Weekend Weapons…Misstress Barbara

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Weekend Weapons…Misstress Barbara

13 January, 2010 | 9.43AM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: misstress barbara

Put a DJ behind a pair of turntables and a mixer, and they’ll play all night. Stick a DJ on stage with just a microphone and some thoughts, and they’ll fall apart.

For behind the equipment and recorded pieces of music, is a cocoon that protects and comforts their one true self.

Music allows DJs to communicate without speaking. Mixing permits DJs to project their identity without fully opening themselves up to criticism, or ridicule.

But to sing, in front of a room full of clubbers who knew you as just a DJ? That requires a really big set of balls.

And yet, Misstress Barbara did it last year, with an album and a new live set full of personal songs that couldn’t be further from her days as a hard techno DJ. Of course, some laughed at her.

Featuring the Canadian on vocals herself, alongside established singers like Bjorn and soft-rocker Sam Roberts, the electro-pop and indie techno album ‘I’m No Human’ sounded more Miss Kittin than Misstress Barbara, and probably a wee bit contrived to those who knew her only as a profferer of shades of black.

Misstress Barbara will tell you that it was always there, her inner sing-star, and she would have revealed it sooner was it not for the fact that lines drawn early in a DJ’s career tend to be in concrete, not in sand.

Now the mask is off, she has no doubt lost a couple of fans, and gained a few new ones too. But despite all that, she’s still a DJ at heart as this set of dancefloor-focused Weekend Weapons prove.

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Put a DJ behind a pair of turntables and a mixer, and they'll play all night. Stick a DJ on stage with just a microphone and some thoughts, and they'll fall apart.

For behind the equipment and recorded pieces of music, is a cocoon that protects and comforts their one true self.

Music allows DJs to communicate without speaking. Mixing permits DJs to project their identity without fully opening themselves up to criticism, or ridicule. 

But to sing, in front of a room full of clubbers who knew you as just a DJ? That requires a really big set of balls.

Put a DJ behind a pair of turntables and a mixer, and they'll play all night. Stick a DJ on stage with just a microphone and some thoughts, and they'll fall apart.

For behind the equipment and recorded pieces of music, is a cocoon that protects and comforts their one true self.

Music allows DJs to communicate without speaking. Mixing permits DJs to project their identity without fully opening themselves up to criticism, or ridicule. 

But to sing, in front of a room full of clubbers who knew you as just a DJ? That requires a really big set of balls.


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