The Vanity Set

This article is about a rock group. For other uses, see Vanity set (disambiguation).

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."^[3] Their music includes the sounds of rebetiko, "psycho-billy guitar, creepy keys, raucous tuba, mellifluous theremin."^[3]

The Vanity Set
Origin	New York, New York, United States
Genres	Indie
Years active	2000–present
Labels	CARGO UK
Members	Jim Sclavunos Peter Mavrogeorgis Jennifer Carey David Morton Tam Ui Sasha Kazachkov Jaiko Suzuki

The Vanity Set

Review scores
Source	Rating
NME	[1]

Little Stabs of Happiness

Review scores
Source	Rating
Uncut	[2]

By 2022, Sclavunos told an interviewer for NME that the project was done.^[4] He also said in 2021 that he had a set of unfinished Vanity Set material that he was working on releasing.^[5]

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

Discography

• The Vanity Set (2000)
• Little Stabs of Happiness (2003)
• The Big Bang (7" single, 2005)^[6]