With songs like “Uncle Dick” and “Starfucking Your Way to Nowhere,” Smith Island couldn’t exactly be described as a kiddie show. A “cinematic rock event” that combines music and film, it narrates the troubled tale of a Hollywood heroine, Zelda Zardoz: “Through a journey of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, Zelda aspires to reach redemption but gets lost along the way until finally she is made prisoner by her own tragic existence.”

Lead singer Gabrielle Stubbert explains further: “It’s loosely based on a real person that I know who’s a paranoid schizophrenic. I was talking to her about her delusions, what the voices tell her. And I thought, ‘This would make a really good concept album.’”

“A really scary concept album,” adds lead guitarist Angus Clark, as Stubbert laughs. The five tracks comprising Smith Island’s EP are octane-propelled rockers set off by a surprisingly tender ballad, “In My Room.” Clark’s playing is tight and focused, while Stubbert reveals herself as a powerful vocalist in the great Patti Smith tradition. Music is only part of the Smith Island experience: A photographer by trade, Stubbert also shot all of the film footage accompanying the group’s live performances.According to Clark, “Once you get all of these elements working together, people lose the sense of being in a small club. It’s like a party, where you can come down and be as freaky as you want. There’s going to be a cast of characters rolling on and off the stage throughout the night.” And if Stubbert gets her way, there may even be a fog machine!

March 30, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (at Bleecker), 212-614-0505; 10, $8.