"Excuse
me ... do you fuck as well as you dance?"
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Only
the brilliantly outrageous TWISTED could have started their debut single quite like that.
And then take it into the UK National Top 75, as well
as No.2 in the UK and US Dance Charts & No.1 in
the Australian Dance Chart, where it went gold after
spending over 47 weeks in the Australian National Charts.
Danny Tenaglia loved it so much he used it as his answering
machine message & requested to mix the track.
Twisted’s multi talented duo, Wayne G and Stewart
Who?, turn heads and cause havoc wherever they go –
everything from staying awake for a week on their eight
date tour of Australia to falling asleep in a gutter
in Stockholm whilst trying to focus on a street map.
"The
Pet Shop Boys For The Year 2000"
 Touted
as
the ‘Pet Shop Boys for the Year 2000’, Twisted’s
eponymously named first single was described by Muzik
as ‘the dirtiest, ruffest, nastiest, sexually-charged
record ever made’ & instantly awarded with
their Single Of The Year. After an initial limited run
of 1500 white labels, the public demand for ‘Twisted’
was so huge that it received a full release, which resulted
in Pete Tong playing it on his show 8 weeks in a row,
Radio One banning it from daytime play & even nightclubs
like Escape From Samsara had to prohibit it because
it was played too much! BBM Magazine credited
Wayne G as a ‘production genius’ in the review
for Twisted’s second single, ‘Breakdance (Is
Back)’. Wax called their sound "excellent,
sophisticated hard house - chunky and driving",
and Music Week decided it was ‘camp core stonking
queer bag’.
 "If
you haven’t heard Twisted yet, fear not, you will"
-
Attitude
magazine
Twisted’s
mastermind, Wayne G, first came up with the idea of
making ‘Twisted’ when he was doing a spot
of bookkeeping at the notorious gay magazine, QX. Most
Monday mornings he would ring Stewart Who?, who just
also happened to be the editor of the magazine, and
give him some new excuse as to why he wouldn’t
be able to make it to work that day after the excesses
of the weekend. Stewart’s hilariously droll tongue-in-cheek
message always made him laugh and finally inspired him
to get Stewart in the studio – and Twisted were
born. God help us all!
Wayne no longer does any bookkeeping – instead
he’s content with being resident at the World’s
most famous gay nightclub, Heaven, playing to over 2000
people weekly as well as playing regularly at Pervert
in Milan and Exogroove in Rimini, plus the usual array
of globetrotting DJ commitments. He’s also put
his natural studio talents to good use and recently
remixed Cher, Billie and N-Tyce, to name a few, as well
as running and recording on his own label, Fluff Records,
which has just had Wayne’s latest track, K-Sera,
licensed to East West offshoot, Code Blue.
Twisted are also infamous for their energetic live act
– at a recent gig in Milan, Stewart Who? fell off
of the stage whilst breakdancing during ‘Breakdance
(Is Back)’. He then had to do a live TV appearance,
on crutches, several days later for Rapture TV’s
‘Trainspotting’ programme, as well as attending
the premier for the ‘Breakdance (Is Back)’
video in Heaven’s Departure Lounge. Now Stewart
is off of the crutches and ready to do more damage to
himself as Twisted are headlining the massive gay Summer
Rites festival in London this summer.
"A
bump of slow, a line of quick,
a gram of each should do the trick"
After
their sold out tour of Australia at the end of 1998,
the boys locked themselves in the studio and have delivered
their third single,‘Disco Dealer’ and their
first album, Through The K-Hole’, complete
with snippets of interviews from the tour and lo-fi
sound bytes from the demented mind of Stewart Who?.
Like a lot of their lyrics, the albums title
is derived from the hedonistic banality of every dedicated
clubbers weekend – the atypical low on sleep, high
on drugs lifestyle that is the norm for so many thousands
of people throughout the country. From the depraved,
drug induced monologue’s of ‘Disco Dealer’,
‘Debauchery’ and the inspired ‘Ketamine
Angels’, through to the hormone ridden laments
of ‘He’s Got You’ and the re-interpretation
of Grease’s ‘Worse Things I Could Do’
– ‘Through The K-Hole’ is a fucked up
rollercoaster ride of a trip that you won’t forget
in a hurry.
|
Wayne
G presents TWISTED
