‘Jesus, we really need her now’: Risqué tribute to Sinéad O’Connor evokes seance and celebration

last week at Carnegie Hall in New York. But no tribute was likely as nude as the one on Monday this week, when performance artist Christeene brought her pantsless queer horrorcore act – and a faithful downtown demimonde – to City Winery on the West Side of Manhattan.

Christeene is an alter ego of Louisiana-born artist Paul Soileau who devised the character while working at a Texas Starbucks, and went on to make fans like fashion designer Rick Owens and influential musician Karin Dreijer of the Knife and Fever Ray, playing for years in an underground scene that blasted convention, including mainstream gay culture.

From left: Lyla Vander, a drummer, Cole Stone-Frisina, a saxophonist, Christeene and Peaches back stage at the City Winery on the West Side of Manhattan. Photograph: Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times The “most delicate” thing, Christeene added, “was finding the right way to put our touch on it, without distorting her too much – honouring her music but giving it the heat that we wanted. We found that, the band found it. It’s been a remarkable experience, and a bit of a possession.”

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