STeLLa PaCe -Vocal harmonic activism, electric guitar and lots of electronic gagets......atl creative loafing have said things like "Stella stands poised at the stage like a not-so-cowardly lion....there's a fearsome siouxsie & the Banshees vibe here as...Zine delivers cries of Liberate myself!...her ululations bounce offa the walls, riptides of reverb echoing her cries of "Slut, Whore, Dyke!" g. nichols @ atl.CL................
......musical revolutionary co-consprators: most all listed here have been member's of 'pagan holiday' (my 1 st generation riot grrrl band 91-'00). &/or were co-conspirators on other musical endevers & musical ReVoLuTiOn: -the amazing Deb Davis (Gentle,hope4agolden summer,josh joplin).base guitar & vox;
-Grace Braun (DQE)-another total shero,guitar player & vox; -Chris Verene(rockateens, Cordaro,drummer for Indigo Girls'record&performed with them)-Way Awsome drums; -Tray snow(candyhead)shero drumming; -Jan Dykes(ellen james society,Indigo Girls' albums)more bad ass base; -Maya,even more bad ass base(also co-founder w/me of first riot grrrl chapter in ATL. in94ish); -Kat Redric (gentle, my siamese self)more awsome drumming; -a modohomo organizer,Nikki Choatas EvEn More bad ass base; -SharKy, Yes more bad ass base,,,,-the fantastic RaW princess debra mazer, electro piano & vocal awesomeness,....more co-conspirators i will add later!!!
Influences
Bikini Kill!!!!!<3, Yoko Ono, Bonfire Madigan~(her music!! & her current work with the mental health movement!!), the Icarus project, Kathleen Hanna, Bitch, Nelson Mandela, Malcom X, Huggy Bear, Le tigre, Team Dresh, Sleater-Kinney, The Lois & the radio show she did, (the book 'Live Thrugh This; On Creativity & Self-Destruction' ed. by s. Chapadjiev) Smoke, Grace Bruan, Tracy Snow, Hub Cap City, Edgar Varese, X, eXeNe, john doe, Chris Verene & Cordova, Anna Joy Spinger, Aruhndati Roy, Rachel Corrie, Gandhi, Billy Bragg, the third sex, excuse 17, sister george, heavens to betsy, AK press,wimin pirates, Nomy Lamm, Leroi Moore, Amy Ray(extra Kudos for that song lucystoners!!), Tribe 8, Sisters of the rEvolution (radio show), madness radio (online station for radical 'mental health'), Dandilion Radio, Pirate Cat Radio, sex-workers art show, Nirvana,Jean Smith,mecca normal, K records,StEvE BiKo, Courtney Love(extra kudos for 'how dirty girls get clean!!! you go Courtney!!!**keep livin' through this & that & this & that!!!. Rising Appalachia, The Need, Jonathan Richman, Lucid Nation, X-Ray Specs, the spinanes, Drinking From Puddles-radio show, Jello Biafra & Alternative Tenicles, Lard, Jarboe, The Swans, Skinney Puppy, The Third Sex, Pansy Division, Siouxsie & the Banshees,Babes in ToYLand, The Sex Pistols, Gabiel Cousens & the Raw Food Revolution!!!, Meridith Monk,Mumia, Lenord Peltiare, sister spit,Micheal Tea, Pat Califia, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finnely,Scarlot Harlot, The Gossip,Kill Rock Stars, Tinuvial, Slim Moon, Toni Gogin & Harum Scarum, Mekons, Citizen Fish, Dirt, Spit Boy, Crass!!!!, Atari Teenage Riot, Nina Hagen, Wendy O Williams, Einsturzende Neubauten, Some World Music, & 21st Century Classical,Wendy Carlos, Pauline Oliveros,REM (extra kudos for the album 'Murmur' and Mitch Easter's production work!!!) LeTs AcTiVe, Midight Oil (Peter Garrett is fuckin in parliment in Austrailia!!!)***i like Some Jazz like The Billy Tipton Trio, Jayne County,Angela Motter, Lydia Lunch,(i totally my love my out of print teenage jesus and the jerks album!!!!!), The Butchies, Ovarian Trolley, Propagandi, Fugazi, , Bratmobile, Calamity Jane, Chumbawamba,Boom town Rats (Bob Geldolf and what he does for Africa-he's a big inspiration!!even if he's major lable he's still fuckin cool!!), God is my Co-Pilot, The Dresden Dolls, Jack off Jill, Radiohead, Lilith, Durga, Kali, (all the the REsearch books such as 'Angry Women, Pranks, Modern Primitives & Angry Womin in Rock), Sonic Youth, Queen, Some new age electronic Hindu chanty stuff like Jah Uttal,( i have a wee