ALTER BOY FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY AT LIBERTY ALIVE

EVENT CANCELLED
ALTER BOY & BOOX KID LIVE ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022

In March 2020 Alter Boy provided the musical opening to the West Australian Music Awards at His Majesty’s Theatre. It’s a traditional, old world theatre and as the grand curtains went up to reveal the band a voice was heard all together too loudly/rudely whispering, ‘what’s this, then?’ All together, Alter Boy are not your usual band and there is no other band like it. What the ‘whisperer’ was soon to discover was that this is a new take on musical production and presentation - like a breath of air they’d never breathed before. Not just new light through old windows, but an entity that boldly evokes and exercises accessibility and inclusion and does so in a way that storms a trail through dream pop, theatrical imagery and avant-garde costuming that recalls the renaissance as much as it does the 21 st century work of the likes of Italian director, Romeo Castellucci. And it does so with beautifully open hands that welcome the audience into the experience. Alter Boy is a community collective fronted by trans/hard-of- hearing vocalist, Molly Priest. “The band works between sound and silence, voice and Auslan to express music and convey storytelling,” she explains.  Indeed, an Alter Boy performance combines heartbeat-like rhythms both pounding and pulsating with visual storytelling and bespoke lighting in an otherworldly way that is very much of this world. Priest bears herself, literally. Her uniquely tattooed chest reclaims the cross as she wears, lives and breathes her art both physically and in song.