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July 13

Bree Maddox watch - Part 17

On Sunday morning I wasn’t even out of bed yet and received a text from my best buddy and omnipotent media being David to let me know of a photo that was printed in STM Magazine. Many other people emailed in about it as well. Looks like Bree Maddox was out on the weekend at the Tarvydas King Street store launch, and… oh. my. god.

“Shit. The maid forgot to take my haute couture dress to the drycleaners. Oh, that’s alright, I’ll just wear this piece of cloth I found on the ground after Amateur Drag Night at The Court.”

… and pictured with the Mayor of Perth too! Great work. I actually needed a tie-in to legitimise posting that photo, and here it is: Police cars clog restricted gay bar zones.

Perth City Council concedes its parking inspectors have no power to ticket police cars that clog no-standing and one-hour zones outside socialite Bree Maddox’s inner-city gay bar.

The article brings up a few points I agree with, particularly because I’ve personally seen police cars scream dangerously past the alfresco area outside The Court. Not to mention police motorcycles I have also seen mount the curb and then drive along the footpath. There only needs to be one tipsy person who takes a mistimed step and it could all go wrong.

Bree doesn’t comment in the article on account of The Court’s good relationship with the police, and I can appreciate why she didn’t. With police cars all around it gives The Court a sense of security. Although, I could be totally wrong and Bree was actually doing a bit of persuasion work at the Tarvydas store launch:

Bree Maddox: Oi, Lisa… get those police cars away from my bar or you’ll be sorry. There could be an unfortunate accidental gust of wind and my top will fly right off! It’s only secured by a rubber band and some scotch tape you know!

Lisa Scaffidi: Please, don’t do it Bree, I don’t want to see that! There’s nothing I can do… it’s out of the jurisdiction of our parking inspectors… pleeeease spare me!

Photographer: Ladies can I take your photo for STM magazine?

Bree Maddox: SMILE AND DON’T SAY A WORD LISA!

Of course that’s all a joke and never happened, or maybe…

The gay agenda Tags: fashion, nudity, police, the court, the scene

July 5

Recap: Horse Meat Disco

On Friday night a slice of iconic London nightlife penetrated the walls of Connections and gave Perth a small taste of Horse Meat Disco. Jim Stanton and James Hillard from the original HMD club night are currently touring Australia, and to support their local appearance were a handful of Perth’s finest electronic acts along with a homage catwalk show involving our prominent drag performers.

The headlining set was just amazing, not just for the sheer funk of it all, but for bringing some much needed new music into Connections. It was also for this reason the night didn’t attract a typical Connections crowd. I spied ‘resident’ attendees of Shape and Republic, plus a crop of random others who I’m assuming discovered HMD from the posters plastered all over Northbridge.

Admittedly the crowd was somewhat sparse, but those who stuck around until the early hours were really getting into their nu-disco. I guess nobody appreciates your favourite type of music as much as you do, and I really love nu-disco, so it was shame the venue wasn’t packed out as it should have been. I point my spiteful index finger at you all and curse that you really missed out on some awesome tunes.

The catwalk show was a big gloating segment to show off some fun costumes, but seemed like a throwaway item. Actually, it agitated me that this 10 minute performance piece became the focal point for the entire evening. So much so that most of the models and ticketholders left when it finished, and before the Horse Meat Disco DJs had even played. A red flag also needs to be raised for that 1 metre x 1 metre ‘media only’ area at the end of the catwalk. How pretentious. Although, it did give my friendly arch nemesis Feminem Hygiene a good vantage point for demanding the photographers test their cameras on her… for 20 minutes. As a side note, Fem and I are back on speaking terms.

So, the conclusory comment for this event is ‘you really missed out’. The sound Horse Meat Disco brought won’t be replicated in Perth for a while yet. Connections have a number of disco nights coming soon, but I’m sceptical. From previous experience ‘disco’ to Perth gay venues means bastardised house music. It’s not the same thing. Lo and behold when I got in my car at the end of the night Triple J’s ‘The Club’ program were talking about how nu-disco is the latest fad in dance music. If it’s the latest overseas right now, it will be the latest in Perth in 12 months time.

