Jayne County - Fuck Off - (Live at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK,1996) video free download

JAYNE COUNTY man enough to be a woman

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A veteran of the New York performance-art scene of the seventies, transvestite, Wayne County first headed to London England in the mid seventies, attracted by the burgeoning Punk scene. His first band Queen Elizabeth, were short lived. His next, more successful, band, the Backstreet Boys, recorded an album in New York only to see it never released, although tracks did turn up on the Max's Kansas City album (a favourite of UK DJ, the late John Peel). By 1976 Wayne was back in the UK with a new outfit, the electric chairs who rapidly became one of the most booked bands on the UK punk circuit. The following year they were to record there most notorious track, F**k Off!, which was released as a single and sold very well indeed. The critically and commercially successful Storm the Gates of Hell LP really put The Electric Chairs on the map and they became international cult favourites. In 1980 Wayne decided it was time to address his gender issues once and for all and following surgery he became Jayne County.

During the 80's Jayne moved to Berlin, performing on the underground circuit, and virtually disappearing from the public eye. By the mid nineties the UK Punk revival was in full swing and Jayne was tempted out of obscurity to form a revamped Electric Chairs and once more hit the stage doing what she did best. As lewd and irreverent as she had been twenty years earlier Jayne introduced and whole new generation to her tasteless, gender bending, trashy world and in the process won herself a new fan base. In 1995 they recorded the come back LP Deviation and since then Jayne has penned a best selling autobiography Man Enough to Be a Woman. This film was recorded at the 20th Birthday of Punk Celebration, Holidays in The Sun, held at the Winter Gardens in August 1995 and contains mostly never-been-seen footage of that very special gig. Watch, be amazed and realise why Wayne County remains the true, uncrowned Queen of Punk Rock.

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