Do you love that final frontier some people call space? What about blood-sucking vampires? Or even just a good ole game of basketball? Then Ludo’s tour, Space Dracula’s Basketball Expo, is one show you have to see.
“We’re very excited to be back in Columbia,” Moog player Tim Convy says. “It’s one of our favorite places to play and it’s going to be the last night of our tour, so it should be an even larger party.”
The theme has Ludo’s bizarre yet original signature scribbled all over it, but one might wonder how the idea came about.
“We’ve done themes in the past and we liked it, and we don’t have any new music out for this tour so we knew we wanted to have some sort of theme,” Convy says. “A couple of crazy, random ideas were thrown out and then we landed on space, basketball and Dracula.”
Only a few special cities have the privilege of seeing all three themes combined for the show as opposed to just one. Columbia happens to be one of those special cities.
“We knew we wanted to do all three in our biggest cities,” Convy says. “St. Louis, Columbia, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago get all three.”
Dressing up for this show is part of the packaged deal that is Space Dracula’s Basketball Expo. Band members wear costumes for each theme – and costumes for these themes will really turn heads.
“I’d be lying if I told you that I didn’t pick a favorite based on my comfort level on stage,” Convy says. “I like what we wear on the space nights, I think we look the coolest.”
Although downtime is rare for this out-of-the-ordinary tour, the men of Ludo still find time to live out their basketball-themed nights by shooting some hoops.
“We do play a little basketball,” Convy says. “We’re traveling with a full-size basketball hoop that we bring on stage so every now, and then we’ll set it up in either the venue or parking lot and shoot some hoops.”
So break out of your own comfort level and come dressed up in your craziest space-Dracula-basketball costume to enjoy a rockin’ night.
“We expect people to dress up,” Convy says. “It definitely makes it more fun if everybody comes and looks like an idiot. So you should show up dressed up and ready to sing along.”
