Willam Interview

This has been a long time coming! Months ago I chatted with Willam about an interview. When the girl finally made it to Dublin for an appearance at The Dragon Bar, our chats that night involved booze,booze and more booze. My type of girl!  We later got to interviewing and anyone who knows Willam, will know that she is one funny bitch. And that she's been on Television. A LOT.

Willam! The woman herself! What are you doing right now?

I'm gassy! I shouldn't have dairy in front of company! 

You seem to be one busy tranny at the moment! What are you working on currently?

My album is out along with new singles . I'm Also filming 'Kicking Zombie Ass for Jesus', a companion piece for 'Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives' and 'The Porn Brat Pack' opposite Missi Pyle.

Speaking of music, your singles both solo and with Detox and Vicky have been such massive hits on Online,  is this the type of music you would like to stick with or would you like to release an album or single of a different genre soon?

I like to keep people guessing so I probably will not be sticking with anything for too long!

Growing up who and what inspired you and your drag?

I love Designing Women and the nipped waists with the big hair. I'm also inspired by Leigh Bowery, Jackie Beat and the girls in my band TranzKuntinental like Vicky Vox, Detox Icunt and Kelly Mantle.

In Cinema Verite, you played one of my idols, Candy Darling - what was it like playing such an iconic figure?

It was an honor to play her in that movie on HBO and it keeps resurfacing. I was on a plane last month and it was playing on the overhead TVs and I was just like , "wow."Michael Musto and his lensman Beauregard both knew her and gave me some insight on her and it was really helpful. I just wish they would've let me be blonder.

The majority of your roles have been in drag ... as a drag performer how have you found working on mainstream projects? Can it ever be difficult or is it quite the opposite?

Typecasting is a reality! But I'm fine with that. I've worked professionally in drag since my first union job when I was 16. Just came to pass that crossdressing is my niche.I work in mainstream projects enough as a guy. Criminal Minds notably and The Shield too. Definitely bit parts though.
 

On Drag Race you said you never had a drag family because you never did the club circuit, now that the show has aired are you attracted to the idea of performing in more clubs and developing more of a drag family?

I'm touring in support of my album and songs (Love You Like a Big Schlong, The Vagina Song, Trouble, Chow Down) and have a close group of LGBT friends now that is a grab bag of women, fags & drags!

Over a year and people still ask 'What Did William Do?!' ... Will the full truth ever come out? And was that reunion as uncomfortable as it seemed? Revealations and Phi Phi oh my!

The chairs were uncomfortable yes ;). Phi Phi and I are fine. The night started off tense because there were 5 makeup mirrors and 13 drag queens who needed to get ready. All the girls thought that we were on Candid Camera and they wanted us to fight. As Dida Ritz would say, "Do they want me to goon out?!?" And Some stories don't need to be told. I'm glad I got to clear up the major discrepancies about heroin, hormones and whoring though!

Were you surprised with Rupaul's nice words at the time? He owes you for some good ass ratings!

I was expecting it and decided to be vulnerable. Just call me Abacus 3000 cause I am calculated ;)

Any last words?

CHECK OUT MY NEW SINGLE!

You heard the woman. Check out the latest single from Willam,Detox and Vicky below!

Rebecca & Fiona Interview

Swedish DJ duo Rebecca and Fiona have been causing a stir in Europe and America over the last two years for their bold music and fashion choices. The girls are constantly touring and performing around the world, setting fashion trends in their native Sweden and even starred in their own reality tv show. After seeing their videos for 'Dance' and 'Jane Doe' I had to track down the girls for an interview.

1 - Hello Girls! You've just toured North America, how was it?

Hi!!

We actually just got home! But it has been amazing! One of the best tours we’ve done so far! We are working on new music and will be touring all summer and we have a new residency at Marquee in Vegas!

2 - How are the American fans reacting to your shows?

Oh they seem excited to hear some music they’ve never heard before and we think they like the very hard, not so commercial stuff!! 

3 - Your video for the single,'Dance' is my favourite. Fantastic video and very dark! What inspired the video and the story for it?

Thank you so much! The video was directed "in action", without any preparations from our side. The director Laerke Hortoni didn’t want us to know anything before to get our natural expressions. This was pretty scary for us two who always want to control everything, but we trusted her and that we are very happy with now. It was extremely cold so we were mostly thinking about surviving and keeping the film team alive. 

4 - All your music videos have such strong imagery, from the doll house in 'Jane Doe', to the masks of 'Dance', where do you draw inspiration from for your videos and personal style?

 We have our neve rending inspiration man - Tommie X. He works as our creative director - in all aspects - and just keeps throwing out crazy exciting ideas about everything. From videos, clothes, people, furniture, i don’t know... EVERYTHING! 

5 - You girls have DJ'd alongside the best DJs such as Tiesto, Kaskade and you have toured with Robyn, are their other artists you would like to collaborate with?

