March 25th, 2009
As I have been buried in non-music projects for the past few weeks, I have been unable to get my tail down to Hale’s Palladium for the much-lauded Moisture Festival. I dispatched a good friend to head down last week to serve as a report for the Subsonic Faithful and a preview for yours truly:
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“Burlesque and my mother…a night at the Moisture Festival.
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Perhaps inviting your mother (and one of her ex-boyfriends) to a burlesque show would seem to some like a mistake. Luckily for me the Moisture Festival burlesque performers gave us just enough tongue-in-cheek to help me get over watching topless ladies while sitting next to a man who brought me to Care Bears Movie the last time I saw him. All of the individual performers were beautiful and sassy, but Lily Verlaine’s Southern belle and Babette LaFav’s shadow display really stole the show. Maybe it was the Primus pumping in the background while naughty shadows went from sexy to psychedelic and back again, or maybe it was Lilly’s way with her ice cube.
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All of the male performers during the show really stood out, not just because they had different goodies to flash but also because they were clever and funny. Nanda, the last group of the night had impressive physical abilities but it was the absurdity of their routine that won me over. Who knew ninjas battling robots could be so risque? The Aerialistas looked incredible and both on and off their ropes, but my favorite aerial routine had to have been Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey, they really live up to everything their name might imply.
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My mother and her friend loved the show as much as my friend and I (maybe even more) and after the initial shock of watching wiggling flesh with my mother wore off it was a great night. Moisture Fest 2010 can’t come soon enough!”
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Brought to you by Barno, and the metric system, the standard of measure in her native Canada.
With this endorsement, I had no choice but to sell part of my soul for a pair of tickets to tonight’s show, which starts in two hours!
March 26th, 2009 at 9:46 am
misterlevitan said:
The Aerlift benefit show last night was phenomenal! I hope some of you were able to make it to Hale’s. If not, do NOT miss it next year. Whew, I am still in awe.