johnette napolitano, annie lennox, siouxsie sioux, kate bush, siobhan fahey, sonya aurora madan, debroah harry, madge....basically, any tough ass chick who has sung about the underbelly, stepped outside the frame, and historically i've emulated... sandra b, margaret cho, joan (when she was funny) rivers, kiki and herb, the luminous catherine deneuve....and any and all of my hometown heroes in the glorious Hogtown
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OTTAWA XPRESS Aug 05 "So much fun!... Kelly and his girls were a breath of fresh air, to say the least. Picture pop-ska meets drag-diva with a whole lotta raunch thrown in for fun. Kelly is a born entertainer, as long as you can handle occasional off-colour comments..."
OUT MAGAZINE (L.A.) March 2005 "...a horn-happy mélange of sweat and swagger infused with lounge lizard bravado. A true toast to the body and soul, Swing Swing is a swift-paced collection of songs that highlights vocalist Kelly Clipperton’s debonair delivery in pure swankiness."
CORG MAGAZINE (Vancouver) Feb 2005 "...This is really a party. The horns make it different. Now I'm thinking of bullfights. It's all about screwing and dancing and seduction. The lyrics are glossy and showy. R. Kelly (wait a sec...) Clipperton has a dreadfully low voice... not exactly what you'd expect out of him. It's sexy and growling."
He sings, he dances, he wisecracks, he acts…. And the music is high-energy, pitch-perfect and fun. Picture swing meets ska meets rock.
Highly entertaining, fashionably versatile and always amusing, R.Kelly Clipperton and his band Kelly and the Kellygirls unleashed the the black and blue bawdy burlesque of their sophomore album We love you, but not as Much as we love Ourselves in May 2006, a follow-up to 2004’s ‘swing swing’. The band completed a 27 date Canadian tour in the fall of 2006, followed by a Western Tour and UK Tour in the summer of 2007 with amazing reviews and audiences across the board.
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Clipperton - though no stranger to the cycle of smug self-absorption - takes care (unlike so many) to look beyond the mirror. We Love You, But Not As Much As We Love Ourselves is a manic, theatrically charged paean to the crash and burn of desire in all its messy glory. In a modern twist of mischievous revelry, Clipperton, whose voice fiendishly croaks somewhere between Peter Murphy and Tim Curry, at times channels Ian Dury in sheer sweat-soaked bluster if not precise sonic gusto: the band create both a joyous and painful rumble, its subversive, ska-tinged swinging showstoppers soaring sky-high one second, only to wallow in the gutter with bitter bravado the next.
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I wanted to firstly say Thank You to everyone who made the Launch Party at Revival such and amazing success! Thank You all for coming out. It was the perfect christening... sparkles, sparkles, sparkles...
Kelly and the Kellygirls are touring this summer to support "Modernism" and we're gonna be shaking things up all over the shop. The dates are listed below, so please be a lover and let family and friends in said cities, know that we're coming (even people you don't like as everyone deserves to be entertained). Spreading the love is good Karma and I turly appreciate everyone advocating on my behalf! Dates are still firming in North Bay, Lethbridge, Kelowna and Winnipeg but all else are listed below:
Sunday June 28, Toronto, ON, Pride! (Wellesley Stage)
Sunday July 5, Toronto, ON, Dundas Square presented by Dignitas
Friday July 10 Fredericton, NB, Boom! Nightclub
Saturday July 11 Saint John, NB, Element
Sunday July 12 Halifax, NS, The Seahorse
Monday July 13 Charlottetown, PEI, Baba’s
Tuesday July 14 Quebec City Coopérative AgitéE
Wednesday July 15 Montreal, QC, Club Mado
Thursday July 16 Peterborough, ON, Montreal House
Sunday July 19 Guelph, ON, Club Vinyl
Sunday July 26 London, ON, Pride!
Tuesday July 28 Thunder Bay, ON, The Apollo
Wednesday July 29 Regina, SK, The GLCR
Thursday July 30 Edmonton, AB, New City
Friday July 31 Calgary, AB, The Palomino
Saturday Aug 1 Vancouver, BC The Railway Club
Sunday Aug 2 Vancouver, BC Pride!
Thursday Aug 6 Saskatoon, SK, Lydia’s
Saturday Aug 8 Sault Ste Marie, ON, loplops
Sunday Aug 9 Windsor, ON, Pride!
We'll also be doing some Chapters/Indigo 'underplugged' shows. Those dates will be made known in the coming weeks. Check the following link for up-to-date tour info http://www.kellyclipperton.com/tours.htm
KELLYANDTHEKELLYGIRLS celebrate the release of the new latin-infused album "Modernism" Thursday May 28/09. at REVIVAL in Toronto. 8PM doors, 8:30PM show with Antonio Alas Mariachi as guests
~ kelly & the kellygirls ~ Good morning - Bonjour !
OMG, you're back... It's been way too long ...a new album, too ?! Any plans to come over to Europe in 2009 ? Pls, keep in touch and very best wishes, M xxx
also, the album launch is set and ready to explode: Thursday May 28/09 at REVIVAL in Toronto 8PM doors, 8:30PM show with a few special guests tix will be on sale in April
the album launches worldwide in digital form through the interwebz on May 19/09
I just noticed that you played UK Pride last year. I'm a bit late in my congrats..hahahahaha...oh, well. I'm just happy to see such a fantastic Canadian talent represented across the pond.
I should read numbers more, but I don't like numbers, I like words.
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