The Vanity Set
The Vanity Set is an indie rock group of mostly second-generation Greek-Americans formed in New York City in 2000. Led by Jim Sclavunos, the drummer/percussionist with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, they describe their music as a blend of "low art, high sass and raw bluster." Their music includes the sounds of rebetiko, "psycho-billy guitar, creepy keys, raucous tuba, mellifluous theremin."
By 2022, Sclavunos told an interviewer for NME that the project was done. He also said in 2021 that he had a set of unfinished Vanity Set material that he was working on releasing.
Current members
- Jim Sclavunos - lead vocals
- Peter Mavrogeorgis - guitar, bouzouki
- David Morton - keyboards, clarinet
- Tam Ui - drums
- Sasha Kazachkov - bass
- Jennifer Carey - tuba & dead-bird-in-bag wrangler
- Jaiko Suzuki - percussion
Previous members
- Meredith Yayanos - violin, theremin
- David Berger - drums, percussion
- David Clifford - drums
- Brian Emrich - bass, synthesizer, ondioline