Throws Like A Girl ROCKS 2007
This fourth incarnation of “Throws Like a Girl” – a groundbreaking women’s performance art series that celebrates the contributions of original female theatre artists to our cultural landscape while promoting women’s voices in the American theatre – is entitled “Throws Like A Girl Rocks” as it features artists working at the intersections of theater, performance art, and popular music. Their “Throws Like a Girl” performances embody a combination of music, spoken word, and fierce feminist irony with a rock-and-roll edge.
Don’t Stop Believing – Gretchen Phillips
One Freak Show: Less Rock, More Hilarity – Lynn Breedlove
BITCH – Bitch
written & performed by Gretchen Phillips presented by Rude Mechs February 8 – 10, 2007 at The Off Center (Austin, TX) Austin music legend Gretchen Phillips (Two Nice Girls, Girls in the Nose, Phillips & Driver) serves up new stories of emotional struggles and the songs on how to deal with them. Her choice to put a lesbian point of view front and center in her songs has been cited as an inspiration to such indie pop sensations as Le Tigre, The Butchies and Pansy Division. “Gretchen Phillips is a living lesbian legend.” – Margaret Coble, The Advocate “The emotional resonance of Phillips’ music is universal, which in a way – makes it even more radical in its implications.” –Craig Lee, Los Angeles Times, July ’89 ABOUT THE ARTIST Gretchen Phillips is a native Texan and that informs her work. There’s something blunt about the Texans, they like to just say what’s going on. Hence, it made sense to Gretchen, once she came out, to sing a bunch of songs about that. And so she has. Basically she sings about whatever’s on her mind, and somehow a career has been forged from this. She graduated from Houston’s High School For Performing and Visual Arts, which ended her desire to ever further her formal education. She moved to Austin in 1981 and has been in numerous bands since then: Meat Joy, Two Nice Girls, Girls in the Nose, The Gretchen Phillips Xperience, and Blaubbie to name a few. Lately it’s been all about the solo shows. Performing solo allows Gretchen to be even more controlling. Another trait that Texans like. Gretchen is currently in the midst of reissuing an ancient and surprisingly still popular CD from her past, the first Two Nice Girls recording, as well as shopping her most recent solo album entitled “I Was Just Comforting Her.” And on Labor Day 2007, the latest gay disco album from her dynamic duo, Phillips&Driver, will make its appearance. written and performed by Lynn Breedlove presented by Rude Mechs February 15 – 17, 2007 at The Off Center (Austin, TX) At the vanguard of the queer/trans community, Lynn Breedlove is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. His/her “One Freak Show” is queer homohop punkrock standup comedy on transgender bodies, feminism, family, and “community.” His/her plan for world peace includes gender nesting dolls, cross-dressing stuffed animals, and a new edition of “Our Bodies Ourselves” for men. Breedlove is the singer/lyricist for Tribe 8 and author of the novel “Godspeed.” “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 “Maybe most of this stuff will never make it to the mainstream. That’s the mainstream’s loss” – Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle ABOUT THE ARTIST Lynnee Breedlove is known for their 20th century work as lead singer in seminal punk dyke band Tribe 8 and spoken word with Sister Spit, In the 21st century, for the memoir fiction, Godspeed, on St. Martins Press, now being made into a short film to debut at festivals in ’07, starring, co-directed and co-produced by Breedlove. A feature film of the same work is in progress now. He wrote and performed his own mangina monologue at UC Berkeley’s Vagina Monologues, and appeared in By Hook or By Crook, and SF productions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Twilight Zone. The solo comedy act Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show ran for two summers at The Dark Room in SF and is currently touring North America and Europe in 5 languages. The Unka Lynnee Show can be heard streaming audio on Piratecatradio.com Sundasy at 8pm and as podcast. presented by Rude Mechs February 22-24, 2007 at The Off Center (Austin, TX) Formerly of Bitch and Animal, Bitch has launched her solo career and now busts out twist-yer-guts love and hate songs with punchy rhymes and defiant girl music. She has shared the stage with artists including Ani Difranco, Pink, Le Tigre, Karen Finley and Murray Hill. “Bitch, sporting brightly colored dreadlocks and arm warmers, gave the most politically charged performance of the evening.” – The Village Voice “straddles the lines between music, comedy and performance art.” – SPIN Magazine ABOUT THE ARTIST Armed with an electric violin, bass and ukulele, Bitch, (formerly of Bitch and Animal) has launched her new band, Bitch and The Exciting Conclusion, in collaboration with Daniela Sea (The L Word) and is touring nationally with such idols as The Indigo Girls, Ferron, and Melissa Ferrick, to promote her most recent record “Make This/Break This,” a new release from Kill Rock Stars. Film audiences can also catch her in John Cameron Mitchell’s (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) latest feature, “Shortbus.” Since the beginning of her career, being taken under the wing of Ani Difranco, Bitch has pulled audiences to their feet world-wide with her music that she considers “electric folk” and is symphonic, beatworthy, break-your-heart ballad-y, and raise the roof revolutionary.
written and performed by Bitch