Queer Ear

On Wednesday I saw a fantastic band. They are Von Iva, and they rock. Hard. All women; bass, keyboards, drums and vocal. Lead singer Jillian Iva has all the presence of Mick Jagger, strutting around stage with attitude, and in black pumps.

They were the second openers for a Detroit band called The Sights my partner had told me about, but in all honesty, as soon as Jillian, Elizabeth, Bex and Lay Lay left the stage, the show was over.

I had wondered about the crowd mix – there were more girls than I’d ever seen at Spaceland – it was a real bakery in there (re: lots of guys = sausage, lots of girls = buns) and I naively, and heterosexually, thought “Is this band cute?”

Well, the ladies weren’t there for The Sights, they were there for the sounds – of four bodacious chicks from San Francisco. When Jillian belted out the instruction to “put on your tight skirt and bend for me” during Not Hot To Trot, I felt strangely compelled. And when she flipped up her own black dance skirt to reveal her red ruffled panties, I couldn’t help but respond to the amped estrogen of the crowd and start shaking my groove thang.

Mark my words, Von Iva is the Visa of the music scene - everywhere you want to be.