I didn’t lug my SLR to Connections, and I didn’t try my luck with the media only area, but I did grab some nice photos of the catwalk show. See them all behind the cut:

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Out and about Tags: alternative nights, connections, entertainment, events, fashion, music, nightlife, reviews

June 23

Homecoming: Behind the Scenes

A little over a week ago Pride WA held a pseudo-secret photo shoot for the faces of this year’s festival. To fit in with the Homecoming theme, a troupe of local and recognisable talent was hand picked, dressed up, and shot through a lens. The images from the photo shoot will be used in all festival marketing materials. Here’s a sneak peak (Art direction by Ben Duncalf, photography by Stef King).

Some interesting facts from the photo shoot: 19 ‘characters’ are featured in the campaign. 2 Roast chickens, 12 boiled eggs and 2kgs of sliced meats were used over the course of the day, as well as 5 sets of ‘OTT’ lashes and several packs of hair extensions.

Look out for the Homecoming Festival campaign shots coming soon to a Vogue magazine near you. More images behind the post cut!

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Perthtainment Tags: events, fashion, festivals, gay community, homecoming, photography, pride

April 30

clothes clothes clothes

This post is all about clothes. So you’re not looking like everyone else this Saturday night (PS everyone is wearing that vest you bought from Myer Basement) here are some nice local alternatives.

Remember Family? They had a store on Murray Street, and before that they were called Fiasco. Now they’re online selling locally designed T-shirts, and currently having a sale which includes free shipping on 2 or more items. Lots of Australia themed tees, so it could be time to stock up for next January? I’m looking forward to Family extending their range soon.

The On William Designer Garage Sale is happening this weekend. Lots of cheap clothes from leading Perth designers and retailers. If you have some Rudd money left over, time to burn it away!

Perthtainment Tags: entertainment, events, fashion, local artists, perth, retro

April 28

A public holiday to remember who?

My lack of updates has been due to laziness and sickness (possibly the swine flu). ANZAC weekend is over and it’s a good time to think back at how we didn’t honour any fallen soldiers. If you went to a dawn service ignore this paragraph. For the 99% rest of you, and myself, ANZAC weekend means an extra day off work and events at the gay joints around Perth. It’s not that we’re disrespectful, we just have no connection to anyone lost in war. After all, it’s not our fault we’re generation Y, so lets make the most of it and get drunk eh?

Ironically one of the ANZAC weekend events I did attend… sort of… was ‘Gay Prom Fairytale‘ (as named on the flyer). Ironic because it’s the one event I didn’t give any attention on this blog (it didn’t need it) and I ’sort of’ attended because I didn’t actually enter the prom area. Instead my associate and I drank wine on the reject side of the fence and listened to the same music entertainment for free.

Part of my reasoning was I didn’t particularly feel like paying a cover charge for ‘same shit different outfit‘. To combine a few comments from friends the gay prom night was full of gay boys dressing like they were desperate to star in a Twilight movie, and hag girls wearing ball dresses who really shouldn’t be wearing ball dresses… on account of the fat roll spillage. Plus I don’t like cover bands. I’m a bitch. To The Court’s credit it was a really great theme idea, but charging $10-$20 entry is starting to push it. Think of the ANZAC soldiers!!!

Hightlights from Gay Prom: Not paying any money, and a really drunk friend telling Bree Maddox “you can’t go back there it’s for staff only!”.

Still on the topic of events, Soho nights at Ellington Jazz Club is on TONIGHT! (Tuesday). This event format sounds very interesting and I will be in attendance, so if you were offended by my comments above at least come along to abuse me (keeping in mind I won’t care :-D). The night isn’t just jazz music… come!

Out and about Tags: fashion, hags, nightlife, northbridge, the court, the scene

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