<p>The Slow Poisoner will perform at the Voodoo Room Saturday, June 28.</p>

ASTORIA The Voodoo Room will welcome the Slow Poisoner for a free performance at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 28.

The Slow Poisoner aka Andrew Goldfarb is a one-man surrealistic rock n roll band from San Francisco who has been playing to audiences all over since 1996. His songs are psychedelic flowers sprouting forth from a soil rich in traditional American music but grown twisted beneath morbid rays of black sunshine. He strums his guitar and hollers while kicking a drum, making a sound like a hoedown on Mars rootsy, but weird.

Influences include Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, the Cramps, Roy Orbison, Bela Lugosi and The Doors.

In concert the Slow Poisoner comes across like a late-night horror movie host or a creepy camp counselor as he employs a variety of bizarre props, ranging from painted signs and dancing spiders to a giant monster head that devours him onstage.

The Slow Poisoner started out as the leader of a five piece band, The Slow Poisoners, named after a chapter in Charles Mackays 1854 book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which detailed a murderous fad among 17th century European wives. Over the course of 10 years the group slowly became thinner and thinner. Since 2005, Goldfarb has gone it alone, touring frequently and playing venues that range from libraries to science fiction conventions, beauty parlors and laundromats.

This will be his third time in Astoria. The Voodoo Room is located at 1114 Marine Drive.