London had The Blitz Kids, New York had The Club Kids... Sydney had this lot.
License to Thrill is to be a publication which will focus on edgy personalities, parties and performances in the inner-city Sydney area over a thirty year period.
License to Thrill is to be a publication which will focus on edgy personalities, parties and performances in the inner-city Sydney area over a thirty year period.
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I LOVE YOU, MUTHA F*CKA
The amazing miracle of makeup and fabric construction and performance genius, known as Della Dellaforce.
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Australian blokes are known all over the world as he-men.
So funny when Wayne pops out of the saloon doors drink and fag in hand as if it was all very casual. “Yes well you see, Terry – I’m the same up at the Pink Pussycat…””
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les girls floorshow circa 1969 and a revealingly personal interview with the glorious carlotta, as well as super-smooth cats terry boom (les girls) and wayne martin (pink pussycat) and a glimpse of ayesha! see also #18 and #45.
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MICHAEL MATOU
Michael Matou was a world-famous performer and mime artist who worked in Europe as a member of the famed Lindsay Kemp Company. Matou, born in Australia in 1947, and went on to establish "Cabaret Conspiracy" and "Cafe Debris", performance groups, amongst others - assemblies that seemed to have a fluid,... constantly changing line up of performers.
"Burlesco" seems to have been the most significant and was formed in Sydney, in the early eighties as a theatre/cabaret show. It featured at various times Martin Raphaelle, Simon Reptile, Tommy Gunn, Sigarette, Elizabeth Burton, Fifi L'Amour, Kevin English, Zero, Jimmy Joy, and Simone Kline. Matou passed away in Barcelona, Spain in 1987.
John Webber: I saw Lindsay Kemp’s “ Flowers” , the version with Michael Matou in it, at the Paris Theatre on Oxford Street, it was spell-binding.
Ariel Blacker: Though Matou has passed and Lindsay is still with us: the question still remains; who influenced who? Did Matou influence Lindsay or Lindsay influence Matou? I know which way my vote goes. MATOU was a genius. I think one of Australia's most talented performers.Taken like so many,away from us too soon.Read More
Michael Matou was a world-famous performer and mime artist who worked in Europe as a member of the famed Lindsay Kemp Company. Matou, born in Australia in 1947, and went on to establish "Cabaret Conspiracy" and "Cafe Debris", performance groups, amongst others - assemblies that seemed to have a fluid,... constantly changing line up of performers.
"Burlesco" seems to have been the most significant and was formed in Sydney, in the early eighties as a theatre/cabaret show. It featured at various times Martin Raphaelle, Simon Reptile, Tommy Gunn, Sigarette, Elizabeth Burton, Fifi L'Amour, Kevin English, Zero, Jimmy Joy, and Simone Kline. Matou passed away in Barcelona, Spain in 1987.
John Webber: I saw Lindsay Kemp’s “ Flowers” , the version with Michael Matou in it, at the Paris Theatre on Oxford Street, it was spell-binding.
Ariel Blacker: Though Matou has passed and Lindsay is still with us: the question still remains; who influenced who? Did Matou influence Lindsay or Lindsay influence Matou? I know which way my vote goes. MATOU was a genius. I think one of Australia's most talented performers.Taken like so many,away from us too soon.Read More
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FLOWERS Was the most important and impressive show played by the Lindsay Kemp Company. “Flowers" was based on a Jean Genet narrative prose/poem "Notre Dame des Fleures". Michael Matou was a performer and member of the company. Matou, born in Australia in 1947, was a world-famous mime artist who worked in Europe. He we...nt on to establish "Cabaret Conspiracy" and "Cafe Debris",performance groups, amongst others - that seemed to have a fluid, constantly changing line up of performers.
"Burlesco" seems to have been the most significant and was formed in Sydney, in the early eighties as a theatre/cabaret show. It featured at various times Martin Raphaelle, Simon Reptile, Tommy Gunn, Sigarette, Elizabeth Burton, Fifi L'Amour, Kevin English, Zero, Jimmy Joy, and Simone Kline. Matou passed away in Barcelona, Spain in 1987.Read More
"Burlesco" seems to have been the most significant and was formed in Sydney, in the early eighties as a theatre/cabaret show. It featured at various times Martin Raphaelle, Simon Reptile, Tommy Gunn, Sigarette, Elizabeth Burton, Fifi L'Amour, Kevin English, Zero, Jimmy Joy, and Simone Kline. Matou passed away in Barcelona, Spain in 1987.Read More
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The most important and impressive show played by the Lindsay Kemp Company. Based on a Jean Genet narrative prosepoem ("Notre Dame des Fleures"), Flowers (like said a journalist) "is nothing less than magic, black magic. ...
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Short feature on the New Romantic & Blitz scene of 1981, featuring Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran & Visage.
License to Thrill This is a very funny documentary on The Taboo! musical.
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An amazing and hilarious documentary made about Boy George's Taboo. Features interviews with cast and crew and the real Philip Sallon, Marilyn, Steve Strange, and many others. Part 1 of 5.
License to Thrill Ladies Please! fan page. Starred Cindy Pastel, Strykermeyer, and Lady Bump, focussing on a trip to Cannes to promote Priscilla.
Collectors Edition DVD Available now from http://www.rebelstudio.com.au Ladies Please is a rare and stimulating insight into the professional and personal lives of three of the most innovative drag performers and the inspiration behind the feature film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Cindy Pastel (R...itchie Finger), Strykermeyer (Mark Fitzhugh) and Lady Bump (Stuart Garske). We are taken into their world, in an age haunted by the spectre of AIDS, to see how drag performers, drawing from Japanese Kabuki to pre-war Berlin Cabaret, act as both court jesters and social commentators. Through Ladies Please we observe Cindy Pastel’s relationship with his wife Kerrin and son Adam; Strykermeyer articulates his perceptions of the world they inhabit; whilst Lady Bump discusses his troubled journey from Sydney schoolboy to glamorous drag performer. Ladies Please explores the strange bohemian world that is drag.Read More
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License to Thrill Jac Vidgen's RAT party archive on Picasa. He'as also posted a selection on to his profile album.
License to Thrill Not Sydney scene, but this is a hilarious doco if you haven't seen it, where all the Blitz Kids dish the dirt, and tear strips off each other.
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A Channel 4 (UK) documentary regarding the very early 80's club, Steve Strange's 'Blitz' club in Covent Garden. The documentary documents the rise and fall of the three central protagonists; Steve Strange, Boy George and Marilyn.
License to Thrill Christy McNicol at Nevada Studios 1993, polaroid test by John Webber
License to Thrill Tales of a Cindy - Tell your favourite Pastel anecdote on the discussion board in a new topic.
License to Thrill short clip of Jac in a sequin Snood, with Akira following, at RAT party circa 89/90.
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