Dangerous Minds pal Jesse Merlin writes:

Southern California followers, take note! Tonight, The Legendary Pink Dots perform at the EchoPlex in Los Angeles, as part of their 30th Anniversary Tour.

Formed in 1980 and widely credited as one of the first bands now categorized as Goth/Industrial, the LPD have long resisted any genre definition, inhabiting musical terrain of the avant garde, psychedelia, electronic soundscape, experimental noise, gothic lullaby, and even pop ballads.  Their prodigious catalogue includes roughly 60 studio releases and over 200 solo or side projects, and they command a devoted underground following in the American subculture, as well as in Europe, particularly in countries of the former Eastern Bloc.

Don’t miss this spectacular tour; The Dots simply have to be experienced live.

Below, the closest the LPD ever came to doing a (very strange) traditional music video in 1987, which is interpolated with a brief interview on Belgian television.  It takes place in an insane asylum and includes the song “Echo Police” from the album Asylum.