Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic on reunions and justice for Heklina

Scissor Sisters singer Ana Matronic recently launched her podcast, but for a minute her fans weren’t excited.

A good time sariMatronic Profile began production in 2021 by 2021, 20th century women and “Joints” who alienated in 2021 the “Joints” who burst their lives through fascism in the wake of World War II. It evolved into “some long-term research and writing projects,” as detailed in an Instagram statement last October.

“oh, yes!“Matronic today says whether she’s rejoined the band. Magical Time. “Never say it. I’ve learned that you can’t close the door completely and you shouldn’t do either. But at this point I’ve been out of the band for longer than you could.

She squeezes her chin thinly. “The thread that links it all was storytelling, and I was a storyteller with the Sizer sisters and the emotional engine.”

We are chatting on a London video call on one of our first proper sunny spring days this year. From sadness to rave reviews under the giant statue of the Alien Virgin Mary, it becomes clear why she infuses herself into the storyteller. She is a seductive presence and is a bit similar to all gay student English teachers.

It makes perfect sense to know that she sold crystals in a growing mall. She is once the most rigid burnt orange fringes are wiped out to the sides under a black and white checkered headband. She wears a matching cardigan blouse combo. It’s very retro, very attractive, very Anna’s matronic.

“There’s a lot of information in this head that can’t be contained.”

Born in Annalynch in 1974, Matronic was the face of a chart-topping glamour pop band along with leading man Jake Sears (Seers, Baby Daddy and Del Marquis are on tour). However, when she details her new audio venture, it becomes clear that she always considers herself a student first.

After the Scisor sisters, she held a BBC Radio 2 dance music show in a few hours on Sundays, wrote a book about robots (she is fascinated by them – hence the stage name), and as soon as our call is over, she heads out to the Lee Bowery exhibition at Tate Modern. “There’s a lot of information in this head that you can’t lock in,” she laughs, her eyes spreading with hassle.

She is a self-proclaimed history nerd and is particularly affectionate about her strange nightlife. The first two episodes of A good time sari Watch her story a mile about the hidden legacy of Madame Spivey, a lesbian cabaret artist whose roof at New York’s nightclub Spivey, who congratulated and embraced LGBTQ+ folk almost 30 years before the Stonewall riots.

She hopes that nightlife will be treated as an art of the same vein as painting and sculpture. “The joy seekers look down on a lot in society,” she says. She’s still part of the scene. She has an annual DJ residency at Fire Island. “We don’t speak on the same terms as the painters and the people who inspired them, as we don’t speak on the same terms as the bartenders and go-go dancers. I think we should.”

Matronic has been living in New York itself since the late 90s. “I can’t stop her!” – She meets Sears at the knockoff and a strange cabaret show she starts. The band was formed in 2000 and spent 12 years plaguing the charts with mammoth hits, including “I Don’t Feeling Dancin” and “Take Your Mama.”

Their self-titled debut is one of the bestselling records of the 21st century.

I recently expressed it “res” The group felt that it made it easier for critics to “dismiss” them as being labelled “gay bands” at their peak. Matronic has taken this evasively today, suggesting that “music criticism is run by a white man who loves rock and roll and is run by a white man who loves rock and roll. Eurovision and Drag Race.

“Chapel Lawn… I love her. I think she’s great.”

She has realised that there has been a change in the ocean in recent years, and at least unconsciously there is a Chappellone-like star rise, which has been smacked in fruity, over-the-top sings of the scissors sisters for songs like “Pink Pony Club” and “Femino Menon.”

“I’m so happy where it is. I want to meet more queer artists. I want to see more queer artists of color. I want to see more trance artists,” she says. “To hear and see people like Chapel Lawn, she thinks she’s so right in her values, so she takes her platform and understands what she has and what she can do with it. It’s so great. I love her. I think she’s amazing.”

Matronic’s enthusiasm for culture began at age 11 when her sister brought home a copy of the treatment The head of the doorand she saw a strange sci-fi flick Liquid skyabout the aliens that permeates the Manhattan punk club scene in search of sex-inducing endorphins (“very advanced films for 11-year-olds to watch,” she admits. Her mother, the bohemian painter, and grandmother share their adoration of culture with her. “When I brought home the prince’s record, my mother said, ‘Oh, he sounds like Little Richard’. She put me in the car and took me to buy a little Richard’s record.”

