The Stage Show
The stage show involved all of the male members of the band dressed in full drag. The costumes skewed towards the outrageous with exaggerated platform heels and brightly colored wigs and garish makeup. All band members and stage performers were wearing fetish clothing and accessories. The female performers generally wore as little of their costume as was legally required by the club, which generally required putting two pieces of electrical tape in the shape of an "X" over their nipples so that they could still legally perform bare-breasted when the law barred it. They performed fully nude, or nude with accessories (i.e., stockings) when it was permitted.
In addition to the theatrics of the musicians in the band, there was generally an additional performance piece being simultaneously played out in complement to the song, usually with an S&M and/or B&D theme. This included pouring melting candle wax on female performers, spanking or paddling female performers, dominatrix humiliation and beatings of male performers and audience volunteers, the burning of an American flag draped on a cross, a fire breathing male stilt walker and fire breather, and female performers wearing strap-on dildos and otherwise wielding dildos by hand. Common motifs included variations on nun and priest costumes, school girl uniforms, and a costume reminiscent of Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
One of the most visually spectacular parts of the performance involved a mostly nude female performer wearing a metal plate over her groin and a gas mask over her face. Another member of the troupe, also wearing a gas mask, would use a metal sander against the plate to create a shower of sparks from her groin in time to the riff of the music. The gas masks protected the performers' eyes from the ingots. This was sometimes done with the female performer upside down, or sometimes with her standing with an additional metal plate on her head.
In addition, there were usually a number of televisions set up on the stage playing anything from political media imagery, to Alice in Wonderland, to adult content.
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