Formerly of

   Formerly of South Florida, Mickey Zetts started out acting and writing plays/music for the theatre. He attended Dillard School of the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale and was a member of the theatrical fraternity Delta Psi Omega. His musical play "APATHY-the Gen X Musical" was the longest running late night show in the history of Florida Playwright's Theatre in Hollywood, Florida.

   In late 1997, Mickey took a long break from the theatre & formed the highly successful alternative band,  Mickey's Ickies (Originally Them Ickies).  As the songwriter and creative force for the band, Mickey really came into his own as an artist:

     "We started out playing these dive bars in Hollywood for four to six hour stretches on weekends. We didnt want to be a cover band. We needed material. And we had to be diverse to keep the crowds interest", Mickey remembers, "Plus, we had 4 singers in the band, and I was the only one writing."  In the first few years of the bands existence, Mickey wrote well over a hundred songs. "it really made me develop as a writer", He explains, "and I liked the freedom of composing for different types of voices and in different genres of music"

    Because of these earlier events, Mickeys music became a blend of diverse influences: Think the Beatles love child, raised by a kindly Uncle Gershwin, then date raped by Nirvana. And with song titles like, I Used To Have Fun (But Now I Have You), always with a healthy dose of humor and self-effacing pathos.

    Known locally as a wacky-theatrically fun variety show, the band Mickey's Ickies had a high-profile career, with high recognition among MP3 listeners (Mickeys Modern Irish Drinking Song was voted into the top 40) and winning the Baywatch Battle of the Bands competition in 1999. That year also saw the completion of the Ickies full length CD, Life is a Dream, which is available on this website.

   After five years of playing in nearly every bar/club/festival in South Florida, Mickey relocated to New York City where he continues to create music; playing out all over the Manhattan scene now as a solo.  Although the band, he maintains, never really broke up:

  "We still keep in contact", he says,"We did a surprise show in Miami just this past December. The Ickies are such a part of me, they are eternal." 

            Since completing his newest recording, Girlfriendland,  Mickey has returned to his first love, the theatre, and recently produced  a revival of "APATHY- the Gen X Musical" at the 2005 Midtown International Theatre Festival.