Addicted to this specific live Hyperactive! performance. Adele’s voice is insane. Her and Thomas’ coordinated dance moves. I’ve watched this part 16 times this morning
Adele Bertei came out of New York's No Wave scene, as Brian Eno's former assistant Bertei was central to the creation of Eno's No New York compilation. The group they started The Bloods released one single Button Up which is included on the Soul Jazz compilation New York Noise
Build Me A Bridge is Adele Bertei's debut solo single. It got play in Chicago by Frankie Knuckles and others. Build Me A Bridge was produced by Thomas Dolby, in turn Bertei performs backing vocals on Dolby's Flat Earth album, and duetting with Dolby on his hit single Hyperactive. Mark Kamins and Harvey Goldberg provide the remix
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Just like the fuse that ignites the whole bomb, we are important. Black women - be ready. White women - get ready. Red women - stay ready. For, this is our time and all must realize that.
Also got previous issue of MOJO as it had a big feature on 50 Best Songs by Velvet Underground/Lou Reed which included so many of my favourites. Venus in Furs was at number 1 altho’ I would have put Heroin above that. They also had reviews of Sylvia Patterson’s 2nd memoir & Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma and Adele Bertei’s memoir.
George walker was the guitarist for the punk band “the cheifs”, which was an inspiration to many of the bands around the LA punk scene.
2. Bambi lake (right): trans woman
Bambi Lake was involved in the San Francisco punk scene, singing with the all woman punk band “vs”. She also toured with the British punk band “the stranglers” and dated Baba Chenelle who was the drummer for “the zeros”.
3. Robert Lopez: gay
Robert Lopez was the guitarist for “the zeros” in the 70s. He later took the stage name El Vez and preforms music that mixes the styles of Elvis Presley with his Mexican heritage.
4. Karla Maddog: lesbian
Karla Maddog was the drummer for the punk band “the controllers”. She also happens to be the cousin of intersex and genderqueer artist Vaginal Davis.
5. Patrick Mack: gay
Patrick Mack was the singer and songwriter for the punk band “the stimulators”. He died in 1983 from complications with AIDS.
6. Adele Bertei: lesbian
Adele Bertei played guitar in the band “the contortions” and then formed “the bloods” which consisted of all openly gay women.
7. Caroline Coon: bisexual
Caroline Coon was a writer for the melody maker, and wrote about and interviewed punk bands at the time. She also briefly managed “the clash”.
8. Richard Lloyd: bisexual
Richard Lloyd was the guitarist for punk band “television”. In the book “Television's Marquee Moon” By Bryan Waterman it says when talking about the book “Please kill me” by Legs McNeil “Though Lloyd would later complain that McNeil had reduced eight hours of interviews to their most lurid residue, he still seemed pleased at having been designated the band's bisexual darling”
9. Jane wiedlin: bisexual
Jane wiedlin is the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for “the Go-Gos”. Though “the go-gos” are probably mostly thought of as more pop, they started in the Los Angeles punk scene.
10. Lance Loud: gay
Lance Loud was the singer for the punk band “the mumps”. In 1973 he was in the documentary “An American Family” which was about his family, where it was revealed that he was gay on national television.
The creator of the first all-female openly queer rock band talks about her memoir and why the music scene wasn’t ready for her“Last night I dreamed the whale Moby Dick swallowed up every woman and girl on the face...
If Wednesday’s conversation with Adele Bertei wasn’t enough to fill your tank, download the second part of Snackpoint Charlie’s double-header where we wrested control of the airwaves from The Magic Stranger. Two hours of the music from elsewhere and beyond you don’t know yet and may or may not love but hey! It’s free! Podcast-ish at https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/r5ebwp …. OM
Thursday’s off-brand but no less loved Magic Snackpoint show — commandeering The Magic Stranger’s personal sliver of WGXC’s airwaves — has joined the podcast club …. OM
The Magic Snackpoint - Transmission 112 - 2023.04.06
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https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/r5ebwp
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1) La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - “31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM (a section of Map of 49's Dream the Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery)” from 31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM THE VOLGA DELTA (aka THE BLACK RECORD)
https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/la-monte-young-marian-zazeela
2) Halim El-Dabh - “Electronic Fanfare (excerpt)” from CROSSING INTO THE ELECTRIC MAGNETIC
https://www.discogs.com/release/2942391-Halim-El-Dabh-Crossing-Into-The-Electric-Magnetic
3) Yugoslavia - “Yugoslavia (excerpt)” from VERTEBRA
https://yvgoslavia.bandcamp.com/album/vertebra
4) Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern - “Attack/Transition” from UTP_
https://www.discogs.com/release/3039121-Alva-Noto-Ryuichi-Sakamoto-With-Ensemble-Modern-Utp_
5) Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - “Ballad of the Spirits” from EMAHOY TSEGE MARIAM GEBRU
https://emahoytsegemariamgebru.bandcamp.com/album/emahoy-tsege-mariam-gebru
Pinchas Gurevich - “Woody the Dumb Looper”
(throughout)
6) Chris Forsyth - “081797” from FIRST RECORDINGS, 1997
https://chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/first-recordings-1997
7) Bhajan Bhoy - “Abshaku...The Ecstatic Truth (for Werner Herzog)” from TO LOVE IS TO LOVE (VOL. 2)
https://bhajanbhoy.bandcamp.com/album/to-love-is-to-love-vols-1-2
8) Sunik Kim - “Spring Thunder is Rolling (excerpt)” from RAID ON THE WHITE TIGER REGIMENT
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/raid-on-the-white-tiger-regiment
10) Bonnie Dobson - “Winter’s Going” from BONNIE DOBSON
https://www.discogs.com/master/229426-Bonnie-Dobson-Bonnie-Dobson
11) Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo 幾何学模様 - “Shrinks the Day (excerpt)” from DEEP FRIED GRANDEUR
https://kikagakumoyoggb.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fried-grandeur
12) Umm Kulthum (أم كلثوم) - “Enta Omri (You Are My Life)” from OLYMPIA THÉÂTRE, PARIS, NOVEMBER 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE
13) Pauline Oliveros – “Horse Sings From Cloud (excerpt)” from THE WANDERER
https://www.discogs.com/master/67783-Pauline-Oliveros-The-Wanderer
14) Ryuichi Sakamoto - “A Human Tube” from ESPERANTO
https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ryuichi-sakamoto-esperanto-1-lp-deluxe-edition-black-vinyl-with-2p-insert-and-obi-strip
15) Natalia Beylis and Eimear Reidy - “Pour Upon The Sky” from SHE CAME THROUGH THE WINDOW TO STAND BY THE DOOR
https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/she-came-through-the-window-to-stand-by-the-door
16) Neus Borrell i Miquel Joan - “Culte” from EL COS PER CAURE
https://www.microscopi.cat/neusborrell-i-miqueljoan
Scott B & Beth B with cast members of The Offenders. 1979. (Left to right) Diego Cortez, Lydia Lunch, Johnny O’Kane, Bill Rice, and Adele Bertei. Photograph by Marcia Resnick.
September 8–11, 2022The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
The Museum of Modern Art presents a career retrospective of the films of Beth B and Scott B, the legendary duo who defined the punk filmmaking scene in Downtown New…
Thomas Dolby (Adele Bertei) -- Hyperactive... Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test,1984 -- Run-time: 4 min 26 sec -- YouTube Source Channel: DeathRockHippie