Performance of MEN with Go Lim

Sun 11 Mar 2012, 7 pm
Hanoi Rock City

From CAMA:
Gender-bending, genre-smashing sensation MEN are preparing to hit Vietnam for the first time this March 11.

Riding the razor’s edge at the intersection of art, politics and culture, MEN have been winning fans worldwide since 2007 with their signature mix of dance, punk and pop. Fronted by feminist electropunk pioneer J.D. Samson (Le Tigre), MEN draw on the legacy of new wave icons like Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, 80s post-punk, synth-pop and 90s electro to create a politcially charged and uniquely millennial sound.

Pairing viciously catchy disco-punk with lyrics that leap from political economy, to queer culture to sexual politics Samson and bandmates Michael O’Neill and Lee Free are a band on a mission to provoke thought and challenge attitudes as much as they are to shake hips.
“Women still make 75% to the man’s dollar and queers are still being murdered, beat up, fired, unfairly treated, and aren’t allowed to marry,” Samson says.

“I’m the first to be optimistic about … everything that has changed in the past decade. But I’m realistic about the work that needs to be done, and I won’t stop speaking for what I believe needs to change.”

Coming straight from their Australia/New Zealand tour – including a headline performance at the Sydney Mardi Gras – MEN will hit Hanoi on Sunday March 11, joining local fem rockers Go Lim for a one-off show for CAMA at Hanoi Rock City.

Radical, raw, challenging, but above all danceable, MEN are one act not to miss in 2012!

Ticket

Ticket price: 200,000 VND (at the door)

For more on MEN’s Vietnam debut visit CAMA’s website.

Links to some of MEN’s music:

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