MATTACHINE
with
DJ JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL (director: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, Rabbit Hole)
DJ AMBER MARTIN (NYC performance queen)
DJ PAUL DAWSON (Shortbus)
DJ PJ DEBOY (Shortbus)
Presented by DJ CARNITA (Hard French, Daytime Realness)
In July, John Cameron Mitchell, Amber Martin, Paul Dawson & PJ Deboy tore up the patio at El Rio and set the dance floor on fire with their traveling version of their storied NYC Club, Mattachine. Their retro-sounds, feel good vibes and wild energy...
MATTACHINE
with
DJ JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL (director: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, Rabbit Hole)
DJ AMBER MARTIN (NYC performance queen)
DJ PAUL DAWSON (Shortbus)
DJ PJ DEBOY (Shortbus)
Presented by DJ CARNITA (Hard French, Daytime Realness)
In July, John Cameron Mitchell, Amber Martin, Paul Dawson & PJ Deboy tore up the patio at El Rio and set the dance floor on fire with their traveling version of their storied NYC Club, Mattachine. Their retro-sounds, feel good vibes and wild energy have been the talk of the town since and now they're coming back to SF for a special Halloween Sunday Afternoon reprise. Come in costume, come for fun, come to dance.
$7/$5 in costume
Sunday, October 30th
3pm-9pm
El Rio
3158 Mission Street
If you missed Mattachine SF the first time, check out these photos by Hannah Cairns Photography.
http://on.fb.me/p2GpbN
Also take a peek at the interview John did with Qweerty talking about Mattachine, touring & his music philosophy
http://bit.ly/q1WcWN
A lil history:
For over three years, Mattachines been packing the dance floor and overflowing onto the sidewalk at the West Village bar Juliusthe very bar where members of the Mattachine Society, the countrys first gay-rights, pinko-commie organization, demanded a drink in 1964 to fight against the citys no service for known homosexuals law. If not for their Sip-In, there wouldn't have been a Stonewall. Now, 48 years later, those men are honored once a month in Julius by scores of fancy-dressed folks careening into each others arm to the songs of queer yesteryear and beyond. Like John says, ALL music is dance music!!
Now theyre taking MATTACHINE on the road, promoting ethical homosexual culture everywhere. Tonight is your night to be an early-era, pinko-commie, downtown homo, demand your drink, and careen into someone elses arms.