Her first time at a nightclub was 14 years old in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. “A strange nightclub of all ages who did not serve alcohol,” where music ranged from the new wave to the industrial goth. “It was deep and weird and very punk rock” – all Guyliner and Doc Martins. “This was also [during] AIDS crisis. I was involved with friends I demonstrated and involved [queer activism groups] He acts and says he’s saying, “We’re not happy, we’re queer like you.” She produces a wry smile.

Queerness consumed her upbringing. Married to her husband Seth Kirby for 15 years, Matronic identifies her as pansexual and uses the pronouns of “her” and “them” (but prefers “her”).

She began her nightlife career as a drug performer at a burlesque show in Portland before moving to an apartment in San Francisco with a queer friend. She knew the California city very well. Growing up, she often visited her gay father in the strange Castro neighborhood where he lived. He died of AIDS-related complications when she was only 15 years old.

“It wasn’t even a week since I moved to San Francisco. [legendary queer club] T-Shack, and the next Tuesday, I was on stage. I did Nina Hagen. ” She bumps into The Memory. She performed with Drag Star Peaches Christ every Tuesday.

“Heclina and I were very close.”

Heclina will move into a Matronic apartment, and the musician will help Heclina’s groom (or dirt) wig. Heklina was the first to show Matronic The Wonders of New York Nightlife. “Heclina and I were very close,” she recalls today. In April 2023, Heclina was found dead by Peaches Christ in the London apartment where the pair plays. She was 55 years old.

Matronic was, of course, “shattered” by the death of her friend. In February, the troops apologised for handling the investigation. It took almost two years to issue an appeal to find three men believed to be in the flat before Heklina’s death, but Peaches allegedly claimed that all the emails she sent to those she investigated had been “unanswered for months.”

On March 31, Matronic joins Peaches and other drug artists at a “Heclina’s Justice” rally at the Met Police Headquarters in London, protesting evidence of homophobia. She talks to the crowd and tells her what the people behind the make-up were, Heclina and Stephen Grigelko. She also wants justice.

“I want the answer for her, our community and our family. Heclina is my family and I’m not really the person I am today. [without her]She says, her eyes are blatant. She also wants her fans to know if there’s no change in Heclina’s phrase, “First/Gorgeous” – Scissor Sisters’ first Top 5 UK hits, and the first number one smash on the US Billboard Dance Chart, simply does not exist. The merits may have caused the band to sniff before they worked on their second album.

“Being filthy meant you looked really good. Gorgeous means you absolutely look rotten, and that was the best thing ever. Whenever you hear “clean/gorgeous”, you’re engaged in San Francisco drug apples. If you look closely at the SexCapade music video, you will find Heklina in the crowd. “She was calling me, but she…” Matronic flicks her fingers into the phone gesture, placing her roughest and loudest accent. I made it you! ‘And hang up. ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlo4fwrve2i

In a way, much of the matronics of work is shaped by sadness. Over the next few decades, people probably recommend making a podcast about her and the Scissor Sisters affecting strange cultures. Does she recognize her own influence? “Yes, no…yes. I see myself as a part of it. Certainly. A strange dance culture?

“Sadness and loss connect us.”

“Absolutely,” she says. “I feel so happy because my dad couldn’t express himself and was unable to be honest about who he was. So it’s sad that he wasn’t here to see it. Of course, there’s a lot of life in his name, and I work with his name I do.” She turns her lashes over again and bats in tears. “I’m just turned 50 and 50 was his last birthday before he was taken to HIV/AIDS, so that’s also very moving.”

I share my own experiences with my parents’ illness. “Sorry,” she says warmly. “That grief and loss bring us together,” she delves into what queer clubs looked like in the shadow of the AIDS crisis. There was a safe sex education. Free clinics; shelter hotline numbers.

“Queer clubs were not a safe space for people to express themselves, they were also community hubs and community centres,” she explains. “We have many options for technology that connects people, but there’s nothing to get into the room and rub your elbows,” she chuckles and sticks her tongue out: “…maybe more!”

Today, the climate of the LGBTQ+ community, especially trans people, is “pretty dark” as she recognizes. But she was here previously through the trends and through the round of Trump. “When we come together, we can’t stop, so we gather together,” she urges. In the 1940s, queer women could enjoy dinner, drinks and shows, and closed the doors of a crumbling world outside.

“I hope people listen. A good time sarilearn about Madame Spivey and call their most catantious lesbian friends and take them overnight in town.

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