The girl with the curl right in the middle of her forehead...
Miss le bomb aka Catriona Shaw has previously played on the underground electropop circuit under various spooky guises - lead singer of Queen of Japan, founding member of infamous Munich-based punk club Club le Bomb and a visual artist she has collaborated with many different musicians and performers including Electronicat, Gerhard Potuznik, Isabel Reiss, Hans Platzgumer, Kamerakino, Bulent Kullukcu and more.
Also a talented visual artist, Catriona Shaw translates her personal observations about art and popular culture into sketches, videos, and music. Her comic-like narratives arise spontaneously, as though they were diary entries in response to her surroundings. Stories about life and death, characters from the pop or art world, and animals who play human roles reflect her socially critical but usually also humorous thoughts.
She also designs, illustrates and does ’drawing installations’ trying to push the boundaries of the genre to the limit, more recently where her drawings were utilised as storyboards for short films see here
GALERI BABERTON - The monthly gallery space for doodles and secret drawings presents its real virtual opening in Berlin... coming back in the new year!
Some reviews of Miss le Bomb:
"No shrinking violet, Miss le Bomb charmed the crowd with her instant charisma and dynamic performance, with ace outfit, nifty dance moves and quirky songs, using just a laptop and proficient Casio keyboard (a Casio that sounds like a Hammond organ?!), oh yeah, and that cool cover of Come Together, complete with quiet, little grunts into the mic and expansive stage exploration." (Andy Richardson)
"..Catriona Shaw, aka Berlin-based Edinburgh ex-pat Miss Le Bomb and formerly one third of electro-art covers band Queen of Japan, just can’t stop showing off. Dressed in red sequins, Elvis vest and a laptop-created electro-funk squelch, she covers ‘Jealous Guy’ (in the vaguest sense) while rolling on the floor amidst us, composes the world’s first and surely never-to-be-bettered musical tribute to budget airlines, and eulogises the act of band-love with the memorable not-really-rhyming couplet ‘Babe, I wanna come/I see you playing drums’. It’s all just a bit stupid, really. But some kind of brilliant, too."
(The List)
Some reviews of Jealousy:
DE:BUG
Irgendwie mag ich diese Mischung aus Happy-Hardcore und Baller-Soul, den das Original von Jealousy verbreitet. Es gibt ja wirklich zuwenig Diven auf dem Dancefloor. Verrückter Track aber sehr erfrischend.
GROOVE
Schweineorgel-Deephouse irgendwo zwischen C&C Music Factory und Deee-Lite, UK-Rave-Breitseiten und barocke Eifersuchts-Vocals in tribalem Electrodiskohouse-Kontext, es ist schon eine verdammt wagemutige Mischung, die Hans Platzgumer- und Electronicat-Muse Catriona Shaw mit ihrem Solo-Debüt aufgreift.
UGLY WRITING blog says:
Miss Le Bomb: One of those rare and beautiful instances in which wonky pop sensibilities manage to dodge the sand bank of twee and the lake of pretentiousness and land squarely in the hole marked "perfect for my next DJ set". The pretentious decoder says, ’it’s enjoyably amateurish female fronted electro pop!
You can buy mp3s of Jealousy and some other Miss le Bomb tracks at Yoosic or on VINYL from all good record stores
An eclectic EP telling the untold story of no-sex-we’re-british, jealous transvestites
and cheap flights to dark places. Using her much-adored non-general midi yamaha keyboard,
Miss le Bomb presents us with the rakehand dance, a new step to the beat. Miss le bomb has
created a bum-wiggling selection of danceable mutant pop, messy disco and girl garage with
absurd yet socially-concious lyrics. This pop ain’t for everyone, only the sexy people so
all you fly mothers come on out there and dance the rakehand dance.
Please join us on Wednesday (10 June) for the opening of »Black Box«, a room-filling installation containing works by Benjamin Laurent Aman (FR), Sébastien Maloberti (FR) and Marcel Türkowsky (GER).
Benjamin Laurent Aman invited the two other artists to help him actualize the as-of-yet theoretical conception of the »Black Box«.
The three artists approach the multi-layered subject »Black Box« as experimenters, thereby creating a system of tests in which events can be followed, but which also lends itself to substantiating different modus operandi. Oscillating between possible and impossible implementations, they transform notions of reality and illusion into a dimension of functional describability, while revealing the character of the exhibition space as an in-between place.
The artistic media used in this range from photographs and drawings to installation and sound. Not least of all, the exhibition is marked by a moment of ignorance, in which none of the artists are aware of each other’s intentions and strategies.
We're looking forward to see you at the Opening Reception on Wednesday, 10 June.
RAPHISTORY 1998 donnerstag, 11.06. UNIVERSITY OF BOHANNON Dircksenstr. 40
djs: dejoe, marc hype, scientist, guest: dj static (denmarks finest) host: yarah bravo
party: 22.30-3.30 (come early, cuz we close on time) schulgeld: EUR 5
THE GAME IS TO BE SOLD, NOT TO BE TOLD. IT S A HARDKNOCK LIFE FOR A BLACK STAR ON THE CONCRETE SCHOOLYARD. THE MISEDUCATION OF THE DUDE MAKES HIM JUST WANNA STEAL.
hey folks,
hope to see you on one of our next partys.
best wishes,
MONO
here is a video of our last OpenAir in Berlin -Kreuzberg ...;-)
MONO meets Luzia | OpenAir | 1.May.2009 | Kreuzberg Berlin
Diesen Montag (8.6.) um 20 Uhr 30 wird im gemütlichen Kellerwohnzimmer des INTERSOUP wieder gelesen und gesungen. SVEN VAN THOM und GOTTI berichten mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln von neuen Maschinen und Menschen die man eigentlich lieber nicht so direkt berühren möchte. Aber was tut man nicht alles.
Als technischen Gast begrüßen wir dieses Mal einen Diaprojektor! . Einlaß: 20 Uhr Eintritt: 4,- Euro Sitzplätze: 40
Schön wird..s
Sonnige Grüße, Gotti
P.S. Die Luft wird dieses Mal auch wesentlich frischer sein und mehr Sauerstoff enthalten!
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