THE MOST AMAZING UNDERATED PERFORMER OF OUR TIME-
ALICE BAG RULES LOS ANGLES!
Showing posts with label performance. punk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance. punk. Show all posts
8/31/18
3/15/17
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
The Birthday Party
"Junk Yard"
1982
Ferocious
Nick Cave
Mick Harvey
Phill Calvert
Rowland S. Howard
Tracy Pew
possessed
1/12/17
6/4/15
THINPINS PERFORMS @ 21ST CENTURY GAY MAN~ JUNE 5TH
PRESENTS
21ST CENTURY GAY MAN
OPENING RECEPTION~
JUNE 5TH
7PM TILL 9PM
$5 COVER
ADULTS ONLY
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY
THINPINS
IN THE WINDOW~ DJ~ RENATO TEROY
THINPINS
FEATURING~
NIK O NIK
KENT ART
SEAN YANG
MATT SPIKE
RICK CASTRO
KAI TEICHERT
DONALD RIZZO
DONALD RIZZO
PETER SAVIERI
MANOLO YANES
GREGORY MOON
TEDDY OF PARIS
ROBERT PATRICK
EUGENE SALANDRA
RAYMOND SANDOVAL
RAYMOND SANDOVAL
COLLECTION OF MEL ROBERTS
AND MORE!
(artists~ nik o nik & rick castro, donald rizzo)
~for immediate release~
gay male culture has come a long way.
from "the love that dare not speak it's name," to straight boys asking gay boys to the prom, ~ it's been a long time coming.
curator rick castro has chosen a group of contemporary gay male artists presenting what they see as the signs of their time. this exhibit includes international gay male artists, local artists and a little bit of vintage gay to remind us what it was like back in the day.
on display thru june 30th
gallery hours
wednesday- 5pm till 7pm~ tea salon~ $5 cover
thursday thru saturday~ 1pm till 7pm
for more info~
(artist~ kai teichert)
10/29/13
10/18/12
DEBBIE HARRY~ POGO DEMO
Debbie Harry explains the British punk dance The Pogo on Manhattan cable TV~episode of Glenn O’Brien’s cable access show TV Party. after acknowledging the dance is dead in the UK anyhow. circa~ 1978.
5/27/12
HAPPY BIRTHDAY~ SIOUXSIE SIOUX
Siouxsie Sioux ( 27 May 1957) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996) and of its splinter group The Creatures (1981–2005).
The Banshees produced eleven studio albums and a string of hit singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House", "Peek-a-Boo" and "Kiss Them for Me". With The Creatures, Siouxsie recorded four studio albums and the hit single "Right Now".
Siouxsie is considered to be "one of the most influential British singers of the rock era".
Siouxsie on 27 May 1957 at Guy's Hospital in Southwark, Central London, England. She was the youngest of three children; ten years separate her from her elder brother and sister. Her two elder siblings were born while the family was based in the Belgian Congo. Her parents met in that colony and stayed working there for a few years. Her mother, Betty, was a bilingual English secretary and her father was a Belgian Walloon bacteriologist who milked venom from snakes. In the late 1950s, before Siouxsie's birth, the family transferred to England. The Ballions resided in Chislehurst, a suburb in south-east London. Her father died prematurely due tocirrhosis of the liver when Siouxsie was 14 years old. This had an adverse effect on her health. She survived a life-threatening bout of ulcerative colitis, which she would later say "completely demystified the body" for her.
During her adolescence, she was a self-described "loner," who enjoyed listening to the music of male outsiders: David Bowie, Lou Reed, Marc Bolan, Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music and Iggy Pop of The Stooges. She went out with other young people who were interested in the same kind of music and glam fashion.
At 17, she left school. It was during this period that she began frequenting the local gay discos where most of her sister's friends used to go. She introduced her own friends to that scene. In November 1975, a new young group called the Sex Pistols performed at the local art college in Chislehurst. Siouxsie didn't attend, but one of her friends told her how their singer threatened the string of students present at that gig. He added that they sounded like the Stooges. In February 1976, Siouxsie and her friend Steven Severin went to see the Pistols play in the capital. After chatting with members of the band, Siouxsie and Steven decided to follow them regularly.
In the following months, journalist Caroline Coon coined the term "Bromley Contingent" to describe this group of eccentric teenagers devoted to the Sex Pistols.
Siouxsie became well known in the London club scene for her glam, fetish and bondage attire, which were later notable of punk fashion. She would also later epitomise goth style with her signature cat-eye makeup, deep red lipstick, spiky dyed-black hair, and black clothing.
In early September 1976, the Bromley Contingent followed the Pistols to France, where Siouxsie was beaten up for wearing a black armband with a swastika on it. She claimed her intent was to shock the bourgeoisie, not to make a political statement. She would later write the songs "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)" (in memory of the anti-Nazi artist John Heartfield) and the single "Israel".
Following the adage of DIY and the idea that the people in the audience could be the people on stage, Siouxsie and Severin decided to form a band. When a support slot for the 100 Club Punk Festival organised by Malcolm McLaren opened up, they decided to try their chance, although at that time they did not know how to play any songs. On 20 September 1976, they improvised music as Siouxsie recited poems and prayers she had memorised. The performance lasted twenty minutes.
