Who would Jesus Tailgate?

Favorite bumper sticker of the day:  "No One died when Clinton Lied"

Favorite Bigot sign:  "Shouldn't immigrants have to wait 21 years before voting? I did."

Notes from two soggy Wet Spots

Am I Dreaming? / Helping Hands

I've been pinching myself a lot. Sometimes I do this for recreation, but lately it's because I really cannot believe what is happening on this tour. We are playing to sold out houses. They are turning people away at the door. We are running out of CDs to sell, and frantically ordering more. The press is paying attention.

I can be a bit dour & conservative by nature, but I'm being forced to admit that this Wet Spots thing is actually taking off. And it's happening largely outside of the standard entertainment industry channels. We have no manager. We have no publicity agent. We have no booking agent. We have no record label. What we have are fans and advocates.

Several months ago we emailed our west coast list and asked people if they had any tips on venues or events or promoters we should look into. The response was staggering, and this tour never would have been possible without the help we've been blessed with.  Some people help by dragging ten of their closest friends out to see us. Some help by taking us into their homes as total strangers, and giving us a place to sleep. And some of them help by putting on a promoter hat and producing a Wet Spots event in their community because they believe in what we're doing. A woman named Melissa Dase from Santa Barbara was so adamant that we would play there that when every bar in town turned us down, she arranged to have the show in the local Unitarian Church. Which made for one of the most diverse crowds we've ever played to and one hell of a road story.

This sort of grassroots support cannot be bought, and it cannot be manufactured through slick media saturation. It's something real and it's something that I've seen & envied in the Ska, Rockabilly, Folk and Hardcore Punk scenes over the years. To be on the receiving end of this sort of thing is really a blessing. I love being on the receiving end!

--John

Cool Venues

We've played a number of interesting venues on this tour - a sex club in Seattle called The Wet Spot, a Unitarian Church hall, a darker-than-Hades Los Angeles den of iniquity & bar... but I'm sitting in our coolest venue yet. It's called Mission Control.

Some of you folks know us from Vancouver & first got to see us at a place called The Babalong Mansion. This place hosted the best parties I've ever attended anywhere on earth. The venue was an old boudoir, done up in red velvet & iron with a cramped dance floor, a cozy chill-out area, and lots of make out pits.There was always a dress-up theme. No streetwear allowed, but no strict fetish dress code either. Sometimes it was hot pants night. Sometimes you had to come dressed as royalty from a real or imaginary country. The DJs were hot, the burlesquers were hot, the costumes were hot, the conversations were fascinating, and never once did I meet a boring person or an asshole. BDSM play & public sexual displays were not the main focus of the night, but they were never frowned upon. basically it was a place to meet & make out with your community.

We've been searching in vain for this kind of scene ever since we left Vancouver, and we've finally found it down here in San Francisco. Over the past two weeks we've done several shows at costume theme nights in some of the wildest off-the radar venues. Mission Control, where we're playing tonight, is a labyrinth of crazy theme rooms - from the pink cuddle closet to the dark tiki bar to the raging red hall to the violet hookah hut. There are Voudou and buddhist shrines all over the damn place, and the main guy in charge has the coolest silent movie villain waxed moustache I've ever seen. These people know how to live. And for a night, we get to be a part of this world. I LOVE touring!

-- John

Meeting Margaret Cho and Supressing the Starfucker Reflex

A few nights ago we got to meet & perform with Margaret Cho. Cass and I saw her concert movie "I'm The One That I Want" several years ago on one of our first dates. It remains my favourite standup movie ever. At that time, the Wet Spots did not exist and neither Cass nor I had any intentions of doing comedy.

I don't think that we were consciously inspired by that film to start The Wet Spots, but once the act got going, we were inspired by her success. Every time a producer or gatekeeper or money man tries to convince us that we'll never succeed with material about butt plugs, group sex or bi-curiosity, we remember the notorious C.H.O.  and her adventures in TV land. (If you work or want to work in the entertainment industry as ANY kind of performer, you absolutely MUST see this film.)

So Margaret is a big hero to us, and it took every ounce of restraint I have not to blather on to her endlessly about how brilliant she is. This was a good idea, because I got to hear her talk instead, and she is a gracious, grounded person who's doing some great work.  As it was, we indulged our inner starfuckers by getting her to pose with us in a goofy-ass, touristy photo op. Which we are totally going to post on our page soon. HA!

Review: San Francisco Bay Times

July 13, 2006

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Radio-Free Pusspuss

Music Beyond Boundaries
By DJ Pusspuss

The Wet Spots
Hello Kinky
www.WetSpotsMusic.com
Campy Canadian kinksters, The Wet Spots, confirm
that sexual libido thrives north of the border on this
fun send-up of sixties comedy albums extolling the
virtues of group and oral sex, the trouble with dildos
in Texas and conversation openers ala Do You Take
It In The Ass? In the same throbbing vein as
Tenacious D or the Queens of Comedy you will get way
too much information but it has a good beat and soon
you may even wonder how to do the Labia Limbo. My
picks: George, Labia Limbo, Texas Annie, Piggy Pile
(Live) and Booty Call. Gig alert! The Wet Spots get
moist July 21 @ SFs Center for Sex & Culture.

Gday from Australia

Hi,
I was wondering a couple of things.
First when are you coming to Melbourne, Australia? You have many fans here and we also have a major comedy festival every April, It would be great if you could attend.
Also we were listening to the song 'Piggy pile' and was wondering what one was.
Thanks
Your Drunken Australian Buddies

Hello, Drunkards!

We would love to come to Melbourne. We're looking into the comedy fest, we almost made it this year but alas, it was not to be.
Perhaps if enough people send an email to the festival?  *smile*  info@comedyfestival.com.au 
And a Piggy Pile is a term that our friend Mr Quigley made up. Some people here call them Puppy Piles.
It's an orgy. You know, big pile of squirming, squealing, steaming bodies....
Now I'm hungry.
Thanks for writing!
Cass King, Wet Spot

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