We love so many artists! We would like to work with a lot of people and I think we will, but at the moment it would be cool to do something with a band? Tommie really wants us to collaborate with Paris Hilton, but mostly we end up in the studio with our boyfriends Adrian Lux and Carli because we want to spend as much time with tem as possible and it’s so fun to work together!

6 - You had a television show in Sweden, did either of you find it strange having the camera follow you around or did you enjoy the experience?

After a while we mostly thought it was annoying. It took so much time! They really wanted to make a quality production so they filmed for a half a year and our friends and family got really tired of it. It’s natural when they are filming us as we work our are on tour, but as private persons we are not so happy with being filmed. 

7 - Do you plan to bring the album to the UK & Ireland after America?

YES! 

8 - You seem to work so hard on everything you do,which is fantastic - what advice would you give to fans or upcoming young musicians and DJ's?

Work hard!! You can always learn new things and develop! And stay true to your friends and family. 

The girls new single ' Taken Over ' is out new and you can check out the video below.

Music Video Shoot

Two fun behind the scenes snaps from this weekend. Myself and three gal pals were asked to film a music video for a new Irish indie electro band. The day consisted of us getting ready and filming in a hotel, then running around on two different trains, the beach and a bowling alley. More scenes will be filmed next week and I'l get the music video up when its done and edited! 
 

Phil T's Circus Royale

I'm super excited about tonight. I will be performing with my drag brother, Phil T Gorgeous for his Circus Royale extravaganza at The George. There will be a huge range of performers including Bunny, Lucy Rhinehart, Sade O'Sapphic, Sophia Disgrace, Terri Fierce and Lisette Krol, Slick O' and Ether aerial artists as well as popcorn machines, deadly sin shots and more! Doors are open at 10pm!

I'm now preparing myself to get out of bed at the ungodly hour of 12.30! to get the bus (yes drag queens sometimes do public transport) back to Dublin. If your about town I strongly reccomend you come see the show! For those of you who aren't in Ireland, I shall be taking lots of pictures and videos!

Happy Monday!

Candy X

I'm Back!

Oh hi sweeties! So how long has it been? I'm thinking at least two, maybe three months since I was last blogging properly. Shameful. But a lot has been happening. A lot still is happening. But I'm now back! The blog has got a well needed facelift ... there's still going to be some changes here and there over the next two weeks so bear with me! But I'm really happy with how its looking, I hope y'all like it! It's now past midnight and I've been working on it for the last two days. Well I've been multi tasking and using every spare minute to work on it ... but its getting there and I'm really excited about what's to come!

The last few months have been a bit mental. I've been living in Dublin for almost a year now (time flys!) and things are really clicking into place,but still a bit scary! The main reason I wanted to move to Dublin was to work in Drag full time. That and build up my book as an art director for different shoots. In September I entered a contest called 'The Devine Apprentice'. Imagine Rupaul's Drag Race, The Apprentice mixed with live performing and weekly tasks and you got it. The boss? Davina Devine and the venue, The George. I ended up devoting so much time to the show, girl wanted to win! ... and I did! I'm now a regular performer at The George,Pantibar and other venues and I've spent the last while re working my image, performances and really honing in on where I want to take myself over the next few years.

With that, I've spent a lot of time thinking of my blog. For a while there I got sick of just posting music videos and pictures, what's so special about that? What I did enjoy was giving people a little glimpse of my shows, how I put things together and the performers,artists around me. But it never went further than a few pictures ... until now. From now on I'm going to be doing weekly diaries. These diaries will be a mix of blogs such as this, pictures and video. From behind the scenes, to on stage to whats going on in my life, what Im creating, who I'm working with and so on. I'l still be interviewing the people that inspire me and showcasing different works of art,music and film but in a what I hope will be a more personal way.

I'm really looking forward to letting everyone see and hear what I'm up to. Let me know what you all think as time goes by! Readers encourage me to keep blogging so I want to hear from you!

Until next time,

Happy Easter!

Candy Warhol X

 

 

Sayaka Maruyama Photography

MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds (Featuring Raven)

Fantastic Track. Fantastic Video. Fantastic Queen.

Reed & Radar Art

Wonderful creations (of a digital kind) from artists Reed & Radar. The video below,'I Hate Kitties' is especially fantastic.

Iris Apfel for Dazed & Confused

This month I am in love with Dazed & Confused's cover star, New York style icon Iris Apfel. The star was dressed in Comme des Garcon's Rei Kawakub and photographed by Jeff Bark. Check out the spread and short film below. 

Current Mood

On a rare occasion I have a day off and I went to visit family in Cork (South of Ireland for those not in the know) and I love having home comforts. Home comforts being food food food choclate cake food food. 

Don't worry thought I'm a living corpse so the fat just vanishes. Doesn't it? (hides tummy under mountains of black netting).