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Our US tour starts in less than a month, are you coming by?

Nov 16 San Francisco Elbo Room
Nov 17 Los Angeles Dj Set // TBA
Nov 18 Los Angeles UNION
Nov 21 Brooklyn Elsewhere
Nov 23 Washington Songbyrd
Nov 25 Philadelphia Johnny Brenda's

Artwork by Sara Shakeel

One step closer to my idols.

Good things I did yesterday:
Watched an interview with Jung, went to see my friend's exhibition, watched a documentary about Thelonious Monk, I cooked instead of buying food at the restaurant. I found out that Frank Mouris did movies with his wife.

Bad things I did yesterday:
I ate 2 bowls of sugar cereal, i watched 3 episodes of Married with children, I made spaghetti for dinner because too lazy, I bought a pack of cigarettes although I quit smoking and I watched the entire interview of Kanye at the White House.

#b52s #peggybundy #marriedwithchildren

This piece of an interview I gave just didn't make it for capacity reasons. Sometimes I just write too much. "You both talk about running away from your hometowns as teenagers to travel the world, but do you think those hometowns have had any influence on your current work? Do you feel any nostalgia for them now?" Islamiq Grrrls: The first time I saw a Roisin Murphy video I was mortified. All of her videos show her dressed up in an outrageous outfit in an every-day environment and nobody gives a shit. How amazing is that? She isn’t even the star of her own videos. It was like somebody ripped me open and set it up in a Roisin Murphy video. Feeling awkward about being too sensitive, having the urge to make things nobody cares about around you, dreaming of being somewhere else, feeling unnoticed even though inside you’re right there, an emotional volcano, burning down to ashes. And yet you're so so free. Have you ever watched an interview with Pina Bausch? She comes from Wuppertal which is 10 minutes from where I grew up. A childish look in her eyes, very reserved and unimpressed, doesn’t raise her voice nor smile a lot but something childish and dreamy is left. That’s what people are like where I come from. That's who I am, and it is mostly mistaken for rudeness. Marlene Dietrich, the same. Working class Germany. We learned how to not pay attention to ourselves. We were taught we were not important. You better work hard and do well because your feelings are not important, Marlene said. Morrissey « Barbarism begins at home » basically tells the story of my childhood. Nico is like everybody I grew up with and many people say I talk like Nico. We are both from the Ruhrpott and people there are just like this. Reality is just too sad to grow up with a grin on your face, but you've got dreams bigger than your hometown. I don't feel nostalgic about those times as I still don't feel like I'm a different person from when I left it.

#filmcommunity

As part of my “lost words” series, here goes another part of an interview I did that has been edited out. We certainly don’t want to publish critical opinions of capitalism on a corporate, click bait driven blog that likes to present itself as an “art platform”. "How important is artistic expression through fashion & styling to you and what does this type of individuality mean to you?" In the documentary “The Century of the self” by Adam Curtis we learn of Edward Bernays, who happens to be Siegmund Freud’s cousin and worked in corporate advertising. During the 60s and 70s the world of music, art and fashion was going through a time of self-exploration and experimentation which created a wave of freedom and individualism. But independent thinking and individuality caused a recess in the sale of “useless” products ans was killing capitalism, bit by bit. By consequence, Edward Bernays designed a new kind of capitalism, in which he used the idea of individuality to sell products nobody needed. People were tricked into believing that with the purchase of certain clothes or products they could “buy” a lifestyle or personality. To me, the idea of Individuality is the end result of a capitalist fraud and we have reached in 2018 the tip of the iceberg of this joke. I worked as a fashion designer in Paris for 10 years only to realise that I was killing the art world. Today, companies steal (“get inspired by”) from the poor/minorities and sell it back to them. I see it around me in Berlin every day, talented kids selling their ideas to Nike or Mercedes Benz for a couple of bucks. Individuality is dead. What influences my style is what moves me, and what moves me changes constantly. As a matter of fact as soon as I realise I look too much like something I feel the urge to change.

Good night
Soft core lips by @patmcgrathreal
Acidberry eyezzz by @sugarpill
Highlighter Lavender Steel by @nyxcosmetics
Why do I always paint my face best when I'm not going out?

We're ready than ever to burn the house down on our upcoming US Tour, can't wait to meet all of you guys who've been supporting and sending me love over all those years. Tickets are now available via Eventbrite, link in bio!, see you in November at @elsewherespace !!! Woooooooohhhhh NY!!

It's the end of our tour and we're sad to leave you Russia. Thank you to all people who came to see us, hug us, feeling our music and supporting us! We'll be back very soon, I promise 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️

MOSCOW - MUTHA HAS ARRIVED! Come see us tonight at @plutonmoscow because it will be the night of your life! My voice is as good as gone but I will squeeze out the last bit I've got for you. This is our last day of our European tour and I'm overwhelmed with emotions. Meeting all of you and hearing your story and feeling your love was the greatest experience I've ever had. I know you like to thank us for our music but really, I'm the one who has to thank you for caring and listening and understanding us on such a deep level, you make all of this worth it and our music lives through your smile and tears. See you tonight for a last goodbye kiss, xx Islamiq Grrrls

Bye St.Petersburg, we're leaving behind a little piece of heart with you. Keep your head up and stay alive, it gets better, I promise 🧡

ST.PETERSBURG WE ARE HERE! I cant wait to see you all tonight, doors open at 20h00! See you later at "The Place" xx

Last night in Helsinki! Thank you all for your warm support, yall have been good to us! See you next year Helsinki, my old love. Thanks to @alldayagency for hosting us and @6.linja for the dub mix 😘
Photo by @enedria

HELSINKI!!! SEE YOU TONIGHT AT @6.linja , we here! Bring your friends cousin neighbor sister bff crush we'll see you in a bit! xxx
Photo by s.ilver

This is my first female sound engineer and not by any surprise the woman managed us like a boss, why? CAUSE WOMEN RUN THIS BITCH! We want more female bosses!!! Hamburg rules!!!!

HAMBURG CUTIES! Come see us tonight @hafenklanghamburg , we're on at 21h00!!

A candy-colored clown they call the sandman tiptoes to my room every night just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper "Go to sleep. Everything is all right." I close my eyes, Then I drift away into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do.
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Diamonds on my grill for @creepyteepeefestival at the @thereminclub tonight, see you later Prague

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