photography by Horace Long | wardrobe by Justin Warner |
hair & makeup by Sylvia Bueno, www.sylviabueno.com | text by Alley Hector
FASHION
MIND
THE
GAP
Portland’s
QUEER-friendly band
Mattachine Social
bring (their very own)
style to the stage
DYNAMIC AND ENERGETIC, I MET THE FOUR MEMBERS OF MATTACHINE
SOCIAL ON A SUNNY SUNDAY IN NORTH PORTLAND. SUMMER IN OUR TOWN
INCREASES THE ARTISTIC DRIVE AND ENERGY BUT CREATES AN ODD SORT OF
TONED DOWN PDX STYLE THAT MEMBERS ANDREW KLAUS, JUSTIN WAR-
NER, BEN JANSEN AND TAMMY WHYNOT WELL EXPRESS BRIDGING THE GAP
BETWEEN CASUAL NONCHALANCE AND EYE-POPPING GLITTER BRILLIANCE.
THE QUARTET TALK EXCITEDLY ABOUT PLAYING PRIDE AND OTHER FESTIVALS,
THEIR FORTHCOMING EP AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A QUEER-FRIEND-
LY BAND IN AN UNFRIENDLY WORLD.
Q: How did Mattachine Social get started? What kinds of musical backgrounds
do you each have?
Andrew Klaus: This was all my accidental fault.
Justin Warner: Andy contacted me because we both had pieces in Hump Fest.
Tammy Whynot: Did you guys say porn? I didn’t know it was going to get dirty
this fast.
AK: [Justin] came to my Hanukkah party and I asked him to sing it because I didn’t
like the way I sounded. We thought that was all it would be, an electroclash joke.
We were wrong. But we got drunk one night at Crush and booked a show. We
went and got Ben to play the guitar.
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