Hi,
recently on March 9th Girls On Top had a show for the c.d. release party of Scatterheart at the media club, we danced in between band performances. We love scatterheart and are regular performers at their Elastic Cabaret shows. However, on March 9th there was serious issue of disrespect from a different band performing that night. Mongoose form East Van. was playing after us, they began by doing their drum sound check while Madam Rogue Raylee was dancing! I mean drumming right over top of her song! Then when two other dancers and myself took the stage the bass played did his sound check right in the middle of our performance. Needless to say we felt disrespected but we assumed they were just armatures who had no idea how dance performances work. Anyways this slight benefit of the doubt was completely abandoned as they got on the mic and said, "I hate burlesque anyways, I don't give a fuck" We were so insulted and disrespected. We were performing that night to raise money for women's shelters. Not only did they disrespect us and burlesque in general, but also all the charities we raise money for and the disenfranchised women we support. Scatterheart was deeply embarrassed nd talked to the band about it, (we love you Jesse) but I thought I should issue a warning to all Vancouver Burlesque dancers to NEVER do an event that this band is playing at.