Live Review: Emilie Autumn and Her Bloody Crumpets – The Rickshaw, Oct 30th, 2009, Vancouver, BC
October 31st, 2009 Filed under: Reviews - Live by Grimm
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Live Review – Emilie Autumn and Her Bloody Crumpets
Friday, October 30th, 2009
The Rickshaw, Vancouver, BC
As we near the end of civilization, with decadence and lust quickly becoming the staples of a fearful and depraved society, what was once considered taboo is now embraced and lauded. Hollywood’s present fascinations with violence and bloodshed has had it’s day and the time has come for peace, love, and sexual ambiguity to reign supreme. No better example of this can be seen than Emilie Autumn’s “The Asylum Tour” appearance at the Rickshaw on Friday night. With the talented and equally endowed members of Emilie’s Bloody Crumpets in tow, it was a sexy evening of Gothic playfulness and “Victoriandustrial” harmonies.
Truly a talented vocalist in her own right, Emilie also displayed her adeptness at harpsichord, violin, costumery, set design and seething sexuality. Intrinsically more of a Gothic Burlesque performance than a musical gig per se, what “Plague Rat” in their right mind is going to complain when five scantily clad women insist upon writhing about in a makeshift bedroom, devising ways to corrupt each other and the audience?
Highlights this evening (besides the set design, costumes and slinky sexiness), included an amazing dance performances by the feather wielding Naughty Veronica, who definitely made several of the audience members stand at attention. The sexy antics of the other Bloody Crumpets; Aprella, The Pirate Captain – Miss Maggot and the Blessed Contessa presented a wonderful diversion and Gothic Broadway like performance, like haunted dolls coming to life and exploring their sexuality in front of the rest of the toys… or Plague Rats, what have you.
Musical selections for the evening’s festivities included songs from across Emilie’s discography, most notably a well choreographed and erotic rendition of “I Want My Innocence Back” involving all of the Bloody Crumpets. Powerful songs were given second place to the “burlesqueness” of this show, with no complaints either generated or necessary.
Words just can’t do justice to a visual and audio feast such as this. A spellbound all ages audience showed much deserved appreciation for this her first of what will undoubtedly be many appearances of Emilie Autumn and Her Bloody Crumpets in Vancouver.
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