always palpable between the walls of the foggy, neon-lit dancefloor. Parts sleaze and sultry, Andi’s aesthetic is body music based, thriving on the delivery of the groove and the bombastic highs of a track’s apex. As a devotee of distinct sounds such as EBM, new beat, Italo, freestyle and housey 90s elements, her sets reflect her deep vinyl collection: diverse, yet focused, and completely one-of-a-kind. Her own productions aim to challenge the expectations within the confines of traditionally masculine dance genres. With bassline-heavy grooves and a conceptual emphasis on storytelling with samples taken from long-forgotten erotic thrillers and seedy sci-fi films, Andi adds a wry yet delicate touch to machine music. As the boss of SYNTHICIDE—the internationally known party, label and event series—Andi has cultivated the dark underground scene for over a decade in Brooklyn. SYNTHICIDE started at the notorious club in Bushwick, Bossa Nova Civic Club, where the party still holds a monthly residency. Additionally, Andi is a resident at The Lot Radio and NYC’s Gabriela.EBM on 13, Techno on 9, Industrial on 7 and New Beat on 5. styles on their catalogued releasesReleased on Eskimo Recordings (2), Dischi Autunno (1) and Surface Reality Records (1); their RA profile also lists Mannequin, aufnahme + wiedergabe, Mecanica, Synthicide and 1 more. labels on their catalogued releases and on their RA profileRecently at Saint Vitus, Signal, public records · often with Eli Escobar, Arvin T, Facets, none of them here on Thursday
names these artists often play with — not on Thursday
- Eli Escobar32 with Andi
- Arvin T26 with Andi
- Facets22 with Andi
- Rok One15 with Andi
- Italomatic10 with Andi
- Danny White6 with Andi
- G I N A6 with Andi
- Sissies of Mercy6 with Andi
how this compares
- Median final count, Thursdays at Silence Please15
- Middle half finished between8 and 29
- Past Thursdays at this venue counted34
- Counted so far100 on Thu 8 Oct, 122 on Mon 19 Oct
Counts keep rising until the night; this is where it stands today.
The room
Silence Please — 212 events and 176 distinct artists since Jun 2025.
Holds about 150.
Also that night
- ROMANCE w Eli EscobarGabriela — Eli Escobar and Andi play together a lot.
- Resolved: DSA HalloweenParagon — also tagged post-punk, with jungle too.
- NightbreedPurgatory — also tagged post-punk, with ebm too.
how these 3 are connected
- ROMANCE w Eli Escobar — Eli Escobar and Andi have shared 32 bills; Eli Escobar is on that bill and Andi is on this one.
- Resolved: DSA Halloween — RA tags both listings post-punk — and that one also jungle.
- Nightbreed — RA tags both listings post-punk — and that one also ebm.