Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse is about the grubby pleasures of hopping on the Melbourne-to-Berlin artist pipeline. It’s about “daddy at the abattoir,” slaughtering piggies. It’s about gloomy waits at the gender clinic so you can get your estrogen. It’s about dingy, crap clubs, desolate glamour, strutting down the street with your dignity in tatters, upskirting, indulgence and the glory of turning fantasy into reality.
Known for gobsmacking live shows featuring floppy bunny ears, costume changes, and ecstatic howls, Wet Kiss – Brenna O, daniel dog, Ben Addiction, Ruby Rabbit, Al Amor, Agynes “Screamin’” Whelan, Ju Shung – have shared stages with Amyl & the Sniffers, Bar Italia and HTRK, among others, and played their Golden Plains debut earlier this year, alongside Fontaines D.C and PJ Harvey.