Mad maverick Minty cabaret people meet Offset to create mental single.
No surprise there - read on...

Spawned from the belly of that glorious monstrosity of talent that is Minty, Offset were formed in '95 as a tribute to the much mourned club icon and seminal performance artist Leigh Bowery (who deserves a posthumous Damehood for services to clubbing). Bowery and his widow Nicola provide the vocals on their new single, a four track whirling dervish of clubbing It's A Game PT1 out on Poppy Records.
The band are press darlings. 'This group should be looked at by the Home Office', screamed The Daily Star. Already guests on Pulp's UK tour and a Radio 1 live session, their live shows have been banned in four London boroughs and five English counties.
The line-up of this morphing group is a collection of talented misfits, a 90s Factory style superstars stable that Warhol would have adored. The main players include Mathew Glamorre, glittering disco socialite and founder of Club Smashing, and Neil Kaczor, the classically trained sound sculptor who's worked everywhere from The Royal Festival Hall to Trade.



Mathew explains the groups set up: "The Offset fluctuates between 18 and 30 people. It's a bit like a holiday in The Med. But there is not a fixed number, people come and go the whole time. We have guest performers when we do a show..it's a kind of an open forum. Myself and Neil always thought-my God, there are so many fantastic superstars in the gutter. It's no new revelation, but as kids we were struck by that. We just thought they should be up on the stage." Other gorgeous babes in this rogues gallery include: Aidan Shaw, the greatest sex maniac porn star in Britain; That Donald aka Donald Urquhart, prolific writer of underground plays and a terrifying mask of theatricality and Sexton Ming, a scary chic transvestite with stubble, a tickler of all fancies.
Their new single is a mix of cabaret, Lydia Lunch and clubbing mayhem in all the right measures and is taken from their forthcoming album 'Off the floor'. This is creative hard-core at its best, the birth of megastars is in the offing. Just wait and see...

Creation date : 19/01/2007 @ 16:58
Last update : 19/01/2007 @ 16:58
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