Riki Rachtman of Cathouse & MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball / Photo By: Jeff Coggins
“The reason I’m busting my ass on this #ofitg tour is I fuckin love it. Tomorrow I’ll add another date in March.”
— Riki Rachtman
ON THE ROAD AGAIN — Who needs a guitar, a bass or a whole damn drum set when all you really need is a microphone!
Riki Rachtman is a 1-man show and that’s exactly what he will need – a microphone – when he does his first shows of 2026!
Rachtman is getting ready to hit the road once again with his ‘One Foot In The Gutter‘ tour which he first experimented with in the fall of 2022, and it apparently went okay, as he followed it up by an extensive run of shows in 2023.
Now, just as 3/4 of the country is buried under snow and sub-zero temperatures, the former California native who now calls North Carolina home will hit the midwest in late February and into March for a string of shows!
The reviews have for the most part been great thus far, and whether it’s Spoken Word, or a Story Teller type setting is irrelevant, because what you’re really going to get is a lot of old skool stories from one of the best decades ever and Riki was smack dab in the middle of it for the entire era.
Rachtman grew up in Southern California and was attending shows and promoting shows by the time he was a teenager… but he wasn’t really a band guy or a musician, however he was always part of the scene.
It may be safe to say, that Riki Rachtman was a scenester… someone who always seemed to be in the middle of it, hanging out with the most popular bands, the girls, and we’re going to go out on a limb and say he wasn’t always doing things that your parents would approve of.
With that… that sounds exactly like what a bunch of rock n’ roll metal heads want to hear about.
So, if the reviews are true… then here is your chance to go see for yourself… because the former MTV Headbanger’s Ball veejay is hitting the road for shows that will see him hitting clubs, theaters and dive bars throughout the midwest.
‘One Foot In The Gutter’ Tour 2026 > Get Tix <
2/23 @ “The Blind Fox” Kannapolis, NC
2/27 @ “Blue Note” Harrison, OH
3/1 @ “Rochaus” West Dundee, IL
3/4 @ “Shank Hall” Milwaukee, WI
3/5 @ “Yellow & Co.” Mahomet, IL
3/6 @ “EPIC” Green Bay, WI *Not a OFITG show, see details here.
3/7 @ “Castle Theater” Bloomington, IL
3/8 @ “District 142” Wyandotte, MI
3/9 @ “The Winchester Music Tavern” Cleveland, OH
Rachtman is the co-founder of Cathouse along with Taime Downe (Faster Pussycat) and the pair turned their idea into one of Hollywood’s most infamous clubs… then took their brand above and beyond what your typical rock club was at the time.
Cathouse made it debut in September of 1986 and what happened there, who was in the building, and how crazy it really got… well, it’s safe to say that Rachtman knows all about it… he’s not only seen it first hand, then lived it and now… he’s sharing it with you!
Get your tickets, buy your meet n’ greet with Riki, and bring some extra coin as he’s sure to have a bunch of killer top of the line swag!
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