The Phoenix Network:
 
 
About  |  Advertise
Adult  |  Moonsigns  |  Band Guide  |  Blogs  |  In Pictures
 
the best boston and national bands, best music poll, boston phoenix

[live review] Big Freedia @ Brighton Music Hall


It was worth the wait — BIG FREEDIA, New Orleans’s sissy-bounce queen (she identifies as female, y’all), rocking those butts at Brighton Music Hall in a Boston debut on Memorial Day. Freedia (pronounced Freda), doesn’t rap exactly — she exhorts, she coaches, she commands. Her hooks are rapid-fire repetitions of her titles: “AZZeverywhere! AZZeverywhere! AZZeverywhere!” And a lot of incantation that sounds like “wackawackwackawacka,” or — more to the point “wobblewobblewobblewobblewobble.”

That’s what happens when you reach for the wall, a chair, the floor, or your ankles and get those buttocks rotating at high speed over the syncopated bounce beats. Freedia had a three dancers on hand (two female and one plus-size male with a kewpie doll mohawk) and soon filled the stage with audience members, leading impromptu battles that mimicked everyone’s favorite accelerated kama sutra moves: doggy, wheelbarrow, and the deal where you hold your partner upside down by the waist with his/her legs over your shoulders and crotch in your face.

There was a brief respite in the 40 minute set while Freedia thanked the small but enthusiastic Boston audience, recited a brief dirty rhyme about stealing your boyfriend, and dedicated one to her mama in New Orleans, who’s been ill but has recently rallied. From “big-dick daddy” to “God is good — always.” That about summed it up.

158 Brighton Ave, Allston-Brighton
| More

Leave a Comment

Login | Not a member yet? Click here to Join

(required)  
(optional)
(required)  
 Friends' Activity   Popular   Most Viewed 
All Blogs
ADVERTISEMENT
Related Articles

Boston Phoenix
[live review] Big Freedia @ Brighton Music Hall
Published 6/1/2011 by Jon Garelick
It was worth the wait — BIG FREEDIA, New Orleans’s sissy-bounce queen (she identifies as female, y’all), rocking those butts at Brighton Music Hall in...

Creole-Wild-West_list
Boston Phoenix
Photos: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Published 5/13/2011 by JON GARELICK
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | April 27–May 6, 2011

more by Jon Garelick
Mark McGrain takes Plunge, music ensues | June 24, 2011
The Cookers' book | June 10, 2011
[live review] Big Freedia @ Brighton Music Hall | June 01, 2011
Plainville, James Farm, and the Infrared Band | May 27, 2011
Playing pretty at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | May 13, 2011

 See all articles by: Jon Garelick

Follow the Phoenix
  • newsletter
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • rss
OTD Categories
Out
VIDEO: Arctic Monkeys at the House of Blues
Rare Frequencies
Rare Frequencies: Trouble and treble
Playlists
Lady Lee's Lion's Den Playlist
MP3 of the Week
HOMEWORK: Assignment #2: D-Tension
Hot Tix
Ticket On-Sale Alert: Muse, Mariah Carey, Black Eyed...
Latest Comments
The Curious Case of Junk That Eats Junkies: Flesh-rotting drug “krokodil” grips Russia - What makes krokodi all the more appealing is its delicious ability of disfiguring you around the point...

By scallywag on 06-30-2011 in Laser Orgy

The Curious Case of Junk That Eats Junkies: Flesh-rotting drug “krokodil” grips Russia - What makes krokodi all the more appealing is its delicious ability of disfiguring you around the point...

By scallywag on 06-30-2011 in Laser Orgy

Big Day For Medical Marijuana in Mass? - 'Morse rejects this particular measure on grounds that doctors don't know enough about weed.' What!!...

By leeprew on 06-29-2011 in Phlog

Gears of War 3: Female Character Added, Game Ruined - OMG, I have to chime in! If you grew up female in the 60's, you were told that women were not psychologically...

By AmazingAmazon on 06-28-2011 in Laser Orgy

Can you say DKMMMB? Dropkick Murphys and Mighty Mighty Bosstones to play (part of) Fenway Park. - This is how Fenway was configured last year for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra concert last year: www...

By Steve Stein on 06-28-2011 in On The Download

Latest Comments from On The Download
Most Viewed
Hemingway Suicide Anniversary Ignored
Self-Published Book Captures Reviewer's Attention
Richard Russo chosen for One City, One Story
Announcing the 2011 Best Music Poll awards party! Bodega Girls! Mean Creek! Freezepop! Moe Pope!
Coachella to expand across two weekends
Tickets on-sale alert: TV on the Radio + Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket + Neko Case, Alkaline Trio, and more
[live review] Big Freedia @ Brighton Music Hall
Most Viewed from On The Download
Search Blogs
 
Links
Bradley’s Almanac - Lower Allston blogging and bootlegging since 2001
Band in Boston -
Basstown -
Wayne&Wax -
Aurgasm -
Onward Charles -
Compound 440r -
Anti-Gravity Bunny -
Clicky Clicky -
Soul Clap -
Lemmingtrail -
WMBR -
WFNX -
Beginning To See the Light -
Jump the Turnstyle -
Heads Up Boston -
Loaded Gun -
Enough Cowbell -
Vanyaland -
Ryan's Smashing Life -
On The Download Archives
Thursday, June 30, 2011  |  Sign In  |  Register
 
TODAY'S FEATURED ADVERTISERS
thePhoenix.com
Phoenix Media/Communications Group
Copyright © 2011 The Phoenix Media/Communications Group