VARIOUS – Blacklips Bar: Androgyns And Deviants: Industrial Romance For Bruised And Battered Angels 19921995 – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP – Black Vinyl.

Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 19921995 is a compilation combining original recordings and select DJ tracks from the vaults of Blacklips Performance Cult, a collective of underground performers, artists and drag queens who took to NYCs Pyramid Club stage every Monday night at 1 am to perform original plays. The broad spectrum of emotional expression, ferocity, humour and transgression evident in these collected recordings are a further indication of the groups oeuvre.

In 1992, ANOHNI founded Blacklips Performance Cult with collaborators Johanna Constantine and Psychotic Eve. Originally intended as a cabaret and DJ night, the constellation of people drawn to Blacklips soon melded into a late night ensemble in which members took turns writing scripts that were then performed by the group. Blacklips continued a tradition of urban queer subcultural resistance embodied within the writings of Jean Genet, John Rechy, and the post-punk feminist Terence Sellers.

Inspired by Lotte Lenya, Candy Darling, and Leigh Bowery, Greta Garbo and Sister Dimension, performers took the stage primarily to entertain and address each other, while entertaining late-night thrill seekers. Staging collectively conceived plays set Blacklips apart from other expressions of creativity in nightlife of the era, aligning the group with predecessors such as The Cockettes, Angels of Light, Bloolips and Theater of the Ridiculous.

Blacklips members built sets from garbage and industrial refuse that they found in the streets of the East Village, in homage to Jack Smith and the aesthetics of post apocalyptic punk. The group staged spectacles that were alternately surreal, slapstick, emotional and absurd. This weekly laboratory also served as the first showcase for ANOHNIs music.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Shoot Yer Load – Meng & Ecker
2. Good Morning Heartache – Joey Arias
3. Punks, Get Off The Grass – Edith Massey
4. Ladies and Gentlemen – ANOHNI (as Precious Liar)
5. Satan’s Lil’ Lamb – James F. Murphy
6. Janet Vampire – ANOHNI and Pearls
7. Stairs – Uncertain Journey – Christian Death
8. Disrupt Their Lives – Vito Russo (with Gary Reynolds)
9. Rapture – ANOHNI (as Fiona Blue)

Side B
1. Double-Barrel Prayer – Diamanda Gals
2. Sister Morphine – Sissy Fitt
3. Natasha – Tammy Taste Test
4. You Think You’re a Man – Divine
5. So Disgraceful – Marilyn and The Movie Stars

Side C
1. Satellite of Love – Ebony Jet
2. Fuck You – Dean and the Weenies
3. People are Small – ANOHNI (as Justin Grey)
4. Angels in Pain – Princess Tinymeat
5. Your Cigarette – coke
6. Tenterhook – Dave Vanian
7. Suspecting Mrs. Shyster – Sissy Fitt (as Carol TooGood)
8. The Yellowing Angel – ANOHNI featuring Johanna Constantine

Side D
1. 13 Ways To Die – Dr. Clark Render
2. Useless Man – Minty
3. My Final Moments – Kabuki Starshine
4. Golden Showers – Meng & Ecker
5. Love Letters – ANOHNI (as Fiona Blue)
6. Blacklips – ANOHNI (as Precious Liar)