Performance
Buzzcut: Double Thrills
CCA, Glasgow
Mary Brennan
FOUR STARS
DOUBLE thrills? That’s nowhere near the half of it: the enterprising Buzzcut team stole a march on next month’s Fringe by getting Christeene on-stage at the CCA, with a raunch-fest taster of what’s in store for rampant fans and curious newbies alike come mid-August in Edinburgh. Before Christeene (performance artist Paul Soileau in skimpy-skanky drag) gets into her unabashedly explicit stride, there’s a set from Glasgow-based girl group Fallopé and The Tubes – who do cheerfully weirdo dress-up, project manic-grotty visuals and power out songs on such truly girly things as orgasms and stuffing your face with unwholesome items. It’s spoof, of course – well, mostly – delivered with an air of deliberate mischief and the ability to harness a host of familiar musical genres to lyrics that scorn passive acceptance of social norms.
Altogether an appropriate warm-up for Christeene and her two back-up boyz as they turn up the thermostat on hot filth, booty-flicking (and licking) dance routines, frequently using the heat – and the audience is definitely on heat for the sight, sound and possible snog from Christeene – to go quiveringly bare-cheeked, butts thrusting with an in-yer-face energy. The provocation actually lies much deeper than the (unprintable) linguistics of Christeene’s lascivious ditties. Sure, the music that beats a sweaty trail from one pounding come-on to the next outrage anthem – with precision-tight shunts and high kicks that make Beyonce’s cadre look prim – is full-on entertainment laced with teasing dirty asides. But the raw essence of Christeene is the recurring intensity of political and social outcry. The raucous, bitingly topical onslaught on repressive, discriminatory attitudes – not just in terms of sexuality either – and on capitalism and corruption, sparked through with the individual’s need to stay aware is where Christeene delivers the real shocks against conventions and complacency.
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