Tenderloin
That's polio survivor and transvestite, Goddess Bunny, doing lip-synching duties on this debut video for 'The Golden One' from Berlin-based supergroup Tenderloin. Gender benders in Berlin will want to check out their first live gig this Saturday, 21 April at Camp/Anti-Camp: A Queer Guide to Everyday Life, a three day interrogation of 'camp discourse' in the form of a mini-festival.
Not to be confused with the infamous neighborhood in San Francisco which has long been home to junkies and gender outlaws, Tenderloin is an art-rock-cum-krautrock band with Vaginal Creme Davis, Joel Gibb (of Hidden Cameras fame) and 19-year-old Dagmar Hofpfisterei, the daughter of Christiane F. (the most famous heroin addict in Germany of course).
They don’t sound like anything you’ve ever heard before. On one hand, you’ve got Vag up front on the glockenspiel and lead vocals, occasionally reciting lyrics from Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’. And then you’ve got Joel…on drums (and sometimes vocals). They’ll be playing their new song, ‘Eat Me Like The Good Book Says’, a kind of nasty retelling of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ featuring the other tranny bunny, Lady Bunny, founder of Wigstock.
If you miss them in Berlin this weekend, watch out for Tenderloin at the Antony Hegarty-curated Meltdown Festival in London this August when they play the Queen Elizabeth Hall with The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.
The whole Camp/Anti-camp shebang, with ticket info and program, is here.