Mad Kate – The Tide ‘Stage and Bedroom’ Record Release Show with support: Ratas
Mad Kate | The Tide – STAGE and BEDROOM record release show mixes queer performance, rage, care, heart, cunt, gut and punk rock After five years in the making, Mad Kate the Tide emerge with their second studio LP, Stage and Bedroom, which reflects the complex conditions of labour and care, the very ones they lived through in order to finally give birth to the work. These songs and performances are about freelance WORK, the hustle, and how we are connected as laborers in capitalism to the mechanisms of WAR. Its also about the sexualized body in and out of sex work — what we do in the bedroom and what we do on the world stage … and why our bodies are always instruments of power in the bed and in the streets and in the world
photos above by Aimé Dabbadie / insta @emptymindscanfillagain
Mad Kate | The Tide is a post-punk conceptual performance project featuring Jacopo Bertacco aka The Tide on guitar, loops, and electronics, Mad Kate on vocals, poetry, contact mics, and performance, and Sara Neidorf on drums. Rooted in conceptual inquiry and text-based explorations, Mad Kate | The Tide weaves dynamic sonic landscapes of punk, acoustic folk, psychedelic rock, and spoken word. Their performances blend raw honesty with darkly provocative movement and performance art, designed to challenge and stir audiences.
In their first work – an album – a book – and performance – ALIVE:ness, they explore questions that permeate all their projects: To what extent are we truly present in each other’s lives—physically, emotionally, electronically, and even beyond life and death—within a landscape of virtual interaction and shifting identities? How do we define presence when our very existence is shaped by the way we engage both physically and digitally with those closest to us? What does it mean to queer identity in a globalized world, not only as an act of self-expression but as a strategy for community building and solidarity? These questions emerge in the sweaty bodies of the club
The evening will open with the juiciest band in town RATAS Shouty, sexy and a bit silly, combine them all in a post-punk feminist sound. Think Riot Grrrl meets Midwest Emo with a sprinkle of Punk.