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Laps Performs in Blue Light

Every Book is Dead

Every Book is Dead

Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.

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“Every book is dead” – Kathy Acker, On Delany the Magician 1

Ladies as Pimps (LAPS) are Cass Ezeji (Golden Teacher) and Alicia Matthews (SUE ZUKI/ Organs of Love). Combining thick bass and dub beats with industrial Riot Grrl/Glasgow punk, they create live atmospheres which sound both faster and slower than you might expect. Hal Duncan is a Scottish, fantasy and Science Fiction writer. Imagining Sodom as a kind of lost homeland, to be returned to, he writes deeply queer novels which re-animate dead folklores amidst nano-technology and worker’s revolts.

  1. From Trouble on Triton (1996). Foreword by Kathy Acker.
Links
LAPS - Who Me? - YouTube Hal Duncan's Website LAPS on Facebook Hal Duncan's Blog - Notes from the Geek Show Hal Duncan on Twitter

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A man's spectacled face barely visible in the darkness

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Laps Performs in Blue Light

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Some people standing in green light otherwise in darkness

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A figure lit from behind by green light holding a microphone

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A woman dimly lit, surrounded by an audience, walking towards the camera

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Hal Duncan reading from a book lit from below by two blue spots

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Hal Duncan's face with glasses emerging from the darkness

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A strobe flash illuminates a performer surrounded by audience

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Audience members standing by a grill lit red watch something out of frame

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A performer is dramatic light is wrapped in cling film

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Hal Duncan and LAPS smiling in green light

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A man's spectacled face barely visible in the darkness

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Laps Performs in Blue Light

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Some people standing in green light otherwise in darkness

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A figure lit from behind by green light holding a microphone

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A woman dimly lit, surrounded by an audience, walking towards the camera

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Hal Duncan reading from a book lit from below by two blue spots

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Hal Duncan's face with glasses emerging from the darkness

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A strobe flash illuminates a performer surrounded by audience

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Audience members standing by a grill lit red watch something out of frame

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A performer is dramatic light is wrapped in cling film

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Hal Duncan and LAPS smiling in green light

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

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