The Humorless Ladies of Border Control

In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for their revolutionary days, Mongolian neo-Nazis in full SS regalia, and a gay expat in Ulaanbaatar who needs an armed escort between his home and his job.

Franz Nicolay, The Hold Steady - The Keyboard Chronicles

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar: Nicolay, Franz: 9781620971796: Books

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar

Itineraries Await in the Season's Best Travel Books - The New York Times

Sink or Swim Promotions presents Franz Nicolay + Aaron Cometbus + Nowhere Club + King of The Alps – The Tin Music and Arts

Franz Nicolay : News Archive

Singing Jeremiah eBook by Robert L. Kendrick - EPUB Book

Book Launch: Someone Should Pay for Your Pain by Franz Nicolay in conversation with Darcey Steinke - POWERHOUSE Arena

The Hold Steady: We Can Get Together Weekend at Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR - Thursday, April 27, 2023 - EverOut Portland

Podomatic Books & Beer, Vol. 32, with guest Franz Nicolay, author of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control

Along the Amber Route - National Library Board Singapore - OverDrive

A Stranger in the World: The Memoir of a Musician on Tour - Longreads

Franz Nicolay, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar

Humorless Ladies of Border Control, The: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar By Franz Nicolay, 359 pgs. - Razorcake