After breaking through on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, and picking up a huge following, Bimini has since deliberately stripped things back, refocusing on music as the core of their creative output. DJing now sits at the centre of their practice, with visceral sets that encompass house, electro, breaks, drum’n’bass and leftfield club sounds. Often their sets blend DJ and live vocals, providing peak dance floor moments and electrifying energy with every performance.
Alongside DJing, Bimini’s creativity blossoms in the studio and they are currently completing their debut album - a politically charged, no-fucks-given body of work driven by protest, satire and unflinching honesty. Two fingers up at the British establishment with what Bimini refers to as ‘Electro-Cunt-Punk’. Drawing on influences from punk, rave, jungle and queer dance music history, the record is fearsome, unapologetically raw and personal (heartbreak and dickheads also provide touchpoints on the LP). Central to the power of the long-player are Bimini’s razor-sharp tongue, relatable life experiences and irreverent insights. Unfiltered self-expression from a unique persona who found their people through raves, and is channeling their powerful voice and positive energy back into the culture. Their first single ‘TANK TOP BUM BOYS’ from their upcoming debut album came out in June, a riot track named after a homophobic slur Boris Johnson wrote in The Daily Telegraph in 1998.
Bimini has released music via Sony, with BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6 Music support. They’ve also produced high-profile remixes for artists including Anastacia (‘Left Outside Alone’) and Kate Nash (‘GERM’). Touring highlights include both DJ and live shows at All Points East, Roundhouse supporting Kate Nash, Brits official party supporting Lambrini Girls, Creamfields Chile and warming up for Lady Gaga at London’s O2 Arena, with forthcoming dates supporting Fatboy Slim on Brighton Beach and Peaches and Scissor Sisters on UK tours as well as major Pride and festival appearances across the UK, Europe and Australia. Bimini is also a resident for world-leading inclusive party brand HE.SHE.THEY.
On the road, or in the studio, in and out of the music business, Bimini remains a prominent social and cultural voice - one of a kind, wildly creative and embodying punk energy to the very core.
It may not be immediately apparent, but the Scissor Sisters can safely be called one of the few genuinely subversive pop stars in recent years. Think about it, how many other bands have won three BRIT Awards and one Ivor Novello, sold two million copies of their debut album in the UK alone, have completed several sold out arena tours and have headlined major festivals in the same country, all the while being named after a lesbian sex act? The list, dear reader, is very short. The best way of directly experiencing just how expertly they straddle the line between mainstream pop sensations and edgy, underground club fiends, I hear you ask? You need only see them live. Both Jake Shears and Ana Matronic were born to front a band and together, they’re unstoppable. Shears dances up a storm with his falsetto ringing out perfectly, losing more and more clothing as the gig goes on, while Ana takes a more commanding role, toasting the audience mid song while providing lead and backing vocals for every pulsating disco classic. Every aspect of the band is magnified in the live arena, transforming every venue they play from theatre to arena to festival into a club night at the end of the world, that no-one’s going to be quite the same after, but no-one would have it any other way. For the kind of fun that you can’t wash out afterwards, nobody does it quite as well as the Scissor Sisters.