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Oregon Daily Emerald 346-3712
Chicks on Speed blends art
with electronica at concerts
■The electronica group creates
paper dresses and pink latex
breasts in addition to music
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
Just when music was starting to
seem boring, here comes Chicks
on Speed.
When this electronica trio ar
rives at WOW Hall with Le Tigre
on Tuesday, get ready to dance.
Chicks on Speed live shows merge
performance, graphic design and
homemade outfits while playing
their music through mini-disc
players and compact samplers
with video montages bopping be
hind them.
Chicks on Speed includes New
Yorker Melissa Logan, Australian
Alex Murray-Leslie and Munich
native Kiki Morse. The three
women, who met at the Munich
Academy of Art, need no guitars to
play their modern music.
“We don’t like fucking guitars,”
they scream on one of their tracks.
The band actually began as a
“fake band,” a merchandising proj
ect in 1997. On stage the Chicks
sometimes wear paper dresses,
which they sell on their Web site
for $86.
“It usually lasts about 10 minutes
if you are dancing, longer if you are
only walking,” according to the
Web site. A variety of other mer
chandise is also available including
bumper stickers and homemade
clothing and a blow-up, pink, latex
“Boob Monster.”
“Just merchandising, but the
band doesn’t exist — that was the
whole idea,” Morse said.
When they started to play shows,
their original idea expanded to a
full-fledged band.
“We love to create works in var
ious mediums, and it’s not about
professionalism in any way,” said
band member Murray-Leslie. “It’s
Discography
“The Un-Releases"
Chicks On Speed Records, March
2000
“Chicks On Speed Will Save Us Ail!”
Chicks On Speed Records, March 2000
“The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases”
Courtesy photo
K Records, October 2000
This is a remix collage of COS tracks
that were previously created
The Chicks on Speed/Kreidier
Sessions split
Chicks on Speed records, 2001
All available from www.chicksonspeed.CDm
about collaborating with many
different people and being cre
ative together.”
The Chicks have transcended the
idea of a rock band. They create art
shows that consist of giant breasts,
and they create experimental
videos. They have also released
more than 15 albums, singles and
compilations in the past five years,
including “Chix-52,” an album of
B-52’s covers.
“We want to be as productive as
possible in the shortest amount of
time,” Murray-Leslie said.
The lyrics the Chicks create are
reflective of their art school back
grounds as well as punk culture.
On “Glamour Girl’, their 10” re
lease from Go records, they sing,
“Fashion victim on the air/I shaved
off my pubic hair/Sometimes they
think I’m vermin/I’ve got more
faces than Cindy Sherman.
Their modestly titled full-length
“Chicks On Speed Will Save Us
All!” and their recent U.S. debut on
K Records, “The Re-Releases of the
Un-Releases,” have fared remark
ably well in their limited printing
run. “Re-Releases” swells at nearly
72 minutes in length via 33 tracks.
Fellow collage musicians Le Tigre
will headline Tuesday’s show. Le Ti
gre consists of former Bikini Kill
member Kathleen Hanna, Johanna
Fateman and J.D. Samson. The idea
for Le Tigre began with Hanna’s solo
project “Julie Ruin.” When Hanna
decided she wanted to do live
shows for the project, she recruited
Fateman and video artist Sadie Ben
ning. The live endeavor morphed
into Le Tigre. Samson replaced Ben
ning on the second album.
E-mail Pulse reporter Alix Kerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.
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■ Friday ■
Terry Robb,
Bill Rhoades, Alan Ha^ar
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■ Saturday ■
Michael D. Memorial,
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Project/Object,
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Frank Zappa Tribute
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■ Tuesday ■
LeTtyre, Chicks on Speed,
Tami Hart
Fetninist Rock
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