SF Pride was great – but with two gigs in two days there wasn’t much space for pure fun and cruising around.
On Friday, Lipstick Conspiracy “lite” (Marilyn , Sarafina and Tori) played the Trans March stage in Dolores Park. Amazingly enough, they were running ahead of schedule, which nearly caught Tori out, as she’d taken advantage of living not so far away to nip back and freshen up (!). We only did three numbers (Ten Thousand Days, Something About the Rain and Gender Frontier), and the sound was slightly strange on stage – no voice in the monitors and the backline cranked way up high drowning everything. But the set was well received, and we might do more of these mini/combination gigs, as a way of gigging a lot (especially for “community” events), while still getting time to work on new material and accommodating people’s schedules.
On Sunday the full band were playing the inaugural Transgender stage just off the Civic Plaza. Pride logistics meant we had to be at the rehearsal space at 7:30am (yikes!), so that we could load in equipment before vehicles had to be out of the area. Then a quick sound check at 10am, and we got to hang round / check out the other acts / walk around the area until our slot at 3:30. We also got to see a whole bunch of really good Trans performers, including (and apologies for missing some people) The Viragos, Katastrophe, Wood, Deep Dick Collective, and Fruitie Flavors, who all drew good appreciative crowds.
We went on early again (what happened to Tranny Time?!) and did a twenty minute set which was a mixture of favorites and new stuff (I Won’t Go, Wishing well, Stand Off, Just a Girl and Girl of My Dreams) and which really rocked. We had one or two initial mishaps at the start (Shawna plugging her guitar into the bass amp and vice versa, Marilyn getting a super loud guitar patch cos she couldn’t see her MIDI display in the sun), but the sound was good, and we were really cooking. There was great energy on the stage – and the crowd were bopping and shouting – just a really fun gig.
And then we had to hang around until 7pm until we could get vehicles in again, load the equipment and head back to the practice space. Which meant a 12 hour plus day – all for 20 great minutes. It’s only rock’n’roll…
On Friday, Lipstick Conspiracy “lite” (Marilyn , Sarafina and Tori) played the Trans March stage in Dolores Park. Amazingly enough, they were running ahead of schedule, which nearly caught Tori out, as she’d taken advantage of living not so far away to nip back and freshen up (!). We only did three numbers (Ten Thousand Days, Something About the Rain and Gender Frontier), and the sound was slightly strange on stage – no voice in the monitors and the backline cranked way up high drowning everything. But the set was well received, and we might do more of these mini/combination gigs, as a way of gigging a lot (especially for “community” events), while still getting time to work on new material and accommodating people’s schedules.
On Sunday the full band were playing the inaugural Transgender stage just off the Civic Plaza. Pride logistics meant we had to be at the rehearsal space at 7:30am (yikes!), so that we could load in equipment before vehicles had to be out of the area. Then a quick sound check at 10am, and we got to hang round / check out the other acts / walk around the area until our slot at 3:30. We also got to see a whole bunch of really good Trans performers, including (and apologies for missing some people) The Viragos, Katastrophe, Wood, Deep Dick Collective, and Fruitie Flavors, who all drew good appreciative crowds.
We went on early again (what happened to Tranny Time?!) and did a twenty minute set which was a mixture of favorites and new stuff (I Won’t Go, Wishing well, Stand Off, Just a Girl and Girl of My Dreams) and which really rocked. We had one or two initial mishaps at the start (Shawna plugging her guitar into the bass amp and vice versa, Marilyn getting a super loud guitar patch cos she couldn’t see her MIDI display in the sun), but the sound was good, and we were really cooking. There was great energy on the stage – and the crowd were bopping and shouting – just a really fun gig.
And then we had to hang around until 7pm until we could get vehicles in again, load the equipment and head back to the practice space. Which meant a 12 hour plus day – all for 20 great minutes. It’s only rock’n’roll…
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Re: Pride!
Wed, June 29, 2005 - 1:25 PMI was talking to Marilyn about this...time to get roadies!
