We’re going to have a big grand finale sculpture that’s going to be my Black Statue of Liberty holding the pentagram. I’m an availabilist, so I usually make the best use of what’s available, and we are going to have a lot of props and costumes in this show that I make myself, and I have art partners in Los Angeles, collaborators. You know, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black has always made a lot of props and costumes, and I never really just buy things. I’m very much looking forward to this concert.Ĭan you tell me what you have planned for the show? I’m sure you want to keep some stuff a surprise, but is the disco dick in the pictures going to be part of the set? When artists that you have loved your whole life come to, for some strange reason, see the work that you’re doing, it’s one of the truly best things about doing artwork.
I’m not a religious person, but I did think I had died and gone to heaven. He’s friends with one of my collaborators called Scott Ewalt. And I have an art gallery that represents me in London now, which is called Emalin, and I had an art exhibit there, and Marc Almond, thankfully, came to it. That was a great show with Marc Almond and a lot of other incredible artists. We played with Marc Almond at the Meltdown Festival that was curated by Ahnoni in 2011. It’s been very pleasant preparing for this show we get to honorably do with Marc Almond. Doing artwork and music isn’t like work, and being busy is just such a luxury. I just came from band practice, and I am one of those folks that really enjoys going to band practice. And then Michael Wildwood is our drummer, and he played with D Generation and Chrome Locust, and Gyda Gash is our bass player, she plays with Judas Priestess and Sabbathwitch.
Kembra Pfahler: My guitarist is Samoa, he founded the band with me he’s the original Karen Black guitarist, Samoa from Hiroshima, Japan. If I’d noted every time Kembra made me laugh with a deadpan line, the transcript would be twice as long. My condensed and edited take on our wide-ranging conversation follows.
This absolutely mental, once-in-a-lifetime bill will celebrate the second anniversary of Sex Cells, the LA club run by Danny Fuentes of Lethal Amounts.īecause I am so eager to see this show, and because the life of a Dangerous Minds contributor is high adventure, last Sunday I found myself speaking with Karen Black’s leader, the formidable interdisciplinary artist Kembra Pfahler, by phone, after she got out of band rehearsal in NYC. On February 15, Marc Almond, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Sateen, Hercules & Love Affair, and DJs Matthew Pernicano and Danny Lethal will perform at the Globe Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Photo by Richard Kern, courtesy of Kembra Pfahler
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