Libido: A Queer Party with Live Bands Featuring, 66 Saints, Girl With 100 Heads, Salon Betty & the Big Hair Sex Circus and More at Sailors Union of the Pacific, Seattle, WA, August 18, 1995
This handbill advertises Libido: A Queer Party at the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific Hall on August 18, 1995; Q.t.i.p. and Out Loud presented 66 Saints, Girl With 100 Heads, Salon Betty and the Big Hair Sex Circus, Madigan, Swing Radius, Ake, Bambi Continental, and Colony, among other bands.
66 Saints was a Seattle, Washington, Rock band formed in 1991 and active in the Northwest throughout the 1990s. The band was started by guitarists and vocalists Lisa Orth (b. unknown) and John Maroney (b. unknown). Orth was the first official art director for Sub Pop Records, where she designed Nirvana’s now iconic logo, and she also worked for The Rocket, Manna Records, and Seattle Gay News. The band also featured Mitch Michieli (b. unknown) on drums and backup vocals, and they frequented Seattle venues like Re-Bar, the Crocodile Café and the Off Ramp. 66 Saints released limited recordings with Big Flaming Ego Records before they disbanded.
Girl With 100 Heads was a Seattle-based Pop Rock band formed in 1993 by vocalist and guitarist Scott Wagar (b. unknown). The band also featured drummer Mike Goodman (b. unknown), who was later replaced by Howard Parr (b. unknown), guitarist Peg Wood (b. unknown), and bassist and vocalist Mike Kuhn (b. unknown). The band was active in the Northwest until 1998, playing with bands like Team Dresch, Pansy Division, and Super Deluxe. GW100H was part of a group of out and proud bands who would later be dubbed Queercore, and they performed at San Francisco Pride in 1998. They released an eponymous five-song EP in 1995, and an album called Chicken Pot Pi in 1997.
Salon Betty was a Seattle-based Art Rock band formed in 1994 by singer-songwriter Zoe Pierce-Gibson (b. unknown), known as Betty X. Nathan Kaylor (b. unknown) was the other permanent member of Salon Betty, who composed and performed on computer, keyboard, and vocals. Inspired by German performers Klaus Nomi (1944 – 1983) and Nina Hagen (b. 1955), Salon Betty spearheaded the dark cabaret movement in the Northwest in the early 1990s, helping coin the terms Death Lounge and Gothabilly. They established an online following, with one of the first live streamed shows, which was broadcast at Moe’s Mo’Roc’N Café in 1995. Salon Betty also performed at the Showbox, the Crocodile Café, Bumbershoot, Music West, and Pride Rally, before disbanding in 1997 with a farewell show at Moe’s.
The Seattle Sailors’ Union of the Pacific building was designed by local architect Fred Rogers and constructed in 1954 at 2505 1st Ave in Belltown. The SUP was founded in 1885 in San Francisco, California, as a labor union of mariners, boatmen, and fishermen working aboard US flag vessels. Seattle's SUP Hall was one of the most prominent of the many labor union halls constructed in Belltown after WWII, featuring offices as well as 22 small apartments for sailors between ships, and services such as a bar, café, gym, and barber shop. Until 1986, the building housed the Trade Winds restaurant and Palm Room nightclub, and the SUP Hall hosted bands including Presidents of the United States of America, Radiohead, The Posies, Super Deluxe, and Bikini Kill in the 1990s. The building now houses The Crocodile, and the Seattle SUP is located in Fishermen’s Terminal.
