TG in the music scene (23)

Well other then Queen's "I Want to Break Free",a favourite of mine,there is the legendary, yes he is a drag queen, Ru Paul's Cover Girl.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0c4lgvpb4

Wayne later became Jayne

Cicely by name & sisserly by nature
He [or she] , who is afraid to pick up the dice will never throw a six .
I am one of the few who lives what's called .....the Lowlife

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0-xypYZOc&featu...

(musically they're better live, and there's more playing with voice gender, but the live vids are shitely lit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPWAoV6a1Ik&featu... )

They were my heroes as a teenager. Alas, they couldn't hold down a recording contract very long as a time, and seemed to keep getting booked supporting bands like Korn (where they got bottled by homophobic fans for looking too queer) if the stories I heard were true. Amazing live act and have a quick reformation gig coming up soon though.

There are probably other more current trans musicians within today's crop of mainstream artists that I'm not aware of because I've transitioned from young glam punk queen to old nostalgic fart (and I don't know how much a lot of the "trans bands" like Oestrogenix are actually gigging-for-a-living in the wider music world instead of just doing the trans events circuit when things turn up).

moo

Edited 12 Dec 10, 6:39 PM by foibey

4 out of the 5 people mentioned in the song were trans. There's something slightly creepy about Warhol's position in the whole thing (as a curator of a "scene", but also as someone who's also definitely profiting from having all these outré/outcast and "exotic" friends that he generously turns into "superstars" surrounding him and populating his little nightclub scene). Sad egotistical bollocks and weirdness.

As far as random things featuring trans people, there's

Faith No More - Easy (which features Mike Patton croning "easy like sunday morning" to a hotel room full of queens for no particular reason, possibly declaring what the lead singer likes to do of a sunday morning) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WAMNIunKc

Swedish band The (International) Noise Conspiracy have done a number of songs about gender (including gender variance/queerness) but I don't know anything about their membership.

The (international) Noise Conspiracy - Smash it Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyjmCg_VMU0&featu...

Surprisingly I can't think of much more, really.

Random Trans Fact: The "Johnson" referred to in Antony and the Johnsons' bandname refers to Marsha P Johnson, a veteran of the Stonewall riots and New York trans community organiser (now deceased, found dead in the Hudson river 1996)

moo

Edited 12 Dec 10, 7:16 PM by foibey

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Edited 13 Dec 10, 1:44 AM by Empress_Martine

Cited by fetish trans people? It's a little piece of history about trans and queer folks migrating to New York as a safe haven. Doesn't matter that Lou Reed isn't trans. He's writing about his experiences of the NY queer scene (which significantly includes lots of trans people).

Why are you having random problems with my mentioning of 3 other bands. Rachel Stamp have a trans/gender-variant person (or more) in. Faith No More had a video with them and a bunch of queens in (like I said) and it seemed fair game to bring it up due to YOUR mentioning the Queen "I want to break free" video. And The (international) Noise Conspiracy have a few songs about gender dysphoria, one in particular about wanting to break away from binary gender and body hatred (although I couldn't find a video of the song in question so I chucked up a different video instead).

Why do people have to make assumptions about the trans status of people in bands anyway? Isn't that just ignorant rubbish? How do people know what (paparazzi free) band members do in their private lives to judge whether they're trans enough to sing about trans stuff? And the original post was about tg influence in the music scene!

Anyway, since last night I remembered All The Pretty Horses (who play on the goth scene years back) http://www.venusdemars.com/prettyindex.html

Also a few people over State-side at the Riot Folk! collective (http://www.riotfolk.org) are trans or genderqueer, although they don't all make a big deal out of it. A couple of them have specific songs about gender stuff but mostly it's anarchist/punky acoustic stuff.

Will update when I can think of more.

moo

Edited 13 Dec 10, 9:08 AM by foibey

Think there is a TV club of the same name around soho.

Excellent listings Foibey. Never knew about Antony and Johnstones till i saw the programme mentioned and has sang on Jools Hollands music programme on BBC2.Thanks for the history of the name.Candy Darling (i'm not patronising) is on one of the Album covers and She looks fantastic. It does seem very sad history of her demise.

Foo Fighters like to dress in their video's and did anyone notice the TV in the Chumbawumba "I get knocked down" video. I only picked it up when i relised She looked like me. regards,michelle

Edited 13 Dec 10, 11:19 AM by maidmichellepetite

That was The Kinks, originally.

moo

And I could tell you a funny incident recently, involving me and a busker in the museum tunnel (south kensington).

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