Tag: Justin Vivian Bond
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Kiki and Herb – Whitey on the moon
A few things I thought I’d never see – a new Kiki & Herb release, and Kiki & Herb on Bandcamp – they’re back! And with a EP of live recordings including their excellent cover of Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘Whitey On The Moon’ with all proceeds going to the queer & trans black organisation ‘Black Visions…
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RC 278: Snow Pucker Lips aka Snow Business
If spring can take the snow awayCan it melt away all of our mistakesMemories made in the coldest winter… As is completely predictable and traditional, I do an episode about snow and it’s mostly all gone in my part of London by the time I upload it. This is for those affected by Snowmageddon-it-can-stop-now, I…
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RC 246: Songs That Kiki & Herb Taught Us
Kiki DuRane (Justin Vivian Bond) and Herb (Kenny Mellman) aka Kiki & Herb were a San Francisco 90’s drag/cabaret act who in their lifetime produced some great and funny covers of a wide variety of music especially in medleys and with monologues. Kiki was a drunken and rather tired old cabaret singer and Herb was…
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Kiki and Herb Loves You
And would die for you 😀 How many songs include Bonnie Tyler, then mash in the Byrds, WB Keats and more? Well allow Kiki and Herb to show you: Live they are a musical reference whirlwind – very appropriate to mashup culture and quite radical – I mean singing a torch song version of Annie…