If you like alternative music, queer short films and fancy
attending a "start your own record label" workshop, we have a great
event for your diary: Pussy Whipped, a two-day celebration of
underground queer-feminist culture that's taking place in Edinburgh
next month.
The festival will showcase 10 mind-blowing queer and/or female
fronted/dominated bands, with the aim of proving that although our
voices are still often sidelined in alternative music culture, we
have some of the most talented voices on the underground. They will
also be hosting queer films and workshops, with a few crazy
surprises thrown in!
Pussy Whipped has been hosting quirky live music queer-feminist
events since late 2011, and it has quickly become one of the live
music events in Edinburgh.
Tickets are limited to 150 due to venue capacity, and they expect
to fully sell out.
Tickets available from: wegottickets.com
Find the event on Facebook here: Pussy
Whipped Facebook page
A full weekend ticket is a measly £7, to keep the festival as
accessible as possible.
Here's the line-up:
Friday night event, Wee Red Bar, Friday 14th September,
7pm - 3am:
Rauberhohle (Berlin) - genius bubblegum riot grrrl electro
punk
Factory Acts (Manchester) - brilliant dark electro, alt-dance
duo
Executive Legs (Leeds) - casio riot grrrl amazing madness
Roseanne Barrr (London) - man-woman thrashy experimental queer
punk rock
Her Royal Highness (Edinburgh) - edgy female fronted synth
pop
Alt-disco from 11pm - 3am, courtesy of Edinburgh's coolest queer
club Hot Mess!
Saturday Day Event, Tollcross Community Centre, Saturday
15th September, 1pm - 6pm:
Films! Dressing for Pleasure and other queer shorts, courtesy of
Leith Late, with Q&A's from some of the film-makers. Workshops,
including "start you own record label" by Manchester's Cherryade
Records, Bellydancing from Barocco Tribal, and more.
Saturday 15th evening, Fiddlers Elbow, 7pm -
1am:
ONSIND (Durham) - underground legends & queer feminist
punk-folk duo
Ste McCabe (Edinburgh) - bouncy queer feminist pop-punk
one-man-band
Spat (Hawick, Scotland) - melodic all grrrl punk rock
Liz Cronin (Edinburgh) - witty and very catchy grungy
singer-songwriter
Scragfight (Glasgow) - three retired feminist queer punk rock
ninjas!
DJ's Chew Disco coming from the north of England to spin you
queercore and riot grrrl madness into the early hours!
PHOTO is of Rauberhohle
