Lynn Breedlove's One Freak Show: Less Rock, More Hilarity
[ … die Sängerin der US-amerikanischen Riotgrrrlband Tribe8 mit ihrer queer homohop punkrock standup comedy.
http://lynnbreedlove.com/ ]
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Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show
… queer homohop punkrock standup comedy on transgender bodies, feminism, family, 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. Annie Sprinkle, Keith Hennessey, Michelle Tea loved it. Jello Biafra, famous shit-stirring straight non-trans guy, says: "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. 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."
Bio/CV
A vanguard of the queer/trans community, Lynn Breedlove is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. The founder and frontperson of the first American out dyke punk band Tribe 8, which has always stood for queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility, Breedlove has toured Europe and North America with Tribe 8 as well as Rise Above: The Tribe8 Documentary.
S/he is the acclaimed author of Godspeed, an autobiographical novel which s/he has toured as a multi-media solo show highlighted by the music and photos of women, queers, dykes, and transfolk.
Breedlove has been a featured performer at Sister Spit, Michigan Women’s Music Fest, SF Tranny March, and multiple Ladyfests and Pride fests over the last fifteen years, including Europride 2000 in Rome. In 2003, s/he developed the concept of The Old Skool New Skool Project, a year of monthly events teaming first and second generation women’s music stars.
Breedlove hosts Kvetch, an 8-year running queer open mic in SanFrancisco, as well as Gender Pirates, an ongoing cabaret benefiting United Genders of the Universe, a support and education outreach group for transgendered people in the Bay Area.
On community radio station PirateCatRadio, Breedlove hosts the Unka Lynnee Show, a two hour cavalcade of queer hits throughout the ages. S/he’s written/performed his own transgender “Man with a vagina” monologue for UC Berkeley’s 2005 production of the Vagina Monologues.
Shim just completed a two-month SF run in 2004 and again in 2005 of the developing “Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show: Less Rock, More Hilarity” as a work in progress on trans body issues, feminism, community, and family. The resulting production is going on tour this year in the US, Canada and Europe (February 2006); recording Godspeed, the audiobook; a translation of Godspeed for its publication in Germany; a new Tribe 8 CD with lyrics by Breedlove on issues of gender identity, sexuality, class, feminism, queer families, and community, and remixing the Tribe 8 catalogue of a decade and a half of music. In film, he's creating a short film version of his novel Godspeed and traveling to Paris in spring 2006 to act in Virginie Despentes' (Baise-Moi, 2002) latest film.