bit of a Marilyn Manson & NIN weakness,~~although i'm gaining big respect 4 trent reznor recently esp. for working with & helping Saul Williams!!!!!!!!..I LoVe Power chords, parallel 5ths, Gregorian chants, Flannery O'Connor, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, Abby Hoffman, Ice-T, Leslie Fienburg, Bell Hooks, MalcomX, Bob Dylan, Fripp & Eno, John Cage, Angela Davis, MLK, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leon Theremin, Frank Zappa's 21st century classical compositions, Doug O Grady, Stravinski(yes the classical guy), Julie Ruin, Cunts With Attitude, The Yeastie Girls,Mary Magdalene, Jesus, Girl Jesus, Buddah, the black panthers, the freedom singers, Woody Gutherie, the raincoats,riots not diets, The Slits, Pylon from Athens GA, Penatration, The Avengers,Tricky, Leo Brauwer, Jimi Hendrix, also Pagan Holiday & (all the people i've played with),...... My Vita Mix 3 hp blender...........i like writing Stravinski & Wendy O Williams in the same paragraph and knowing with all my soul they both deserve equal weight!!!!
STeLLa PaCe
PuNk RoCk LaDy Troubadour ~ AKA Stella-Zine
(ex-PAGAN HOLIDAY~ 1st generation Riot GrrrL band from the American
South, based out of Atlanta circa '91-'00).
Stella's ReZumE:
-MuLti-MediA cultural AcTiViSt, -singer, -guitar player,-spokenword sculptur
, -21 century punk COMPOSER. FeMinIst performance artist
(the video above is a montage of PAGAN HOLIDAY in the 90's, WiTch includes myself & MANY other wimmin/grrrls that were and still are sooo important in creating our revolutionary riot grrrl/queercore scene and planting revolutionary seeds in ATL/& the American South!!!!~~see band members for various co-conspirators at various points)~~~*****
back from a hiatus... -Recently performed at MoNdo HoMo CARNAVALE '08 in the ATL
IdaPaLooZa '08 (radical farie anarcho/punk festival in the backwoods of tenn.)
also i recently played @ the 'Take Back the Night' march/ralley's in millegdeville, GA. '08 & '09...various other shows & spoken word performances
also i band coached @ the first 'GIRLS ROCK BAND CAMP' '08 in the ATL.
And i created & Dee'Janed a grrrl punk feminist radio show called 'FeMMe*A*GaNdHi Radio' streaming from Georgia College State University in milledgeville, ga. jan. 08 thru Apr. 09
muli-media video prsentation & musical performance about being in a first generation riot grrrl/queercore band from the american south WOMEN, ROCK & POLITICS confrence '08 @ University of Georgia, UGA women studies program, held in in Athens, GA.
I have shared the bill & stage with many of my s/heros such as---->
SLEATER-KINNEY THE NEED
THE BUTCHIES PANSY DIVISION Size Queen
Seven Seconds BITCH TRIBE 8 Anaturale Bush Tetras JaNe WeSt & ThE LoNe StAr ImPaLas Hurray for the RIFF RAFF ANNA JOY SPRINGER solo Cypher in the Snow (amazing & BrIlliant group of wimin -Anna Joy, Daniella Sea, Chloe Sherman, Shari Lambchop, Toni Gogin guest gutarist and others!!!) LUCID NATION Stone FOX
Lolita 18 (from Japan) JACK OFF JILL Grace Braun of DQE
SMOKE the Opal FOX QUaRtET Chris Varene BACH on a HOOK Hub Cap City ANNIE SPRINKLE
Delores FRENCH The FLY GirLs AERiAList Daisy Anarchy DaMaD (now Kylesa) Found Obects of Desire The Atlanta Sedition Orchestra The BanGeRs Shitty Candy Film Maker Joe Christ Tracy Snow SCARLOT HARLOT SuZy Q (of motheaten) Ms RaYLEne Coyote & her IDA Ho's THE HAGGARD Gretchen Phillips Winterbrief DeAundra Peek
Heart Beats Red WeaLth WhOre EnTertainment Patsy HARUM SCARUM
THE VOLUPTOUS HORROR OF KAREN BLACK
Behead the Phophet no Lord Shall Live WhY are We building such a big Ship? Diane OBSCURA Jose Bove the Little Deaths
THE THIRD SEX FreeVerse Lust Cat fight The Plath the DraG Attack Caberte w/ FREDDIE FAGULA & HILARY HOMOSEX and many others
****I played at the 1st southern Girls conference
in Memphis TN."99*****
I played VulvaPaloosa in ATL in '95 & '96
****i organized & performed at an important & controversial benefit show for the Aleene Wornos leagal defence fund. dec. 1995 (Atlanta, Ga.)
