Chew Disco

Event information

Chew Disco!
A Charity Fundraiser for Iraqi LGBT

MAGNET, Liverpool
45 HARDMAN STREET
LIVERPOOL
MERSEYSIDE
L1 9AS

7th August 2009
8pm - 4am
£4 adv / £5 Door (£4 NUS)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/52792

1. The Bone-chilling Riot-Boy Electro-Punk of STE McCABE !
The Bloodcurdling Post-Punk Riffs of VILE VILE CREATURES !
The Unspeakable Noise / Disco Terror of HUSBANDS !
AND MORE !!!


2. Autobanditry (UK) DJs play a spine-tingling mix of Punk, Post-Punk, New Wave, Electro, Riot-Grrrl, Psychobilly, 80s–90s Alternative and MORE!!!

Plus...
3. BLOODTHIRSTY ZOMBIE MOVIE MAYHEM!!! (Fancy dress and/or taste for braaaaaaains optional...)
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In 2005, the country’s most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a religious decree that said gay men and lesbians should be “punished, in fact, killed… The people should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.”
---The New York Times, 7 April 2009

The first CHEW DISCO is a bone-chilling night, chock full of full of live music and undead mayhem… all for a good cause. Every penny received will go directly to Iraqi LGBT (London) and their Safe Houses Project which provides emergency shelter, human services and protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Iraq.

Iraqi LGBT Lifeline estimates that, since December 2004, there have been as many as 600 HOMOPHOBICALLY INSPIRED MURDERS of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people or those perceived to be – including children who have been forced into the sex trade. In the past four months alone as many as 65 bodies of those suspected of being “homosexual” have turned up with notes attached to their bodies with the word “pervert” written in Arabic. These figures do not include those who have survived homophobically inspired kidnapping, involving physical assault which often consists of sexual humiliation including repeated gang rape.


Iraqi LGBT began establishing a network of safe houses inside Iraq in March 2006. As of today, they operate only one safe house, having been forced to close three since the beginning of 2009 due to the expense of running them. The members of their group inside Iraq urgently need the funds to open at least five safe houses. These funds will allow them to keep the safe houses running, thereby providing safety, shelter, food and many other needs for our LGBT friends inside Iraq. Iraqi LGBT receives desperate requests for shelter every day, but they are not yet able to help. With your Chew Disco ticket, you’re doing nothing less than saving lives.

More information on Iraqi LGBT and their Safehouses Project can be found at:
www.iraqilgbtuk.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=19818867616&ref=ts


VILE VILE CREATURES (www.myspace.com/vilevilecreatures)
“…Vile Vile Creatures love Erase Errata and Gossip, soon Erase Errata and Gossip will love them. Already single of the week on Steve Lamacq's show and Tom Artrocker's EP of the year this band is good… Thank God there are bands as good as this out there.”
--- Pearl Smith, ARTROCKER gig review

STE McCABE (www.myspace.com/stemccabe)
“Take a drum machine, guitar and overdrive pedal. Add one angry, working-class gay scouser, leave to simmer in years of smalltown homophobia and Viola! - the result will be something like Ste McCabe's Hate Mail, both heartbreakingly vitriolic and endearingly shambolic.”
--- Gay Times

HUSBANDS (www.myspace.com/husbandspunx)
“A floor-filler and kiss killer wrangled from punk promise and worn out dance shoes… the modern soul of noise/disco friction.”
--- Playlouder