Join Sex 14s on Thursday, December 14th @ 1:30pm when he speaks with performance duo, Kiki & Herb, ahead of their Christmas concert at The Castro Theatre in SF on December 15th.
This holiday season, as the world burns darker, we turn not to the savior we need, but to the saviors we deserve. Kiki & Herb, created and performed by Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, will lead us to salvation with their cutting, deranged and at times violent musical stylings. “A hyper-magnified cabaret concert that has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire” (New York Times), their annual Christmas concerts have become that of legend. This year, Kiki & Herb are sending out a rallying cry to red states and blue states alike: O Come Let Us Adore Them.
Whether it’s a sold-out evening at Carnegie Hall, a flop-house in Pittsburgh, or Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway (2007 Tony nomination), Bond and Mellman’s booze-soaked banter, pop-culture shmaltz, and claws-out cultural critique has been “scaring the bejesus out of audiences nationwide” (Vanity Fair) for three decades.
Kiki (played by Bond) is a washed-up, boozed-up chanteuse, with a voice that is a mixture of Tom Waits and Ethel Merman with a dash of Judy, whose middle age passed her by some time ago. Herb (played by Mellman), her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist provides support both musically and emotionally.
This year includes a brand new show and setlist, featuring covers of songs like Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, Lou Reed’s “Heroin” plus others from Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Low, Radiohead, Miley Cyrus and more. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before…unless you’ve seen them before! Kathleen Hanna has called the act “weird, brilliant, even devastating” in The New York Times.
