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Review: Bitch, Please!, Motion
Not only is Bristol recognised worldwide for its underground music scene, but it is also home to the second largest Pride week in the UK. Last Saturday local promoters Liam Norris (Switching Lanes) and Lewis Winter (Amour Ami) embraced Bristol’s diverse and colourful status by providing a ground-breaking LGBT+ day party known as Bitch, Please!
Hosted at the city’s iconic super-club Motion and teaming up with some of the best and most diverse gay club nights from around the city, Liam and Lewis successful created a party that perfectly connected a varied range of talented DJ’s and drag queens. Regardless of whether you’re gay, straight, experimental or bi-curious, if you are open-minded and into good music you’d have been sure to have a ruddy good time.
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The outdoor stage was located in the Crane Yard, this is where the organisers oh-so-very-special guest appeared. Honey Dijon flew all the way from New York and completely tantalised the crowd with her old school Chicago house, disco, tech-house, tribal, funk, and soul. She bounced off the early afternoon vibes by chucking in a range of sing-a-long classics whilst still providing experimental snippets and well-balanced mixes. The chic transgender DJ has most definitely become an LGBT+ icon, so much so that Channel 4 even delivered a camera crew to Motion to interview “Miss Honey” at the event.
Another massive name to feature at this summer wonderland was Spencer Parker, the distinctive house and techno DJ is in demand all over Europe. He is even a regular guest at Berghain, so fair play to Bitch, Please! for booking the man. Similarly to Miss Honey, Spencer knew the importance of mixing in some crowd-pleasing disco bangers amongst some of his more unique remixes and re-edits.
Throughout the day many performers graced the stage. Vogue Bristol kept us popping those model, angular and linear movements all day and Bristol’s Pussy Posse Drag Divas could not have pleased the crowd any better, keeping us feeling sexy and motivated throughout the course of a long day-drinking session.
If you wanted to have a break from the ‘heat’ outside then you could pop upstairs to what is usually Motion’s artist bar, where the fabulous hosts Don’t Tell Your Mother delivered a party full of local DJs performing a range of pop-indie and R&B rhythms. Wanting to make the most of the sun, we didn’t spend loads of time up there, but there is no doubt that they delivered an all round good show that perfectly complimented the event.
Back to the Crane Yard, and next to take the stage was the Collaborative project ZenZero formed by organiser Liam John and Travis Derrek, who cracked out some rather spicy tech-house. This set was then followed by fellow organiser Lewis Winter’s gang Amour Ami, which created a really buzzy yet friendly end to a rather delightful day.