I was impressed with how many people showed up to Winterland to see the show. LMR: Well, I had a huge hangover the next day… which was awesome. KS: Last time you came through, did Bremerton leave any type of impression on you guys? You might follow us for three days in a row and not see the same show twice. So even though the format of the show is generally about 85 percent similar from city to city, we do change it up, depending on what our constraints are. Occasionally we’ll change it from show to show, sometimes we’ll do more fire, sometimes more magic tricks … We do have a considerable bag of tricks that we draw from. Some are very heavily dance-oriented, others there are certain points, as you know, where we’ll bring people up out of the audience. LMR: We do choreograph all of routines ahead of time, and some have more lewd choreography than others. KS: How much of what you girls do is planned ahead of time as compared to just happening that night? We’ve got a girl who’s got her finger in every burlesque pie in Vancouver, named Lola Lockheart, who, as well as being a very amazing performer is also a very talented singer… It’s kind of a spin on the old, ‘burlesque dancers should be seen and not heard, but more often than not you’ll hear us when we’re drunk.’ Whiskey Rose, then we had Burgundy Bricks from New York, we’ve had Bloody Betty (she goes on). And I think when you last saw us, we had Ms. So we have had a changing bass line up for the past year. LMR: Scare-o-line (former bass player) left us last June after eight years, so Brandy Battery, a Bellingham-by-way-of-Montana native, has been filling in, and we have a canadian girl, Katie Kerosene as well. Kind of like the haunted mansion at Disneyland. It’s kind of like if Frank Miller and HG Wells got together and produced something, it would kind of look like that - deep, dark and disturbing, but kind of beautiful. It’s got this kind of scientific romantic quality to a lot of what’s going on. And the show itself is looking to more and more Steampunk elements. LMR: It was almost exactly a year ago that we last rolled through Bremerton… I think that a lot of what’s changed is that the music, well it’s always been dark, but it’s really evolved in the last year. How much further do you guys take it now, compared to, what’s it been, a year ago since you last came through? KS: That’s true, once you go to those ends, it gets harder and harder to take it one step further. I mean it’s one thing to be covered in blood, but when you go to that extreme, you kind of find yourself asking, well, how can I top this now? I’m going to have a pull an albino unicorn out of my vagina at the next show if I’m going to top this.” When I say hardcore, a lot of people probably think immediately of something like the Suicide Girls, they go for the lowest common denominator… but we’re trying to think more in terms of a psychological horror, instead of just coming out and doing a show like Gwar. LMR: Well, we’re incorporating a lot more into the show, like more magic tricks and a little more hardcore steam punk aesthetic. So, what’s new with you? Tell me about what’s new with the show. KS: Many, many new things here at the Smokestack. LMR: Hi there… How you doin? What’s been shakin’, what’s new with you? ~Steampunk-ish Little Miss Risk | Ed Araquel~ More /winterlandrocks, We caught up with the lead Voodoo Doll Little Miss Risk (at right above) for a few words on booze, burlesque, BJB and life on the road for March’s upcoming print edition, dedicated to traveling artists. Winterland, 1220 Sylvan Way in Bremerton. The show is 21+ w/ a $10 cover, starting around 9:30 p.m. 27), joining a stacked line up which features the roving Reverend Dead Eye’s No Man Gospel Band, Seattle’s Hard Money Saints, and Kitsap’s own living legend James Hunnicutt. bring their booze-swillin’, fire-blowin’, face-rockin’ antics to Bremerton’s Winterland tonight (Feb. ~Liquor, monocles & revolvers, BJB & the Voodoo Dollz | Ed Araquel~īig John Bates & the Voodoo Dollz - a rock-n-roll burlesque group from Vancouver, B.C.
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