Saturday November 04, 2006
Who Are The Dykeenies?
by The Mullah.
Someone told me about some new band from Scotland that were going to make it big. The next Franz they said. Some sort of artrock band. I wondered out loud as to what such a Great White Hope might be called. "The Dykeenies!" was cried out in unison. Immediately my mind started to go into overdrive.
What a conceit: a word combining 'Dyke', a slang term for lesbian, and 'Dakinis', angelic women in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who act as a kind of muse. Could The Dykeenies be some sort of lesbian supergroup -- a Sapphic Spice Girls for 21st century?
There would be Posh Dyke, a Louise Brooks clone who divided her time between working in pottery cafe and drinking tea in her study surrounded by cats. Sporty Dyke, a Thai boxing champion and part-time youth worker. Scary Dyke would be a hefty lass with a heart of gold. Ginger Dyke would be a pre-Raphaelite beauty and probably work as a wallpaper designer. Baby Dyke would be a vegan punk in clashing stripy socks and wearing Birkenstocks.
Imagine the kind of music such an outfit could wreak! It would be a musical year zero with the power and energy of the Ramones, Pistols, and Clash combined with the Slits, ESG, and Rip Rig & Panic. The sonic equivalent of the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests. I was getting quite excited at this point.
So I asked to hear these new contenders. The resultant music can only be described as artrock as played by a mediocre band who've read about it in the paper. The Dykeenies turned out not to be a lesbian supergroup, but a bunch of blokes from Glasgow with names such as Alan.
I'm not discouraged however. In fact, I'm going to take my fervid fantasy and make it real. Do you know any musical lesbians you could put my way?
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hah dat would be a sensation mefinks. but you can't use da same name, surely?
Posted by: nunukittty at November 5, 2006 04:37 AM