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Johnny After The Rain

Coney Island Scissor Sisters Show

Went to the Siren Festival at Coney Island last weekend, where the crowd of hipster boys were predictably dirty, skinny and raggedy-haired and almost every single girl was wearing those oversized Jackie O. glasses that look really quite ugly on anyone but very beautiful women, none of whom seemed to be in attendance. The Scissor Sisters performed, and Anna Matronic exhorted the too-cool-for-school audience to drop their disaffected façade and dance. “What is this, fucking Flashdance? If Kevin Bacon were here he’d be dancing!” In the end the crowd was powerless to disobey and a good time was had by all, even the congenitally blasé Williambsurg set.

As the Sisters performed ‘Take Your Mama Out’ my friend Keith observed “The bassline is George Michael’s ‘Freedom’,” and while I don’t think the album version or any of the remixes use it in the same way he was undeniably correct. Interestingly, my favorite mash-up artist DJ Earworm fused the two in a brilliant little number he calls ‘No One Takes Your Freedom’ which you can download at djearworm.com. While you’re there, check out the Cat Power/Death Cab For Cutie/Bjork mash-up-it’s quite haunting.

The panoama shots here were made with the Kodak Dual Lens V570 camera with the sweet option to shoot Ultra-Wide with a 23 mm lens. These shots are made using the panorama feature where you match up three shots and the camera stitches them together. When you use it with the Ultra-Wide lens the effect is especially trippy. For some really great backstage shots of the band check out my boy Lorenzo Di Flaneur’s Flickr page here.