Giddle and Boyd - Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt

With Spell, Boyd Rice's
collaboration with Rose McDowall on what seems to be a permanent
hiatus Boyd Rice has teamed up with Giddle Partridge, who appears
to be something of a personality in the cult Hollywood scene.
While Spell focussed on songs of love and death, Giddle and Boyd
appear to be taking their cues from sixties French Pop,
psychedelic and punk electro. That's certainly what comprises
Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt, the first fruits of this
collaboration which leans heavily on the work of Brigitte Bardot.
Two songs are featured on the six track EP. Giddle lends her
sultry voice to 'Contact', a groovy keyboard lead number - some
may recognise as the basis of the Death In June track 'Flieger'.
Boyd and Giddle take the place of Serge Gainsbourg and Bardot for
'Bonnie and Clyde' in an almost carbon copy of the original this
time sung in English. Giddle and Boyd are way more glam than
Spell, it's all psychedelic designs and day-glo colours. And
listening to GoGo Giddle on 'Bubble Gum New Forever' as she
refers to herself as "an amusement park" before going on to
describe her ample physical charms to the melody of the Shangri
Las' 'He Cried' you realise that GoGo Giddle is more than willing
to go all the way. Elsewhere there's the rock'n'roll electro
throb of Suicide's 'Rocket USA' and the instrumental garage-rock
of 'Sunset Strip SS' and the title track - featuring Brian M.
Clark co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and editor of
Standing In Two Circles: The Collected Works Of Boyd
Rice.
Boyd Rice has always displayed an immaculate taste in music, and
this latest collaboration with Giddle Partidge, a member of the
Partridge Family Temple, sure looks set to be a lot of fun. And
given the current state of events with Brigitte Bardot the irony
of Boyd singing songs of the former sex-kitten made me laugh
anyway. An album
Love-Love/Bang-Bang is scheduled for
release on Mute Records.
Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt
is released on lovely heartshaped pink vinyl in an edition of
1000 copies. My copy was signed by both Boyd (black on black) and
Giddle with a big smacker of a lipstick kiss. Dig it! For more
information go to
www.discriminateaudio.com