****i organized and performed at a 'Rock Against Rape' benifit show (Atlanta , GA) 1994
*****Act up harms reduction benifit in Philadelphia '96*
***North HamPtOn LoUd FeStival in '95
*The cutting edge New Music Festival in New Orleans '97
***ATL NoIse FeStival in 96'
***I performed at Wigwood in ATL.'95,'96&'97**
**I played at Queerstock in ATL. in '98****
I played at the Atlanta Pride festival in '98*****
**Vote BeSt BurLesque performer by Creative Loafing critics choice '98***
****a performed a multi-disciplinary musical performance at 'Nudity Not Violence' (the nomenclature museum in Atlanta, Ga 1998)~~~
*I played the Kali MA festival in NY, in '01****
I played at The Hooker's Ball at The University
of California in L A in '98 (a sex-worker convention
that took place at UCLA to raise awareness
for sex-worker's HUMAN rights issues)************
*** Nexus Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, GA...i gave a muti-media slide show presentation on my performance art & burlesque dancing/stripping :sexworker as artist, activist & catylyst & i was on the panal discusion with Annie Spinkle & Dolores French. 1999
**I co-founded the first two riot grrrl chapters
that occured in Atlanta (consciousness raising
groups for riot grrrls & third wave feminists. The chapters were formed
in Atlanta, GA in the early to mid 1990’s. In the meetings
we made fanzines (xeroxed/mimeographed underground
media), organized benefit shows with other riot grrrl
bands, and discussed issues that came up for young
women within a male dominated underground indie
punk rock scene.........
"As new age'y' as it might soung I am proudly Embracing my inner punk rock goddess through riot grrrl and queercore"...........ThE TrUtH, A TrUtH, MYYY TrUtH anYWaYY isssssss that i really love how it feels to create music/art/activism with others......in a society where wimin/grrrls have endure sooo much physical, mental, finacial, & emotional etc. etc...scarcity....playing with other wimin and shareing can be massively challenging, but the rewards are Great!!!!>>>>for real!!!!!...one reward is proactively being a part of creating culture that LoVeS wimin!!!.....All of our words matter- ALL Grrrls matter!!!!....(queer, straight, grrrls that fucking hate lables, womin on welfare,teen grrrls; wimin/grrls of color; mothers; sexworkers; REEEEAALLLLY we all fuckin matter!!!!!! yes EVEN WHORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...I don't give a fuck if talking about doing my best to continually care about and create with other wimin doesn't come across as 'punk rock' cause the true revolutionary/activists/culture creaters KNOW the truth!!!....doing yr best to care about wimin does fuckin rock!!!!....It even realates to the PEACE movement going on in the world right now!!!!!!! i swear!..... this mainstream culture appears to encourage wimin/grrrls to self-destruct or with other patriachally encouraged ineffective grrrl behaviors like jealousy and other extremely destructive survival skills where wimin/grrrls destroy each other.....We must do our best to rise above ineffective self destructive grrrl patterns & continue to root out our own internalized sexism, racism & homophobia......and get away from situatiopns that encourage that crap......continue to create & encourage new role models of wimin/grrrls working & playing together....and yes sometimes it is hard, and requires change and getting out of our comfort zone... but it is soooo good & important too!!!!...AnD YeS It ReeeeallllY Is PuNk FuCkIn RoCk To LoVe WiMMiN/gRRRLs!!!!!!!..........................................~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~my music is multi-media cultural activism & i am drawn to others with similar goals with there music and art......~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I play a BLEND OF
LOW FI AND HI ELECTRONICA.
-i use a Roland Cube amp (an amplifier that is the size of a purse
with a mesa boogie capacity), & my number one amp of choice, a marshall.
