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Queer Spraoi01/04/09
Performance: Lynnee Breedlove and her One Freak Show.
Film: Tribes.
Music: Noise Machine.
Queer Spraoi
QUEER SPRAOI is a project to engage queerness in Dublin on a new level. We organise events, such as gigs, film nights and workshops around the social centre Seomra Spraoi. In an era where we’re led to believe that queerness is a commercialised “lifestyle choice” to be bought and sold, we want to establish a radical community that celebrates our diversity, our differences and brings us together. To have fun, learn from each other, and have hot makeouts behind our grandparents’ tool sheds while wearing multicoloured Tutus and acting improperly towards the family silverware.
www.myspace.com/seomraspraoi
www.seomraspraoi.org
Lynnee Breedlove— One Freak Show
Frontperson of punk dyke band Tribe8, creator of the novel, short film, and audiobook, Godspeed, brings his One Freak Show to the Dublin, sharp as a new chainsaw blade, turning the specific universal, and making gender politics fun at last. Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show is queer, punkrock standup comedy on bodies and “community”. His plan for world peace includes gender nesting dolls, cross–dressing stuffed animals, and a new edition of Our Bodies Ourselves for men. A human body quest for compassion, an irreverent look at the interior world of The Other, giving out permission slips to laugh at ourselves, Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show brings activism and laughs through the usual ridiculous antics, this time including eggbeaters and duct tape. Knives and body parts are still part of the show.
“The best Tribe 8 show I ever saw was when Lynnee went off on these comic tangents between songs and cracked me up as much as any great comedian I’ve ever seen. Breedlove sings, writes, now brace yourself for a razor–sharp storyteller. Get in on the ground floor— see this show. A true renaissance rabble–rouser, the sky’s the limit.”—Jello Biafra
“Maybe most of this stuff will never make it to the mainstream. That’s the mainstream’s loss…”—Rachel Howard, SF Chronicle
”Uninhibited humor lends tender insight and perspective to a gender politics debate that often takes place in a fiercely contentious atmosphere…”— Bill Tania, SF Bay Times
“How absolutely wonderful to go see a gender–bent and bending border–crossing whip–smart cutting–edge performer–who allows the audience to become children for a few moments.”— Terry Baum, SF Bay Times
www.lynnbreedlove.com
myspace.com/lynnbreedlovegodspeedfilm.com
www.godspeedfilm.com
www.tribe8.com
Noise Machine
- Eddy Comeback: bass borp, farce horn, squeeze horn, singing.
- Panister Fatheroy: guitar, electronic farce loops, backcombed sexual nightmares, prype.
- Octokalis Jolt: “singing”, guitar, slide whistle, balloon.
- Pig: Jazzpenis.