For critic Jon Savage, Siouxsie was "unlike any female singer before or since, commanding yet aloof, entirely modern." She opened a new era for women in music as Viv Albertine from The Slits would later comment:
"Siouxsie just appeared fully made, fully in control, utterly confident. It totally blew me away. There she was doing something that I dared to dream but she took it and did it and it wiped the rest of the festival for me, that was it. I can't even remember everything else about it except that one performance."
One of Siouxsie's first public appearances was with the Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy's television show, on Thames Television in December 1976. Standing next to the band, Siouxsie made fun of the presenter when he asked her how she was doing. She responded : "I've always wanted to meet you, Bill". Grundy, who was drunk, suggested a meeting after the show. That directly provoked a reaction of Pistols guitarist Steve Jones who pronounced a series of rude words never heard before on access prime time television. This episode created a media furore with front covers of several tabloids, including the Daily Mirror with the title: "Siouxsie's A Punk Shocker". This event had a major impact on the Pistols' subsequent career and within a week, they became a household name.
Not liking the clichés put forward by the press, Siouxsie distanced herself from that scene and stopped seeing the Pistols. She decided to focus all her energy on her own band: The Banshees.
In an interview with The Independent, she said, "I've never particularly said I'm hetero or I'm a lesbian. I know there are people who are definitely one way, but not really me. I suppose if I am attracted to men then they usually have more feminine qualities
5/18/12
4/21/12
ALICE BAG~ OH BONDAGE,UP YOURS!!
OHMYGOD!!!.. i've waited all my post-punk adult life to hear this!!...
i'm crying & masturbating @ the same time!
Nina Diaz, Angie Skull and Alice Bag perform X-Ray Spex's
"Oh Bondage, Up Yours"
at San Antonio's Esperanza Peace & Justice Center on April 20, 2012.
absolute, instant~ cult classic!
i'm crying & masturbating @ the same time!
Nina Diaz, Angie Skull and Alice Bag perform X-Ray Spex's
"Oh Bondage, Up Yours"
at San Antonio's Esperanza Peace & Justice Center on April 20, 2012.
absolute, instant~ cult classic!
3/27/12
1/19/12
12/19/11
12/1/11
ALICE BAG WILL HAVE HER REVENGE ON VENTURA!
is trailblazing thru the country with her book tour- VIOLENCE GIRL- selling out every venue she hits.
lucky people on the santa barbara coast will get to see her on december 6th @ WILD PLANET
in ventura!
ALICE will be reading excerpts from her book and performing live with glen meadmore, dave kendrick and dave jones.
tuesday-december 6th- 7pm.
WILD PLANET
560 EAST MAIN ST.
VENTURA, CA 93001
805 643-5238
FACEBOOK EVITE-
10/28/11
ALICE BAG- VIOLENCE GIRL- BOOK TOUR- 2011
Alice Bag by Melanie Nissen. 1978.
The birth of the 1970's punk movement
as seen through the eyes of Chicana feminist and punk musician ALICE BAG.
Published by Feral House, 2011.
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK,
PICK IT UP NOW.
CHECK OUT ALICE BAG @ HER BOOK TOUR COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON.
CALL YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP AND REQUEST HER.
Violence GirlEvents
November
December
Violence Girl & Donna Lethal at Stor...
Sunday, December 11 at 7:00pmMORE DATES COMING SOOOOON...
photo by Louis Jacinto. Yes, that's a bloody lip.
The Bags, parading on Hollywood Blvd in 1977.
Test Polaroid from a photo shoot for No Mag.
1977 going to see the Weirdos
Shannon, Joanie and alice- 1978.
Alice and Pat Bag, 1978.
Alice as Sad Girl in 1990- Photo by ME-Rick Castro
portrait by Nancy Sheets
No soy monedita de oro pa' caerle bien a todos;asà nacà y asà soy,
si no me quieren, ni modo.
Portrait of Violence Girl by VK7
Halloween 1978 at the Canterbury
Elton John glitter rock freakazoid, soon to become Alice Bag- 1975
Cambridge Apostles, JFK Memorial Show 1983.Alice Bag, Barbara James, Tiffany Kennedy, Mike Atta, Bruce Atta.
Get your bags ready, we're about to launch a creative contest for you all.Details to be announced shortly.
"I want to live in a worldwhere the words male and female are flexible and subjective, even redundant.A world of perpetual transformation, where sexuality and gender become obsolete...I want to live in a world where I am free to be whoever I want to be,whenever I want to be, male, female, other or neither."- Unknown
Violence Girl-40"x30"
Spray paint stencil & silkscreen on paper
by Jessee V
Slash: Will you ever take off the bags?
Bags: Yeah, when we reach the point where it does not matter anymore.
Slash: Why are you doing this?
Bags: For kicks. It's the only thing we do well.
Slash Magazine, October 1977
rare original Bags flyer from 78.
11x14 photographic print of Alice,hand colored by herself
Alice and Barbara James, Cambridge Apostles 1984.
Life at the Canterbury, 1978
This poster was designed by Martin Sorrendeguy (Los Crudos, Limp Wrist)and will be available for purchase at upcoming signings.
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