Nice Mover's 1st Birthday ft. Gina X Performance & More

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It's NICE MOVER's 1st Birthday! Come celebrate with the legendary Gina X Performance - live and also in conversation, our greatest hits, complete with fire breathers, balloon artists, party favours, and lots of surprises throughout the evening.
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DJs and Performances from:

Gina X Performance
Dora Diamant
Nice Mover Residents
Olive Parker
RattyByeBye
Celeste Guinness of Female Trouble

Gina X will also be in conversation with Nice Mover at the start of the evening, followed by a Q&A. As well as unseen archived footage of Gina X Performance's early performances screened throughout the night.

Exhibition of the past year with all photos, memorabilia, and relics - including art and t-shirts from Clare Frances and Lou Alsop, Inez Valentine, Melia Beaudoin, Isobel Van Dyke, Marcus Amaglo, and Alexandra Loveless.
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GINA X PERFORMANCE:

Gina X Performance's 1978 album 'Nice Mover' was ground zero for the combination of cold-wave electro, disco sleaze, dark cabaret, and genderbending performance aesthetics that would come to dominate the London, Berlin, Paris, and New York City scenes during the early 1980s, and then again in the late 1990s. The core of the band was vocalist and lyricist Gina Kikoine and producer Zeus B. Held who met and formed Gina X Performance in Cologne, Germany.

'Nice Mover' made waves across mainland Europe, as well as clubs in New York and London. These included the legendary Blitz Club, the epicentre of New Romantic hedonism in London in 1979. Among the turntable favourites at Blitz, no record was ever more appropriate than 'No G.D.M', a tribute to Gina X's pen-friend Quentin Crisp. While titular track Nice Mover namechecked the infamous Studio 54 in NYC and was memorably compared to Amanda Lear hanging with Kraftwerk at Danceteria.

Gina X Performance's explicit manifesto was "to create and perform music as part of a total combination of poetry, sounds and visual performance, to entertain, and to provoke thought and reaction." They also described their creative vision as "the absolute union of music, poetry, and travesty."

"Compelling narrative voice, charismatic lyricist, gender bending performance aesthetics, sexual sophistication, new wave classic" - LTM Recordings.

Gina X will also be in conversation with Nice Mover at the start of the evening, followed by a Q&A. As well as unseen archived footage of Gina X Performance's early performances screened throughout the night.

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NICE MOVER:

Those who have been running the Nice Mover club night for the past year. Dinner and a show with the best expected and unexpected dance classics from an eclectically harmonious mix of genres.. Pure! Distilled dance music..

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Olive Parker:

When she's not writing essays.. for her film degree.. on a stopover.. in.. Milan...!! She's lamenting the death of Italo Disco... More than that.. of the auteur..! Sultry.. Internationale.. No wave..

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Celeste Guinness of Female Trouble:

Head Honcho of The Legendary Lez Night Female Trouble.. Expect flawle$$ .. Dance ! Probably a Peaches song (remix) and Missy Elliott?.. And Yes ..!

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RattyByeBye:

Legendary performance artist and all round international hottie RattyByeBye will be joining us yet again! True fans will recall her Nice Mover debut that included a remix of Ave Maria, a eugoloy to a sex life, a questionable amount of blood.. and a 6 inch tube of confetti...! Instagram.com/rattybyebye for more..

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Arcola Theatre
24 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL

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