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http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127832993895423&ref=ts Chew Disco is a Liverpool-based club night showcasing emerging electro, dance-punk, riot grrrl, trash and alternative DIY bands, transgressive performance art, DJs (post-punk, queercore, electro, riot-grrrl, rockabilly), and projected cult, b-movie, and exploitation film mashups providing a mix of underground music, art, sexual/creative empowerment and political activism for queers, straights, homo-radicals, misfits, outcasts, feminists, alternative thinkers, anti-fascists… all in support of organisations working on behalf of women and LGBT enduring human rights violations in the non-West. Proceeds from Chew Disco #5 go to Icebreakers Uganda, an LGBT rights organisation supporting queers in Uganda – where homosexuality is currently punishable by incarceration for up to 14 years, LGBT citizens routinely face police brutality and torture during detainment, and where last year Ugandan MP David Bahati proposed the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality bill which would make homosexual behaviour punishable by death:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8693560.stm FRIDAY 11th June 2010 Doors 8pm – 3am :: £4 Downstairs at THE SHIPPING FORECAST (Liverpool) 15 Slater St, Liverpool L1 4BW LIVE sets from: • Riot Grrrl / Dance Punk: DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT (London) • Prog Pop / Alien Hymns: LOVECRAFT (Liverpool) • Raw Garage / Red Hot Surf Rock: EL TORO! (Liverpool) DJ sets from: • K Rev: Trash, Doo Wop, Rockabilly, Surf, Post-Punk, • Emma O!: Post-Punk, Electro(clash), 80s Alternative • Phil Bakstad: Riot Grrrl, Post-Punk, Indie/Alt, Electro PLUS: • MASKED MANIACS vs THE DIRTY HOODS: another super-special video mashup. Juvenile delinquents, dope-smokin’ boho scum, and sex-crazed sock hoppers go head to head with Leatherface, Michael Myers, and the divine Mr Voorhees. • SNAKE DANCIN' MAMA Maria Louisa • Go-Go Dancers from HELL
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