Trikster Blog

The Brooklyn-based band and peformance collective MEN is visiting Scandinavia in May! The group started in 2007 when the Le Tigre members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman started to write new songs, collaborating with HIRSUITE members Michael O’Niell (Princess, Ladybug Transistor) and Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, The Ballet).

Their tour plans for Scandinavia looks like this:

Copenhagen on May 7 at Basement, Vesterbro (but who sells the tickets?)

Oslo on May 8 at Revolver

Bergen on May 9 at Garage

Stockholm on May 13 at Debaser

Malmö on May 14, but place is not yet announced.

For those who can read Norwegian, Reidar Engesbak in Blikk has interviewed JD Samson here.

Oslo Queer Festival starts tomorrow, and keep going until Sunday. The festival recently released their program, including workshops, concerts, performances, and art shows, with guests from Europe and the US.

The festival opens tomorrow at 19.00 with the performance New Fashion Rock! by Anne Synnøve Skogstad and Guro Trøseid Gjerstadberget. This also functions as the opening of the festival’s art exhibition, including works by Asta Salvine Gulliksen, Ane Marte Dyvi, Birger Åseson Storås, Rima Qvale, Marit Grøntveit and Robert Robberstad. Later on in the evening tomorrow, the Italian zine Clit Rocket will launch their new issue with a party including among others a concert by The Vibrarians (US).

The is situated at Indigo, Brenneriveien 9, though the parties in the evenings will be held at The Villa. Tickets for the festival can be bought online or at Tiger record store, as well as at Indigo. See you there!

Tomorrow, Monday July 21, is the first day of this year’s Copenhagen Queer Festival at Kigkurren 1-3 on Islands Brygge. It will be a week full of workshops, discussions, parties, concerts and performances in the cozy and intimate Gøglerskolen, where the festival takes place. The festival is stricktly a DIT (Do-It-Together) event, so come and join in on creating a great festival!

During the week there will possibilities to attend workshops on non-heterosexuality and racism, on feminist drag, on creative writing, on making-your-own-dildo, on “antilookism”, on drugs on the left wing autunomous scene, on DJ- and VJ’ing, on queer pornography, and several other topics. On Saturday July 26 there will also be a unique chance to see a preview on Trikster #2, due to release in mid August (more on that later)! See the preliminary program for the festival here.

On Tuesday there will be a big Welcome Party starting at 22.00 with concerts by the electro hip hop punk rock feminity glam zap SCREAM CLUB (US) and the queer performance singer NICKY CLICK (US)! (CC: 20 kr.) Later in the week, there will be concerts and performances by Nuclear Family (DK), PUMP! Body Politics Licked Out My Dancing Shoes (DE), Noah Grain (DE), Stella Sounds, Howdie Ho, LAGO, and others…

Lørdag 29. mars er det konsert med Kevin Blechdom og Heidi Mortenson (bildet) på Warehouse9 i København, med påfølgende fantastiske DJs, m/k og Miss Fish. Døren åpner kl 21, konserten startet kl. 22, og dansen fortsetter lenge, lenge. Inngang: kr. 50.-

Kevin Blechdom er en eksperimentell elektronika musiker og performance kunstner fra San Francisco/Tallahassee, og konserten er en del av hennes nye Europa-turné. Hun er kjent for sine live-opptredener hvor hun spiller på to laptops, et rødt strap-on MIDI-keyboard, en rød banjo mens hun synger…

Det Berlin-baserte OneWomanBand Heidi Mortenson er ute med en ny eksklusiv håndmalt vinyl-ep, Diamonds & Underwear. Hennes forrige album, Don’t Lonely Me, ble kåret et et av fjorårets beste album av Geiger. Konserten er en del av Mortenson release turné, og er av en rekke konserter Mortensen holder sammen med Blechdom i Europa i disse dager. (I kveld spiller de på Falken/DJM i Århus).

Slackers view melder at de sagnomsuste canadiske Lesbians On Ecstacy stopper innom både København og Malmö på sin Europa-turné i mai.

Som Slacker forteller fikk Lezzies On X – som de kalles til hverdags – kultstatus tilbake i 2004 da de var med Le Tigre på verdensturne. Samme år slapp de sitt debutalbum med harde dansbare elektronikatolkninger av låter fra lesbeikoner som Melissa Etheridge, kd lang og Indigo Girls. Siden den gang det har de sluppet album som Giggles In The Dark, og senest We Know You Know.

6. mai er de å se på Loppen på Christiania i København, og 7. mai på Queer Base i Malmö, der Merde Niluap og The Hardliqour Men varmer opp.

“Mycket hjärta att vänta när Bernie Bankrupt, Veronique Mystique, Pretty Ricky och Fruity Frankie går på scenen”, skriver Slacker. Det er bare å glede seg, hvis man er så heldig å få billett!