QUEER AS PUNK!!
Not enough anarchy in the UK? Then we are going to have a bit of anarchy (and fun!) in homage to all the LGBTQ+ punk trail blazers! including Buzzcocks, Jayne County, Limp Wrist, Pansy Patrol, Husker Du, Bikini Kill, Peaches and more! Plus the return of the DIY Punk Karaoke hosted by The Violent Themmes, live music from Quiet Chaos AKA Keziah and Medusa Has Been and Jayne C*unty (the punktastic Paul Coombs) Join us over at our mates place Colab Theatre in London Bridge for archive, noisy music, performance and tartan!
The term "punk" has a long queer history predating its use in contemporary music. A "punk" has always meant a person up to something disreputable and socially deviant. In Shakespeare's English, it meant a female sex worker; later it also connoted young men who sold sex to older men. Punk and queer are a match made in the gutter. Punk rock embraces this abject status. It celebrates it and rejects the society that rejects it. It is all about bad behaviour, anarchy, anti-sociality and noise. It is about claiming a freedom from dulling and hypocritical normative pressures. In other words, punk is queer!! Learn about the history of queercore/homocore and its radical roots in the 80's, more than three decades after it was dreamed up in a Toronto basement, it seems queercore remains as relevant and as necessary as ever!!
So come on over and rock out to queer punk, 2-Tone, post punk, riot grrrl and anything noisy you can dance to from the 70‘s till now, grab the mic and generally say F*** you to the system!
See you Queercore kids there!
THIS EVENT IS AT COLAB (bigger space, queer ran with air con!)
Address: 54 Park Street, London, SE1 9EA
To get to the COLAB Tower it is easier to type in 54 Park Street, London, SE1 9EA as the entrance is opposite that address.
ACCESSSIBILITY
Colab have been really fortunate to get a building that was already DDA compliant so they are dedicated to try and make events as accessible as possible. That means that you will be able to access all areas of the venue easily in a wheelchair.