I also use a lexicon effects processor to make lots
of COOL VOCAL EFFECTS.... these r my Fantastic
electronic vehicles for facilitateing THIRD WAVE FEMINISM'S
TRANSITION INTO A SOLUTION
BASED FUTURE...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Theme of PEACE IS HUGE
in my new work & music. On the whole
most of the songs i write tend to be catchy, melodic
punk rock songs, because quite frankly
punk rock, ROcKs! ...i sing in a punk toubador style w/ an electric & do spokenword about the personal & the political....'cause sometimes both r the same.....
Some music i've been influenced by has been even 21st century classically,
jazz, electronica,blues, industrial, anti-folk inspired--but mostly i play punk rock (i know that can mean alot of things, -basically lables belong on jars not on music or people)- i expierement with SoUnDs, CuLtUrE, MuSiC, peRfOrMaCe ArT & My SoUL... i have
SoUnD AdvEnTuReS & i participate in revolutionary sound activism!!! ...YeS,,& of course i'll rock out with some massive distorted electric power chords as you can see in the video's i've posted on this page at the drop of a pin. i also do spoken word mixed
with electronic music concrete. Sensual modern
interpretive SLAM DANCinG always ALWAYS ALWAYS encouraged!!!...
........
Yay!!! there's video of lots of original Pagan Holiday footage and pics......YeS ThE RiOt GRRRL MoVeMeNt WaS/Is HaPPeNiNg In tHe SouTh Too.....this is video of A womynifestation of the riot grrrl movement in the American south......even as early as 1992 & 3......Yes, we heard the sceam....of hope......too!!
In PAGAN HOLIDAY we toured most major
and some smaller cities across America. We networked
and played with many other bands and performers from
the riot grrrl scene in America. We used spoken word,
performance art and punk rock to address issues like;
domestic violence; sex industry workers human rights
issues; the reclamation of derogatory words used to
hurt women, eg., 'whore', 'slut', 'dyke', and of course
'girl'. We discussed transgender issues; homophobia;
racism; globalism; woman friendly spirituality; and
other pertinent issues.We booked & promoted our
own tours. We designed and made t-shirts, stickers, and flyers.
. I owned my own record
label under which we put out tapes and vinyls for our
band. These were distributed by K records, an independent
record label in Olympia Washington. Olympia was "ground
zero for the riot grrrl movement"(Juno, Hannah &
Pedersen[AnGrY WoMeN] 1996 p176). ************
********Be HeRe NoW*********NOW More about
THE PRESENT, Not only am I a riot grrrl/riot LaDy
but I am also a STUDENT returning to school (college)
studying Music Therory, jazz & classical guitar, electronic music and
sociology. In my psychology of music class I wrote an
acedemic'y' research paper about the riot grrrl movement
and it's relationship to the self-esteem of womin/grrrl. It is posted in my Blog"*************************
Please note if you don't see yr page in my 'top' friends please know i think yr fuckin awesome!!! i LuV all my friends ,,,,there's just room 4 40 in the top spaces and i tend to move around pages by what's going on in the red hot moment...(people, bands, organizations,buisnesses & or causes i'm connecting with, collaborating with playing shows with,getting inspired by & learning about, and or playin on femmeagandhi radio....Or somehow BaSiCaLLy creating revolution @ in the current moment with..................
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4 BOOKING STeLLa or about FeMMe*A*GaNdHi radio....friendship & RAW ANARCHO PAGAN FEMINIST LOVE.....
this is the PaGaN hotline 706-998-0569.
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ps....this is something pretty fuckin important for folks in the US for health freedom rights ****check it out!!! ~~~i think it's waaaayy important!!!!
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Stella Pace! Thank You! I wish i could go on and on speaking about it, because now, NOW more young feminists and young artists of all ethnicity/class/background, are finding their voice in this movement and making it their OWN! and yes it is very much Alive! thats why we need to let others know! and continue with what we are doing! and continue to care! You Stella! YOU! are a great inspiration to me, and it was incredible to join you on that stage helping other womyn, in the issues that they are faceing in that town! You! are also keeping it alive, and You are also putting new meaning in what it means to be Punk Rock! Thank YOU! -susy
I've been to the Lusty Lady. But, definitely, I need to hit City Lights. If not on this trip, then a future one. Off to the Presidio today. Happily, with no aim in mind.
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hey! Thank you again for letting me join you on stage. I had so much fun, it was so awesome to meet you in person! i cant wait to see you next time...hopefully @ the Riot Grrrl Carnival!!!! Either way we will meet again. -susyQ
hi stella thanks for the compliment on my page and me posting bulletins for shows for everyone to check out,i'm doing my best and keep up your good work as well,take care and have a good rest of your weekend:)
